Rahul Chari

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of one of India's largest fintech companies.
Expert in building scalable digital payment solutions.
Proven track record in supply chain and media platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with a strong focus on scalable digital solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital PaymentsFintechSupply Chain ManagementDigital Media PlatformsMedia DistributionStorage Applications

Other Skills

Mobile PaymentsSoftware DevelopmentE-commerceOrder ManagementWarehousingTransport ManagementContent ManagementStreaming SolutionsContent EncryptionData MigrationReplicationIntelligent Storage ApplicationsSAN Based Storage VirtualizationDistributed SystemsScalability

About

Summary: A serial entrepreneur in the consumer internet space, currently having a blast building the fastest growing and one of the largest mobile payments and fintech companies in India. Details: Over 18 years of experience covering the Consumer Internet and Enterprise software space. Strong experience in building world class tech platforms for web-scale, continuously scaling systems to deal with hyper growth and evolving the processes and practices to meet the demands of a fast-growing organization Digital Payments & Commerce platforms (Mobile payments, Fintech, Digital Media platforms, Websites/Mobile Apps, ECommerce Supply Chain Systems) and Embedded Systems (SAN Switching, Storage Virtualization, SAN based RAID), Enterprise S/W Development (SAN based Data Migration, Remote Replication, iSCSI, IP over FC, FC2-4 stack) Specialties: Digital Payments, Supply Chain Technologies - Order Fulfillment, Warehousing and Logistics, Digital Media Platforms - Content Management and Delivery, Fiber Channel Protocols, Storage Virtualization, SAN architectures and Data Center Storage Applications.

Experience

24 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs

Average Tenure

10 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

The/nudge institute

Founding Angel

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

The Nudge Institute is an action institute that works with governments, markets, and civil society to build resilient livelihoods for all. One of its main goals is to eliminate poverty in India by 2047.

Phonepe

Founder & CTO

Dec 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

At PhonePe, we are revolutionising the way india uses money by building a new age Payments Container that is much more than a wallet when it comes to delivering a cash-free, seamless experience for paying for goods or sending/receiving money.
PhonePe is now a Flipkart Company!

Digital PaymentsFintechMobile PaymentsSoftware DevelopmentE-commerce

Flipkart.com

Vice President Engineering

Oct 2011 – Nov 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

Vice President, Supply Chain Technologies
Building a best in class Supply Chain Management System for e-Commerce covering Order Management, Warehousing & Transport Management, Last Mile Delivery Innovation and Intelligent Orchestration across these core assets to create value such as Next Day & Same Day Guranteed Delivery, Scheduled Delivery, Accurate delivery promise and Speedy Returns for end customers on Flipkart.com
Director of Engineering, Digital Platform & Products
Built a content agnostic media platform to power digital content sales and fulfillment on Flipkart.com. Launched "FLYTE" which was the first legal music download store in India selling singles across almost all music labels in the country. Launched Flipkart EBooks on multiple platforms - Android, iOS and Windows8

Supply Chain ManagementOrder ManagementWarehousingTransport ManagementDigital Media Platforms

Mime360 (mallers inc)

Co-Founder and CTO

Dec 2009 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai, India

Architected and developed "MIME360" - a robust and scalable enterprise platform for media distribution that powers content on multiple portals - www.gaana.com (indiatimes), www.in.com, www.saregama.com
Architected and developed an industry first multi-platform secure streaming solution over HTTP (Patent Pending). Feature rich , the MIME Secure Streaming server provides complete content encryption while supporting delivery over HTTP with adaptive streaming built into it, supporting Adobe Flash, Android, IOS, Blackberry and symbian.
MIME360 acquired by Flipkart - http://techcircle.vccircle.com/500/flipkart-acquires-mallers-inc-to-launch-digital-music-store/

Media DistributionStreaming SolutionsContent Encryption

Cisco systems

2 roles

Manager, S/W Development

Apr 2008 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGG

Feb 2004 – Apr 2008 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Senior engineer and team lead with experience in the area of Storage applications and SANs, including but not limited to Advanced technologies such as Network-based Storage Virtualization , Network-based serverless backups, Data Migration, Replication and Mirroring. Responsible for the design and development of key SAN features and software modules in the areas mentioned above. Currently the Lead Engineer for the SAN based Data Migration offering from Cisco. Experience working on the complete life-cycle of a product from the inception to delivery.

Storage ApplicationsData MigrationReplication