Dec 2019 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

• As an Engineering and Data science Leader in the largest Fashion E-commerce company in Europe, Zalando SE, my responsibilities include understanding the customers and markets(countries) deeply and build technological and scientific capabilities for Forecasting, Planning and Commercial Trading, for a wide range of markets in Europe and running the Data platform & AI charter. Specifically I,
• Build and define technical landscape for the group which is future proof and directly contribute to defining the company’s data strategy
• Define the vision and long term roadmap for all the groups working closely with Product and Commercial leadership
• Co-create and review short term roadmaps created by my teams and provide guidance and support to them.
• Build close collaboration with my direct and indirect stakeholder which include both technical and business executives.
• Define the Organization design to be highly agile and create highest impact for the company
• Work with my Principal Engineers on key technical areas and with my managers to support them in running their teams and projects successfully.
• Fund innovative & non-traditional projects which show potential as a game changer for the company in future.
• Ensure we continuously build highly scalable data products and state of the art algorithmic solutions with high levels of operational excellence.
• Create formats for cross team collaborations, continuous reviews, promote peer and institutional learning initiatives and drive a highly flexible working environment for the team members in the unprecedented times like 2020
• Hire the best from industry for Zalando at various experience levels and for multiple job families.
• Create a culture of inclusivity, transparency and openness in the diverse set of colleagues in my groups.

Jul 2019 – Dec 2019 · 5 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Led the multi-site, multi-disciplinary high impact teams focussed on all consumer centric interactions for Noon e-commerce group of storefronts. Converted the stack to multi-tenant enabling different storefronts to be launched.
• Launched new platform for budget buyers www.kul.com
• Launch new platform for fashion buyers www.sivvi.com including migration from previous setup
• On horizontal e-commerce site noon.com launched various capabilities
• Single Sign-on solution to support common login across marketplaces/..
• First personalized experiences launched on homepages
• Moved Search solution from paid partner to Solr, built the first arabic search solution. Enhanced relevance of the results and auto suggestions
• Digital attachments on products like extended warranty
• Frequently bought together for up-selling products
• Limited time deals / Auto apply cash back on prepaid payments
• Got the first fraud detection partnership built with large e-commerce company post Orders
• And of course scale up/reliability & availability of each system for Yellow (Black) Friday sale 2019
• Led all consumer touch points for different Marketplaces including product, engineering, DevOps of
• Web, Mobile site and Mobile Apps
• User systems
• Order Management
• Search
• Homepage
• Security

Jul 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr

• As the engineering and data science leader for two large group of teams at Flipkart, my responsibility for User and Trust & Safety cluster includes:
• Define the vision and roadmaps via short and long term goals for both groups.
• Ensure continuous Business impact - GMV growth via User team and Loss reduction via TNS teams.
• Work with my first line managers and architects and help them run their teams and projects successfully.
• Roadmaps and Exploratory items for Data science teams to built world class models. Promoting the culture of submissions to various publication journals.
• Define methods for Engineering teams to build state of the art systems to work in high scale distributed environment. Awareness of open source/competitive areas to bring back the knowledge into our systems.
• Plan and prioritise work for my groups, close collab with product and align to long term success of the groups. Build and review release plans, quarter deliveries and sprints.
• Work with large number of stakeholders (internal and flipkart groups of companies) for alignments, requirement definitions, new areas evangelisation and creating a ONE team spirit across
• Hiring best of the best talent, creating teams from grounds up and grow them in different principles. Retain & grow high performing individuals.
• Hire for Flipkart, I contribute to Leadership, Product mgmt, Engineering, TA partner, Analytics, Data engineering and various management roles.
• Ensuring healthy & inclusive culture in the org, team, direct lines and encouraging and fostering openness, transparency, fairness and a culture of meritocracy.
• Helping teams keep systems simple & realise what to build, reuse internal, open source or build and contribute back to open source, essentially avoid reinventing the wheel and still have enough opportunity to build technically complex systems where needed.
• Review metrics wrt development, stability, growth, decisions on where to invest vs divest, build vs buy.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

• As part of the Flipkart Data Group, I am responsible for Engineering teams of User personalisation Insights and service, Consumer lending (BNPL until v2), Trust Safety and Fraud detections, Commerce Graph and Machine Learning (ML/AI) platform groups of Flipkart.
• In this role, I take care of
• Building long term and short term roadmap for the groups with product leaders
• Defining, scoping, planning and executing the OKRs of the team’s with my teams, managers and architects.
• Help team with user flows/stories, high level designs and system architectures enabling reuse of technology where possible.
• Help identify features required for different machine learning models, review approaches, define exit criteria and success metrics.
• Ensuring team is following good and widely adopted (often adapted) software development practices to build maintainable software
• Define and adapt a variation Software processes for development/ testing / build / deploy / CI /CD pipelines much suited for the teams need.
• Hardware planning for the various groups building a roadmap of couple of years ahead
• Provide opportunities for solving complex technical challenges/OSS evaluations and comparisons which enables picking the best solution for the problem and the technical and personal growth of the teams too
• Ensuring a good collaborative approach is taken when contributing to cross team effort, ensuring ONE team synergy is created.
• Believe in a non hierarchical small team per project as it enables openness and close collaboration.
• Hire and retain best of the best talent from the world while working on complex problem areas of high scale/low latency and big data/machine learning areas.

Jan 2016 – Jul 2016 · 6 mos

• Leading User identity, services, retention and social aspects.

Oct 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Leading couple of groups:
• Business, compliance & control track
• Innovations charter.
• Build software to support first semi automated warehouse of Flipkart and in India
• Enforced and built systems for better compliance and control of warehouse operations including multiple internal and external audits being smooth.
• Released numerous cross team, org level end to end projects based on business needs.
• Enabled data governance with completeness and correctness
• Co-ordination with large number of stakeholders which included people from product, design, wh operations, different tech teams, finance, compliance, auditors and program managers.
• Grew the team from a handful to a solid 20 member team in a matter of a year which included Development, QA and support members.
• Built new processes for SDLC and incorporated them into the team for smoother functioning
• Apart from the above, worked with talent team on hiring folks from college grads to senior technical and management positions.

Jul 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Responsible for providing technical leadership in building new capabilities in Collaborative life cycle CLM built on Jazz technology specifically focusing on Rational Quality Manager product development. I work out of Bangalore leading a team here and work with WW development teams to define the direction of the product and possible improvements we can make in the process to improve productivity.
• As part of my job,
• Work with Product mgmt team to capture and understand the requirements
• Create an architecture and work with architects to ensure they meet the goals.
• Define the design of capability and remove potential technical challenges
• Work with the user interface teams to define the user flow
• Work with development team to explain the flows and build the functionality
• Develop code along with development team and track progress of the team for timely delivery
• Work with FVT to develop testcases
• Ensure and build automated tests (Selenium and JUnit) for the new capabilities
• Work with Doc team to ensure product documentation explains the new capabilities
• Work with cross product system testing teams to help define scenarios
• Ensure that the capabilities are enterprise ready ie. are accessible, globalized, serviceable...
• Deliver capabilities in high quality and on time.
• At each stage - review review review !
• If you reached reading this point...in short...my job is to get the job done and in good shape.
• Along with above, I also work with Sales and Support to provide technical insights and IBM internal team for product adoption and in integrating their internal tooling with our product. Visit customers to understand their pain pints and develop a working solution for them. Work with customers post sales and help in adoption of product.
• I enjoy creating prototypes for improving productivity of the product and potential new sales.
• Off late, i have started enjoying building applications and services on Bluemix...

Jun 2008 – Jul 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• I work in IBM India Software Lab on Rational Quality Manager product

Oct 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

Jun 2006 – Oct 2006 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jan 2006 – Jun 2006 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• Built power management drivers for processors.