Ajay Singh

CTO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India19 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 18+ years in scalable system development.
  • Expertise in travel and hospitality technology.
  • Proven leadership in managing diverse engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Travel and Hospitality technology with a strong focus on scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringTechnical LeadershipData Engineering

Other Skills

Technical StrategyProduct ConceptualizationArchitectureDesignDevelopmentQualityOperational ExcellenceDistributed Caching EngineBooking EngineMeta Channel PlatformEngineering LeadershipAgile PracticesAPI DevelopmentIntegrationAPI Latency Reduction

About

18+ years of experience in building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems to solve business problems in both B2C and B2B space. 8+ years of experience in travel and hospitality industry with expertise in building, integrating and distributing hotel supply. Effective at building culturally diverse team and managing remote teams at multiple locations.

Experience

19 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Bluecore

VP and Head Of Engineering, Bluecore India

Aug 2021Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Rategain

VP and Global Head of Engineering, Distribution

Dec 2018Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Next generation hotel distribution technology

Makemytrip.com

2 roles

Associate Director Of Technology

Promoted

Apr 2017Nov 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Led the technology for the hotels line of business at MakeMyTrip. Responsible for
  • overall technical strategy, key initiatives, product conceptualization, architecture, design,
  • development, quality and operational excellence. Actively guiding and managing a team
  • of 20+ engineers to build products that are key to delivering compelling customer value.
  • Complete ownership of all the backend technology platforms for hotels which includes
  • o distributed caching engine
  • o direct/third party supply
  • o meta channel platform
  • o content platform
  • o booking engine
Technical StrategyProduct ConceptualizationArchitectureDesignDevelopmentQuality+3

Senior Principal Engineer

Oct 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Led the engineering efforts (both front-end and back-end) for hoteltravel.com and easytobook.com which were acquired by MakeMyTrip to strengthen its international hotels supply.
  • Consolidated the intl. hotels supply and various other services for hoteltravel.com and easytobook.com so that we could ship features on both brands by making code changes at one place.
  • Integrated various hotel suppliers/gds hbeds, gta, expedia, orbitz, booking.com
  • Re-architected hotel search and booking flows to bring down the API latency.
  • Built features like rate comparator, rate chase to enable competitive pricing for hotels
  • Institutionalized development of friendly agile practices that lead to improved product quality, faster feature turn around time and upto 100% boost in sprint velocity.
Engineering LeadershipAgile PracticesAPI DevelopmentIntegrationSoftware EngineeringTechnical Leadership

Expedia, inc.

Software Development Engineer II

Dec 2012Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Sqoop development.
  • Built scalable monitoring and reporting analytics solutions.
  • Developed solutions for data-syncing between databases
  • Built tools on hadoop platform.
  • Wrote storm topologies for multiple products.
  • Designed and developed a high performance REST API over HBase.
Data SyncingHadoopREST API DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringData Engineering

Thomson reuters

3 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Dec 2010Dec 2012 · 2 yrs

  • Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Velocity Analytics
  • Led and managed a development team to offer Velocity Analytics as a service to customers.
  • Developed and managed the various server/client side components of Velocity Analytics product.
  • Built a SQL interface for Velocity Analytics
SQL DevelopmentAnalyticsClient/Server ComponentsSoftware EngineeringTechnical Leadership

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2009Dec 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Velocity Analytics
  • Developed tools to manage historical data (read, update, delete). Embedded a SQL engine in the proprietary tick database to provide SQL based access to tick data.
Data ManagementSQL Engine DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Software Engineer

Jun 2007Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Worked for Vhayu technologies (acquired by Thomson Reuters) through Talentica Software.
  • Wrote ODBC and JDBC drivers for VhaYu’s (acquired by Thomson Reuters) tick database
  • Designed and developed various components of Vhayu's Velocity Analytics Suite.
Driver DevelopmentDatabase ComponentsSoftware Engineering

Nvidia

Sotware Engineer

Aug 2006May 2007 · 9 mos

  • Graphics driver development, DirectX 3D
Graphics Driver DevelopmentDirectXSoftware Engineering

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

B.Tech — Computer Science

Jan 2002Jan 2006

D.A.V. Public School

High School

Jan 2000Jan 2002

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