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Karan Jain

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States14 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in leading engineering teams.
  • Expertise in building scalable distributed systems.
  • Significant contributions to multi-million dollar initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce technology leader with extensive experience in engineering management and system architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementReal-time SystemsSupply Chain SystemsTeam LeadershipE-commerce SolutionsTeam ManagementArchitecture DesignEngineering ProcessesBid Traffic EstimationDistributed SystemsLoad BalancingFeature Development

Other Skills

Cross-functional CollaborationSystem DevelopmentBusiness InitiativesSystem ScalabilityData MiningTestingOutbound Supply ChainAlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringData StructuresSoftware DesignSoftware DevelopmentShell ScriptingAnalyticsJava

About

Results-driven & technology leader with expert envisioning and capable of leading technology based, multi-million dollar revenue and growth initiatives as well as building & scaling distributed systems. Steep growth and fast track career marked by demonstrated ability to build and retain elite teams as well as craft technology vision and achieve cross-functional business objectives.

Experience

14 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Screenify

Founder & CEO

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Doordash

Head of Engineering

Jan 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Leading the Dasher Engineering team whose mission is to build a highly engaged real
  • time workforce and empower them to fulfill marketplace services by providing a fast,
  • reliable and high quality experience.
  • Managing 4 teams - Growth, Engagement, Fulfillment & Courier of 60+ engineers & managers across multiple platforms including Web, iOS, Android, BE to build multiple systems that enable the conversion, retention, engagement of dashers and provide easy to use experience to them for fulfillment of deliveries.
Engineering ManagementReal-time SystemsCross-functional Collaboration

Walmart labs

5 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Leading multiple teams responsible for the development of the Promise, Sourcing, Pricing & Capacity Engine for Walmart.com.
  • Managing a team of elite engineers to build these systems which in tandem provides the core outbound supply chain capabilities.
Supply Chain SystemsTeam LeadershipSystem Development

Engineering Manager

Sep 2017Aug 2018 · 11 mos

  • Managing the Promise & Sourcing engine for Walmart.com
  • Lead the team to deliver multiple business initiatives including Free 2-calendar day shipping, Economy shipping discounts, etc. that helped grow Walmart E-commerce sales by about 60%
E-commerce SolutionsTeam ManagementBusiness Initiatives

Staff Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Lead the architecture and decision making related to technology, algorithms, engineering processes, etc. for the team
  • Work with teams in other pillars across the E2E stack to establish system interactions, service contracts and call patterns.
  • Ensure scalability and performance of the system and deem stability for peak load.
Architecture DesignEngineering ProcessesSystem Scalability

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2014Feb 2016 · 2 yrs

Software Engineer III

Jan 2013Feb 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

Microsoft

Software Engineer II

Oct 2011Jan 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked for Bid Traffic Estimation Engine for BingAds (Adcenter) organization in Microsoft. This system used to derive the minimal bid that an advertiser should apply on the keywords so that the ads show up in the top results on Bing search for that keyword.
  • Primarily responsible for Design & Automation of the product. Also, worked on mining data to figure out relations between various KPIs to be able to modal the fitness function to predict the performance of Ads on Bing search.
  • Was also a major contributor to Engineering Excellence community in Microsoft targeted at process improvements, cost and resource optimizations, infrastructural aspects, etc.
  • Also, worked on large scale and distributed systems (Hadoop) to perform offline processing to derive KPIs relevant to Ads business and customers.
  • Also, represented the engineering team in discussions with Product, Assistant managers, Sales Managers and other customers for Ad agencies.
Bid Traffic EstimationData MiningDistributed Systems

Citrix

Software Engineer

Jul 2010Oct 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked for Netscaler, a load-balancing tool. I was responsible for building and testing of features around TCP, RFC compliance, TCP window management, SACK etc. Also, was a major contributor to the Tools & Automation team at Citrix.
Load BalancingFeature DevelopmentTesting

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

IDD (B.Tech + M.Tech) — Computer Science

Jan 2005Jan 2010

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