Rahul S. — VP of Engineering
Engineering leader with a passion for building teams that create exceptional products. With over 15 years of experience in designing, planning, and scaling web applications, I am experienced in maintaining collaborative environments and driving lean implementations. I am a pro-supporter for A/B testing and iterative development. in Decimal: Leading engineering for a business-critical, AI-assisted lending platform, with a strong focus on lean delivery, predictable execution, and high-ownership teams. Actively partnering with product and business leaders to improve decision quality, platform adoption, and client outcomes, while building a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence. Neoble Experience: As Vice President of Engineering at Neoble, as it’s a startup, I am hands on to end-to-end product development lifecycle, coding and strategic product brainstorming to build it from scratch, while working on core product to support loan against mutual funds and manage their fund collections, I also contributed to SEO and marketing strategies that enhance our digital presence. In JustAnswer: Growth towards customer acquisition by experimenting on various features and improved conversion. Led teams for customer acquisition as planning, designing, executing and delivering projects to grow conversion and improvement on traffic by providing better customer experience. Successfully managed teams, driving appraisals, personal growth, and achieving success for each team member. My team’s attrition ratio was 0% for 2 years. Organized Hackathon, Tech talks, Employee engagement policies and ran mentorship programs to ensure growth and skills in engineering. Maintained cost saving in terms of project delivery and have won several awards for lean execution. Built teams by hiring across different engineering positions in JustAnswer. In Microsoft: Lead in Microsoft Teams for admin portal, led wiki and analytics teams features. Worked to build a resilient system and optimized design with cost saving. In Ola Cabs: Worked on various cab booking features to provide customers with a better application experience. Led teams to build fully automated fleet systems to improve cab partner's experience. Learnt lean here.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with extensive experience in SaaS and engineering management.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 18 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Engineering Management
- Technical Delivery Management
- Leadership
- Project Management
- Microsoft Azure
- Systems Design
Career Highlights
- Led engineering for AI-assisted lending platform.
- Achieved 0% team attrition for two years.
- Successfully managed multiple high-impact projects.
Work Experience
Decimal Technologies
Senior Engineering Manager (11 mos)
Neoble
Vice President of Engineering (9 mos)
JustAnswer
Engineering Leader (India) (2 yrs 9 mos)
Microsoft
Senior Engineer (2 yrs 6 mos)
KratiTech
Technical Consultant (1 yr)
Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd)
Technical Lead (2 yrs 7 mos)
Nimbuzz Messenger
Technical Lead (2 yrs 9 mos)
Samsung India Software Operations
Technical Lead (4 yrs 4 mos)
Wipro Technologies
Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 11 mos)
Education
Certificate Program in Management of Software Development at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi