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Rahul S.

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led engineering for AI-assisted lending platform.
  • Achieved 0% team attrition for two years.
  • Successfully managed multiple high-impact projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with extensive experience in SaaS and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTechnical Delivery ManagementLeadershipProject ManagementMicrosoft AzureSystems Design

Other Skills

Engineering LeadershipAI for BusinessGenerative AIPeople ManagementLean ManagementBusiness RequirementsLean StartupTeam ManagementFull-Stack DevelopmentWeb ApplicationsPerformance ManagementC#Azure Cosmos DBScalable Web ApplicationsAgile Methodologies

About

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.

Experience

18 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
11 mos
Current Experience

Decimal technologies

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2025Present · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • 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.
Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipAI for BusinessGenerative AITechnical Delivery ManagementPeople Management+1

Neoble

Vice President of Engineering

Jan 2024Oct 2024 · 9 mos · Remote

  • As Vice President of Engineering at Neoble, as it’s a startup, I lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle, combining hands-on coding with strategic product brainstorming. I played a pivotal role in shaping key product features from scratch, while also contributing to SEO and marketing strategies that enhance our digital presence. My approach integrates technical expertise with a deep understanding of customer needs, ensuring that Neoble delivers innovative and reliable fintech solutions.
LeadershipBusiness RequirementsProject ManagementLean StartupTeam ManagementFull-Stack Development

Justanswer

Engineering Leader (India)

Oct 2020Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Managing teams, overseeing review cycles, conducting performance appraisals, and providing mentorships.
  • Leading teams in customer acquisition with project planning, system designing and prompt delivery to boost conversion and optimize website traffic while providing an enhanced customer experience.
  • Convening Hackathons, Tech talks, instituting Employee engagement policies, executing company promotions in India, and running mentorship programs to foster growth and engineering competency.
  • Achieving cost-savings in project delivery, winning numerous awards for efficient execution, and attaining a 25% growth in traffic to ~500k page visits per day and 6% rise in user conversion in organic search.
  • Recruiting across various engineering roles to construct teams in JustAnswer.
Web ApplicationsLean ManagementLeadershipBusiness RequirementsSystems DesignProject Management+1

Microsoft

Senior Engineer

Mar 2018Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Guided teams to develop robust and efficient services.
  • Enforced policies, activities and enhanced customer and staff user experience.
  • Formulated applications and treated data in accordance with GDPR and PII.
  • Constructed scalable microservices and APIs capable of handling >700k requests daily with p99 latency of < 0.5s.
  • Refined SQL queries to decrease costs and deliver better responses.
  • Collaborated across teams to refine procedures and introduce better features.
  • Worked on Microsoft Azure applications for infrastructure development and optimization.
  • Developed Wiki feature in Teams application (displayed as a tab in channels).
  • Spearheaded the Development of Analytics feature in Teams application (found in team/channel settings tab).
Microsoft AzureLeadershipC#Systems DesignAzure Cosmos DBScalable Web Applications

Kratitech

Technical Consultant

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • I was part of an association that provided a comprehensive dairy solution to thousands of milkmen and farmers. The technical team I was a part of was responsible for providing solutions for the daily inventory management, cattle management, and dairy product collection of dairy personnel. My role was to design the architecture of the associated website and Android app (app.kamdhenudairies.com) as well as a platform to facilitate the sale and purchase of cattle.

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

Technical Lead

Jul 2015Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Implemented various cab booking features to maximize customer satisfaction with the application.
  • Guided teams in developing a fully automated fleet system to optimize the cab partner experience.
  • Acquired expertise in lean methodology to expedite delivery times.
  • Spearheaded multiple projects encompassing Ola Share, Shuttle, Corporate, Cafe, and Fleet, developing robust, scalable solutions from start to finish.
  • Constructed a system with microservices, efficient databases, and reliable messaging services (Kafka), capable of withstanding peak demand.
  • Developed cross-platform backend and frontend applications to ensure optimal architecture.
Business Requirements

Nimbuzz messenger

Technical Lead

Sep 2012Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Lead in Nimbuzz Messenger Android and Windows mobile applications. to provide technical solutions for one to one chat, group chat, chat rooms, stickers and voice calls ( Linphone) features.
  • Responsibility to develop and publish Masque and Holaa applications ( nimbuzz sisters)

Samsung india software operations

Technical Lead

May 2008Sep 2012 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Expert in Windows Mobile Application development. Have worked in application development of WP7.x / WP8 / windows 8 and WM6.5 platforms. currently working for WP8 app UI.
  • experience : (all developments for samsung windows phones)
  • JOYN application UI in WP8
  • GSM Video Call application in WP7
  • Video Editor and Image Editors
  • Bug Fixing for multiple applications.
Business Requirements

Wipro technologies

Senior Software Engineer

May 2006Apr 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Experience in Windows mobile application with C/C++ as well as .Net CF. Have developed WiFi application as well as Media applications.
  • Have worked with linux device driver for Camera in 3GP Motorola phone.(not in touch). Experience in Linux operating systems also.

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Certificate Program in Management of Software Development — Management in Software Development

Jan 2014Jan 2015

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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