Madhusudhan Rao

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in technical and leadership roles.
CTO at Swiggy, managing Consumer and FinTech products.
Expertise in building scalable distributed systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Consumer Tech and FinTech with a strong focus on scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentCloud ComputingAgile MethodologiesMachine LearningInformation Retrieval

Other Skills

JavaDistributed SystemsScalabilityRubyRESTWeb ServicesSaaS

About

Madhusudhan Rao has over 20 years of experience in technical and leadership roles at companies like Swiggy, CommerceIQ and Amazon. He joined Swiggy in 2018 and was promoted to CTO in 2023. He also manages the Consumer and FinTech products at Swiggy. Prior to Swiggy, as the Head of Technology at CommerceIQ, he built and led the engineering, analytics and DS teams from pre-revenue to multi-million dollars in annual recurring revenue. At Amazon, he helped launch the Rich Media Ads Platform, Lightning Deals, and Amazon India. He helped improve the contextual recommendation engine for Ads and various Worldwide Traffic acquisition and attribution platforms. Specialities: Building and operating large, highly scalable and available distributed systems, with experience in Consumer Tech, Fintech, Recommendation Systems, Online Advertising and Pricing.

Experience

22 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Swiggy

3 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

SVP ConsumerTech and FinTech (Engg and Product)

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

VP Engineering - Storefront

Jun 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Boomerang commerce

3 roles

VP Engineering and Head of India Operations

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Director of Engineering

Apr 2014 – Mar 2015 · 11 mos

Chief Architect

Aug 2013 – Mar 2014 · 7 mos

Amazon.com

Sr Software Development Engineer (SDE 3)

Dec 2005 – Aug 2013 · 7 yrs 8 mos

Designing and building highly scalable and available systems on commodity hardware. A few products I have worked on here are
Amazon Widgets Platform (typepadwidgets.amazon.com).
Statistical classifier for categorizing products in the Amazon catalog.
Building the relevance engine for Amazon's Omakase product, including a machine learning (SVM) based feedback loop to tune our algorithm heuristics based on user generated data like clicks/conversions.

Bnp paribas

Software Consultant

Jun 2005 – Dec 2005 · 6 mos

Involves developing software for internal use for the capital markets group. Also includes a fair amount of recruiting and mentoring. I worked on building a capital adequacy reports generator for either the current or previous period. It also gives more insight to the traders on their positions for the day in the market.