Ravi Suhag

CTO

Chicago, Illinois, United States15 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expert in building distributed real-time data pipelines.
Active contributor to open-source technology initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Open Source expert with a strong focus on data engineering and analytics.

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Data VisualizationData AnalysisInfrastructureJavaScriptSQLGo

About

Engineering and product leader with a passion for building great products. More than 10 years of experience in building and leading high-impact engineering teams. Proven track record to establish a vision and execute efficiently. Active contributor and maintainer of open-source projects. Key expertise areas: Team Building Recognizing and attracting top-tier members. Coach and guide teams through their strengths and weaknesses with regular feedback. Data Engineering Experience in building distributed real-time data pipelines that can handle billions of data points per day. Data Analytics Experience in building tools to visualize and analyse big data in an effective, understandable & engaging manner. Distributed Systems Experience in developing distributed, fault-tolerant backend and frontend systems using the latest technology and modern frameworks. Product Development Track record on driving product development with influence that meaningfully moves the business forward. Product Design Designing user-centered, clean, and functional products that follow structure, simplicity, visibility, and reuse. Partnership Establish strong relationships with both business and technical leaders across and outside organisation. Vision Understanding business, analytics, and technology, to guide teams by providing relevant context and inspiration.

Experience

15 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Pixxel

2 roles

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

VP Engineering

Jan 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

Leading product and engineering efforts to build an earth observation platform to democratize access to data of a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites across a multitude of sectors. My role also contributes towards the development of automated image processing and machine learning platform that will enable us to detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena in near real-time.

Raystack foundation

Founder

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · India · Remote

Raystack Foundation (Perviously known as Open DataOps Foundation) is a non-profit organisation building open-source technology for data, ML and AI. I lead vision and community efforts to build an open-source, self-service modern data platform. Raystack provides a consistent and unified platform for data lifecycle, data management, and data governance to magnify developer productivity.

Gojek

2 roles

VP Engineering, Data Platforms

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs

Leading product and engineering efforts to build large scale, self-service data platforms including Enterprise Data Platform, Experimentation Platform, Analytics Platform, and Customer Data Platform. These platforms empower the Gojek workforce to make data-driven decisions.

Head of Engineering

Feb 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Building resilient and scalable data infrastructure across all of Gojek’s 18+ products that help millions of Indonesians commute, shop, eat and pay, daily. This involves building distributed big data infrastructure, real-time analytics, and visualization pipelines for billions of data points per day using many handcrafted and big data open source tools including but not limited to Kafka, Flink, Spark, BigQuery, Airflow, Zeppelin, etc.

Hindustan times

Tech Consultant, Data Journalism

Nov 2015 – Aug 2016 · 9 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Built the definitive online source of real-time air quality monitoring in all of India for Hindustan Times. This project involved working on sensor journalism, extensive web crawling for data collection and moinitoring platform for data exploration. The goal of the project was to empower citizens to make better decisions, and so that they can hold their government accountable.

Abdul latif jameel poverty action lab (j-pal)

Tech Consultant, Data Interfaces

Apr 2015 – Dec 2015 · 8 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Built data exploration framework for emission trading system to enable the Ministry of Environment & Forests to cap total pollution emissions in select areas and increase regulatory transparency and accountability. The pilot scheme provided a model for expansion within India and a framework for implementing global environmental policy. This project was done in collaboration with JAPAL South Asia, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board

Harvard kennedy school of government

Engineering Lead, Data Experiences

Apr 2014 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Leading technology efforts to design and develop data interfaces for evidence based policy decisions and increasing accountability in public programs. We have developed high-potential pilot projects which demonstrate the value of data and evidence through hands-on capacity building, while simultaneously creating innovative and effective ways for policy actors to utilize data and research evidence to improve their decision making.

Info assembly

Lead Architect

Dec 2013 – Mar 2014 · 3 mos · Delhi, India

Worked on designing architecture for Big Data web platform for Info Assembly which leverages data analytics and offers innovative FinTech products for businesses. We used Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms running on massive big web data to create intuitive visual experiences which would greatly simplify the manual financial market research process.

Solomo media pvt ltd

Product Engineer

May 2013 – Nov 2013 · 6 mos · Indirapuram

Built platform to help brands engage through social, location, and mobile media. Tools and platforms built helped many brands bring their users together in communities, create platforms to engage, and communicate anywhere digitally.

Y2cf digital media pvt limited

Web Developer

Aug 2012 – May 2013 · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Infoclot

Founder

Jun 2011 – Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Infoclot is a design-driven software company and a community of passionate individuals, thinking disruptively to revolutionize the software development and create positive social change.
We work with ambitious people and organizations to provide software delivery, pioneering tools, and consulting in commercial, social, educational, and government sectors. We believe in improving the quality of living with technology and sharing what we learn by running events, and conferences and contributing to open source.