Rajeev Sharma

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams at multiple high-traffic platforms.
Expert in scaling operations for multi-million user applications.
Proven track record in cloud infrastructure optimization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with extensive experience in scaling engineering operations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team ManagementProject PlanningSoftware DevelopmentPaymentsCloud InfrastructureProduct ManagementLogistics Management

Other Skills

WebBackendMobileDevOpsQAData EngineeringAutomationPayments PlatformLending PlatformsCRMCloud InfraAndroidKubernetesLending platformBizMart

About

Result driven technology professional with almost two decades of experience in planning, directing & executing activities that provide real work business solutions to customers. A Computer Science graduate with experience across a vast domain in various technologies. Experience with large as well as startup companies, in first, second level management and individual contributor. Have scaled organisations and processes from a small founding team to large specialised teams. Have been a key member at the various internet companies and helped these companies to scale operations from scratch to over multi-million users and handling the highest traffic and page views across all internet domains. These include the likes of www.office.com, www.flipkart.com, www.yahoo.com, www.zapak.com and www.livspace.com etc. Domain experience: Payments, Lending, SaaS, E-commerce, Marketplaces, and Logistics management

Experience

19 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Zet (previously onecode)

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Sep 2023 – Aug 2024 · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Taking care of the whole engineering team including Web, Backend, Mobile, DevOps, QA and Data Engineering Teams. Owned the customer facing, Agent facing and B2B apps and related backend services.
Stabilized the mobile apps which were very unstable when I joined
Setup monthly planning and weekly sprint processes to manage the execution
Introduced release process to make sure all releases are thoroughly tested before deployment
Introduced on-call process to manage the production issues
Helped build the automation framework which reduced the effort on regression testing
Worked with Application and DevOps teams to increase availability, alerting, monitoring
Reduced cost on Infra (AWS) and toolings (Newrelic, Logging etc)
Built the right culture in the team which is tech driven, process driven, and collaborative
Reduced the team size while keeping similar output by increasing efficiency, introducing better processes, setting the exceptions with the tech team.
Groomed the senior team members including architects, managers, automation engineers
Started the practice of documenting and reviewing the architecture and designs before implementation
Dealt with many audits with Banks and Financial institutions
Dealt with Google Play Store on many app and policy related issues

WebBackendMobileDevOpsQAData Engineering+2

Khatabook

3 roles

VP of Engineering

Apr 2023 – Sep 2023 · 5 mos

Currently own Payments Platform, Lending Platforms, CRM, and Cloud Infra including Backend, Android, Web, QA, and Infra (AWS)
Owned multiple teams (UI, Backend, QA, Infra, Automation, and Tech Support) to set up execution processes, roadmap, security, cost optimisations roadmap and guidelines.
Setup the sprint process from scratch in Khatabook for the product development teams.
Created a process for Tech Support and Infra to work on weekly sprints and have a roadmap of at least a month for execution and 3 months for OKRs.
Worked with the team to significantly improve the payments platform to achieve scalability, reliability and developer friendliness.
Helped the team architect Lending systems from ground up and build the systems to support business.
Working with the Automation team to create automation suites for multiple products in order to increase confidence in automated testing and improve overall quality and agility.
Built processes around on-call, sustenance, execution to improve overall execution of both products.
Migrated almost all Khatabook infra to Kubernetes and secured it to achieve efficiency and improve security.
Executed multiple initiatives to reduced Cloud Infra cost by more than 40% across all products in Khatabook
Work with vendors for Infra (Backup and DR, AWS etc) and Tooling (Build tools, Observability, Logging, APM etc) in selection, evaluation and negotiations.

Payments PlatformLending PlatformsCRMCloud InfraBackendAndroid+4

Sr Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

Taking care of Payments platform, Lending platform, BizMart, and Infra in Khatabook.

Payments platformLending platformBizMartInfraPayments

Director Of Engineering

Jul 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Taking care of Payments platform, Bills & GST, DevOps, and Automation in Khatabook.

Payments platformBills & GSTDevOpsAutomationPayments

Capillary technologies

Director Of Engineering

Nov 2019 – May 2020 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Lead the campaigns product in capillary with a team of 35+ members. Team includes Engineers, QAs, and Sustenance engineers (including 3 Managers)
Stabilised the product to reduce the number of critical issues happening in the system.
Built roadmap to improve the overall performance, sustainability and scalability of the system in order to increase customer adoption and ease of use.

Campaigns productPerformanceSustainabilityScalabilityProduct Management

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Lead the team of multiple features and guided them in design, execution planning etc. Took handover from Redmond team of multiple features and owned in completely in Bangalore for execution.
I lead the team who owned the Calendar APIs and related features in O365 system for www.office.com

Calendar APIsO365Execution PlanningSoftware Development

Livspace.com

Head Of Engineering, Backend Platforms

May 2013 – Apr 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

I was involved in building designer related software like designer community, project management and design tools for designers which are easy and intuitive to be used by designers.
Previously have build Catalogue Management System, Design/Render Automation System and Asset Management systems in Livspace. I also take care of complete IT infrastructure in Livspace.

Designer softwareProject managementIT infrastructureSoftware Development

Flipkart.com

SDE3

Apr 2012 – May 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

Led the team of Flipkart Logistics which worked on existing system as well as building the system from scratch in ruby.
Enhanced the existing logistics system to expose APIs to be used in Flipkart product page for delivery availability check for a given pincode, payment integration with EasyTap and other apis to be used in supply chain system.

Logistics systemRubyAPIsLogistics Management

Yahoo! inc

Technical Lead

May 2008 – Dec 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore, India

Worked as a Lead for multiple backend platforms used in Yahoo! to build customer facing websites. Build the YOS people search API single handedly to be used by one of the social networking application for Yahoo!.

Backend platformsCustomer facing websitesAPI developmentSoftware Development