Vikas Rana

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams in high-growth startups.
Built India's largest travel information website.
Launched innovative products with significant user engagement.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Travel industry leader with a strong focus on product development and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentIntegration ManagementProduct ManagementCommunity BuildingWeb DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

Team ManagementPlatform DevelopmentDevOpsAutomationSocial Media IntegrationSEOUser Generated ContentVideo TechnologyTraffic GenerationE-commerceTeam Leadership

About

Tech leader who loves building products and leading fast growth startup teams

Experience

22 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Cohesity

Senior Director of Engineering

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Khatabook

2 roles

VP of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Nov 2023 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led Engineering teams across three initiatives - Khatabook app, Core Tech Platforms and Devops+Automation with high velocity teams.

Engineering Leadership

Director of Engineering

Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Tweetshelf

Founder

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built a popular Twitter news aggregator as a solopreneur processing over a 100 million tweets per month with excellent reviews on Appstore & Playstore.

Product Development

Holidayiq.com

3 roles

Lastminute.com

Jan 2020 – Nov 2020 · 10 mos

Post acquisition of HolidayIQ by Lastminute.com, successfully integrated and scaled HIQ Nurturing Engine onto Lastminute.com UK customers collecting 100k+ reviews in the first year; increased SEO traffic and engagement on the website.

Integration Management

COO & CTO

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

Led holiday leads business and helped it achieve profitability by launching new product - Nurturing Engine. Based on User Generated Content (UGC), Nurturing Engine enables personalised communication across multiple marketing channels increasing conversions 3x.

Product Management

CTO

Sep 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Led a team of exceptional engineers to create India’s largest community platform with over 8 million members. Launched and scaled industry-first Video Reviews product.

Community Building

Must see india

Co-founder & CEO

Jan 2008 – Aug 2015 · 7 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built MustSeeIndia to be one of the largest travel information websites in India with 5 million monthly organic traffic. Launched India’s first fully dynamic package booking service scaling revenue to Rs 10 cr annual GMV. Acquired by Travel Tours in 2015.

Web Development