Kaushik Malakar — CTO
Seasoned technology leader with 22+ years of experience leading global, cross-functional technology organizations in product-driven companies. Expertise in building and scaling high-performing engineering teams across distributed systems, data platforms, microservices, and modern frontend architectures. Proven ability to lead end-to-end product development, from technical strategy and architecture to production operations and continuous delivery. Has strong bias for delivery of high-quality product on schedule while innovating. Experienced in organizational leadership, talent development, and engineering culture building, including defining organizational design, strategic hiring, vendor management, cost optimization, managing vendors and budgets, and aligning engineering execution with business strategy. A strong advocate for innovation, operational efficiency, and accelerated product delivery, leveraging cloud computing, microservices, and agile methodologies to build resilient and high-performing systems. Graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 2004 and since then it has been a phenomenal journey across versatile companies and roles building complex and scalable software product in the advertising network and eCommerce space. Expertise in building sustainable high performance team from scratch promoting the culture for engineering excellence and look to go over and beyond to achieve unprecedented productivity. Has mentored and promoted several people to senior engineering roles. Experience in building product and services using Java/J2EE. AI/ML, Relational dB, NoSQL, Cloud, MicroServices, Distributed Systems, Big Data, CI/CD and multiple open source tech stack like Kafka, Storm, Zookeeper, Solr, rabbitMQ, Hadoop, Hive. Areas of interest: Ad Tech, eCommerce (Pricing), PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Specialties: Product Management & Collaboration, Agile Methodologies, Strategic Planning & Execution, Engineering Leadership, Requirement Analysis, Design & Solution, Distributed Architecture, Talent Development and Organisation Building
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology leader in eCommerce and Ad Tech with expertise in scalable systems.
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Experience: 21 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Engineering Leadership
- Agile Methodologies
- Pricing Optimization
- Technical Leadership
- Product Management
- Java/j2ee
- Process Improvement
- Software Development
- Java
- Api Development
Career Highlights
- 22+ years of experience in technology leadership.
- Expertise in building high-performing engineering teams.
- Proven track record in product development and delivery.
Work Experience
Apple
Engineering (8 yrs 7 mos)
Flipkart
Sr. Engineering Manager (2 yrs 5 mos)
AdIQuity - Global Mobile Ads Platform
Engineering Manager (3 yrs)
Parametric Tech. Corp. Software (India) Pvt. Ltd
Senior Engineer (5 yrs 5 mos)
Persistent Systems
Member of Technical Staff (1 yr)
Avisere Technology Pvt. Ltd
Senior Computer Science Engineer (1 yr)
Indian Statistical Institute
SUMMER TRAINEE (2 mos)
TCG Software Services Pvt. Ltd
WINTER TRAINEE (0 mo)
SUMMER TRAINEE (1 mo)
WEBEL Informatics Limited
Training (2 mos)
Education
Int. MSc at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur