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Kaushik Malakar

CTO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India21 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 22+ years of experience in technology leadership.
  • Expertise in building high-performing engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in product development and delivery.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology leader in eCommerce and Ad Tech with expertise in scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipAgile MethodologiesPricing OptimizationTechnical LeadershipProduct ManagementJava/j2eeProcess ImprovementSoftware DevelopmentJavaApi Development

Other Skills

Data AnalysisMicroservicesBig DataWeb ServicesAlgorithmsSoftware Project ManagementScalable ArchitectureEnterprise ArchitectureDesign & SolutionPeople ManagementRequirement AnalysisDistributed ArchitectureStrategic Planning & ExecutionTomcatXML

About

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

Experience

21 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Apple

Engineering

Oct 2017Present · 8 yrs 7 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Leading the Engineering team for News Advertising.
Engineering LeadershipAgile MethodologiesProduct Management

Flipkart

Sr. Engineering Manager

Mar 2015Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Pricing Platform at Flipkart for marketplace and retail optimally prices products for Flipkart based on understanding of competitive price, cost, inventory health, customer segment and price perception. The objective is to shape demand using pricing lever and plan appropriately.
  • My responsibility is to manage the engineering team and provide technical leadership to deliver multiple features like:
  • Price guard to stop anomalous price change.
  • Pricing based on inventory health, cost and sales.
  • Grocery
  • Flipkart Ads Group is focus in building the next generation Ads platform for the Indian market. The platform serves billion of relevant and targeted ads in innovative formats to Indian user. The platform is low latent, linear scalable, processing terabytes of data for profiling, targeting, predicting, forecasting and fraud detection.
  • My responsibility was to manage the engineering team and provide technical leadership to deliver new features like:
  • Product Listing Ads
  • Brand Story
  • Native Ads on Desktop
  • Multi DC platform.
  • Managed multiple teams:
  • Demand Platform (Campaign Management)
  • Accounting
  • Serving & Optimizations
Pricing OptimizationTechnical LeadershipAgile Methodologies

Adiquity - global mobile ads platform

Engineering Manager

Feb 2012Feb 2015 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

  • AdIQuity is a Global Mobile Ad Optimization platform which is currently serving over 17 billion impressions per month with more than 3000 Publishers and over 50 ad networks.
  • My responsibility is to manage the engineering team and provide leadership to deliver new features which helps AdIQuity positioning as a leader in the Mobile Ads Platform.
  • Technical responsibility
  • o Provide technical leadership and architecting.
  • o Conduct technology assessment.
  • o Planning & delivery of the product road-map.
  • Managerial responsibility
  • o Planning and execution using agile methodology.
  • o Team building and recruitment.
  • o Process improvement.
  • o Vendor management.
  • o Build management and deployment.
  • o Engage with customers and provide technical support.
  • Tools / Technology: Java/J2EE, Hadoop, Nginx, Tomcat, Zookeeper, RabbitMQ , Solr, MySQL, Eclipse, Linux, VersionOne, SVN, Jenkins, JUnit and Selenium.
Technical LeadershipAgile MethodologiesJava/J2EE

Parametric tech. corp. software (india) pvt. ltd

Senior Engineer

Aug 2006Jan 2012 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Pune

  • PTC is all about helping discrete manufacturers succeed by meeting their globalization, time-to-market, and operational
  • efficiency objectives in product development. PTC delivers a complete portfolio of integral Product Lifecycle Management
  • solutions.
  • Design, develop and maintain various Windchill functional. My primary responsibility is to develop and maintain (including scalability and performance)
  • the Import Export and Data Loading operation (both client and server). Other modules on which I
  • have worked upon includes:
  • Federation Infrastructure (Aids collaboration of product development between
  • supplier, manufacturer and other player in the product development life-cycle)
  • STAMP-TDP
  • Work Package (Packaging a product structure, for outsourcing design and development)
  • Move Tool (Moving product across containers, facilitating on demand
  • architecture)
  • Report Generation (of Product Structure).
  • Increased team productivity by integrating Jenkins as Continuous Integration in
  • development to reduce build break and streamline process.
  • My responsibilities also include handling troubleshooting and handling customer escalated product defects.
  • As a part of the development process, my responsibilities are:
  • Feature implementation (considering performance and scalability).
  • Evaluation of new technology and providing POC.
  • High level and low level design of functionality/module.
  • Address customer escalation and provide support to Tech Support.
  • Mentor new hires.
  • Provide technical guidance to junior developer.
  • Strive for process improvement.
  • Cross team knowledge sharing of the functionality.
  • Provide estimation of task and task breakdown.
  • Developing test cases.
  • Validate QA test scenarios.
  • Fix and reduce software defect.
  • Tools / Technology: Java/J2EE (JSP, XSLT and JDBC), XML, JavaScript, Ajax, Eclipse, Oracle 11gi, JUnit, jMockit, Test Partner, Selenium, Tomcat, Clear Case and Jenkins, Platform: Windows.
Java/J2EEAgile MethodologiesProcess Improvement

Persistent systems

Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2005Jul 2006 · 1 yr

  • Persistent is a CMM Level -3 Service company.
  • Worked on a project related to UDDI registry for registry management of WebServices. This was developed using WSDL, JAXR, SOAP, UDDI-V3, Apache Tomcat and Struts. This was developed using Eclipse on WindowsXP. I personally worked on the API which needed to be exposed as web-service (components - Search & sort, Disposition Report generation with logging, UDDI Component, Data Import/Export, V2-V3 compatibility, WSDL and Subscription API.)
  • Worked starting from Requirement collection from client, Design, Development to Unit testing.
Java/J2EEWeb ServicesSoftware Development

Avisere technology pvt. ltd

Senior Computer Science Engineer

Jun 2004Jun 2005 · 1 yr

  • Avisere is a global company, with operations literally going on 24x7 over currently three continents; in India, Sweden and the US; is a wholly owned subsidiary startup of Avisere. As a part of Avisere, I was engaged into developments of products using Java as the main platform. Majority of the java development are done on Eclipse and CVS.
  • Designed, developed and tested software for converting video (dat) files to image files (ppm, jpg) and viewing as per frame. This was developed on MacOsX using Objective-C and Cocoa. Designed, developed and tested the UI for the same. Integrated the algorithm to the final project.
  • Designed, developed and tested a software for opening multiple video (dat) file and view images frame-wise with all functionality of playing, restarting, moving frame-wise and storing a qualification for each frame for each video and later play them depending on the reported status. This was developed on MacOsX using Java on Eclipse.
  • Designed, developed and tested software for opening an image using drag and drop and doing operation based on the mouse location on the image. This was developed on MacOsX using Objective-C and Cocoa.
  • Designed, developed and tested software for generating Charts based on data supplied by the core algorithm in C (through JNI) and then generate a pdf report and mail it to recipients. This was developed on MaxOsX using iText, JFreeChart and Java on Eclipse.
  • Designed, developed and tested software for CarTracking using java. Also designed, developed various alert/messaging based on human tracking in the Region Of Interest.
JavaWeb ServicesAPI Development

Indian statistical institute

SUMMER TRAINEE

May 2003Jul 2003 · 2 mos

  • Surveyed/studied various Decision trees (of Data Mining) currently available. Experimented the scalability aspect for various trees and established the major differences in them. Also developed and implemented an application for the same using which image segmentation was explored.

Tcg software services pvt. ltd

2 roles

WINTER TRAINEE

Dec 2002Dec 2002 · 0 mo

SUMMER TRAINEE

Jun 2002Jul 2002 · 1 mo

  • Joined TCG Software, Inc. - A leading global technology solutions firm serving global customers, as trainee under Quality Assurance Unit.
  • Examined SEI-CMM specifications from TR-25 documentation and explored the various aspects of Risk Management.
  • Assisted in developing "Risk Management Tool" based on 'SEI-CMM' specifications.
  • Decided the key questionnaire set for the "Risk Management Tool".
  • Analyzed the size of the "Risk Management Tool" software.
  • Planned and prepared the various 'Test Plans' for the "Risk Management Tool".
  • Programmed the Reporting Section of "Software Metric Tool".
  • Drew the various test cases for "Software Metric Tool" and prepared the 'Acceptance Test Plan'.
  • Tested and filed the test results of "Software Metric Tool" based on the Acceptance Test Plan.

Webel informatics limited

Training

May 1997Jul 1997 · 2 mos

  • Extensive short term course on DOS, dBase, Lotus, WordStar; Object Oriented Programming With C++ and Java

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Int. MSc — Mathematics & Computing

Jan 1999Jan 2004

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