Rajesh Jalan

CTO

India29 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams for innovative cloud solutions.
Pioneered AI-driven agriculture technology.
Built successful blockchain services at Microsoft.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Agri-tech and Cloud Computing with extensive experience in product development and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud EngineeringSaas SolutionsAi And Data-driven FarmingBlockchain TechnologyTeam BuildingAgriculture TechnologyProduct DevelopmentCloud ServicesData ManagementBackup SolutionsDisaster RecoveryMessaging ServicesDeployment ManagementVirtualizationCompiler TechnologiesCode OptimizationSimulation ToolsDebuggingOptical SwitchingPerformance MonitoringSimulation

Other Skills

Farm ManagementData AnalyticsSoftware DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceAI/MLRisk AssessmentMiddleware DevelopmentBlockchain DevelopmentTeam ManagementGeo-spatial Data ProcessingIoT IntegrationEngineering Team LeadershipScalability SolutionsData MigrationCloud Solutions

About

Building and leading software products and services’ engineering teams across Cloud and On-premises, that are Globally-Scaled, Always-Available and Trusted. Passionate about leading teams with culture focused on customer, innovation, quality and employee happiness, and inculcating values of integrity, respect and accountability.

Experience

29 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Cropin technology

CTO and Head Of Engineering

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

CropIn is a leading Agri-tech organisation that is driven with the vision to maximize per acre value and the mission to make every farm traceable. CropIn caters to various stakeholders in the agri value chain by enabling them to AI and Data Driven farming.
CropIn provides SaaS based solutions and enables its clients to analyse and draw insights from the data about their growing crops. CropIn has digitised over 13 million acres of farmland, impacted the lives of nearly 4 million farmers in 52 countries globally. Our Risk platform has processes 160 MN Ha of land area, and has the potential to impact 70 million farmers globally in the next 3-5 years.
Our product suite offers:
1. SmartFarm: An award winning, robust & flexible farm management solution which enables complete digitisation of farms, data-driven decision-making, and provides visibility of people, processes and performance on the field.
2. SmartRisk: A business intelligence solution that leverages Ag-alternate Data and AI/ML to provide insights for risk mitigation and forecasting for effective credit risk assessment and loan recovery assistance.

Cloud EngineeringSaaS SolutionsAI and Data-Driven Farming

Microsoft

7 roles

Head Of Engineering, Azure Blockchain

Jan 2019 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Azure Blockchain Service, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/blockchain-service
Responsible for leading the blockchain engineering team across Redmond, Bangalore and Hyderabad
Built the team in India from scratch to a center of excellence
Launched Azure Blockchain Service in Public Preview along with multiple middleware capabilities with dev-ex
Defining the direction and evolution of this nascent technology in MSFT

Blockchain TechnologyTeam BuildingMiddleware Development

Head Of Engineering, Azure Farmbeats

Aug 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

Azure FarmBeats V1, https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/campaign/azure-farmbeats
Azure FarmBeats is the first industry specific Agriculture platform in Azure, the product helps farmers increase yield and lower inputs to maximise profit
Responsible for conceptualisation to delivering the first version of the product in the market
Built and lead the engineering team to deliver this product that transforms and normalises Geo-spatial Satellite data, IoT data, and Weather data
It provides a platform to build AI/ML models to generate insights

Agriculture TechnologyAI/MLProduct Development

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Jun 2014 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo

StorSimple and DataBox, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/storsimple
Started the engineering team in India post the acquisition of StorSimple. My team was responsible for end-to-end engineering of StorSimple Garda Azure Services.
The team delivered a new Azure Service to handle tens of thousands of StorSimple Devices from Cloud
Took the service from Private preview to GA managing 100s' of PBs of data on the cloud
First service in Azure to manage on-prem devices completely from cloud that is simple to use, secure, and highly scalable
Built the private preview of DataBox to help migrate data to Azure cloud

Cloud ServicesData ManagementEngineering Team Leadership

Principal Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Azure Back-up Service and Data Protection Manager, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/backup
Led a team of 40 engineers to build and deliver on Azure Backup Service. It is built with a micro-service architecture that is highly scalable, secure, available in 52 geos, with business continuity and disaster recovery. Took the service from Private Preview to GA. Currently it serves 100s of Petabytes of data.

Backup SolutionsMicro-service ArchitectureDisaster Recovery

Principal Engineering Manager

Dec 2009 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

Windows Server AppFabric
My team owned and delivered a distributed messaging queue service on-prem. It involved deployment, configuration, management and maintenance.
I owned components of BizTalk services like Analytics and Rules Engine.

Messaging ServicesDeployment ManagementConfiguration Management

Principal Engineering Manager

Aug 2006 – Nov 2008 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Virtual Server and Virtual PC, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC
Owned and delivered Virtual Server and Virtual PC lines of products with a team of 25 engineers. These were highly complex hosted virtual environments with low h/w support.
Created a completely new product “Windows Virtual PC” that delivered Windows XP as a virtual environment on Win7 hiding all the complexity of virtualization.

VirtualizationProduct DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Senior Engineering Lead

Mar 2002 – Jul 2006 · 4 yrs 4 mos

In BBT/Vulcan, my team delivered core compiler technologies and tools for Windows, it is used for optimizing all the windows binaries to reduce page loads. It included static code analysis like profiler, test coverage and a lot of tools that are used to enhance code quality
Services for Unix(SFU) was an emulation environment of Unix on Windows that my team delivered. It was the main tool for running all Unix program on Windows that could not be migrated

Compiler TechnologiesCode OptimizationUnix Emulation

Tejas networks

Engineering Team Lead

Aug 2000 – Feb 2002 · 1 yr 6 mos · India

I was responsible for T100 optical switch product.
I architected, designed and implemented the core capabilities like performance monitoring, circuit switching, etc.

Optical SwitchingPerformance MonitoringCircuit Switching

Synopsys inc

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 1997 – Jul 2002 · 5 yrs 6 mos · India

Verilog Compiled Simulation(VCS) was the industry leading and most performant Verilog simulator
I was responsible for providing debugging capabilities preserving aggressive optimization semantics
I also developed tools for detecting race conditions and test coverage

Simulation ToolsDebuggingTest Coverage

Cadence design systems

Software Engineer

Jun 1995 – Dec 1996 · 1 yr 6 mos · India

I was responsible for maintenance and enhancement of VeriFault product that was used to simulate millions of test vectors concurrently for identifying the right test sets to detect hardware faults.

SimulationTest Vector Maintenance