Ritesh Shrivastav

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 12 years of engineering leadership experience.
Expert in building scalable platforms and integration infrastructure.
Passionate about mentoring and fostering team collaboration.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with a strong focus on scalable backend solutions.

Contact

ritesh.conf@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Api DesignTechnical LeadershipSystem OptimizationBackend DevelopmentSoftware DesignProduct Development

Other Skills

GitOpsAmazon ElastiCacheTeam BuildingApache KafkaDockerDesign ReviewSystem ArchitectureCross-functional Team LeadershipPython (Programming Language)Code ReviewTerraformAmazon Web Services (AWS)Agile MethodologiesGoGo (Programming Language)

About

With over 12 years of experience, I currently head engineering at Jodo, focusing on building scalable platforms and enhancing developer and client experiences. Passionate about designing robust systems, I aim to align with Jodo’s mission of financial empowerment by delivering innovative engineering solutions. Dedicated to fostering collaboration, I bring diverse perspectives to streamline processes, train engineers, and enable long-term growth. At Jodo, I spearhead the development of integration infrastructure, scaling it to support clients nationwide. My work emphasizes API design, monitoring tools, and developer adoption, while optimizing product scalability and revenue automation. With a focus on restructuring processes and mentoring teams, I contribute to creating standardized systems that improve scalability and efficiency across the organization. Outside of work, I'm a father of two, enjoy reading, always curious, though naturally introverted. If you’re passionate about engineering, scaling systems, or simply passionate about technology innovation, let’s connect! Feel free to DM me directly or visit [codingdash.com](https://codingdash.com).

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

5 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Jodo

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Engineering Lead

Promoted

Dec 2022 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

Spearheaded the development of integration infrastructure from scratch, scaling it across clients nationwide.
Designed a robust platform comprising APIs, webhook systems, a developer portal, and alerting/monitoring tools.
Drove product management for integrations, improving developer adoption and overall client experience.
Built and led a team focused on institute onboarding, significantly reducing friction in product adoption.
Transitioned to Jodo’s auto-debit product (Flex), focusing on platform scalability and revenue automation.
Restructured internal processes and developed tools to standardize systems for scale; began training engineers across teams to lead and build for long-term growth.

GitOpsAmazon ElastiCacheTeam BuildingApache KafkaDockerSoftware Design+12

Principal Engineer

Feb 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

Engineered tools and automated systems to reduce turnaround time and improve service availability.
Redesigned the loan application process, cutting manual steps and enhancing user experience.
Enhanced CRM capabilities to streamline lead pipeline management and automate operational tasks.
Built processes and integrated with multiple vendors and NBFCs to improve system reliability and ensure high availability.
Mentored and supported engineers across frontend, backend, and DevOps teams, fostering cross-functional growth.

Constructive FeedbackOptimizationAmazon ElastiCacheApache KafkaSoftware DesignDesign Review+9

One championship

Tech Lead, FullStack

Nov 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · India · On-site

Improved backend services to support localisation of content and localisation in ONE Super App.
Streamlined the single source of truth for all content and information within the complete ecosystem.
Built system to record stats to be consumed in real time as well as historically.
Built a system with RBAC, audit logs and snapshots on the top of streamlined data sources and enabled multiple team's workflow from single portal.
Managed team of contributors to deliver best quality of products.

Content Management Systems (CMS)OptimizationElasticsearchSoftware DesignProblem SolvingNode.js+5

Taghash

Founding Member, Techie

Jul 2017 – Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Built product for enterprise customers from scratch
Led development process and execution of the complete flow
Determined standards on fixing process, performance, quality of the product
Managed team of contributors and organizational activities

RedisOptimizationspaCySoftware DesignProblem SolvingNode.js+6

Exotel techcom private limited

Software Engineer

Nov 2014 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Built a service, which deals with routing for every calls and sms powered by Exotel. Ensuring HA, scalability and with very low latency.
Built an internal tool from scratch, to be used by tech support and NOC members. Using this tool, members were able to find real time alarming issues and also discover root-cause for any call/sms/ infrastructure related issues.
Developed a business intelligence tool, which aggregates and presents revenue, business consumption details across operational regions and the marketing analytics aggregated from multiple third-party services.
Apart from this, I had actively participated in deployment activity, scaling services, debugging and fixing bugs and implementing product features and mentoring team members.

OptimizationSoftware DesignProblem SolvingJavaPHPMultithreading+7

I2soft technologies

Intern, Software Engineer

Jan 2014 – Oct 2014 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Designed and implemented a custom CMS for news, connection and messaging for a community-based organisation. The system was implemented using PHP(with Codeigniter framework), MySQL and jQuery, Bootstrap at the client-side.
Was responsible for understanding user requirements and building and iterating over the solution from scratch. This included overall system architecture and design, managing the systems and databases.
Prior to that, as an intern developed a cloud-based web application, whose main users were artists and the art customers. This application was developed using C#, ASP.net MVC framework 4.0, MS SQL Server and on client-side jQuery, Bootstrap, Oileus Framework was used.