Ajay P.

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led technology turnaround for a jewelry D2C brand.
  • Expanded engineering team from 25 to 110 in two years.
  • Expert in ERP and supply chain management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce technology leader with extensive experience in ERP and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipEnterprise Resource Planning (erp)Agile MethodologiesProblem SolvingProduct EngineeringSolution ArchitectureAdobe Aem/cqSoftware ArchitectureJavaDevops

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Building PerformanceBusiness AnalysisBusiness RequirementsBusiness StrategyBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Code ReviewCommunicationCompetitive AnalysisConsultingCrisis ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Deep Learning

About

I've spent most of my career in the tech industry working in ERP, supply chain, CRM, e-commerce and CMS domain. .Thanks for heading one large technology part of a jewellery D2C brand, CaratLane, at the point of turnaround and rapidly scaling up where I expanded the team 3x the size, led the tech part of a highly complex supply chain, A testing Center of Excellence, CRME API gateway redesign and financial engineering.I was also advisory CTO of two bootstrapped startups, one in employee engagement and the other in the Healthcare space.I have been well exposed to almost all technological, engineering, and product management aspects. I prefer to use technology pragmatically to solve business problems.Currently, I own all tech and product touch points at SimStar Group(a joint venture), Diamond manufacturing and trading company with a globally distributed supply chain as I put it into a product-led growth trajectory.

Experience

19 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Simstar group

CTO and Product Head

May 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Own all Product and Technology touchpoints at SimStar.
  • Discovering the North Star metrics;
  • Review Next ERP, including SWOT of the big 4 ERPs.
  • Led the Design of the Diamond pricing engine,
  • Integration of GCP and Azure with Odoo.
  • Enabled product-tech hiring plans and built a team of product-tech teams.
  • Driving ERP rollout.
Competitive Analysiscontinuous discoveryTechnology LeadershipEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Emerging TechnologiesStakeholder Management+6

Caratlane - a tanishq partnership

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2022May 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Expanded the team from 25 to 110, 3 to 9 teams in 3 years. Expanded teams,
  • initially in Chennai, to three more cities: Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore. Driven the
  • hiring from the top of the funnel (with a tech HR partner) to onboarding the team members.
  • Responsible for Architecture review to deliverable.
  • Using agile transformation, responsible for 40% throughput increase without increasing the
  • manpower.
  • Lead the order fulfillment to ERP, and CRM to 80% of Customers' orders.
  • Responsible for transforming the existing Monolithic giant architecture to TypeScript, nest.js, and Node-based microservice;
  • Introduced Flutter application for quality check and Integrated 8 different external vendors' ERP with CaratLane system using AWS Gateway and Cognito;
  • Modernized the development process,
  • Rolled out CaratLane-managed Kafka -MSK to an External vendor for ingesting data into the data warehouse.
  • Redesigned the Entire CaratLane Refund Management System and increased adoption from 0% to 95%.
  • Modernized the development process during a complete redesign of Core services behind the ERP.
  • Led redesign and development of CaratLane EZ Point of Sales App development and increased adoption to 92%.
  • Altered the team structure to enable Amazon’s single-threaded leadership model and two pizza teams in each of the 9 teams resulting in a reduction of 80% of production bugs.
Startup EnvironmentsDevOpsStrategic InitiativesAgile MethodologiesNew Business DevelopmentBuilding Performance+22

Engineering Manager

Mar 2020Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Drive, Learn, Design, Solution, Hire and then learn.
Startup EnvironmentsDevOpsStrategic InitiativesNew Business DevelopmentTeam BuildingInterpersonal Skills+17

Xoriant

AEM(Java) Architect

Nov 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Technologies involved Java/JEE, AEM6.4, Angular, Solr, and UNIX, Python and allied libraries (Numpy, Pandas, sklearn, flask etc)
  • Work details:
  • Design & architecture discussions, platform selection, Solution Architecture, capacity & estimation planning & mentoring and daily status.
  • Proposed and architect-ed unified content search where content can be stored as: fragments, pages and images etc, which are indexed into Solr. They are then solr queried across AEM and non-AEM services alike. Also documented the business need for the same which resulted in go ahead from the business team.
  • Established initial design and implementation framework for AEM–Solr rest based integration, for indexing & deindexing and for Solr search, then implemented it as part of POC, as a production ready code. This was the basis of all classes and services that respective developers extend and implement. Created SolrConnection pool as a synchronized list to reuse one of the existing http connections to Solr instead of creating new one. Also created custom logger from map to have a uniform logging across project to have all information needed for debugging.
  • Multi-collection SolrCloud: By extending AEM ootb ‘request for activation/deactivation’ workflows to add a WorkflowProcess step to make sure that as soon as a content is activated/deactivated, it is also indexed/deindexed to publishCollection of solr.
  • Establish NFR benchmark from the baseline of previous reports using performance testing and application profiling. While performance test provided system data, Jprofiler provides application, jvm, object level and method and line level performance.
Interpersonal SkillsTeam ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipJavaAdobe AEM/CQAmazon Web Services (AWS)+3

Mcafee

Senior SDE

Nov 2015Nov 2018 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

  • Backlog grooming all the way to sprint planning, estimation, capacity and Sprint retro.
  • Dynamically converted web page to pdf using Apache fop library: which reads the labels from the page and replaced corresponding placeholders with dynamic data and feeds into xsl:fo, converts into pdf and send as an attachment in the email service.
  • Created test automation flows using in house test automation framework and conducted performance testing runs;
  • End to end Roll-out for multiple country(MSM) and country specific email systems.
  • Designed & developed offer utility service and page while integrating it to backend business layer in .NET framework to enable authors to create new offers with rewards and discounts added to it. Huge implementation – in Page, large codebases changes in angularjs controller, Servlet, OSGi services and finally making Restful call and integration to business layer in C#.NET.
  • Almost all module for Mcafee In-product-transaction(AEM page within a Macfee product).
  • Proposed and implemented module in cookie-less manner where all response and session data has to be bundled up in a query url parameter to launch print page(very complex implementation).
  • Discover, document design Non-functional requirement, perf testing as part of Mcafee cart. Setup NFR test measurement in UNIX env. Generated reports for client as well as server side testing. Also grooming the performance team for Unix based NFR performance testing.
  • Created end to end multi-country server side validation framework using billing and payment model.
  • Implemented localization to display pricing and currency on different format for each geography.
  • Designed and implemented countless Java OSGi services, Servlet, angular controller, components, Templates, angularjs directives, angular services & workflows. Created error-redirection to denied party list using angular directive.
  • Process controls like Static analysis, profiling, code coverage, security scan reports, set up dispatcher.
Software ArchitectureCode ReviewInterpersonal SkillsSystems DesignCross-functional Team LeadershipJava+4

Zensar technologies

Lead Engineer

Sep 2014Jul 2015 · 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Implemented various Adobe CQ5/AEM modules: Page component, containers and templates and dialog, design dialog, components, multi fields, custom page properties. Creating components using sightly, Setting up dispatcher and setting up build release. Creating releases for AEM using maven release multi-module plugin.
  • Creating OSGi bundles: json data population in servlet drop down.
  • Implementation of /etc/map, <location>, <locationMatch> dispatcher farms and rewrite PT rule in apache etc
  • Repository reindexing through ACS commons or OOTB, AEM offline/online compaction, defining consistency checks, analysing dumps for issues.
  • Retrieving page properties for error handlers. Creating listeners with extjs and jquery;Creating custom tag libs for CQ5/AEM,Setup dispatcher and setting up flush agents, replication agents etc, creating filter.any rules, define vhosts
  • Page and component Error handling using ACS commons, i18n support, Apache error handler and web-server(with AEM is down).
Interpersonal SkillsJavaCommunicationAdobe AEM/CQProblem SolvingTeam Leadership

Ibm

Lead Developer

Mar 2006Sep 2014 · 8 yrs 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Created portlet to display values of property files, then populated CQ5 nodes using Sling OSGi service Restful calls to this portlet. This enables client to view which backend portal is connected which set of services.
  • Created SLA test runner application to make calls to various application modules to check their availability as per SLA, which was later made a basis of SLA reporting application.
  • Created SLA reporting application for the client to keep watch on SLA.
  • Creating Custom components, templates, OSGi bundles plus workflows in Adobe CQ5.
  • Successfully created the End to End Adobe CQ5 builds & deployment process and implemented into all environments: from Dev to production.
  • Successfully built and deployed multiple Lufthansa UAT & production environment with 99 % accuracy for 2 years. Streamlined build to make it easier for developer to provided multiple values of property replacements hence reducing the time for UAT deployment cycle and expediting code freeze.
  • Gathered Non-functional requirements, performed performance tests, conducted application profiling and analysed reports, made sure if specific build is eligible to go to production. Differed or Okayed releases based on these reports. Made suggestion to improve performance. Carried out similar task for Adobe CQ5 in parallel.
  • Corresponded with other departments to resolve Release, Build dependencies, performed operational management role with cross functional Geographical teams.
  • Successfully created 4 different proposals for CR development and strategic area of growth.
  • Created, troubleshoot-ed, cloned VMware environments for dev setup and performed respective post setup configuration. Installed/upgraded WebSphere Application, portal server and Adobe CQ5 in all environments.
DevOpsInterpersonal SkillsJavaCommunicationAdobe AEM/CQProblem Solving+2

Education

Indian School of Business

Master of Business Administration(PGPMax) (upcoming - Aug — 2026-2027 Batch)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Postgraduate Degree — Artificial intelligence and Machine learning

Jun 2024Aug 2026

Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

Bachelor’s Degree — Electrical engineering

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