Avinash Rai

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 16+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
  • Expert in building resilient and scalable systems.
  • Proven track record in leading high-performance engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on engineering leadership and scalable architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Full-stack DevelopmentDevopsCloud-native ArchitectureEngineering Management

Other Skills

JavaScriptDocker ProductsAmazon Web Services (AWS)JavaOracle DatabaseAWSPython (Programming Language).NET CoreCross-functional Team LeadershipPythonAgile MethodologiesSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Project ManagementObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Scrum

About

16+ years of strong hands-on experience in Software Engineering - Designing resilient & massively scale-able systems handling ~100k TPS - Creating high performance teams - Cross-functional collaboration - Driving strategic tech initiatives across teams in India, Europe & US Entrepreneurial by nature & passionate about - faster deliveries - left shift in quality - 1% better everyday - resilient architectures Looking forward for impactful engineering leadership opportunities with focus on building high competence teams.

Experience

16 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
11 mos
Current Experience

Walmart

Director of Engineering

Jul 2025Present · 11 mos · Hybrid

Docusign

Sr. Engineering Manager

Feb 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hybrid

Walmart global tech

Sr. Engineering Manager

Jul 2021Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Full-Stack DevelopmentDevOpsCloud-Native ArchitectureEngineering ManagementJavaScript

Epsilon

Engineering Manager

Aug 2020Jul 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Led the Epsilon PeopleCoud Loyalty team (~10 members) in India
  • This opportunity had a mix of engineering management (20%) & hands on coding in each sprint (80%)
  • My team had several impactful deliveries within a short span of time (a year), like:
  • Improved MTTR/MTTD by ~ 60% by incorporating Elastic Application Performance Monitoring
  • (APM) in existing codebase within a sprint (~2 weeks)
  • Spearheaded Epsilon PeopleCloud Loyalty program integration with third party providers using
  • SnapLogic platform. Delivered third party integrations as additional revenue generation offering on
  • top of existing loyalty api platform
  • Created ChageDataCapture pipeline to handle to real-time updation of data lake enabling ML algorithms
  • to accurately recommend latest & best suited loyalty offering for each end user.
Full-Stack DevelopmentCloud-Native ArchitectureDocker ProductsEngineering ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Java+1

Zeiss group

Technical Team Lead R&D

May 2016Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos · India · On-site

  • Spearheaded re-architecture of monolithic app with team. Refactored highly complex application, following DDD, EventDriven architecture to have various pluggable & runtime configurable services.
  • This effort required writing several services from scratch & revamping the whole product usage & integration journey.
  • This served as great opportunity for me to learn on practical nuances of re-architecting an application, including
  • Managing shareholder's expectations & technical delays
  • Handling burnouts/spikes within team
  • Balance between Perfection vs Pragmatism during each design discussions
  • Delivering on ultra volatile requirements requiring highly customizable & scale-able architecture
  • This opportunity also allowed me to transition into engineering management role from IC role.
  • Got exposure to Computer Vison algorithms/libraries like OpenCV & Halcon
  • Decent understanding on OpenGl rendering techniques, VTK library & OpenTK usages
  • Handling vast amount of datasets (~128GBs) & out of core dataset processing techniques
Python (Programming Language)Full-Stack DevelopmentDevOpsCloud-Native ArchitectureDocker ProductsEngineering Management+3

Siemens healthineers

Senior Associate Consultant

Aug 2011May 2016 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore,India

  • TPDS allows clinical physicians to plan & execute cancer treatment using heavy ion particle irradiation. It provides features like contour modelling, dose planning, dose verification, dose optimizations, dose delivery, clinical reporting & approvals.
  • Major Responsibilities:
  • 1. Design & Development of features in assigned components
  • 2. Enable safe practices for handling multi-threading usages
  • 3. Actively participate in managing technical debt and architectural smells
  • 4. Actively pursue required domain expertise
  • Significant Contributions:
  • 1. Successfully designed, developed and refactored components with improving the quality and keeping a
  • foresight to guard existing risk mitigations in system
  • 2. Delivered components with multi-threaded architecture in syngo.via platform’s IAOM architecture
  • 3. Took initiatives which were highly appreciated, to implement various image convolution filters like AHE & CLAHE to improve DRR image quality
  • 4. Actively collaborated with all component teams over technical matters, to foster technical relationship and trust across teams with diverse geographical locations

Customised technologies pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer R&D

Jul 2009Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Rapid-I is a non-contact-based vision measuring system which provides hi resolution digital imaging with features as programmable multi-zone lighting plus collimated profile light, easy point picking, automated edge detection, 3D auto scan among others with 400+ clients in India including BOSCH, Honeywell, TATA Steel, ISRO etc.
  • Major Responsibilities:
  • 1. Timely delivery of features
  • 2. Make easy to use UI for complex metrology operations
  • 3. Algorithm development with critical performance requirements
  • 4. Overview of business processes to develop overview of product life cycle & revenue generated
  • Significant Contributions:
  • 1. Successfully developed high resolution imaging core APIs to be used at application level
  • 2. Actively developed & delivered algorithm for “Best fit curve” from a scanned list of 2d points
  • 3. Single handly delivered “Rapid Report Module” within a week, which was planned for a month initially
  • with two resources
  • 4. Revamped GUI of Rapid-I using WPF & MVVM. Developed scroll able toolbars and lighting grid controls

Education

PES University

Master of Technology - MTech — Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2023Jan 2025

North Maharashtra University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

May 2005May 2009

Shri Guru Ram Rai Public School - Dehradun

High School

Jan 1998Jan 2004

DAV Public School,Khadia

Jan 1994Jan 1996

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