Chirag Hota

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led teams of up to 20 engineers in high-impact projects.
  • Expert in building scalable mobile applications.
  • Proven track record in engineering management and leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with extensive experience in Mobility and E-commerce.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementLeadershipProject Management

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidAndroid DevelopmentAndroid SDKAppsflyerBootstrapCSSCSS3ClevertapCore JavaCrashlyticsDBMSDistributed Systems

Experience

14 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2022Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Project ManagementLeadershipEngineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipPeople ManagementDistributed Systems+1

Inmobi

Staff Engineering Manager II/Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Led a team of 20 engineers to design and develop an ad mediation platform from scratch which includes backend services, multiple UI platform and native SDKs on Android and iOS platforms.
  • Scaled the team from 3 to 20 engineers in 9 months through internal and external hiring.
  • Defined the processes for annual and quarterly planning and mapping it with individual sprints.
  • Responsible for defining and monitoring performance of engineers as well strive for improvements through continuous feedback.
  • Established best practices for hiring in the Org by defining the interview guidelines and standardising the feedback mechanism through templates.
  • Responsible for evangelising guiding principles for the organisation to fasten the decision making process.
  • Technologies Used: Java, Golang, Python, Swift, Kotlin, React JS, Node JS, Postgres, Elastic Search, Redis, Kafka, Druid, Pinot, EKS
Project ManagementLeadershipPeople ManagementEngineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementJava+13

Amazon

Software Development Manager

Sep 2019Jun 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Led a team of SDEs, SDET and TPM to build and manage different
  • payment products and supply chain products for Amazon.
  • Responsible for defining the technology roadmap and long term
  • vision for the team.
  • Involved in requirement gathering by collaborating with business
  • stakeholders and HLD, LLD and Code Review.
  • Responsible for defining and fine tuning the processes for program
  • execution by following Agile development using Scrum
  • Methodologies.
  • Responsible for defining and monitoring the career growth of SDEs,
  • SDET and TPM.
  • Responsible for hiring to fulfill the organization's needs.
  • Responsibile for broader organization wide initiative to improve
  • visibility, increase productivity and reducing the time to go to market
  • while building a culture to promote innovation and learning.
  • Technologies Used: Java, Scala, Dynamo DB, Redshift,Lambda,
  • MYSQL, SQS, STS
Project ManagementLeadershipJavaScalaDynamo DBRedshift+4

Zoomcar

3 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2017Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Built the Platform Engineering team which is responsible for the data pipeline and common services being used across different engineering teams.
  • Responsible for development and maintenance of Payments, Communication, Billing, Customer Facing APIs, User Profiling and Mobile Applications.
  • Led a team of 7 Backend Engineers, 1 Principal Architect, 3 Engineering Leads and 5 Mobile App Developers.
  • Owned multiple projects involving paradigm shift like migration from data centre to cloud, migration of self managed database to managed cloud service, containerization of critical microservices.
  • Part of the A Team which drives the roadmap of the organization.
  • Technologies Used: Java, Ruby On Rails, Swift, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, Hibernate, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS, Hazelcast.
Project ManagementLeadershipJavaRuby On RailsSwiftSpring Boot+7

Mobile Lead

Promoted

Oct 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Led a team of 6 mobile developers to build and maintain all mobile applications in Zoomcar.
  • Rebuilt android and iOS applications from scratch to incorporate better design and functionality and use the latest features of the platform.
  • Led a team of 2 UI developers to build the mobile website from scratch.
  • Involved in marketing efforts for promoting the app and getting new users from both paid and organic channels.
  • Involved in analyzing and defining the product flow to improve the conversion funnel.
  • Led a team of 2 backend engineers to rewrite the consumer-facing APIs to support both web and mobile application and being conformant to REST
  • Technologies Used: Android, Objective C, Swift, Ruby On Rails, Google Analytics, Appsflyer, Clevertap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap.
Project ManagementAndroidObjective CSwiftRuby On RailsGoogle Analytics+6

Principal Software Engineer

Sep 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr

Limeroad.com

Software Engineer

Jun 2013Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • First mobile developer of Limeroad.
  • Built the Limeroad android application from scratch and scaled it to 1 million plus downloads.
  • Involved in user research, customer analytics and marketing efforts for promoting and scaling the Limeroad Android Application.
  • Built the initial prototype of Limeroad's Scrapbook Application.
  • Technologies Used: Android SDK, SQLite, MAT, Flurry, Google Analytics, Crashlytics, New Relic
Android SDKSQLiteMATFlurryGoogle AnalyticsCrashlytics+1

Redbus

Software Engineer

Jan 2012May 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • First developer of mobile team of redBus.
  • Built the redBus customer facing android application from scratch and scaled to 400K plus users.
  • Built the redBus home delivery application to automate the tracking process of delivery boys.
  • Involved in integration with hardware devices like Thermal Printer and Card Swiping Device.
  • Implemented new features in the finance module of redBus.
  • Technologies Used: Android SDK, GCM, Java, Flurry, Google Analytics, SQLite
Android SDKGCMJavaFlurryGoogle AnalyticsSQLite

Infosys

System Engineer

Jun 2010Jan 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bhubaneshwar Area, India

  • Built and maintained a web application for an insurance company using Struts and Hibernate.
  • Implemented shell scripts for log management.
  • Responsible for framing the requirements and coming up with High Level and Low-Level Design documents.
  • Technologies Used: Java, Struts, Hibernate
JavaStrutsHibernate

Education

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2010

Deepika English Medium School, Rourkela

Undergraduate — Science

Jan 2004Jan 2006

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