Gaurav Vashishth

Director of Engineering

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India20 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams of over 60+ engineers.
  • Co-founded a successful eCommerce analytics startup.
  • Expert in driving technology strategy and execution.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and eCommerce technology leader with extensive experience in engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

EngineeringTech StrategyPlanning EngineeringStrategic InitiativesInventory PlanningData ScienceEngineering ManagementData IntegrationProduct DevelopmentSaasR&d ManagementTechnology DevelopmentFramework DevelopmentAnalyticsSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithm DesignData CompressionResearch

Other Skills

AJAXAOP PlanningAlgorithm DevelopmentAlgorithm ImplementationAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache Active MQApache KafkaApache MesosApache SparkAutomated Data ScienceAutomation ToolsC++Collaboration with StakeholdersConsul

About

Experienced Engineering and Product Leader with a proven track record in driving technology strategy and execution. Currently leading the Money Charter in Flipkart's Marketplace division, overseeing engineering, tech strategy, and AOP planning. Prior to Flipkart, I co-founded and served as CTO at Paxcom, an eCommerce analytics startup that empowered brands with actionable insights on marketplaces like Flipkart and Amazon—successfully acquired by Paymentus. Throughout my career, I have consistently delivered high-quality software products across diverse sectors, including eCommerce, capital markets, and data compression, with a strong focus on innovation and operational excellence. Contributor on DZone @ https://dzone.com/users/3189702/vashgaurav.html Contributor on Medium @ https://medium.com/@vashgaurav

Experience

20 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Flipkart

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Currently leading the Money Charter Engineering for Flipkart's Marketplace and Retail teams, overseeing six scrum teams comprising 60+ engineers and multiple managers. My key responsibilities include driving the pricing strategy for the marketplace, developing a rewards platform to fuel seller growth, optimizing settlement strategies for sellers, and building an accounting platform for invoice processing. This is a highly strategic and impactful area for Flipkart, directly influencing the growth of over 1 million sellers on the platform and focusing on Customer Value Proposition (CVP). Additionally, I lead the horizontal Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) charter across the organization, spearheading initiatives such as building a comprehensive regression suite and driving AI adoption in key areas
EngineeringTech StrategyAOP PlanningSite Reliability EngineeringScrum Management

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024Nov 2024 · 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • I lead the Planning Engineering function at Flipkart, overseeing the end-to-end planning processes across multiple key areas, including Demand Planning at the Super Category level, Forecast Planning at the FSN level, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, and Returns Planning. I manage a high-performing team of 50+ engineers, organized into three scrums, each led by a manager reporting directly to me. My role is focused on driving strategic initiatives, ensuring seamless execution, and optimizing planning processes to support Flipkart’s growth and operational efficiency
  • Tech Stack: Apache Spark, Hive, Azkaban, Java, Mongo, MySQL
Demand PlanningForecast PlanningSupply PlanningInventory PlanningReturns PlanningPlanning Engineering+1

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2021Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • I led the Inventory Planning Charter, focusing on automated data science-driven buying and placement decisions, as well as Return to Vendor (RTV) strategy. In close collaboration with product and business stakeholders, I successfully designed and deployed the solution across PAN India. This initiative led to a significant reduction in Days of Inventory on Hand (DOH) and improved Out-of-Stock (OOS) metrics. I managed a team of 25+ engineers, organized into two scrums: one led by me and the other by an engineering manager reporting directly to me.
  • Tech Stack: Apache Spark, Hive, Java, Azkaban, Mongo, MySQL, ElasticSearch
Automated Data ScienceReturn to Vendor StrategyCollaboration with StakeholdersInventory PlanningData Science

Paymentus

Engineering Manager

Mar 2019Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • After Paymentus acquired Paxcom in 2018, I joined as Engineering Manager to lead multiple key initiatives. My primary responsibility was to hire and build a high-performing team to support the Paymentus platform. During my tenure, I tackled several complex challenges, including ingesting over 1TB of data every weekend into the platform, creating a robust data integration pipeline, and developing a framework to onboard billers not yet in the Paymentus network. These initiatives were critical in expanding the platform's capabilities and improving operational efficiency
  • Tech Stack: NodeJS, Mongodb, Kubernetes, Terraform, DroneCI, Kafka, Prometheus, Influx/Telegraf
Data Integration PipelineData IngestionTeam BuildingEngineering ManagementData Integration

Paxcom india (p) ltd - a paymentus company

Co-Founder & CTO

Aug 2016Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • I co-founded Paxcom with the mission of addressing the challenges faced by brands selling on marketplaces by providing them with a 360-degree view of their business through actionable insights. Our SaaS product, used by leading brands across India and APAC, monitors nearly 1M+ products daily to generate insights and optimize ad placement strategies on marketplaces.
  • As the Co-Founder and CTO, I led the product roadmap, built and scaled the engineering team, and defined the technical architecture. I also established DevOps practices and cultivated a high-performance culture to drive the company’s growth and innovation
  • Tech Stack - AWS, Python, NodeJS, AngularJS, Docker, Spark, Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, PostgresSQL, Redis, EMR, ELK, Fluentd
Product RoadmapTechnical ArchitectureDevOps PracticesProduct DevelopmentSaaS

Paxcel technologies (p) ltd

5 roles

VP Technology

Promoted

Dec 2014Jul 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • I led and built the R&D division of the company, managing a team of over 30 top-tier engineers focused on researching and developing proprietary technologies in DevOps and the US capital markets. My role included overseeing the P&L for the division, ensuring the group’s initiatives were aligned with business objectives.
  • The intellectual property (IP) created by our team played a critical role in securing multiple contracts with leading US-based firms across the financial and media industries, solidifying the company’s position as a key player in these sectors.
Research and DevelopmentProprietary TechnologiesP&L ManagementR&D ManagementTechnology Development

Lead, StocInn & Boxupp

Jan 2013Nov 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • I led the development of two key frameworks:
  • StocInn (www.stocinn.com): A real-time capital market analytics platform delivered via a web app using WebSockets.
  • Boxupp (www.boxupp.com): An automation tool built on top of Vagrant to streamline deployment processes.
  • I conceptualized the ideas for both frameworks, defined the prototypes, and served as the Technical Architect throughout their development. These solutions not only provided significant value to our existing clients but also played a key role in securing substantial new contracts for the company.
Real-time AnalyticsAutomation ToolsTechnical ArchitectureFramework DevelopmentAnalytics

Technical Lead

Promoted

Mar 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • I led the development of Chaikin Analytics, a tool designed for the US capital markets that predicts stock behavior based on backtested algorithms from the last 10 years. The tool was the brainchild of Marc Chaikin, a prominent figure on Wall Street, and I played a key role in transforming his vision from concept to a production-ready application, which is now used by numerous investors.
  • Additionally, I developed a high-performance DLL in C++ for Scottrade, enabling them to process and deliver compressed time-series data from the US stock exchange. This DLL was designed to be extremely efficient, capable of rendering over 100 records per second on the user interface.
  • I also took responsibility for building and mentoring a team of engineers, ensuring they were equipped with the necessary skills to tackle complex projects and contribute effectively to our product’s success.
Algorithm DevelopmentTeam BuildingSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithm Design

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2007Mar 2011 · 4 yrs · Gurgaon, India

  • Worked as module lead for data compression research project in C/C++ as part of ATG ( Advanced Technology group) of Smith Micro.
  • Conceptualised the algorithm for Kyocera to decompress the part of files on the fly in memory by enhancing the LZW algorithm. Algorithm was intended to be used on Qualcomm file format which Kyocera was using for storing the OS related string to be used in various screens
  • Also worked on IJG library for working on lossless compression of JPEG files which was helping us to reduce 30% size without any loss of quality
Data CompressionAlgorithm DesignResearch

Software Engineer

Oct 2005Mar 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Implement algorithms in C/C++ for data compression specifically for Microsoft based OLE file format, where my role was first to reverse engineer the file format and then parse the file to get the raw data like text, images and then compressing the text and images and putting them back into the file.
  • Pretty challenging since formats specifications was not pretty open, and we have to update all the pointers in the file with new memory locations
Algorithm ImplementationReverse EngineeringData CompressionSoftware Development

Education

Punjab Technical University

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

Jan 2001Jan 2005

Army School Unchi Bassi

Higher Secondary

Jan 1999Jan 2001

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