Manoranjan Mahananda — CTO

I am a technology leader with 20+ years of experience building large-scale Supply Chain platforms, B2B/B2C marketplaces, and high-traffic eCommerce systems. My expertise spans engineering leadership, scalable architecture, AI-driven automation, and end-to-end product execution across both startups and large enterprises.I specialize in taking products from 0→1 and 1→100, driving engineering excellence, and delivering platforms with 99.98% uptime and 30x scalability. I have led cross-functional teams across SCM, fintech, payments, catalog, search, personalization, and content ecosystems, building platforms used by millions.Having worked with Times Internet, InfoEdge, Pine Labs, Tapzo, and Moglix, I’ve consistently delivered systems that improved conversion, reduced operational costs, and accelerated revenue growth. My leadership combines deep technical judgment, strong product thinking, and disciplined execution.Passion AreasSCM & Logistics: Sourcing & procurement, TMS, WMS, OMS, tracking systems, forecasting, optimizationAI/ML Automation: LLMs, RAG, intelligent agents, personalization, recommendation enginesLarge-Scale Distributed Systems: Cloud-native architectures, performance, resilience, reliabilityTeam & Culture: Building high-performing engineering teams and strong engineering cultureLeadership PhilosophyMove fast, build scalable systems, empower people to perform at their best, and align engineering with business outcomes.If you're looking to build or scale mission-critical platforms in supply chain, eCommerce, or marketplaces — I’d love to connect.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a technology leader in eCommerce and Supply Chain sectors with a focus on scalable architecture.

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Experience: 18 yrs 2 mos

Skills

Engineering Leadership
High-scale Systems
Team Management
Java
Designing
Developing
Core Java
Spring
Architecting
Chat Application Development
Javascript

Career Highlights

20+ years in technology leadership roles.
Expertise in building scalable supply chain platforms.
Proven track record of delivering high-traffic eCommerce systems.

Work Experience

Moglix

Senior Director of Engineering (2 yrs 2 mos)

Director of Engineering (3 yrs 7 mos)

Times Internet

Technology Head (2 yrs 2 mos)

Tapzo

Full Stack Lead (1 yr 4 mos)

Knimbus.com

Technical Team Lead (10 mos)

Pine Labs

Associate Architect (2 mos)

Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group)

Technical Manager (3 yrs 10 mos)

Naukri.com

sr. software engineer (1 yr 2 mos)

EarlySail

software engineer (1 yr 5 mos)

eRevMax

Software Engineer (1 yr 8 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Tech) at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Manoranjan Mahananda

CTO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India18 yrs 2 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in technology leadership roles.
Expertise in building scalable supply chain platforms.
Proven track record of delivering high-traffic eCommerce systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a technology leader in eCommerce and Supply Chain sectors with a focus on scalable architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipHigh-scale SystemsTeam ManagementJavaDesigningDevelopingCore JavaSpringArchitectingChat Application DevelopmentJavascript

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAgile methodologiesAgile methodologyAjaxAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSArchitectural DesignArtificial Intelligence (AI)Chat portlet developmentClient requirement collectionData AnalyticsData StructuresData science applications

About

Experience

18 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Moglix

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Director of Engineering

Feb 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

I lead a very talented Engineering team.We work on a wide range of problems from creating engaging user experiences, ultra high scale systems and cutting edge data science applications.

Engineering leadershipUser experience designHigh-scale systemsData science applications

Times internet

Technology Head

Dec 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon

My day to day job involves strategizing, creating and overseeing the development process ,helping engineers with their tough problems and doing technical feasibility analysis, team management and mentoring.
Technology stack:-
Java, LAMP, PHP, Mysql, SQL,Cypher OOPS, Design patterns, REST APIs, Security concepts
NoSQL - Redis, MongoDB,neo4j
Caching systems - Memcache, Redis,couchbase
Front-end - Javascript, Ajax, Jquery,reactjs,nodejs, CSS, Browser Caching, HTML5, Mobile Web, Responsive Design
Frameworks - Laravel
Protocols - HTTP, HTTPS
Message queues - RabbitMQ
Web Servers - Apache, NGINX
App Server-Tomcat
Versioning systems - SVN, Git
Deployments and Continuous integration - Jenkins
Project and bug tracking tools - JIRA

StrategizingDevelopment process oversightTechnical feasibility analysisTeam managementMentoringJava+13

Tapzo

Full Stack Lead

Feb 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Designed and developed facebook and mail modules of onedirect.
Leading a groups of developers.
Worked in different technology like Spring, AOP,Hibernate, JPA, Web services, redis,Struts ,
angularjs, git, tomcat , nginx and mysql,jprofiler,New Relic.
Worked in all phase of SDLC,from requirement to product support.
Worked in agile methodology.
Design HLD of application.
Design LLD of application.

DesigningDevelopingLeading developersSpringHibernateJPA+3

Knimbus.com

Technical Team Lead

Mar 2014 – Jan 2015 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Worked in different technology like Core java, spring, Amazon web services, jquery, javascript,
mysql and tomcat web servers.
Redesigned and re-architected the old smartInsight application keeping in mind scalability and performance issues.
Improved their search technology by revamping the UQL and URO flow.

Core JavaSpringAWSjQueryMySQLTomcat

Pine labs

Associate Architect

Dec 2013 – Feb 2014 · 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Designed and architect pine wallet system.

Bennett coleman and co. ltd. (times group)

Technical Manager

Feb 2010 – Dec 2013 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Design and architect jobbuzz.timesjobs.com. Leading a team of 10 members.worked closely with other team members to increase the traffic of timesjobs.com and implemented new functionality of timesjobs.com and jobbuzz.timesjobs.com.

DesigningArchitectingTeam leadership

Naukri.com

sr. software engineer

Nov 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Worked in different technology like core java, smack API,jsjac api,xmpp protocol,jwchat chat and php to develop and integrate federated gtalk messenger for jeevansathi users in
jeevansathi.com.
Architect, designed and developed jeevansathi federated gtalk messenger for jeevansathi users
Set up the xmpp server and developed facebook like chat client for JS users from scratch .
Designed and developed an application for jeevansathi match alert algorithm. This was 10 times faster than their old match alert application.
Worked with multiple stakeholders such as customer care team, business development team, test team and external vendors .

Core JavaXMPPPHPChat application development

Earlysail

software engineer

Feb 2007 – Jul 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Collected the clients requirement from J P Morgan and made PRD
Modified the jwchat client to make it simple Iframe portlet.
Built–up WSRP(Web Service Remote Portlet) of Iframe portlet.
Delivered chat portlet to JP Morgan and added different additional features to chat portlet.

Client requirement collectionPRD creationChat portlet development