Nishant Chandra

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 2X entrepreneur with a strong focus on innovation.
  • Expert in building scalable technology solutions.
  • Proven track record in leading engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with a strong background in software architecture and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringSystem ArchitectureProduct ManagementFintechEngineering ManagementSoftware DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipSoftware ArchitectureCloud ComputingE-commerceDistributed SystemsProduct Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsApacheData MiningData StructuresDatabasesDesign PatternsEclipseEnterprise SoftwareHTMLHTML/XMLHibernate

About

I like building businesses and products that have a fine blend of technology, scale, and innovation. Areas of interest include Finance, Technology and Leadership. I have been a 2X entrepreneur. Over the past stints, I’ve built organizational culture with strong core values, prioritize the customer value proposition, build great teams, mentor and empower them to move fast to get the impossible done. My blog - https://medium.com/@nishant.chandra

Experience

19 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Angel one

SVP Engineering

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Driving the Post-Trade charter at A1.
  • Engineering "delight" for our trader and investor community with data-driven insights and innovative solutions.
Data EngineeringDistributed SystemsSystem Architecture

येlo (0.5bn finhealth private limited)

Co-Founder & CTO

Oct 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • येLo (Yelo) is a digital bank that lives on your smartphone. We built an intelligent bank for mass market consumers who have limited access to formal banking services.
  • Won AWS Startup Architecture Challenge of the Year 2020 India finals.
Product ManagementFintech

Rupeek

VP of Engineering

Jan 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Built the engineering team and setup processes
  • Defined the technical vision to deliver the next generation lending platform
  • Oversee development lifecycle and all layers of software development operations including Engineering, Data, QA, Program, IT, Ops and Support.
  • Helped business scale operations in 8 cities, on-boarded partner lenders and grow company loan book.
Engineering ManagementSoftware Development

Momscurry

Founder

Feb 2016Feb 2018 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

  • "You just don't eat to live, you eat to stay healthy"
  • Momscurry is a subscription based online food ordering platform delivering nutrition tracked home styled cooked meals for everyday consumption. We were the pioneer in introducing Superfood and serving it alongside daily meals.
  • Managed strategy, operations, tech, sales and everything under the sun!
EntrepreneurshipProduct Management

Devfactory

Chief Software Architect

Jun 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Built a multi-tenant and multi-cloud platform for managing and dynamically deploying resources
Software ArchitectureCloud Computing

Homeshop18

Principal Engineer

Nov 2010Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

  • Major projects include architect the:
  • ● E-Commerce platform that powers Homeshop18.com and other channels.
  • ● Personalization platform viz product recommendations, cross-sell; customer analytics for marketing, CRM and other applications.
  • ● Developed algorithms for calculating order related metrics e.g. product best sellers, trending products and web usage mining for predictive modeling using machine learning.
  • ● Provided software solutions for customer segmentation, unique customer identification across channels, MGM, affiliate program and product feeds by externalizing APIs.
  • ● Designed and developed the mobile platform m.homeshop18.com and m2.homeshop18.com
  • Built the stack grounds up on SOA, EDA, distributed computing, caching, real time analytics, data mining, time series analysis, NLP, NoSQL, MySQL and mobile technologies.
  • During my stint, I built a strong team of 15 software engineers, adopted platform driven approach for technology differentiation, improved business results and profitability by focusing on customer experience and built strong partnerships with product and project management, operations and other teams. I architected the E-Commerce platform for high availability and scalability, did performance testing and tuning, setup monitoring, alerting and processes for operational readiness.
  • We started as a "Startup inside a big company" with a 5 member team in November 2010 and in 6 months became the #2 E-Commerce Portal in India in terms of traffic and revenue.
E-commerceSoftware Development

Amazon.com

Senior SDE

Apr 2007Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad, India

  • As part of the Ordering and Enterprise team, I worked on technologies like distributed systems, SOA and messaging platform. I actively participated in hiring and mentoring engineers.
  • I also won 3 awards for Most Innovative and Most Valuable idea at Amazon.
Software DevelopmentDistributed Systems

Adobe systems

Software Developer

Aug 2005Mar 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Worked on Adobe Livecycle product suite.
Software DevelopmentProduct Development

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

B.Tech — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2001Jan 2005

Campion School, Bhopal

Jan 1998Jan 2000

St Xaviers, Raipur

Jan 1993Jan 1998

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