raghav agarwal

Product Director

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India17 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

17 years of experience in software engineering leadership.
Expert in architecting scalable, cloud-native microservices.
Certified Scrum Product Owner focused on product discovery.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and InsureTech expert with a strong focus on Agile methodologies and microservices architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile DevelopmentArchitecture

Other Skills

API GatewaysAPI TestingAgile LeadershipAgile MethodologiesAmazon KinesisAmazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Application Programming Interfaces (API)Architecture ReviewsBack-End Web DevelopmentCache ManagementCloud ComputingCloud ServicesCoaching & MentoringCode Review

About

- Engineering Leader with over 17 years of experience, specializing in delivering cutting-edge software solutions, designing and architecting scalable, distributed microservices applications that are cloud-native and fault-tolerant, driving business outcomes through innovative engineering practices and operational excellence. - Proven expertise in leading multiple cross functional teams and mentoring Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Program Managers, enabling them to execute complex projects by fostering a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and the adoption of Agile methodologies(SCRUM, KANBANA, XP). - Hands on in high-level design and low-level design, with focus on operational excellence, observability, software craftsmanship, software quality - Proficient in designing and optimizing systems to ensure high scalability, low-latency performance with experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Cloud Foundry), NoSQL and relational databases, and distributed message queues. - Delivered robust systems managing 150K+ concurrent users and 100K+ messages/minute - Scaled and led high-performing teams of up to 25+ engineers - Passionate about driving business success by mentoring teams, improving software quality, and architecting resilient, high-performance systems. - Certified Scrum Product Owner with a strong focus on product discovery, continuously delivering value through user stories, MVP slicing, and stakeholder management to accelerate product development cycles and enhance the user experience.

Experience

17 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Mechademy

Director of Product Development

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Ria insurance

Avp technology

Aug 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Remote

Building a low code insurance workflow automation platform at RIA.
RIA is an InsureTech company on a mission to build Insurance and Healthcare solutions powered by our in-house cloud-native low-code platform with configurable domain specific APIs running on top of workflow engines
Championed the adoption of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and story mapping, to streamline development cycles and optimize
stakeholder collaboration.
Led the implementation of extreme programming practices, driving innovation through test-driven development (TDD), clean code,
architectural patterns, and continuous integration pipelines.

Architecture ReviewsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Sprint PlanningBack-End Web DevelopmentMentoringJUnit+47

Play games24x7 private limited

Agile Coach and Developer Evangelist

Jan 2019 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Architecture ReviewsSprint PlanningBack-End Web DevelopmentMentoringJUnitHiring+41

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Engineering and Agile Coach

Apr 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

Architecture ReviewsSprint PlanningBack-End Web DevelopmentMentoringJUnitHiring+41

Xnsio (formerly known as agilefaqs)

Engineering and Agile Coach

Feb 2017 – Aug 2022 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

As an engineering consultant I help engineers, teams, organisations in defining their engineering roadmaps, practices and processes and I work closely with the teams in achieving their engineering goals. This role involves leading, mentoring and being hands on.
Carry out an assessment of the existing engineering roadmap, architecture, practices and processes and come up with a new roadmap in collaboration with all the stakeholders(founders, leaders, engineering managers, program managers and product managers) to define new ways of working to improve the engineering and take it to next level.
Mentor Engineers, Architects, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Program Managers
Architecture reviews and code reviews
Work with different teams to help in the transformation of existing monolithic applications to cloud native micro-services
conduct various technical workshops(micro-services, test driven development, Code smells, design principles, mocks and stubs, monitoring and observability)
Engage in pair programming and mob programming
Help teams and organisations embrace and adopt agile and lean principles (Scrum, Kanban)
I have engaged with the following organisations -
Games 24x7 (rummy circle, my11circle)
Jio
JP Morgan chase
Interview ready
Fiserv

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Directi

Lead Software Engineer

May 2008 – Jan 2017 · 8 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai

Spent around 9 years at this wonderful company. Have had experience in application development, designing and architecting, distributed, cloud based, microservices style scalable systems, delivering solutions to complex problems.
Have been part of entire lifecycle of various applications(design, development, unit
tests, functional tests, continuous integration, deployment, performance tests, building
metrics into the application, developing tools for testing, request tracing in distributed
environment).

Test Driven DevelopmentSOLID Design PrinciplesJava ConcurrencySoftware as a Service (SaaS)Sprint PlanningBack-End Web Development+60