Rahul Sharma

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built and scaled 5 high-performing engineering teams.
  • Led adoption of advanced technologies in deep-tech products.
  • Co-founded a startup securing $200K in government grants.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and deep-tech architect with extensive experience in scaling engineering teams.

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Skills

Core Skills

Systems DesignCloud ComputingSaasB2b2cBig DataSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaC++CassandraChange Data CaptureComputer ScienceCross-functional Team LeadershipData StructuresDevOpsDistributed SystemsExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)Full-Stack DevelopmentHadoop

About

Engineering leader with 22+ years of experience driving technology innovation and scale across US startups and Fortune 500 deep-tech companies. I specialize in architecting and scaling distributed SaaS, Enterprise, Big Data, and Analytics platforms, with proven impact across Networking, Telecom, and e-Commerce. Known for building India-based engineering hubs that consistently match Silicon Valley standards, I combine hands-on technical depth with strategic leadership to deliver product innovation, organizational scale, and operational excellence. Key Achievements & Impact ========================= Built & Scaled Organizations – Established and scaled 5 high-performing India-based engineering teams, achieving US-level productivity and quality; fueled $200M+ in acquisitions and $70M+ in revenue growth. AI & Advanced Tech Leadership – Since 2018, led adoption of ML, DL, CV, NLP, Generative AI, RPA, and scheduling algorithms to build deep-tech products streamlining business processes. Early pioneer in cloud networking (since 2010), shaping foundational platforms during the industry’s rise. Developer Productivity Champion – Embedding LLM-powered dev tools (Cursor, Claude Code) into disciplined workflows and processes (PRDs → RTMs → tasks → test cases), driving sharp improvements in quality, velocity, and delivery predictability. LLM & Agentic AI Architect – Engineered LLM-powered agents and automation platforms. B2B2C & SaaS Leadership – Spearheaded launch of 12 enterprise-scale platforms across several domains i.e. e-commerce, drone logistics, cloud & networking. Talent & Culture Builder – Designed performance pyramids & engineering best practices, mentoring engineers across all levels, elevating teams to global engineering maturity standards. Award-Winning Innovator – Co-founded and scaled a deep-tech startup, securing $200K in government grants (Karnataka Elevate & NITI Aayog) for breakthrough innovation.

Experience

22 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Zerocater

Engineering & Country Head - India

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Setting up AI centric India Excellence Centre / Global Capability centre with Engineering, Product, Design, BI, Revops, Operations, Finance, People Ops & Support team members.
Systems DesignComputer ScienceSocial InfluenceCloud Computing

Sugarbox

Vice President Innovations & Infra

Feb 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • SugarBox is a $80M funded startup enabling partner e-commerce, OTT, Payments, Gaming Mobile Apps to work seamlessly in planes, trains, metros, telcos & rural areas.
Systems DesignComputer ScienceSocial InfluenceSaaS

Skydelivery

Co-Founder, CTO | IP Acquired

Dec 2017 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • B2B Drone Logistics marketplace with its own integrated Hardware & SaaS products.
  • Won $200K Cash Grants from Atal Innovation Mission @ Niti Aayog, Govt of India & Karnataka Govt's best startup award under Elevate 100 program. Our drones were deployed for various Govt use cases.
Systems DesignComputer ScienceSocial InfluenceSaaSB2B2C

Juniper networks

2 roles

Engineering Senior Manager @ OpenContrail | Acquired by Juniper

Promoted

Jun 2012 – Dec 2017 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Founding engineer at Contrail, acquired by Juniper Networks for $200M. Enterprise Web applications, SaaS Tools, Analytics and Big Data.
  • Hired & on boarded initial team and delivered MVP at rapid pace. Led open sourcing efforts of the products. Delivered 8 major released over a span of 6 years.
  • Enterprise web applications with extensive workflows / templates for enterprise customers.
  • Big Data with Spark, Hadoop | Redis Metrics & query based dashboards with multiple caches
  • Multi Cloud Orchestration for OpenContrail, Openstack, VMWare, Cloudstack
  • Hydration services and 4 micro-services APIs, Big Data queries for historical trends.
  • Machine Learning based traffic monitoring & security provisioning.
  • Monitoring, Management, Provisioning Agents & Dashboards, Telemetry & Observability
  • VM & Host Inventory Management
  • Devops, Jenkins
  • Release Management, Feature planning, Sprint planning, task allocations
  • Appraisals, Mentoring, Training & People development.
  • Engineering Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Software Project Management
  • ReactJS, KendoUI, Backbone, Knockout, Mustache, NodeJS, Python, Flask, Django, Zookeeper, HaProxy, Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra, C++, Neutron, Monitoring Agent, Redis based caches, Monitoring & Business Intelligence Dashboards, Change Data Capture, Extract Transform Load pipelines, Scikit, Machine Learning.
Systems DesignComputer ScienceSocial InfluenceBig DataSaaS

Member Of Technical Staff

Sep 2006 – Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Proposed, designed & architecture of new web-based manageability product line that got approved by multiple Juniper Business Units. Got an initial budget approved and ultimately it led to a 170+ member team and new direction for Juniper's manageability products.
  • Software Engineer & Lead for multiple management layer products. Hired, trained & mentored team that was instrumental in designing and developing the management of EX series switches.
  • J-Web Single Webpage app for Device Management, Monitoring, Visualisation & Debugging
  • In-House sflow based Analytics & Monitoring platform.
  • Wizard & Template frameworks
  • In-House Network Management platforms
  • Layer 2, Layer 3 & Security features like dot1d, dot1x, Captive Portal etc
  • Javascript, ExtJS, Qooxdoo, XML API over HTTPS, Single page Web apps, libalias, C, C++, FusionCharts.
Systems DesignComputer ScienceSocial InfluenceSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Aruba, a hewlett packard enterprise company

Staff Engineer | Acquired by HP

Feb 2010 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Acquired by Hewlett & Packard
  • Hired and lead teams, working with PLM teams on Product Roadmaps and translating them to feature specifications.
  • Engineering Management, Cross-Functional & Cross Business Unit, Project Management
  • Enperprise Web Applications and SaaS Tools for configuration, workflows / templates and monitoring of multiple lines of Aruba Products.
  • Cloud based management platforms
  • Single Page Web Applications
  • Monitoring, Analytics and Visualizations
  • Remote Node & Profiles that made configurations easy and expanded to several hundred devices
  • Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security
  • Javascript, In-House SPA & Ajax frameworks embedded Web server, CSS, HTML, C, C++
Systems DesignComputer ScienceSocial InfluenceSaaSCloud Computing

Netdevices

Senior Software Engineer | Acquired by Alcatel Lucent

Jun 2005 – Sep 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Bangalore

  • Acquired by Alcatel Lucent, funded by Artiman Ventures
  • Single Page Enterprise Web applications, UI / UX, XML NorthBound Interfacing.
  • Javascript, Qooxdoo, XML API over HTTPS, Single page Web apps, C, FusionCharts.
Computer Science

Cyberwerx software solutions pvt. ltd.

Senior Software Engineer - Cisco ODC

Sep 2003 – May 2005 · 1 yr 8 mos · Cisco ODC, Bangalore

  • Network Management, Embedded Web application Javascript, JSP, TomCat, Apache, Java, Corba
Computer Science
Rahul Sharma - CEO | Stackforce