Rajorshi Biswas

CTO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India21 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of engineering leadership experience
Expert in cloud native development and AI models
Proven track record in digital transformation projects

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Solutions expert with extensive engineering management experience.

Contact

rajorshi.biswas@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementCloud Native DevelopmentCloud SolutionsDigital TransformationInfrastructure ManagementSaas DevelopmentPlatform ManagementTeam LeadershipFront-end DevelopmentTeam ManagementApplication DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsAzureCC++Data StructuresDesign PatternsEclipseJavaJavaScriptLLMLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerPaaSProgramming

About

Senior hands on engineering leader with 20+ years of diverse experience in leading large software development teams and full-stack cloud native development. Currently working on LLM post-training methods and infra for OpenAI and OSS models as part of the Microsoft AI (MAI) Post Training SuperIntelligence team. - Extensive engineering management experience: leading diverse medium/large teams of engineers and managers, hiring, building teams from scratch, performance and compensation management, roadmaps, OKR / goal-setting, project planning, cross-functional stakeholder management.

Experience

21 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Group Engineering Manager | Azure AI Platform | Azure OpenAI

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Engineering lead in Azure OpenAI Service (part of Azure AI Platform) in a team specializing in fine-tuning of Azure OpenAI models.

LLMAzureEngineering ManagementCloud Native Development

Principal Group Engineering Manager | Microsoft Cloud for Industries

Mar 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Part of Microsoft Cloud for Industry - leveraging Azure to build PaaS/SaaS solutions for digital transformation in industries such as agriculture, retail and CPG. Engineering lead for Azure Data Manager for Agriculture (aka.ms/adma) - a first party Azure service for digital transformation in the agriculture industry.

AzurePaaSSaaSCloud SolutionsDigital Transformation

Teamstand

Director Of Engineering

Jun 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Director of Engineering and head of infrastructure at Teamstand, a D. E. Shaw & Co. startup building an enterprise workflow management platform. Primary responsibilities:
Ownership and bootstrapping of the SAAS platform: set up the AWS environment for our product from scratch. Also includes application infrastructure (caching, messaging etc), deployment, monitoring etc.
Responsible for setting up organizational policies and frameworks including infosec, business continuity (BCP), disaster recovery (DR) etc. Responsible for setting up several engineering processes. Hiring manager for several key roles.
Development of several core features for the Teamstand platform, including re-architecting for multitenancy, dynamic emails etc. Tech Stack: Java, AWS, Typescript / React, SQL-Server.

AWSJavaTypescriptReactInfrastructure ManagementSaaS Development

Arcesium

2 roles

Associate Director Of Engineering

Jan 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

Head of a 30+ member group (comprising managers, ICs) responsible for the following:
Platform Applications: Arcesium platform front-end (authentication, authorization, routing etc), platform document management system, counterparty file-transfer platform, support portal, workflow management platform etc.
Internal Applications: Core AWS platform, messaging, job scheduling, alerting, custom deployment and monitoring services.
Primary responsibilities / achievements:
Owning Arcesium’s platform applications and infrastructure end-to-end, including availability, performance and scalability, incident management.
Owning budgeting, allocations, time-tracking, headcount. In-charge of group roadmaps, planning quarterly deliverables with teams, stakeholder communication and management. Critical role in recruiting - served as hiring manager for entire Hyderabad technology group for a year.
Other achievements / initiatives:
Participated in several internal innovation & initiatives - ArcSquare (architecture group), ArcTech[X] (internal group focusing on tech content, presentations, competitions for the firm) etc.
Won several hackathons (3 grand prizes, 1 runner-up) for projects, some of which have turned into products used by entire Arcesium. Also won competitions in longer formats (Season of Code etc).

AWSJavaPlatform ManagementTeam Leadership

Engineering Manager

Jul 2015 – Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Responsible for building Arcesium’s front-end including user management, authentication, request-routing etc. Designed and developed several components (such as routing infrastructure, custom nginx auth modules, Java auth related services). Tech Stack: Java, AWS, React, ES6, SQL-Server
Served as engineering manager for a group of 10+ engineers/leads. Was responsible for delivering several critical platform components and features, such as API authentication, MFA support, infosec, workflow-management platform and so on.

JavaReactFront-end DevelopmentTeam Management

D. e. shaw & co

Engineering Manager

Oct 2007 – Jul 2015 · 7 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Developer and lead of a team responsible for maintaining and enhancing several products for D. E. Shaw & Co, including the firm’s primary workflow management platform. Primary tech stack: Java, Servlets, HTML5/CSS, SQL, Google Closure templates, ES5 etc.
Worked on application development in C, C++, and Python for the Schrödinger team for their computational chemistry products.

JavaC++PythonApplication DevelopmentTeam Leadership