Saurabh Narain

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams of over 100 developers.
  • Achieved 40x growth in order volumes at Swiggy.
  • Built critical platforms from the ground up.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Logistics and Ad Tech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesLogisticsLocation ServicesAd Tech

Other Skills

AI ModelsAPIsApache ThriftContinuous IntegrationData ScienceDynamoDBEJBGeofencingHibernateJAX RSJSPJUnitKafkaLinuxMemcached

About

With over 21 years of industry experience, I’ve led and contributed to the development of a wide range of products and platforms across domains such as Core Logistics, Customer Experience, Ad Tech, and Travel & Location Services. I bring deep hands-on expertise in Java/J2EE technologies, complemented by practical experience with modern tools and systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres, Thrift, and gRPC. My strength lies in designing and building robust, scalable, multi-tiered distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on architecture, performance, and resilience. I’m passionate about cultivating an engineering culture rooted in excellence—focusing on clean design, high code quality, automation, thorough documentation, actionable metrics, and operational readiness. I have a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams—from hiring and mentoring top talent to driving execution across multiple initiatives with a sharp eye on prioritization, delivery, and long-term impact. Proven ability to build and lead high-performing engineering teams—including hiring, mentoring, and retaining top talent—and manage multiple projects simultaneously with a clear focus on prioritization and delivery.

Experience

22 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
9 yrs
Current Experience

Swiggy

3 roles

Assistant Vice President

Promoted

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • I head engineering for the Driver, Delivery, and Post-Order Customer Experience orgs at Swiggy, leading a highly skilled team of 100+ developers and SDETs. We work at the intersection of scale, speed, and complexity—solving tough problems across hyperlocal logistics, from order fulfillment, dynamic restaurant serviceability, and fleet efficiency to driver lifecycle management, payouts, and real-time delivery orchestration.
  • My responsibilities also span post-order experiences, including intelligent service recovery, conversational AI/chatbots, customer contact center platforms, and location intelligence systems—all aimed at ensuring seamless interactions across our three-way marketplace of customers, restaurants, and delivery partners.
  • Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of contributing to Swiggy’s remarkable scale journey, witnessing a 40x growth in order volumes and a 100x increase in traffic. I’ve led the creation of key platforms like the Location Platform and Workflow Platform, building critical infrastructure and capabilities from the ground up.
  • A highlight has been nurturing an engineering culture that champions open source and innovation—from encouraging contributions to Netflix Conductor, to developing and open-sourcing our own functional testing framework, Grill.
  • Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do—I work closely with product, data science, analytics, business operations, and program management teams to build scalable, intelligent, and impactful solutions that power Swiggy’s last-mile logistics engine.
MicroservicesDistributed SystemsKafkaRabbitMQRedisDynamoDB+3

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2020Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Leading the core logistics charter where my 40+ members teams are responsible for capacity allocation, driver assignment, batching, serviceability, promises and interfacing with 3PL logistics partners. These platforms are multi tenet in nature and cater to all business categories across Swiggy. These platforms drive the critical business customer, driver and cost per delivery metrics. These systems power and affect the entire journey of a customer’s order; from predicting SLAs for a given set of restaurants using AI models when the app is opened, to the time the order is delivered to the Customer’s doorstep. The team’s charter encompasses sophisticated algorithms and ML models that assign orders within minutes, in order to deliver the order within a 30-45min time slot, while maximising utilisation and efficiency of the fleet, to monitoring the order and automating interventions to handle exceptional conditions.
MicroservicesAI ModelsLogistics

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2017Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Have donned several hats at Swiggy handling fulfilment, outbound call center operation, TnS, cancellation and location. Started my journey from breaking a legacy unstable monolithic into a set of highly scalable, resilient micro services architecture at the same time seeing a 15x growth. Was responsible for building an asynchronous workflow platform at Swiggy, forking Netflix Conductor, that is hosting 100+ workflows across Swiggy business lines at scale. In the process the team made open source contributions to the Netflix Conductor software.
  • Built the multi tenet Location Platform from scratch to solve some of the hyperlocal location problems across Swiggy business lines related to accurate payout, address onboarding, enrichment and corrections, tracking screen experience, batching etc. As part of the Location Platform charter I was responsible for building various platforms under Routing, Central Address Service and Address Enrichment Jobs using DS models, Regions Core platform to power geo functions, Geofencing & Rider Movement Data ingestion pipeline.
MicroservicesNetflix ConductorLocation Services

Inmobi

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2015Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Managed the InMobi's Ad Serving Platform that generates the majority of Inmobi's revenue. This discovery platform is one of the world's leading ad serving platforms serving 4 billion ad requests a day and handling a billion unique users. Our products help advertisers to serve ads optimally, optimize relevance of ads to make the advertiser maximize his ROI, and monitor progress of different advertising campaigns, and doing all of this at real-time in milliseconds!
  • Prior to that I was handling the Customer Interface portal, bunch of Micro Services (10+) and various external facing APIs on which the InMobi Ad Network operates.
  • My responsibilities include
  • Working with product managers to understand the App Download business and help them in scaling it.
  • Overall responsible for all the releases ensuring highest quality - error rate < 0.5% , performance - p95 latency of 200 ms.
  • Ensuring best engineering practices like unit testing, code reviews, emitting right metrics, alerts, monitoring etc are followed as religion.
  • Providing predictability and transparency to Engineering Leadership, Product, PMO and other stakeholders in execution and releases by following agile methodologies.
  • Collaborating across multiple teams in releases to ensure App Download business runs smoothly.
  • Be a technical mentor & coach for reportees & play an active role in defining a career development path for them.
  • Play an active role in defining the hiring plan & execution of the same.
Ad TechMicroservicesAPIs

Technical Lead

Sep 2011Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Led a bunch of very smart engineers to develop InMobi's next generation Customer Interface as a single page web application. Implemented several best practices to improve the overall performance of the portal. Was primarily responsible to safeguard the portal against security vulnerabilities.
  • Built various platform and business micro services using Apache Thrift which simplified and accelerated development of existing complex enterprise systems.
  • Was primarily responsible for end to end delivery of Native Advertising Platform. I was the first engineer to work on the POC of this product which help the business team in on boarding a major app developer to integrate Native Ads with us. Looking at the disrupting nature of this product it was developed from scratch in no time and was live within a month without any major bugs.
  • Designed and developed RESTful APIs using Apache CXF which helped on board customers and content sharing outside InMobi.
MicroservicesRESTful APIsApache Thrift

Cleartrip.com

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2010Sep 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Was leading the B2B product engineering team at Cleartrip.
  • Was working directly with product head to understand the B2B business and drive the engineering team.
  • Worked as an individual contributor in designing, developing and deploying various B2B products like Agency and Corporate.
  • Was also part of the team that developed the Whitelable framework to help integrate other major travel portals like Expedia with Cleartrip.

Qwest software services

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Oct 2009Aug 2010 · 10 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2005Aug 2010 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Tavant technologies inc.

Software Engineer

Jan 2004Jan 2005 · 1 yr

Tcs

Assitant System Engineer

Jan 2003Jan 2004 · 1 yr

Education

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 1999Jan 2003

St. Xavier's Raipur

Jan 1992Jan 1999

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