Sharad Saxena

CEO

Uttar Pradesh, India15 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of Airtel's entire commerce platform.
Transformed Thanks App to support 100 million users.
Rearchitected Paytm's platform post-demonetization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Telecom expert with strong leadership in scalable architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

ArchitectureLeadershipMicroservices

Other Skills

AlgorithmsApache KafkaCC++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationData StructuresDetailed DesignDistributed SystemsDocker ProductsESElasticSearchGruntJSHTML

About

A results-driven technology leader with around 14 years of experience in Fin-Tech, Payment, E-commerce, Real estate, and Teleco domains * Leading all the tech functions with end-to-end ownership of the complete technology platform at Airtel(with revenue impact upside of 4000 Cr annually) * Establishing high-performance teams to build highly scalable and robust application systems. * Developing high availability, low latency, fault-tolerant distributed systems for internet scale with a strong focus on Quality, Maintainability, and Performance. * Expertise in Server Architecture, Scalability, Concurrency, Performance Optimization, Multithreading, Microservices, etc. * Cross-domain experience working full stack on leading web and middleware technologies, Android, System design, NoSql, relational databases, Distributed event streaming platforms, etc.

Experience

15 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Arcesium

Vice President

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Airtel digital

2 roles

Associate Vice President

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · On-site

Built the Entire Commerce Platform of Airtel from scratch (Catalogue, Order Manager, Promotions, Recommendations, Eligibility Service, Inventory Management, Fulfilment Service, etc.)
Migrate Legacy stacks of Airtel Business to Digital Platforms (Unlock 10L Gross Adds)
Built the platform in multi-tenant architecture thus Airtel is able to sell it to various other telecom companies.
Leading the Digital Platforms initiative at Airtel. I am entrusted with the task of enabling the B2C consumer business to embrace omnichannel capabilities for both e-commerce and customer experience.
Ensure an unmatched service uptime of 99.999%

Spring BootStrategic PlanningLeadershipHigh Performance TeamsArchitectureProblem Solving+3

Engineering Manager

Jan 2020 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · On-site

Successfully restructured Thanks App Backend from Monolith to Microservices Architecture.
Have enabled new Authentication mechanism thus fixing logout issues of App.
Have built multiple features which has unlocked higher ARPU and scaled Thanks App to 100 Million Monthly Active Users from 15 million.
In addition to my technical accomplishments, I have also made significant leadership contributions, including:
o Recruiting and scaling a high-performing team of developers, dev-ops, QA, and tech-ops professionals
o Driving the development of multiple product features to foster business growth
o Establishing frameworks that are now utilized across the Airtel Ecosystem

MicroservicesSpring BootProcess ImprovementProduct DesignDocker ProductsSpring Framework+7

Paytm

Technical Lead

Aug 2016 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

I was responsible for rearchitecting entire Recharges Platform to make it highly scalable post Demonetisation (Onboard more than 1.2 Cr transactions)
Partnered with cross-functional teams in consulting with clients to provide asset management risk strategy and mitigation, which increased AUM by 50%

Spring BootArchitectureProblem SolvingCommunication

Proptiger.com

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Apr 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

I undertook the exciting task of conceptualizing and designing a marketplace model for Proptiger
To ensure a seamless user experience, I successfully implemented the T3 framework on the client side, enabling the smooth integration of modules with shared functionalities on both the buyer side (makaan.com) and the seller side (seller.makaan.com) of the platform.
On the backend, I utilized the powerful Node.js Express framework to drive the functionality of the marketplace model.

Spring Boot

Adobe

Senior Member of Technical Staff at Adobe

May 2012 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

A significant part of my focus has been on the design and development of the Mobile Forms Component of XFA Forms
I also played critical role in developing multiple features of Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 4 (ES4) software

Spring Boot