Vaibhav Adlakha

CTO

Delhi, India16 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built scalable platforms for millions of users.
  • Led engineering teams to achieve 10X growth in transactions.
  • Expert in merging technology with product design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a high-impact leader in Media and EdTech, specializing in scalable application architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

People Management

Other Skills

JavaJava Enterprise EditionHibernateSpringWeb ServicesXMLRESTSpring FrameworkTomcatE-commerceElasticSearchBackbone.jsJSPProduct ManagementStruts

About

- I am passionate about technology and building high scale disruptive applications. - 15+ years of experience in design and development of web/mobile products in e commerce, travel, media, OTT platform and supply chain. - 8+ years experience of managing big engineering teams . - Built the platform and engineering team at hotstar to make it more scalable and handle peak concurrency of millions of users. - Re architected the ecommerce portal for healthkart and scaled it to handle 50x more traffic resulting in 10X growth in transactions. I have a knack for merging technology with product design to build products and teams that can scale and deliver results for business.

Experience

16 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
4 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Fox corporation

2 roles

SVP Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

People Management

VP Engineering

Sep 2021Jun 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Building the engineering team for Fox in India to solve video streaming at scale.
People Management

Seekho

VP Engineering

Sep 2019Aug 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Built multiple platforms, seekho.ai for 1 Lakh + learners to learn new skills and connect with employers to find jobs.
  • Built safejob.in to enable job candidates and corporates to help candidates up skill themselves and get better jobs.
  • Built the engineering teams from ground up and set up best practices in the team for development and delievery.
People Management

Hotstar

Director Of Technology

Sep 2016Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Led the engineering team responsible for building the content and experience
  • management system at hotstar that powers hotstar across multiple countries.
  • Architected the platform with microservices to build a scalable API platfrom for varied clients at hotstar.
  • Responsible for security, infrastructure and cost management
  • Scaled the backend API to handle 25 M concurrent users.
  • Hired and mentored the engineering talent to groom the next level of leadership for hotstar.
  • Deprecated all legacy tech and COTS from the platform.
People Management

Proptiger.com

Associate Director Of Technology

Nov 2015Aug 2016 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Managed the backend and front end engineering teams for makaan.com/proptiger.com to ensure that the system was scalable with increasing traffic requirements.
  • Lead the engineering team to roll out new apps on ios and android for makaan sellers and buyers.
  • Involved in building the team and hiring new engineers.
  • Designed the ads platform and data ware house for makaan.com
People Management

91mobiles

AVP Technology

Oct 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Lead the engineering team to build a scalable search comparison system which would compare
  • millions of products and would allow the sourcing team to add new catalogs and take them live
  • without any code changes.
  • These improved the performance of the app as well as web solution for the platform.
  • Architected & led development backend systems for enabling a chat based solution that allows
  • experts and users to chat for resolving queries in realtime.
People Management

Healthkart

Technical Architect

Dec 2011Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Redesigned the ordering/stock process for healthkart.com
  • Re architected the application stack and implemented it from scratch.
  • Improved feature set and performance of web app resulted in 1% increase in conversion rate.
  • The application now scales horizontally and has handled 50X more traffic and 20X transactions compared to earlier versions.
  • Implemented service oriented architecture in development and design, this results in faster delivery cycles
  • Designed and implemented the cataloging process with backend web apps and operational processes.
  • Implemented real time analytics with custom business dashboards to measure app and performance metrics, this in house product complements GA and has helped reduce drop offs from the conversion funnel.
  • Directly handling a team of 8 engineers and working with 2 product managers to decide product feature set and execution plans.

Ixigo.com

Software Enginner

Apr 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Developed android app for ixigo.com
  • Created a graph DB backed service for trip planner, enabling multi city trip planning.
  • Designed and implemented a deal aggregation engine to reduce the manual effort of hunting for deals
  • and ensure real time discoverable content on the platform.
  • Design and development of admin portal and web services for Ixigo.com

Servigistics

Software Engineer

Jun 2008Apr 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Technology - MTech — Computer Software Engineering

Jamia Millia Islamia

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Electronics and Communication

Delhi Public school Dwarka

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