Jayavardhan Hegde
Engineering Leader | Distributed Systems | Platform Building | E-commerce | Cloud | Leadership
Bengaluru
12+ years of work experience
Apr 20251 yr 5 mosPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Apr 20241 yr 1 moApr 2025
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
1. Accountable for multiple high-scale services of the world's 5th largest
and Japan's #1 e-commerce marketplace, contributing to ~30% of the
marketplace's overall GMS.
2. End-to-End Ownership of critical consumer-facing e-commerce services
handling ~40K QPS, serving 40M+ monthly active users, and driving ~30B
JPY in monthly GMS.
3. Re-architected Product Comparison service, handling a catalog of 10M+
products, migrating to a cutting-edge technology stack with zero
downtime and no production issues.
4. Stabilized critical services to maintain a 99.99% SLA, ensuring seamless
performance and zero disruptions during major sale events over the
past three years.
5. Led the successful migration of two services to a private cloud with multi-
region deployment, resulting in 99.99% Availability and 10% reduction
in latency.
6. Implemented and enforced quality directives across four services,
achieving 80% code coverage by establishing strict quality gates and
best practices.
7. Driving high-visibility strategic programs across backend and web teams to
deliver business-critical outcomes.
8. Led a 10+ member team, including Associate Engineering Manager/s,
Staff Engineers, Tech Leads, and Engineers.
9. Active contributor to the Architect Guild, collaborating with different teams to define
technology standards, engineering best practices, and architectural
guidelines.
Jun 20221 yr 10 mosMar 2024
Mar 20223 mosMay 2022
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Jun 202110 mosMar 2022
Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
1. Responsible for Building & Managing the entire Back-End Platform for One of the India’s Most Trusted Beauty Online Store.
2. Leading Engineering efforts across platforms for the deliverables.
3. Built an In-House Data Analytics platform ground-up using open-source tools which helped the org to take actionable insights
4. Planned and designed the complete architecture for backend platform with Microservices architectural principle
5. Built a team of engineers who are polyglot in nature and contribute to cross-product
6. Identified and planned for AI/ML use-cases for upsell/cross sell on the Platform.
7. Introduced cutting-edge technologies/tools to boost the performance of the API's.
8. Hired, mentored & guided Interns and brought them to the speed.
9. Built a strong team which is "Fail-Fast" in nature and doesn't hesitate to experiment with new technology.
10. Cultivated "GET THINGS DONE" mindset in the team.
Tools & Technologies:
Java, J2EE, Elastic Search, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, Google Cloud, MySql, MongoDB, Microservices Architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Superset, ReactJs, React Native,
Python
Jun 20201 yrMay 2021
1. Build & Manage large scale customer facing application for Rakuten Ichiba.
2. Re-Architecture a big monolithic legacy system to Micro-service Architecture with cutting Edge Tech stack
3. Involved in Design & Architecture with the focus of Event Driven Systems, Scalability & robustness of the platform.
4. Built a System from Ground-Up to support Coupon Management for Merchants on Rakuten Platform.
5. Involved in Building Data Ingestion pipelines using Apache Airflow, Azure Kubernetes System & Terraform.
6. Designed & Delivered an In-House Synthetic Monitoring Platform.
7. Automated operation pipelines to reduce the manual work & reduce Operational Cost.
8. Planned & Designed Data Migration strategy from Key-Value Persistent Store to NoSql Document Store.
Dec 20163 yrs 7 mosJun 2020
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Jun 20142 yrs 5 mosOct 2016
Bangalore
Jayavardhan’s AI Stack
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology
MVJ College of Engineering
20064 yrs2010
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