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title: "Pavan K. - Engineering Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Pavan K., Engineering Manager @ BigBasket | xOlaCabs | xJustBooks based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, cursor, and github copilot. Explore public work links including github."
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# Pavan K\. on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Manager @ BigBasket \| xOlaCabs \| xJustBooks

## About

Engineering Manager in Big Basket handling the core Catalog and Replenishment projects\. Result oriented person\. Scaled service from 100K RPM to 2M RPM\. Improve Catalog visibility system to show SKUs from assortment to customer visibility in less than 2 Mins\. Build Generic services used across Big basket, features are added like plug\-gable features to be used by anyone\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

cursor

github copilot

## Work experience

Engineering Manager at bigbasket\.com, Jan 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Engineering Manager For the catalog, Search and replenishment Scaled applications to handle 2M RPM, ensuring data consistency, < 20 ms Latency services to load page faster in the APP\. Added multiple features to the catalog services and scaled the product\. Taking care of 14 member team of engineers, driving Quality, Ownership, One time delivery, Metrics, observability, Technologies Kafka, MySQL, Aerospike, Elastic search, Python, Node JS, and asynchronous programming with Vert\.x, Java 26, Springboot Handled 10 micro\-services\. Use LLM to generate content in the catalog like tags, right product low level category, generate synonyms to improve speed of generation of data instead of manual loop for the content\. LLM based Auto generation of data from poduct images auto fill product information\.

Principal Engineer at bigbasket\.com, Mar 2019 \- Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designed and developed catalog applications for Bigbasket\. Migrated the monolithic architecture of the catalog to a microservices architecture\. Ensured a smooth transition of data from the monolith to the new microservices\. Created and implemented 5 catalog services to efficiently manage and serve catalog data\. Ensured services could handle high requests per minute \(RPM\) using an asynchronous framework with Vert\.x and Java\. Developed a common library to address shared use cases across all catalog services\.

Lead Software Engineer at Ola, Jun 2018 \- Mar 2019 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked as lead software engineer for the foodpanda team in OLA\.

Senior Software Engineer at Ola \(ANI Technologies Pvt\. Ltd\), May 2015 \- Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore, Worked on Ola's booking order system, managing the entire order lifecycle\. Handled full order management, including creation, updates, completion, cancellations, and post\-completion changes\.

Software Engineer at Ola \(ANI Technologies Pvt\. Ltd\), Mar 2013 \- May 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore, Worked on multiple application in the OLA system Applications like Booking\(Orders\), Notification, and Invoice

software Development Engineer at Strata Retail & Technology Services Pvt\. Ltd\., Apr 2011 \- Mar 2013 · 2 yrs, Bangalore, Worked in house projects for justbooks with Strata Retail and Technology Pvt Ltd\.

## Education

M Sc\[Engg\], Computer Science and Networking, M S Ramaiah School of advanced studies

Bachelor of Technology \(BTech\), Computer Science, sree vidyanikethan engineering college

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/pavan642

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