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Rajesh Kumar

EM at Uber

Gurgaon

15+ years of work experience

Uber
Nov 20241 yr 11 mosPresent

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

PW (PhysicsWallah)
Jun 20231 yr 4 mosSep 2024

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

- Responsible for leading two teams, Revenue & Growth and Store (Physics Wallah E-commerce vertical), with a total of 35 engineers, including 2 EMs. - Separated critical microservices (Scheduling, Batch, Order) by migrating ~500 APIs, enhancing availability, resolving attribution issues, shifting price calculations from front-end to back-end, and isolating the order database for improved security. - Established an E-commerce SaaS platform powering PhysicsWallah and other clients (Xylem, Utkarsh), significantly reducing development time.
Urban Company
Dec 20193 yrs 6 mosMay 2023

Fulfilment (Capacity and MatchMaking) - Scaled the platform to other countries - UAE, Australia, Singapore and US. - Reduced No Response from 5% to <2%, peak Request loss from 25% to <10% and Manual Ops from 8% to 0. - Scaled the team from 6 to 20+ engineers. - Ideated and built Hubs 2.0 - Automated hyperlocal locality identification using Grid System and Uber H3 library. Reduced average distance traveled by partners by 5-11% and saved 4-5 hrs every week for category managers. - Built Flexible Slots for Customers using Bin Packing Algorithm and Branch and Bound Algorithm for partner fill rate optimization. Increased fill rate by 10-15% in AUS and 6% in the US through flexible slots for customer delivery. Delivery - Introduced multiple safety features to handle COVID safety guidelines - Improve Service Delivery % from 76% to 85% - Introduced Track my partner feature, moved to open source solution (OSRM, OSM) and saved 6000$ per month spent on google map and apis. Help Center - Saved ₹80 Cr per year on the CX Support System and reduced operational costs using Agent Chat Support System and Self-serve flows. - Scaled the team from 4 to 8 engineers including an EM hire.
Urban Company
Aug 20154 yrs 5 mosDec 2019

Fulfilment Platform (Node js, MongoDB, Redis, Gitlab): - Conceptualized, designed and led the implementation of Fulfilment Platform. - Identified key services, states and architected the flow. - Built a form and App freeze system for better tracking of customer deliverables. UrbanCompany Dubai launch (Node js, Python, MongoDB, Mysql) - Led a team of Backend developers, customer and professional app/web/QA to support Internationalization on UrbanCompany platform. - Split the project into 4 intermediate releases - user login, request creation, request flow and payment. - Directly responsible to CXO and VP's for the project deliverable. - Delivered the project in half the time (1.5 months). - Received the “Best Performer Award” Open-RPC-Framework (Node js, Swagger, Docker, AWS ECS, Jenkins, Script) - Internal UrbanCompany framework for Microservices. - Conceptualized, designed and single-handedly build the 'open-rpc-framework' for UrbanCompany. - Built in support for service discovery, NewRelic, session tracking, swagger for contract validation, logger integration with ELK system, slack alert for critical apis. - Written a single deployment strategy to launch the services on docker containers. - Setup the Amazon ECS production, staging and development environment. - Launched 8 microservices over it. Other Product / Infra project - Managed following projects in UrbanCompany - Subscription, Referral, re-architecture of professional project listing. - Design and architected Event Driven Architecture using Kinesis/Lambda for faster data/event propagation between Microservices. - Setup reliable deployment for Backend server (using AWS Codedeploy), Web server (using Varnish) - UrbanCompany unit testing framework using Mocha, Sinon, Istanbul.
Jan 20157 mosJul 2015

Greater Bengaluru Area

Personalize Email Marketing - Architected and implemented personalize email marketing channel in Vizury DMP using Amazon SES. Facebook DPA Integration - Integration Facebook DPA (Dynamic Product Ads) feature with Vizury DMP Platform.
Jan 20123 yrsDec 2014

Bangalore

China Infra Setup - Setup RTB infra in AWS China which involved setting up of VPC, roles, security group and autoscaling. Real Time Bidding (RTB) - Migrated the RTB (Real Time Bidding) code base from PHP to Java, which improved QPS by 200% (700 to 2500 qps). - Lead a team of 3 developers.
Mar 20111 yr 10 mosDec 2012

Bangalore

Analytics Platform - Implemented various reports on Hadoop and Pig to analyze campaign performance.
OnMobile Global Limited
Jul 20109 mosMar 2011

Greater Bengaluru Area

Bulk Processing Engine - Analyze data coming from various sources in different format (XML, excel), generating report and storing them in DB. - Created a frontend UI to expose the data to various users based on the permissions.

Rajesh’s AI Stack

anthropic apis
anthropic apis
claude
claude
elevenlabs
elevenlabs
gemini
gemini
lovable
lovable
openai
openai

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

NIT ALLAHABAD

20064 yrs2010

ROCKWOOL CAMPUS

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Headline

EM at Uber

Location

Gurgaon

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude

elevenlabs

gemini

lovable

openai

Work experience

Engineering Manager at Uber, Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Director of Engineering at PW (PhysicsWallah), Jun 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, - Responsible for leading two teams, Revenue & Growth and Store (Physics Wallah E-commerce vertical), with a total of 35 engineers, including 2 EMs. - Separated critical microservices (Scheduling, Batch, Order) by migrating ~500 APIs, enhancing availability, resolving attribution issues, shifting price calculations from front-end to back-end, and isolating the order database for improved security. - Established an E-commerce SaaS platform powering PhysicsWallah and other clients (Xylem, Utkarsh), significantly reducing development time.

Director Of Engineering at Urban Company, Dec 2019 - May 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Fulfilment (Capacity and MatchMaking) - Scaled the platform to other countries - UAE, Australia, Singapore and US. - Reduced No Response from 5% to <2%, peak Request loss from 25% to <10% and Manual Ops from 8% to 0. - Scaled the team from 6 to 20+ engineers. - Ideated and built Hubs 2.0 - Automated hyperlocal locality identification using Grid System and Uber H3 library. Reduced average distance traveled by partners by 5-11% and saved 4-5 hrs every week for category managers. - Built Flexible Slots for Customers using Bin Packing Algorithm and Branch and Bound Algorithm for partner fill rate optimization. Increased fill rate by 10-15% in AUS and 6% in the US through flexible slots for customer delivery. Delivery - Introduced multiple safety features to handle COVID safety guidelines - Improve Service Delivery % from 76% to 85% - Introduced Track my partner feature, moved to open source solution (OSRM, OSM) and saved 6000$ per month spent on google map and apis. Help Center - Saved ₹80 Cr per year on the CX Support System and reduced operational costs using Agent Chat Support System and Self-serve flows. - Scaled the team from 4 to 8 engineers including an EM hire.

Engineering Manager at Urban Company, Aug 2015 - Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Fulfilment Platform (Node js, MongoDB, Redis, Gitlab): - Conceptualized, designed and led the implementation of Fulfilment Platform. - Identified key services, states and architected the flow. - Built a form and App freeze system for better tracking of customer deliverables. UrbanCompany Dubai launch (Node js, Python, MongoDB, Mysql) - Led a team of Backend developers, customer and professional app/web/QA to support Internationalization on UrbanCompany platform. - Split the project into 4 intermediate releases - user login, request creation, request flow and payment. - Directly responsible to CXO and VP's for the project deliverable. - Delivered the project in half the time (1.5 months). - Received the “Best Performer Award” Open-RPC-Framework (Node js, Swagger, Docker, AWS ECS, Jenkins, Script) - Internal UrbanCompany framework for Microservices. - Conceptualized, designed and single-handedly build the 'open-rpc-framework' for UrbanCompany. - Built in support for service discovery, NewRelic, session tracking, swagger for contract validation, logger integration with ELK system, slack alert for critical apis. - Written a single deployment strategy to launch the services on docker containers. - Setup the Amazon ECS production, staging and development environment. - Launched 8 microservices over it. Other Product / Infra project - Managed following projects in UrbanCompany - Subscription, Referral, re-architecture of professional project listing. - Design and architected Event Driven Architecture using Kinesis/Lambda for faster data/event propagation between Microservices. - Setup reliable deployment for Backend server (using AWS Codedeploy), Web server (using Varnish) - UrbanCompany unit testing framework using Mocha, Sinon, Istanbul.

Software Engineer 3 at Vizury Interactive, Jan 2015 - Jul 2015 · 7 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Personalize Email Marketing - Architected and implemented personalize email marketing channel in Vizury DMP using Amazon SES. Facebook DPA Integration - Integration Facebook DPA (Dynamic Product Ads) feature with Vizury DMP Platform.

Software Engineer 2 at Vizury Interactive, Jan 2012 - Dec 2014 · 3 yrs, Bangalore, China Infra Setup - Setup RTB infra in AWS China which involved setting up of VPC, roles, security group and autoscaling. Real Time Bidding (RTB) - Migrated the RTB (Real Time Bidding) code base from PHP to Java, which improved QPS by 200% (700 to 2500 qps). - Lead a team of 3 developers.

Software Engineer 1 at Vizury Interactive, Mar 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore, Analytics Platform - Implemented various reports on Hadoop and Pig to analyze campaign performance.

Software Engineer 1 at OnMobile Global Limited, Jul 2010 - Mar 2011 · 9 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Bulk Processing Engine - Analyze data coming from various sources in different format (XML, excel), generating report and storing them in DB. - Created a frontend UI to expose the data to various users based on the permissions.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, NIT ALLAHABAD

ROCKWOOL CAMPUS