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title: "Rajesh Kumar - Engineering Manager in Gurgaon | Tal"
description: "Meet Rajesh Kumar, EM at Uber based in Gurgaon. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude, and elevenlabs."
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# Rajesh Kumar on Tal

## 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

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