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Rakesh Chand

Senior Engineering Manager at PW (Physics Wallah), Ex - Interview Kickstart, November First

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

PW (PhysicsWallah)
Apr 20251 yr 5 mosPresent

PW (PhysicsWallah)
Apr 20232 yrsMar 2025

PW (PhysicsWallah)
Dec 20224 mosMar 2023

Interview Kickstart
Jan 202211 mosNov 2022

Remote

Built Global Calendar and Upright from 0–1, powering 20,000+ activities and 5,000+ daily coaching sessions, and designed both for large-scale global expansion. Led creation of IKBase, IK’s first unified component library, a multi-theme system powering consistent UI across product teams.
November First ®
May 20192 yrs 9 mosJan 2022

Remote

Delivered high-quality frontend architecture for the international payments platform—building the UI, crafting the design-system UI-kit, and shaping intuitive user experiences end to end. Boosted engineering velocity by establishing automated TestCafe suites and streamlining build-and-release workflows to enable fast, reliable deployments.
Jun 20171 yr 11 mosApr 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built from scratch a price-tracking and deals platform, a micro-influencer monetization SPA with tagging + embedded blogger widgets, and a compliance/KYC verification product. Also re-architected Obsessory into a modern Angular SPA, driving major performance and UX improvements.
Uniserved - Growth. Crowdsourced.
Apr 20161 yr 2 mosMay 2017

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Built Uniserved’s Field Service Management Portal and Recruitment Portal from scratch using AngularJS, enabling scalable workforce deployment, job assignment, and on-ground operations. Delivered the front-end foundation that powered Uniserved’s tech-driven field services ecosystem and streamlined talent onboarding for large-scale projects.

Rakesh’s AI Stack

claude
claude
gemini
gemini
github copilot
github copilot
hermes agent
hermes agent
minimax
minimax
openai
openai

Education

Guru Ghasidas University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology

Guru Ghasidas University

20114 yrs2015

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Headline

Senior Engineering Manager at PW (Physics Wallah), Ex - Interview Kickstart, November First

About

Engineering Leader with 10+ years of experience building teams, platforms, and scalable microservices. Currently heading multiple engineering verticals at Physics Wallah and previously led engineering functions across fintech and edtech.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

gemini

github copilot

hermes agent

minimax

openai

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at PW (PhysicsWallah), Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

SDE4/Engineering Manager at PW (PhysicsWallah), Apr 2023 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs

SDE3 at PW (PhysicsWallah), Dec 2022 - Mar 2023 · 4 mos

Frontend Lead, Student Experience at Interview Kickstart, Jan 2022 - Nov 2022 · 11 mos, Remote, Built Global Calendar and Upright from 0–1, powering 20,000+ activities and 5,000+ daily coaching sessions, and designed both for large-scale global expansion. Led creation of IKBase, IK’s first unified component library, a multi-theme system powering consistent UI across product teams.

Senior Software Engineer at November First ®, May 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Remote, Delivered high-quality frontend architecture for the international payments platform—building the UI, crafting the design-system UI-kit, and shaping intuitive user experiences end to end. Boosted engineering velocity by establishing automated TestCafe suites and streamlining build-and-release workflows to enable fast, reliable deployments.

Full Stack Engineer at Obsessory, Jun 2017 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built from scratch a price-tracking and deals platform, a micro-influencer monetization SPA with tagging + embedded blogger widgets, and a compliance/KYC verification product. Also re-architected Obsessory into a modern Angular SPA, driving major performance and UX improvements.

Software Engineer at Uniserved - Growth. Crowdsourced., Apr 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Built Uniserved’s Field Service Management Portal and Recruitment Portal from scratch using AngularJS, enabling scalable workforce deployment, job assignment, and on-ground operations. Delivered the front-end foundation that powered Uniserved’s tech-driven field services ecosystem and streamlined talent onboarding for large-scale projects.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Guru Ghasidas University

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