Head of Technology LinkedIn:. linkedin.com/in/rohitkondapalli92 Phone: +91-9920244729 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay Email: rohit4073@gmail.com
An accomplished Technology Lead with a strong foundation in building and managing high performing teams, driving the development of software and data products, and harnessing the power of data using Machine Learning. 10+ year experience working in fast growth startups and fostering a collaborative culture to deliver results consistently
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Head of Technology, LoveLocal (MPaani Solutions) Mar 2021 – Present A hyperlocal marketplace for neighbourhood Grocery and daily essential shops
● Scaled the Technology team from 5 to 50+ Engineers, Data Scientists and Product Managers ● Revamped the entire backend from a pure monolith to a Service Oriented Architecture subsequently to Microservices achieving scalability in product development ● Achieved a system uptime of 99.8% by implementing robust monitoring tools and incident management processes using New Relic, Kibana, Sentry, Prometheus & Grafana ● Revamped the Android applications successfully to MVVM architecture resulting in 7x improvement in performance; Migrated the website to NextJS for improved SEO performance ● Migrated the entire ecosystem from VMs to Kubernetes, established a robust CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Terraform, incorporated automated code reviews and quality checks with SonarQube ● Designed and deployed a Data Engineering pipeline to handle real-time updates of the company's catalogue of over 400 Million products using Databricks, Spark, and Kafka ● Launched the IOS Applications for consumers to match industry standard performance ● Streamlined the sprint planning and execution process; introduced sprint and work management tools like JIRA and confluence for efficient Product development ● Rationalised the infrastructure usage, negotiated deals with the Cloud providers resulting in 60% reduction in Cloud costs Quarter-on-Quarter ● Setup technical documentation for all the services and increased the coverage to 85% from zero ● Introduced automation in QA using Cypress and Appium resulting in reduced MTTR, 20x reduction in crashes and increased the stability of system ● Led technical integrations with Clevertap, WebEngage, Singular, AppsFlyer, ValueFirst, Infobip, Sendbird, Freshdesk, Exotel and several others ● Executed large-scale engineering projects in parallel with freelancers and part-time developers ● Established a comprehensive performance review and a continuous feedback process for developers to monitor the quality of their work, enabling them to deliver better results
Head of Data, LoveLocal (MPaani Solutions) Dec 2019 – Mar 2021
● Set up the Analytics platforms to track org performance and brought in a culture of data driven decision making, defined the key business KPIs & OKRs to match with the organisation goals ● Deployed a Fraud Engine to catch platform abuse; reduced payment losses by 80% ● Built a personalisation engine to recommend products, shops and offers to customers Product Advisor, Florence Capital Jun 2020 – Jul 2021 ● Defined the initial product outline by integrating traditional loan application with psychometric evaluation, quick credit assessment and in app gamification ● Setup the roadmap for Tech & Data Sciences team, guided in the feature engineering framework and initial model work, took weekly stand-ups and code reviews, assisted in building out the team
Senior Data Scientist, PaySense (PayU Credit) Nov 2016 – Dec 2019 ● Built a microservice to train and host ML models and built the data pipeline to refresh the models ● Developed a Graph Database using connections of users from phonebook, social media and references and developed a model to predict the risk associated with customers who have no history of credit, based on the embeddings derived from the network graph (patent pending) ● Developed several ML and Deep Learning models to optimise the process of loan application review; built a lead prioritisation system to optimise funnel conversion ● Hired and mentored a team of Data Scientists and Data Analysts; growing the team from 2 to 12 ● Setup the entire Analytics to monitor Business OKRs, portfolio health and revenue.
Software Engineer (AI/ML), Lybrate Dec 2015 – Oct 2016
Online doctor consultation platform for patients to post medical queries on a forum or a private conversation ● Developed an ML based Recommender system to handle semantic understanding of medical queries, recommending relevant questions to doctors and generating automated responses for FAQs ● Built a Spam filtering model to improve the quality of the queries on the platform
Software Developer, Housing.com Mar 2015 – Oct 2015
● Built a listing audit system to identify fraud in the collection of housing inventory data; the system identifies duplicate flats (detected by image matching), erroneous data, non-existent inventory listed ● Developed a Market Intelligence platform by scraping the inventory across several competitors and other classifieds and set up real time alerts to update operations teams on new housing inventory
Software Engineer, Imagna Analytics (Fractal Analytics) Oct 2013 – Mar 2015 Worked on several projects from diverse domains like e-commerce, Agri-tech, telecom, Food Tech, P2P Lending ● Developed a data pipeline for Foodpanda to process (translation, spellcheck, cuisine detection, generating tags) and store restaurant menus from over 40 countries in a search enabled index ● Developed ML models to predict crop life expectancy for Monsanto, reducing time to market ● Offered competitor benchmarking on products and offers to Myntra, Jabong using web scraping
TECHNICAL SKILLS ● Engineering Management, Product & Technical Roadmaps ● Technical Hiring, Managing Developer Productivity, Agile Development ● Well versed in Deep Learning models, DevOps, System Design, Backend & Data Engineering ● Programming Languages: Python, Javascript, GoLang, Scala ● Frontend: Managed development of Android, IOS, React Native, ReactJS and NextJS applications ● Databases: Graph Databases (Neptune DB, Gremlin, Neo4j), SQL & NoSQL ● Infrastructure: GCP, AWS, Digital Ocean, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible ● Frameworks & Tools: Django, Flask, FastAPI, PyTorch & Tensorflow
