Sumit Raj Resume

SUMIT KUMAR RAJ
0-1 & x-10x Building and Scaling | International Author | Mentor | Speaker | Trainer | Startups
Ozone Evergreen, Bangalore • 959-028-3524 • [email protected]
SUMMARY
Results-oriented Engineering Executive with 11 years of proven track record of optimizing project
outcomes. Skilled in strategic project management and team leadership. Seeking a challenging
executive role to leverage technical expertise and drive engineering excellence.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Engineering Manager, Unacademy Feb 2021 - Present
Currently managing most important business vertical of Unacademy having highest share of
revenue called Unacademy Centres.
As an EM took end to end responsibility of Growth and Payments team of Unacademy
responsible to manage payment system of 500-600 Cr annually
Led multiple refactoring and optimization projects to reduce cost while keeping 100% uptime of
the services
Worked with Sales and Business team to set up processes for seamless co-ordination in order
to improve throughput and productively of the team
Owned engineering efforts for the revenue vertical
Responsible for architecture, implementation and delivery for various 0-1 products
Conceptualise, Designed, Architected, Implemented & successfully launched the in-house CRM
for a sales team of over 5000+ business executives to optimise revenue generation via
sales/leads conversion
Built and managed a team from scratch within Unacademy for handling Sales Technology
initiatives, responsible for managing realtime event tracking across the platform, data
engineering pipelines, sales incentive calculation, dialler/outbound-calling systems
Senior Solutions Architect, GeoSpark(Roam.ai) May 2018 - Feb 2021
Solved Core Engineering problems with less cost and high reliability.
Location Intelligence & deriving user insights to help businesses understand their customer
better
Part-time Product Management, Adding up new features, enhancements for better product
usability & reliability. (Ideation => Design => Code => Delivery)
Optimized the process of building good software and make it market-fit.
Learnt reviewing DPAs, Contract Terms, Software Licensing Agreements, Pricing Strategy for
clients.
POC for any technical discussions, support for feature development, pilot for major clients.
Design & Architecture of a system handling 10,000+ RPS & TBs of data cleaning & crunching
Serverless APIs, GBs of logging on daily basis using techs like Lambda, Kinesis Data
Stream/Delivery Stream, S3, Redshift, API Gateway.
Hired and built the youngest team in terms of experience who helped build a system handling
millions of requests/day
Principal Engineer, LodgIQ India Private Limited Feb 2016 - May 2018
Led the entire Backend Platform Development for revenue management and optimization.
(Web Application Architecture | Scalability | Performance & Cost Optimization.)
Helped reduce more than $10000 monthly with end-to-end automation by de-sparking the
stack and using AWS & Open Source tools.
80% of the coding for APIs in Django, Helping ETL and Data Science team with code
optimization so that ML algo runs faster for more than 200 hotels price prediction.
Led a team of junior devs and interns in US to get them onboarded faster for better
productivity
Software Development Engineer, CommonFloor.com Jul 2015 - Feb 2016

Worked with CFx Team to build awesome products from ideation to production.
Worked on Alexa Voice Service and Alexa Skill Kit to develop AIRA (Artificial Intelligent Real-
Estate Assistant)
Built an AI chat bot to answer Home seekers query.
Built a Django based webapp end to end single handedly on Group buying for Real-estate
Software Engineer, Yodlee Infotech Jul 2013 - Jun 2015

My responsibilities included doing Change Requests, feature enhancement and fixing
Functional, Security, Performance and UI issues in the product which directly impacted 50
million customers and 700 clients all across the globe. As a fresher it was great learning for
me.
I was responsible to give support at the time of Maintenance & Release of the product before
the product is rolled out in the production.
Also worked as a core team member for the Hackathons organized by Yodlee.
TECHNOLOGIES
Programming: Python, Javascript, Java, Golang
Databases: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Clickhouse
Caching systems: Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Aerospike
Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, gRPC
Message Queues: RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS
Web Servers: Apache, NGINX,
CI/CD: GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins
Cloud Providers: AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean
VM Tools: Docker, Kubernetes
Automation Systems: Ansible, Terraform, AWS Cloud-formation
DDoS Protection: Akamai, Cloudflare
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science (74%) Aug 2009 - Jun 2013
Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering, VTU
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages: English, Hindi, Basic Kannada
Certifications: Never believed in any
Activities: Won/participated hackthons at Ebay | Inmobi | Sequoia | Knowlarity | Microsoft |
Yodlee | Instamojo | Grab
Communities: Trained in PyLadies meetup | Guest Speaker at IISc, Bangalore | Trained Faculty
via IQuest, Mysore
ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Have mentored 1000+ students on Backend system, Career progression and taught coding
Have trained over 300 students on building Algo Trading system
Authored and published a book “Building Chatbots with Python” from New York, Apress
Publication
Book sold over 60 countries in English, Portuguese, Korean and Chinese

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Software Development Engineer, CommonFloor.com Jul 2015 - Feb 2016

Software Engineer, Yodlee Infotech Jul 2013 - Jun 2015

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