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Anirudh Gaur

Senior Engineering Manager
Bengaluru

Summary

An accomplished Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience dedicated to enhancing team performance and delivering effective, scalable solutions through advanced system design. My expertise spans people management and backend development, leveraging diverse technologies including Java, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis and Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP. I am passionate about optimizing processes, reducing costs, and leading high-performing teams to achieve exceptional results.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Engineering Manager

DP World
08.2023 - Current
  • Spearheaded the successful launch of Cargoes TMS (Road Transport Management System), overseeing the entire development lifecycle from conception to production release within an aggressive six-month timeframe.
  • Managed a high-performing team of 12 software engineers, consistently ensuring on-time delivery and maintaining high-quality standards.
  • Directed the design and development of three critical microservices within TMS: Master Data Management, Order Management, and the Financial Module.
  • Architected and reviewed the design for the bulk upload of master data (e.g., Driver, Vehicles, Customers, Vendors) to facilitate the seamless onboarding of new clients onto Cargoes TMS.
  • Designed the asynchronous processing of bulk orders using Kafka, incorporating a feature for downloading error reports.
  • Elevated product quality through rigorous design reviews and by implementing 80% code coverage as a key component of the CI/CD pipeline via comprehensive unit and integration testing.
  • Proactively identified and mitigated project risks, such as dependencies on platform service teams (e.g., Location Service, Document Service), through effective cross-functional collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
  • Recognized with the Champions Award for the successful delivery of Cargoes TMS and the onboarding of its first client (valued at $120M ARR), achieving this with fewer than 5 production incidents.
  • Led recruitment initiatives, conducting over 100 interviews and successfully hiring and onboarding 10+ new engineers.

Engineering Manager

Locus
07.2022 - 07.2023
  • Led the Routing team of 10 members, comprising 3 Engineers, 2 QAs, and 5 Data Scientists.
  • Reduced the team's AWS costs by 18% in one quarter by optimizing machine sizes on AWS for clients with low runtime requirements.
  • Achieved a 25% reduction in Google Maps API calls through the strategic adoption of open-source frameworks like OSRM.
  • Orchestrated the migration of over 30 clients without any downtime, encompassing a total of 1861 teams, to a new routing engine within one quarter, resulting in a 12.8% reduction in average route generation time.
  • Reduced Amazon SQS queue waiting time by 60% by implementing separate queues for low-runtime clients.

Technical Lead

Zoop.one
11.2020 - 06.2022
  • Enhanced system availability by implementing a Kafka fallback mechanism to ensure event publishing continuity during broker disconnections or producer failures, and successfully identified and resolved the root cause of these disconnections.
  • Designed an Alert service with dynamic primary/secondary vendor switching capabilities, significantly enhancing system reliability based on real-time vendor status.
  • Designed and developed a real-time billing service that prevents negative customer wallet balances and improved latency by leveraging Redis caching to minimize unnecessary network calls.
  • Successfully decomposed a legacy monolithic system into a scalable microservices architecture.
  • Designed and reviewed comprehensive migration scripts for seamless data and wallet transitions of existing customers to the new microservice architecture.

Senior Software Engineer

Cloudflight GmbH
07.2018 - 07.2020
  • Developed and implemented core sales features, including customer sales folder creation, car sales offer generation, discount application, financing/loan provision, and offer printing.
  • Enhanced the Pricing Engine by implementing specialized tax and discounting calculations for the Austrian and Singaporean markets.
  • Developed a Test Drive page that securely consumes customer vehicle, insurance, and driving license details via a Clarity flow bar.
  • Utilized session storage for efficient temporary storage and retrieval of user information.

Software Development Engineer

Planful
08.2015 - 12.2017
  • Proactively detected and prevented security vulnerabilities such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), weak authorization, formula injection, and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).
  • Built a robust login API incorporating critical validations such as IP Address restrictions, session management, maximum invalid attempt limits, and active/inactive user statuses tailored to different client requirements.

Associate Software Engineer

Innopark India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2014 - 07.2015
  • Integrated Paytm and PayUMoney payment gateways on Classic Rummy's website.

Education

Bachelor of Technology(B.tech) - Computer Science & Technology

International Institute of Information Technology
07.2009 - 04.2013

Skills

Engineering leadership

System architecture

REST APIs

Java

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

Accomplishments

  • Recognized with the Champions Award in DP World for the successful delivery of Cargoes TMS.
  • Routing team was awarded the Best Performing team in Locus.
  • Achieved 99.90 percentile in All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE).

Timeline

Senior Engineering Manager

DP World
08.2023 - Current

Engineering Manager

Locus
07.2022 - 07.2023

Technical Lead

Zoop.one
11.2020 - 06.2022

Senior Software Engineer

Cloudflight GmbH
07.2018 - 07.2020

Software Development Engineer

Planful
08.2015 - 12.2017

Associate Software Engineer

Innopark India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2014 - 07.2015

Bachelor of Technology(B.tech) - Computer Science & Technology

International Institute of Information Technology
07.2009 - 04.2013

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