Avinash Chandrasekaran

• Currently leading the Growth Charter consisting of 4 pods. Overseeing 45 Member-strong team of engineering personnel
• Drove Referrals and Rewards experience across the app to achieve business OKRs (1% UPI market share in India, Increase Week1 retention by 30%, Week 4 by 15%). Responsible for grooming the roadmaps for the growth charter
• Led platform initiatives like Segmentation platform, Ads and Money manager
• Extensive work with business and product stakeholders to ensure measurable metrics are in place and scoping deliverables to maintain an impactful cadence.
• Oversaw multiple teams Payments, Health Insurance, LMS and Co-lending charters previously in NAVI successfully
• 2+ Exposure to Skip level people management. Managing multiple EM-IIs
• Led the successful completion of multiple high-profile projects, ensuring timely delivery within budget constraints(Payments experience revamp which led to >5% increase in success rates, > 2.5x faster loading times for the payments page, All LMS API latencies optimised to be under 200ms, Oversaw multiple co-lending integration go-lives (Piramal, ABFL etc), Payments recon to reduce customer issues by > 95%)
• Mentored junior engineers to develop their skills, providing guidance on best practices and industry standards
• Developed a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering team, encouraging innovation and creative problemsolving
• Established performance metrics for monitoring team progress towards key objectives, driving accountability and transparency among team members
• Reduced product development time by optimising workflows and fostering cross-functional collaboration
• Drove org-wide initiative for new EM training and interview process improvements

• Leading a team of Full stack/Backend developers in the Payments and Subscriptions team under the Revenue Platform org.
• Re-architecture of the Subscription platform to improve turn around time for internal client integrations
• Oversaw platform feature additions such as upgrade/downgrade, annual subscription, free trial etc
• Worked on revamping tax modules to improve developer velocity in onboarding new countries to reduce tax exposure by > 30%
• Delivered the payments piece for Quick Promote(Internal Ads product) on IOS
• Providing subscription infra for Super-follows and Twitter Blue initiatives
• Lead the Bangalore Hiring committee for campus and new grad hiring
• Responsible for Roadmap Grooming for the PAS team

• Responsible for Data Discovery team of Mutual Funds and Gold Teams
• Extensive APIs Optimizations to improve API performance by over 2X in multiple cases
• Developed mechanisms for API to withstand spiky loads (>15000 rps)
• Successfully transitioned gold team to Paytm Money
• Oversaw multiple crucial feature launches like NPS, Details Page Revamp, Investment Packs Rebalancing, CMS for NFOs, Gold passbook, Gold portfolio etc.
• Occasional Payments Consulting to re-architect critical components
• Engineered crucial components to be more scalable
• Managing a team with people of varied experience and varied backgrounds
• Extensive Contributions to Hiring.
• Responsible for Roadmap and Feature discussions with product
• Brief stint with the lending org of paytm to revamp LMS

• End to end responsibility for all deliverables in the payments module.
• Optimized Routing to increase success rates by > 10% for card payments
• Co-ordination with Product team to understand requirements, use cases,corner cases to improve deliverable quality
• Implemented Gateway Integrations for CC/DC/Wallets/UPI/ApplePay/Middle east specific payment types(SADAD,KNET)
• Good understanding of the payments domain
• Revamped Wallet Cashback flow end to end for better customer retention
• Moved multiple services to the microservice architecture
• Re-Designed and Re-factored the cancellation flow.
• Ownership of multiple rule engine modules across services responsible for critical functions like routing, pricing, coupons etc
• Designed and developed a methodology to reduce duplicate bookings.
• Amendment flow for Domestic and International Flights.
• Connector code for various new Suppliers/features.
• Restructured Wallet Module.
• Responsible for critical performance optimizations.
• Mentoring Reportees, Managing stakeholder expectations.
• Bug Fixes.

Engagement Catalyst is domain rules driven gamification framework that's generic and modular so that it can be applied to multiple domains.

• Actively participated in requirement gathering ( Case Study on successful gamification models ) and DB schema design.
• Responsible for architecting and implementing a scalable and configurable rule engine.
• Configure and deployment onto the cloud.
• Responsible for customizations around the product to show case to various clients (SocialTango,Sears).
• Responsible for architecting and implementing a ‘Segmentation Engine’ and demoing it to clients.
• Worked on a couple of client engagements in the healthcare realm(Cigna, Sanofi).
• Involved in feature implementations for certain reporting modules developed using PHP and MongoDB.
• Use of ActiveMQ for queuing requests and for scheduled messages.
• Database Schema Design and spring integration of the database in to the project.

This is a proof of concept developed which indexes domain specific data on the web, does entity extraction using APIs and shows results of domain specific queries executed.

• Understanding the complete functioning of Semantic web and actively participated in requirement gathering during initial phase.
• Development of the feature entity extraction using various entity extractors such as Alchemy, Calais, Rosette Entity Extractor and Pingar.

BazaAR is an augmented reality based plugin which uses face detection, gestures integrated with social networks (Facebook/Twitter) to provide users for rich online experience. BazaAR is an attempt to bring Social Shopping to the end user in a cost effective, pluggable and extensible manner.

• Responsible for architecting and developing the framework using Flex and Action Script.
• Responsible for implementing Face recognition to enhance the experience of using the app
• Responsible for REST service implementations around the analytics module(including charting ).
• Responsible for customizations around the product to show case to various clients (BELK,Titan).

Glitz is an e-Makeover Application for Mobile Devices and Web Platforms using Image Processing, Adobe Flex and JavaScript Platforms for trying out makeover products before buying in on ecommerce Platform.

• Responsible for feature implementations using Flex and Action Script.
• Semantics – Entity extraction (CTS).