Gagan Deep Narula
Faridabad
Summary
Experienced Head of Engineering and Product with 20+ years of leadership, driving product vision, architecting scalable solutions, and building teams from scratch. At AJIO.com, leading a team of 225, focus on AI-driven Search, personalization and cloud solutions, boosting conversion rates, order values, and customer satisfaction in e-commerce.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Engineering & Product
AJIO
- Current
- Experienced Head of Engineering and Product with 20+ years of leadership, driving product vision, architecting scalable solutions, and building teams from scratch
- At AJIO.com, leading a team of 225, focus on AI-driven Search, personalization and cloud solutions, boosting conversion rates, order values, and customer satisfaction in e-commerce.
AVP, Manager
LENSKART
10.2015 - Current
- An ecommerce web site responsible for selling eye-ware products
- Working on dual company strategy project which will help to launch the IPO of lenskart
- Successfully revamped the monolithic backend system to highly scalable distributed SOA based micro services architecture and mongo DB, which is the backbone for 6 UI channels of Lenskart
- Also ensured that monitoring, backward compatibility should be there to support old and analytics systems based on mysql
- Created deployment strategy to support A/B or bucketing based environment to support multiple product experiments in parallel
- Responsible for multiple languages projects including PHP and Java of team size varies between 20-25 members.
VP
FarEye
07.2019 - 02.2022
- Enable logistic companies digitally through SAAS based omnichannel platform for carriers and shippers
- Responsible for Hyperlocal product and Delivery
- Provided the generic playbook framework for the product line
- Responsible for heading react-native, complex routing algo and multiple platform services
- Escalation point for multiple deliveries across Geographies
- Helped in building Engineering, Delivery and technology product team.
Big Data- Sr. Engineering Consultant, Sr. Lead, Lead, Sr. Software Engineer
GLOBALLOGIC, CAPGEMINI,E Gain & CDAC
08.2004 - 10.2015
- Handled multiple big data projects, EMS re-arch, RSM(existing EMS architecture)
- Responsible for re-arch of the exiting EMS
- Defined separate FCAPS and KPI based HDFS system using Hadoop, Hive, Oozie and Tez
- Exp of working Investment bank, complex CRM and Gov company.
Education
Skills
Big Data Tech: Hadoop, Map Reduce, Hive, Pig, Impala, Logstash, statsd, kafka, spark, Solr, Redis, Elastic Search, Splunk
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Leadershipabilities
- Expertise in building technology culture.
- Expertise in building competency framework for Engineering, Product and Delivery team.
- Forte of making effective, informed and highly motivated teams focused on delivery
- Strong influencing and communication skills
- Involved in Project / Program Planning, Execution and Risk Management, in tune with the core business objectives.
- Involved in process vision and design, enhancement strategy and transition strategy.
- Also has experience of creating RFP’s for multiple prospects.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 08/14/1982
- Nationality: INDIAN
Timeline
VP
FarEye
07.2019 - 02.2022
AVP, Manager
LENSKART
10.2015 - Current
Big Data- Sr. Engineering Consultant, Sr. Lead, Lead, Sr. Software Engineer
GLOBALLOGIC, CAPGEMINI,E Gain & CDAC
08.2004 - 10.2015
Head of Engineering & Product
AJIO
- Current