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
No SQL DB: Mongo, Hbase
Languages: Java, J2EE, VB, SQL, Pig
Framework: Spring, Hibernate, Zuul, Consul, CXF, Spring Boot, Web services(JAXWS)
Configuration Management: CVS, Git, SVN
Monitoring tools: AWS cloud watch, New relic, Splunk, Prometheus
Defect management /Doc tools: Jira, Confluenece, foot print, scrum works
OS: Linux, Solr, Mac
Scripting languages: Shell script, perl, VB script, java script
Memory Profiler: Jprofiler, new relic
ReactNative
Web/Application Server: Jboss, Tomcat, Niginx, SJSAS, Weblogic
Expertise in defining the tech roadmap strategy and also for the product
Making complex and highly scalable microservice architecture to fulfill the need of futuristic business needs
Involved in reducing the overall cost of the Infra
Expertise in setting up the highly motivated and tech driven team to create robust product
Handling multiple vendors independently to hire contractors across multiple technical projects on requirement basis
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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