Gaurav Katheriya
Delhi
Summary
Seasoned Chief Technology Officer with proven track record in leading high-performing technology teams and executing successful IT strategies. Demonstrated ability to drive innovation, improve operational efficiency, and foster business growth through effective use of technology. Strengths include strategic planning, team leadership, product development, and project management. Proven impact on past organizations includes aligning technology with business goals, reducing costs while increasing productivity and profitability.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Technology Officer
Long Tail Sourcing India Private Limited
Bengaluru
07.2021 - Current
- Oversaw the development of software applications, hardware systems, cloud-based solutions, and other technological assets.
- Developed strategies for integrating existing products with third-party solutions or APIs.
- Coordinated with stakeholders to ensure that all product requirements were met on schedule.
- Provided technical guidance on how best to leverage available resources when building out new solutions.
- Managed a team of engineers to design, develop, and deploy new products and services.
- Monitored performance metrics across multiple platforms to optimize user experience and engagement.
- Implemented processes for testing software applications prior to release in order to ensure quality assurance standards are met.
- Developed and implemented a strategic roadmap for the organization's product, technology, and engineering initiatives.
- Ensured that security protocols were adhered too when designing and deploying any new technology infrastructure.
- Regularly tested security technologies and implemented network penetration assessment tools.
- Established KPIs for financial, operational and sales goals.
- Oversaw technological improvements, successfully reducing waste and eliminating business bottlenecks.
- Provided hands-on support during system upgrades or major outages.
- Implemented best practices in software engineering principles such as version control, coding standards, source code management, unit testing.
General Manager(Technical)
Optiontown Software Pvt. Ltd
Delhi
02.2008 - 02.2021
- Analyzed existing processes for effectiveness and developed new systems as needed to enhance overall productivity levels.
- Spearheading activities like Application Security, Infrastructure Security & Compliances. Performing Integration POCs & Helping Core team in Productizing them Working with internal & external customer teams to assess business & implementation risks, guiding the technical integration process, assisting in technical problem-solving and managing internal resources to resolve various customer issues.
- Directing delivery of multiple large-scale integration/implementation projects, on time and within budget.
- Performing team development & people management activities like hiring (Senior Architects / Senior Product Managers), motivating, training and retaining talents.
- Heading all aspects of strategic IT planning, implementation and worldwide support as an integral component of business plan.
- Interfacing & communicating with the clients/stakeholders to determine specific requirements and expectations while ensuring the same is developed, integrated in the final software to be released to production
- Supervising architectural & design specification, transforming business requirements to architectural models and to designer and developer level specifications.
- Ensuring technical deliverables like design specifications, effective coding practices, using reusable coding patterns within the teams .
Education
B.Tech. - Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Kharagpur, WB04-2007
Skills
- Technology Integration
- Budget Administration
- Proposal Development
- Software Architecture
- Compliance Oversight
- Client/server networks
- Software Development
Languages
Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Websites
Technical Competencies
- Java/ J2EE, Spring Boot, Struts, RDBMS, Jenkins, Kafka, Elastic Search, Mongo, Production, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Redis , Memcached, Aerospike, Varnish, Apache, AWS, Mysql, Oracle, CRM, Scalability, Security, Data Structures, Concurrency.
Accomplishments
- Special mention award for developing a market ready E-commerce application from scratch which can be scaled very easily with Microservice based architecture.
- Implementation of our own custom Payment Orchestration platform from scratch for the business needs,
- Special Mention Award (2019) for scaling our website load capacity to 3 lacs/hr. from 6k/hr.
- Excellence Awards (2012-2019).
- Facilitated significant growth in revenue growth of > 30-50% every year by predicting
future market position, adapting product strategy to industrial requirements and through product enhancements & effective product positioning. - Designing effective data base schemas for industries like Aviation related products, E commerce, Fintech, Opinion Trading etc.
Affiliations
- Cricket, Watching Movies, Cooking
Timeline
Chief Technology Officer
Long Tail Sourcing India Private Limited
07.2021 - Current
General Manager(Technical)
Optiontown Software Pvt. Ltd
02.2008 - 02.2021
B.Tech. - Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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