ISHAN OJHA
Software Engineering Leader
Bangalore
Summary
Innovative and results-driven software engineering leader with over 9 years of experience. Demonstrated expertise in building high-performing teams, executing large-scale system transformations, and delivering impactful technical solutions. Skilled in system design, team management, cost optimization, and process improvements. Committed to driving organizational success through technology excellence and leadership.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Member of Technical Staff 3
Nielsen Media
05.2024 - Current
- Build and managed a team of high-performing 8-member team from scratch.
- Planned and executed seamless knowledge transfer (KT) and business-as-usual (BAU) handovers, ensuring operational continuity.
- Spearheaded system stabilization initiatives, including the RLD system migration from JBoss/EJB to Spring Boot, implementing observability frameworks, and introducing health checks for system monitoring.
- Conducted interviews for lateral and graduate hires, contributing to strategic team expansion.
- Worked on the re-architecture of an in-house analytics tool which runs at a very large scale where it processes petabyte scale of data on a daily basis and achieved a 60% cost reduction, 50% job wait time improvement, and a 30% increase in resource consumption efficiency.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams for the above successful product re-architecture launch. Removed data duplication in the entire end to end flow.
- Established process improvements, including on-call SOPs, to enhance team readiness and operational effectiveness.
- Tech Stack: Java 11, Spring Boot, AWS, Databricks, RabbitMQ, Postgres, Kubernetes
Software Development Engineer 3
Flexcar India
03.2023 - 04.2024
- Hands-on Software Engineering Team Lead within the Order Management team, Markets, Customers team, overseeing a team of 12 engineers including seasoned professionals and talented juniors
- Dedicate 70-80% of time to writing code, ensuring deep project understanding and fostering collaborative development environment
- Champion best-in-class software engineering practices, foster scalable design, craft extensible code, and optimize task allocation for maximum efficiency
- Excel at breaking down complex business challenges into concise tech problem statements, partnering with product management, engaging with stakeholders, making informed decisions, understanding business requirements, and translating them into technical specifications
- Recent accomplishment: Led critical service migration task, transitioning OMS service from monolithic architecture supported by MongoDB to microservices architecture backed by Postgres, enhancing transactional capabilities and reducing costs
- Significantly reduced observability cost by almost 70%
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka, AWS
Software Engineer 3
udaan.com
08.2020 - 01.2023
- Engineered systems for the sourcing side of the Supply Chain within the Just-In-Time team
- Managed vendor lifecycle, Purchase Orders, catalog, inventory, and third-party integrations
- Led end-to-end delivery of components from requirement gathering to deployment
- Ensured scalability, availability, efficiency, and throughput of products
- Owned multiple products, creating quarterly roadmaps for feature enhancements and defining metrics
- Mentored junior team members (3-4) and supported their growth
- Actively participated in the recruitment process
Software Development Engineer 2
Sigmoid Analytics
03.2019 - 08.2020
- Real-time data analytics at scale using Apache Spark
- Working with large-scale data coming from multiple sources
- Building data pipeline by using multiple AWS technologies like Data Pipeline, EMR Cluster
- Handling projects end-to-end, right from requirement gathering to deployment
- Mentoring the junior team members, breaking down the tasks and assigning them, and helping them grow in the org as well
- Actively participating in the recruitment process
- Tech Stack: Python, Pyspark, hive, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EMR Clusters, Redshift, Dynamo DB
Product Engineer
Stylumia Intelligence
07.2018 - 02.2019
- I worked on a large-scale Crawl Framework (distributed systems), improving the performance of existing systems by making the system highly available and fault-tolerant
- I worked on technologies like MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, and many more
Software Engineer
Promptcloud Technologies
08.2016 - 05.2018
- Working on a Large Distributed System in the domain of Web crawling
- Worked on a new asynchronous version of our web crawling product
- My work at Promptcloud includes building distributed system, writing crawlers, writing shell scripts, writing unit test cases, working with git, Jenkins, fixing code issues, system level improvements
- Along with the above-mentioned responsibilities, I was leading a team of size 4 and my responsibilities were to design and implement a new functionality or a product
- Also, while mentoring this team I have designed and implemented a newer version of the existing product, which was an Event-driven asynchronous pipeline
Systems Engineer
Infosys Limited
10.2014 - 07.2016
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
Lucknow, India 05.2010 - 05.2014
Skills
End-to-End Project Management
High & Low Level System Design
Backend Development
Data Engineering
Team Leading and Mentoring
Scalable systems
Distributed Systems
Data Structures & Algorithms
Cross-platform development
Application Performance optimization
Continuous integration and deployment
Hobbies
Travel, Wildlife Enthusiast, Cricket
Timeline
Member of Technical Staff 3
Nielsen Media
05.2024 - Current
Software Development Engineer 3
Flexcar India
03.2023 - 04.2024
Software Engineer 3
udaan.com
08.2020 - 01.2023
Software Development Engineer 2
Sigmoid Analytics
03.2019 - 08.2020
Product Engineer
Stylumia Intelligence
07.2018 - 02.2019
Software Engineer
Promptcloud Technologies
08.2016 - 05.2018
Systems Engineer
Infosys Limited
10.2014 - 07.2016
B.Tech - Computer Science
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
05.2010 - 05.2014