Jalpesh Rajani
Mumbai
Summary
Technology Leader with 20 years of experience driving high-impact product delivery across product companies. Passionate about building high-performance teams, driving AI-driven innovation, and delivering 0-1 initiatives that align technical excellence with business goals. Adept at navigating complex technical challenges, fostering a culture of ownership and innovation, and aligning engineering efforts with business objectives.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Engineering
Tata Fintech
01.2024 - Current
- Owned insurance vertical end to end, successfully scaling the geographically distributed engineering team and accelerating project delivery to meet critical business timelines.
- Aligned engineering delivery to business OKRs that enabled 30% faster go-to-market for new insurance products.
- Optimized engineering budgets, reducing projected burn by 30% through the creation of strategic squads that improved resource allocation and execution efficiency.
- Drove cross-functional alignment with legal, design, and product for smoother compliance and go-live readiness.
- Owned quarterly engineering OKRs tied to NPS uplift and system uptime.
- Migrated monitoring and alerting systems from App Insights to Grafana, reducing operational costs by 30% and implementing a command center framework to minimize Time to Detect (TTD) and resolution times.
- Eliminated user funnel drop-offs caused by engineering inefficiencies, achieving zero engineering-related drop-offs within two quarters through rigorous debugging, performance optimizations, and improved system observability.
- Designed structured career growth initiatives for lead engineers, fostering a culture of ownership and accountability, enabling smooth transitions into staff engineering roles.
- Introduced 360 feedback and onboarding tracks, reducing ramp-up time for new joiners by 40%.
- Implemented granular cohort-based analytics across funnel journeys, improving decision-making for product managers.
Engineering Manager
CoinDCX
04.2020 - 01.2024
- Orchestrated the end-to-end development and successful delivery of CoinDCX’s Crypto investment product within just 5 months, reaching 13 million users.
- Architectured plug and play libraries for CoinDCX’s mobile ecosystem (payments, analytics, network and others), enhancing future project development and onboarding of new team members.
- Improved platform scalability by 30X and reduced server load through frontend architecture optimizations.
- Setup user funnel evaluation systems, achieved 100% tech funnel efficiency for user on-ramp and off-ramp, minimizing organic user drop-offs.
- Performed detailed root cause analysis of performance related issues and reduced trade failure rate from ~4% to .8% on controllable factors.
- Built the roadmap to revamp website code to improve efficiency and moved to microsites frontend architecture.
- Payments integration into our application reducing user deposit failures down to < 1%.
- Setup project delivery strategies for multiple major rollouts over the past 3 years.
- Delivered interview models for the team to bring in the best talent.
- Roadmapped strategy for reportees to ensure a well balanced career development and reducing attrition and brain drain.
- Lead and manage technical programs, ensuring successful project delivery within scope and schedule.
- Work towards the successful execution of established quarterly OKRs and departmental goals, with live tracking via jira.
- Drive effective collaboration across teams covering devops, cloud engineering, application development and other branches of compliance and security to ensure projects remain feasible and coherent.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project goals, scope, and requirements.
Engineering Lead
Indus OS
01.2019 - 03.2020
- Oversaw the release of three product iterations to over 70 million devices in just 5 months, maintaining a 96% crash-free user base, an improvement from 89%.
- Successfully managed a geographically dispersed development team across three locations, ensuring seamless collaboration and efficient project execution.
- Led Android development efforts to overhaul Samsung App store project, resulting in a 20% improvement in the client critical flow drop funnel.
- Implemented user funnel evaluation systems, reducing user drops by 60% through UX improvements and sensitizing the product development team.
Sr. Manager - Android App Dev Lead
Reliance Jio
02.2015 - 09.2018
- Led the release of multiple iterations of JioCloud app to 20 million devices, maintaining a 99% crash-free user base over three years.
- Developed a plug & play Android SDK for JioCloud, integrated into four separate Jio apps and Jio STB.
- Played a key role in the core architecture team for various features and optimized app efficiency for smooth user experience across different devices.
Program Manager
Western Outdoor Interactive
04.2011 - 01.2015
- Designed optimized software architecture and database schema for Android and C++ apps, delivering over 40 applications for multiple clients and technologies.
- Successfully mentored and managed a team of 30 developers, achieving a low attrition rate of ~1% over four years.
- Contributed to achieving ISO certification for software security audit, boosting client confidence and project opportunities.
- Automated the development and deployment process using shell scripts, significantly reducing project and update delivery timelines.
Senior System Engineer
Western Outdoor Interactive
05.2009 - 04.2011
- Developed browser apps and transitioned to C++ app development from PHP/Javascript.
- Streamlined product conceptualization to delivery process, reducing development time.
Systems Engineer
Western Outdoor Interactive
04.2006 - 01.2009
- Browser-based applications on custom embedded Linux systems and custom PHP framework.
- Created a generic, totally configurable PHP backend for generating JS arrays, JSON, or XML files.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Mumbai University
01.2005
Skills
- Program & Portfolio Management
- Solution Architecture Product Engineering Process optimization Roadmap execution Strategic planning and decision making Global collaboration & relationship-building
- Leadership & Strategy
- Team Building Platform Modernization Engineering Strategy Executive collaboration data driven decisioning Scalable architecture
- Enterprise & Cloud Technologies
- Java SQL & NoSql Microservices AWS / Azure Flutter Full stack app dev and architecture Cloud CICD API integrations Real time analytics Jira Graphana
- Risk & Compliance Management
- Financial regulations Security frameworks & governance SEBI, IRDA, FEMA & GDPR
- Process Optimization & Automation
- Cost reduction 10x scalability operational excellence Tool and process automation AI-Driven Innovation
- System architecture
Timeline
Head of Engineering
Tata Fintech
01.2024 - Current
Engineering Manager
CoinDCX
04.2020 - 01.2024
Engineering Lead
Indus OS
01.2019 - 03.2020
Sr. Manager - Android App Dev Lead
Reliance Jio
02.2015 - 09.2018
Program Manager
Western Outdoor Interactive
04.2011 - 01.2015
Senior System Engineer
Western Outdoor Interactive
05.2009 - 04.2011
Systems Engineer
Western Outdoor Interactive
04.2006 - 01.2009
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Mumbai University
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