Rachit Mathur
Engineering Leader
Bangalore
Summary
Results-driven Software Engineering Manager with over 8 years of experience leading high-performing teams to deliver innovative software solutions, complemented by a total of 19 years in the IT industry. Proven ability to blend technical expertise with exceptional leadership skills, fostering an environment that drives project success and enhances team performance. Recognized for cultivating collaborative team dynamics that inspire creativity and innovation in software development.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Akamai Technologies
Bengaluru
11.2023 - Current
- Leading and mentoring four high-performing teams of software engineers, site reliability engineers and product owners working in a hybrid environment.
- Involved in hiring and effectively staffing the various teams to ensure full support coverage and development cycles needed to handle the backlog.
- Involved in setting and communicating team priorities that support the broader organization's goals.
- Oversee and develop system design and review product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
- Set up regular 1on1s and online team sync-ups to ensure regular interaction within the team members in a hybrid work environment.
Software Engineering Manager
Akamai Technologies
Bengaluru
08.2018 - 11.2023
- Leading and mentoring two high-performing teams of software engineers, site reliability engineers and product owners.
- Spearheaded the successful development and deployment of the Field Technician Portal resulting in improved performance, reliability, user experience and ensuring compliance.
- Took ownership of the Network Partner Portal, a critical web application, which was then updated and enhanced to maintain compliance, improve performance and provide better user experience.
- Involved in writing design documents, building architecture diagrams and presenting proposed software solutions to the Arch Board for multiple software projects.
- Involved in identifying & evaluating various Identity Management solutions like PingFederate, Okta, Auth0, Azure AD B2C and eventually integrating the finalized solution into the Field Technician and Network Partner portals.
- Deeply involved in implementing solutions to improve API and website performance by 30% using smart caching, background jobs, worker concurrency optimizations, query/logic improvements and infrastructure updates.
- Involved in hiring talented individuals, writing up OKRs, managing employee performance & appraisals and building the long-term strategy of my teams.
- Regularly collaborate with Directors of Engineering/Service Management, Product Managers, Network/Software Architects on automation needs and new software projects.
Senior Lead Software Engineer
Akamai Technologies
Bengaluru
03.2015 - 07.2018
- Led a team of 4 software engineers responsible for development related to the Logistics & Supply Chain groups within Akamai.
- Designed, developed, tested and documented around 50 applications ranging from full stack to command line based tools written in Angular, Python and Perl using Oracle and MySQL as the underlying databases.
- Identified multiple automation opportunities in the Logistics & Supply Chain groups to reduce manual toil and get more work done with the same number of engineers.
- Held bi-weekly sync-ups with stakeholders on tools requirements and general feedback.
- Held weekly team sync-ups to discuss ongoing issues and take progress updates.
- Participated in quarterly SAFe (Scale Agile Framework) meetings to plan out the next 10-weeks' work.
Systems Engineer
Akamai Technologies
Bengaluru
07.2009 - 02.2015
- Built and maintained software tools, both full-stack and command-line-based, to ease manual toil and get more work done with the same number of engineers.
- Participated in bi-weekly stakeholder meetings to gauge automation needs.
- Helped build the Network Systems team in India from a single-member (me) team to a team of more than 10 people.
- Provided systems and software support for the Networks group as and when needed.
Tech Lead
Genpact IT Services
Hyderabad
12.2004 - 06.2009
- Technical lead responsible for maintaining and enhancing the Network Monitoring tools infrastructure in the Genpact network.
- Implemented HP OpenView Internet Services from scratch to monitor the Genpact network.
- Developed automation scripts to build reports automatically and make DNS changes through a web interface.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in IT - IT (Networking)
Symbiosis Center For Information Technology
Pune, India03.2005
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Birla Institute of Technology
Hyderabad, India03.2003
Pre University -
St. Mary's Junior College
Hyderabad, India04.2000
Skills
Software Architecture and Design Patterns
Software Engineering Management
Systems Integration and Automation
Site Reliability Engineering
Technical leadership
Technical Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Agile Methodologies and Project Management
Stakeholder management
Microservices architecture
Web application development
Performance optimization
Interests
Music, Home Automation, Electronics, Wireless, Networking, Computers, Fitness
Accomplishments
- Built a highly effective Hotseat (now SRE) team that has proven invaluable in handling the daily support/operational work load January 2022
- Implemented smart caching and background/scheduled jobs to speed up application response time January 2023
- Improved query performance for case insensitive matching on an indexed column of a corp-controlled database by passing the input string as a list of mixed-case combinations June 2023
LINKS
Linkedin
Timeline
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Akamai Technologies
11.2023 - Current
Software Engineering Manager
Akamai Technologies
08.2018 - 11.2023
Senior Lead Software Engineer
Akamai Technologies
03.2015 - 07.2018
Systems Engineer
Akamai Technologies
07.2009 - 02.2015
Tech Lead
Genpact IT Services
12.2004 - 06.2009
Post Graduate Diploma in IT - IT (Networking)
Symbiosis Center For Information Technology
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Birla Institute of Technology
Pre University -
St. Mary's Junior College
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