Raghavendra Channarayappa

➢ Warehouse Management: Led initiatives to enhance warehouse efficiency, optimizing processes such as picking, packing, putaway, cycle counting, and more. Designed and implemented systems for de-inventorying, re-inventorying, and stock auditing across 150 warehouses nationwide, significantly improving inventory traceability and reducing order cancellations due to product unavailability by 11%.

➢ Inventory Management: Spearheading Licious' decentralized inventory management with a focus on precision, leveraging concepts like Available-to-Promise (ATP) and meticulous In-Transit Inventory tracking to ensure seamless synchronization and real-time supply chain visibility.

➢ Supply Planning: Driving strategic supply planning initiatives, including the development of customized production plans tailored to product perishability.

➢ Delivery Efficiency & Cost Optimization: Led initiatives to enhance delivery efficiency by first implementing manual batching and later transitioning to auto-batching of orders. Benchmarked and employed various route optimization algorithms tailored to Licious-specific constraints, optimizing last-mile logistics. These efforts resulted in a 4.5% reduction in cost per delivery, improving overall operational efficiency and profitability.

❖ Managing and mentoring a team of 13 engineers, including SDE1, SDE2, SDE3, UI, and Android engineers.

• Led the initiative to improve the Collections rate within Grab Financial Services from about 70% to 90% via implementing an automated notifications mechanism for Indonesia
• Conceived and led the design and development of Workflow Orchestrator which could scale to new geographies with minimum effort
• With the new design, the development time of a KYC flow for a country has been brought down from 15 developer-weeks to 3 developer-weeks
• Led Cost to Serve reduction exercise, and exceeded the target of 50% very quickly
• Improved logging, upgrading the infra to latest offerings by AWS, and Migration to EKS
• Contributed to key product initiatives by producing RFCs, design documents, and building critical libraries, and helped raised the bar
• Brought down the memory utilization on the core services within Grab Financial Services by 50% using pprof on prod environment and optimizing flows contributing to high usage, and produced a template for other service owners to adopt

• Led design and development of micro-services as part of the Design Delivery team in the overall platform architecture for Livspace
• Delivered high quality projects which helped making the operations behind an interior design project management transparent to customers and setting the right expectations for them, and keeping them posted on the progress

• As part of Finance Engineering team, lead the design and development of Data Pipeline for Purchase Reconciliation of Procure-to-Pay workflow on Apache Spark, S3 Storage, Spring and MySQL
• Evaluated distributed HTAP databases like Apache Phoenix for operational use cases

• Optimising legacy backend for performance, and study to understand the functional requirements so as to be able to migrate to more flexible and scalable tech stack
• Contributed in the design and development of the Version 2 of the tech stack

• Lead design and development of the full stack for the food ordering app
• Vendor Inventory Management System and Invoicing System including payments module

• Vendor Onboarding System, Oauth based authentication and authorisation framework for the Operations application

• Design and Development of the entire tech stack for the online hackathon platform aimed at helping fresh graduates in improving the coding skills through practice

• Market Research Reports E-commerce portal development and maintenance in PHP, MySQL

• Reporting Dashboard Development and Scraping in PHP, MySQL, Apache Webserver