Rahul Khanvilkar

• Spearheaded the product roadmap for the Warehouse Management System (WMS) for FY 24-25, driving the strategic vision for improving warehouse operations and efficiency.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure seamless product development and execution.
• Led iterative improvements in warehouse processes, focusing on automation, efficiency gains, and scalable product features.

Key Achievements:

• Ship-by-Date and Delivery Date Prediction: Designed and implemented a dynamic algorithm to accurately estimate shipment dispatch and delivery times, considering manpower capacity, throughput, and courier network data. Enhanced shipment planning and delivery accuracy.
• System-Driven Audit: Developed an intelligent location audit algorithm, boosting inventory health in problem fulfillment centers by 4% through targeted daily auditing.
• Picking Efficiency Improvement: Pioneered a zone-wise picking strategy, enabling multi-operator order picking and consolidation. Achieved an 11% increase in picking efficiency by optimizing workflow.
• Continuous MRP Sticking Process: Transitioned the MRP sticking process from batch to continuous, resulting in a manpower reduction of 28, significantly enhancing operational efficiency.
• Yard & Dock Management: Streamlined yard and dock operations, enabling better vehicle tracking and improving dock utilization for enhanced operational flow.

• Built the Platform from the Ground Up: Led the development of our platform from concept to launch within a year, leveraging my deep expertise in both web and mobile app development to create a seamless experience across devices.
• Assembled and Led a High-Performing Team: Recruited and mentored a team of six skilled developers, fostering a collaborative and high-impact culture that drove the company’s growth and success.
• Enhanced User Experience: Partnered closely with a designer and product analyst to ensure the platform delivered a visually appealing and highly intuitive user experience, significantly improving user satisfaction.
• Revolutionized Hiring Processes: Developed a solution that transformed how companies collaborate with agencies and freelancers, simplifying the hiring process and making it more efficient—all within our platform.
• Full-Stack Leadership: As the founder, provided end-to-end leadership across all aspects of the company, from defining strategic objectives to overseeing day-to-day operations, ensuring smooth execution and alignment.

In summary, I played a pivotal role in building Rekruit.it from the ground up, leading a talented team, improving platform usability, reshaping hiring practices, and overseeing the company's overall growth and operations.

• Platform for Sourcing Top-Tier Tech Talent: Developed a specialized platform to solve the challenge of sourcing high-quality candidates for back-end, front-end, and full-stack (BFF) engineering roles. Focused on curating top-notch candidates for each client’s open position.
• Innovative Candidate Matching Algorithm: Created the proprietary CRP algorithm, which delivers a curated list of 10 candidates per role, along with customized relevancy percentages and joining probabilities. The platform operates on a pay-per-shortlist revenue model.
• High Shortlisting Success: Iterated the product to achieve a 60% shortlisting ratio, significantly outperforming industry standards.
• Bootstrapped Success: Grew a self-funded business to ₹2.8 crore+ in revenue for FY 21-22, achieving a 30% gross margin through a combination of innovative technology and efficient processes.
• Built Scalable Operations: Established foundational processes for business operations, including talent sourcing, customer engagement, and financial management.
• Developed a Suite of Tech Products: Led the development of multiple products, including advanced matching algorithms, assessment and skilling tools, customer dashboards, B2C user engagement communities, internal tools for business process automation, and scalability.
• Leadership and Team Building: Managed a team of 25+ employees, including 10 team members who have been with the company for over 2 years, fostering loyalty and a high-performance culture.
• Deep Technical Expertise: Extensive experience in full-stack development, having worked with technologies such as React, Node.js, Angular, and React Native for web and mobile application development.

• Worked on Mobile Cloud Services, a cloud based tool to create easy no-code mobile application APIs
• Created and maintained storage, notification and user APIs
• Dabbled with multiple backend, frontend and mobile app development technologies