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Ravindra Goyal

Sr Software Engineering Manager
Gurgaon

Summary

Experienced and professional IT Manager with 16 years of experience in building technology businesses, complex software applications/systems and technology infrastructure to drive revenue growth, expand customer base and increase profitability. Founder member of Goibibo tech team, built hotels platform from scratch and overseen its growth from first transaction to 25k transactions a day. Have maintained a reputation for continually achieving 100% roadmap completion, on time and high quality project delivery. Expertise in handling data privacy and High throughput B2B CPASS Business marketing company systems.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Sr Software Engineering Manager

GupShup Technology
06.2023 - Current
  • https://www.gupshup.ai/ is World No #1 Conversational ChatBot platform having 45000 clients across 60 countries. Company making ChatBots in 30 different channels like WhatsApp, Instagram, FB messenger
  • Working as part of Teams -: Instagram business messaging, Google business messaging, Rich Communication services [RCS Message] team and Central wallet team.
  • Projects undertaken -: RCS messaging high throughput 5k TPS system, RCS self serve onboarding platform, Deployment automation through Kubernetes, Instagram ChatBot channel, Client onboarding simplification through self serve model
  • Current team Size 25

Associate Director - Engineering

Makemytrip
04.2019 - 05.2023
  • Managing technology team for MakeMyTrip Holidays package business line (https://www.makemytrip.com/holidays-india/)
  • Achieved highest ever single day transaction numbers for package bookings and maintained consistent high numbers better than pre pandemic level
  • Carried out many big tech enhancements in system to improve on latency and throughput, reduced errors and better monitoring
  • Collaboration with business and product teams and ensured accurate and quality completion of quarterly road-map with optimum tech resource usage
  • Helped company retaining best of talent during high attrition in covid period and scaled team size to 3x of initial capacity
  • Tech Stack - Java, Spring, Elasticsearch, Mongo, MySql, Nginx, Couchbase, Docker, Drools

Engineering Manager

Goibibo
07.2007 - 03.2019

Goibibo Hotels ( https://www.goibibo.com/hotels/ )

  • Developed first cut of Goibibo hotels business with end to end singlehanded development including supply integration, database design, service layer and front end rendering
  • As business kept scaling, monolith application changed to dozens of micro services - pricer, booker, content, discounting, inventory, notification services
  • While keeping involvement in almost all micro services, primary focus on booker platform
  • Strong knowledge of Transaction system with handling discounting, payment integrations, concurrency and high volume transactions
  • Handling of post sales scenarios and customer use cases. Automations like booking retries, drop out customer persuasions, enabling of auto refund
  • Reduction of transaction errors to 0.1%
  • Leading backend team with members ramp up, constant motivation and building self sustainable strong team
  • Tech stack - Python, Django, MySQL, Redis, Nginx

Goibibo Flights

  • As part of flights team, worked on enhancing supply portfolio
  • Integration of third party APIs and making end to end live

Payment Gateway - MIHPAY

  • Build payment gateway system for in house use with integration of Axis and HDFC bank APIs
  • Managed and maintained payments and refunds for Ibibo e-commerce channels
  • MIHPAY later evolved as PayU
  • Tech Stack - PHP, MySql

Search Engines

  • Worked with enterprise FAST search engine to build hyper local vertical search platform
  • Have worked extensively on SOLR and Elastic search engines

Shopping E-Commerce

  • End to end development of grocery shopping website using Magento framework
  • Server deployments, code management and feature enhancements
  • Scaling website to get 250 orders per day at time when online grocery shopping was not that popular and modern websites did not even exist
  • Adding of new features like wallets and discounting
  • Consistent monitoring and performance analysis
  • Tech - PHP Magento framework, MySql

Education

M.Tech. - Geomatics Engineering

IIT
Roorkee
07.2005 - 06.2007

B.Tech - Computer Enginnering

Institute of Engineering And Technology (IET)
Alwar
07.2001 - 06.2004

Skills

Team based leadership style coupled with zeal to drive visions to reality & create value

In depth & hands on knowledge of E-commerce, Finance, Tavel domains and CPASS Domain

Managing Cross-Functional Teams

Programming Languages: Python, JAVA, PHP, JavaScript

Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, CouchBase

Frameworks: Python Django, Java Spring boot, PHP Magento

Micro service, Rest, MVC frameworks, Elastic Search, Kafka, Caching, web server, Jenkins, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Serenity QA Automation, AI coding tools Claude AI, Cursor AI

Agile Development & Performance Tracking and analytics

Publications

Paper published in International Journal of GeoInformatics. 

Topic - Measures for accuracy assessment of sub pixel level classification of satellite images.

Certification

General Management Program Facilitated by Harvard Business School and Naspers group

Accomplishments

  • Man in Black award year 2014. A customer tried to hack Goibibo transaction system with making booking at Rs 1 and was asking for ransomware. Tracked entire system, debugged and fixed the problem overnight
  • Goibibo customer's star award for year 2015. Streamlined booking process, handling of multiple post sales work flows
  • Exemplary Manager award Year 2017- Goibibo Hotels team
  • Go-MMT CEO's ring of honor award year 2018 at annual town hall meet red carpet awards
  • Go-MMT CEO's ring of honor award for best team of the year 2019 at annual town hall meet red carpet awards. Goibibo Hotels transaction team awarded best team award

Timeline

Sr Software Engineering Manager

GupShup Technology
06.2023 - Current

Associate Director - Engineering

Makemytrip
04.2019 - 05.2023

Go-MMT's Leadership Development Program - CXOs Academy

02-2018

General Management Program Facilitated by Harvard Business School and Naspers group

07-2011

Engineering Manager

Goibibo
07.2007 - 03.2019

M.Tech. - Geomatics Engineering

IIT
07.2005 - 06.2007

B.Tech - Computer Enginnering

Institute of Engineering And Technology (IET)
07.2001 - 06.2004
Ravindra GoyalSr Software Engineering Manager