Ajay Chauhan

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jun 2003 - Jun 2005

  Assistant Systems Engineer

  Started as a junior member of the small sized engineering team for a United Nations University Project based out of Japan. Initial responsibilities included implementing pl/sql scripts for a BI module and developing java based web application for new features. In a span of 18 months I was leading the project taking care of application development, SRE, team management and internal project audits.

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  Sapient

  Jun 2005 - Jul 2006

  Associate Tech L1

  Led the development of an internal test automation framework written in TSL using WinRunner. The framework which was used by hundreds of QA team members made the job of writing test scripts relatively easy.The second project was a java struts based web application. I was responsible for requirements analysis, data and object model design and documentation, implementing business rules, java based application development and unit testing of my modules.

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  DXC Technology

  Jul 2006 - Dec 2010

  Led a large sized engineering team that helped implement a healthcare product for Danish hospitals that was used to maintain electronic patient records, clinical data for patients, communicate data with legacy systems using HL7 based messaging. Supported thick (java swing based) and thin (web) clients using Service Oriented Architecture.Worked two years as Senior Software Engineer responsible for writing messaging module, creating XML based messaging artifacts, client side printing using Java Print API, creating HL7 diagrams (UML) for new modules, creating EJB based services for new modules.Next two years as Team Lead responsible for all the above mentioned responsibilities as well as mentoring new joiners, decision making for third party products to be used for the system, code review, module design, issue resolving for java swing/ant/cvs/svn/app-server related problems, maintaining database and application servers.Next Six months as Manager (Technology) responsible for managing a team of around 20 engineers, module design, code reviews, quality, issue resolving (as mentioned above) and POC for new technology to be introduced. Show less

  • Manager (Technology)

    Jun 2010 - Dec 2010

  • Team Lead

    Jun 2008 - Jun 2010

  • Senior Software Enginner

    Jul 2006 - Jun 2008
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  Roy eSolution

  Dec 2010 - Mar 2011

  Technology Consulting - Pro Bono

  (This was done during a 3 months break I took from work)Provide guidance for UI/UX design of various modules, user workflow documentation, integration of google map/location API, code reviews, mentoring new joiners for java, C#, Object Oriented Design, PHP and mySql, POC for android applications.

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  Etree Marketing Private Limited

  Apr 2011 - Apr 2012

  Technical Lead

  Letsbuy was a very popular e-commerce portal offering large array of electronics products and gadgets with huge discounts. It was later acquired by flipkart.I was leading/Mentoring teams responsible for designing and developing letsbuy’s Content Management System (GWT), Reporting Module (Pentaho), Module for ERP integration (Java, HornetQ, Axis), Order Manager (PHP) and Product Search Engine (SOLR). Was also a part of team that took care of the site reliability. The tasks included horizontal scaling of web-servers, re-structuring mysql setup in the form of master and slaves, and moving search, product data entry and ERP functions out of the main platform’s scope for scalability. Was also responsible for training warehouse staff for using Microsoft’s Navision (ERP) and managing technology side of order fulfillment and dispatch. Show less

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  Info Edge India Ltd

  May 2012 - Jun 2014

  Associate Vice President, Technology, 99acres

  Leading product and technology team members responsible for developing new search module using SOLR and Natural Language processing algorithms, Designing and developing modules for dealer branding, Leading a team responsible for implementing a high throughput low latency java + RabbitMQ based messaging framework for outbound SMS and Emails, System administration / monitoring using Zabbix and shell scripts, Mentoring teams, Reviewing code and database design for performance, Working with other senior architects for redesigning existing system architecture to support high availability. Show less

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  GeckoLife

  Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

  Consulting Technology / Product Head

  Led a 15+ member team consisting of high performing engineers, product specialists, UI developers and quality analysts who were building a new social network based around the idea of networking within families with permission based system for kids. Responsibilities included coding, managing the team, guiding engineers for technical / scalability issues and challenges, SRE, Code reviews and hiring.

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  Superise.com

  Dec 2014 - Jan 2021

  Co-founded Superise.com in early 2015 which in almost an year became the youngest fastest growing real estate tech companies in India. As head of product engineering and marketing, led a 35+ team of engineers, product specialist, designers, quality analysts, content producers and digital marketeers who were building a world class real estate platform. The platform consisted of a state of the art listing portal with search enhanced by natural language processing algorithms, pricing and payment plan engine that made area/pricing a transparent affair even before RERA was implemented, a 3D unit selection module that allowed buyers to check unit availability and Vaastu using visual medium to navigate through the property, an internal CRM and an ERP created from scratch specific for real estate buy and sell workflows taking into consideration the complex payment scheduling services. The organization did tremendously well until demonetization, after which the industry was severely hit. The operations were shutdown in Jan 2021 after running it for couple of years without significant profits. Show less

  • Information Technology Advisor

    Jul 2020 - Jan 2021

  • Head Of Engineering

    Dec 2014 - Jul 2020
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  TerraviewOS

  Aug 2020 - Jan 2022

  Senior Applications Architect (Contract)

  Led Terraview’s globally distributed backend team that is responsible for creating microservices based APIs powering the core platform and internal admin portals. The Terraview team is solving complex geo-spatial data storage and analysis related challenges and also ingesting huge amount of weather and agri-sensors data to provide meaningful alerts to consumers by way of complex rule processing and using machine learning to identify and predict crop diseases using imaging.

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  SHL

  Dec 2021 - now

  Senior Engineering Manager