About

Naval Tharun is an experienced product developer with over 5 years of experience in building complete technology stacks for startups and developing computer vision systems for underwater vehicles. He has a proven track record of collaborating with international cross-functional teams and leading diverse individuals through product development from ideation to launch. Currently, Naval is working as a Product Engineer at udaan, where he is responsible for product management and engineering for Core Buyer Experience in Udaan's flagship B2B app. He has developed an end-to-end gamification framework to render probability-based game experience, helped to develop personalized product discovery to aid buyer conversion, and created a multi-intent detection system in Solr, leveraging SolrTextTagger, which improved search conversion by ~20%. Naval has also worked as a Technical Co-founder at Tylt Cars, where he architected and developed the complete tech infrastructure of a P2P car subscription startup. He built a web application using React, a partner app for lessors using Flutter, and a car inspection app for internal use using React Native. He also created a cloud infrastructure hosted on GCP with Firebase. As a Software Engineer at Blue Yonder, Naval architected and developed a contextual collaboration platform for supply chain management by modularizing and extending the features provided by Mattermost open-source project. He was also involved in the continuous development of Luminate Control Tower, the flagship SaaS solution that provides real-time visibility, orchestration, collaboration, and prescriptive resolutions across the entire supply chain. Naval holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT and completed his high school education at Kendriya Vidyalaya. His technical skills include software engineering, search, computer vision, P2P, infra, product management, Flutter, GCP, web, and React Native. With over 6.37 years of relevant experience, Naval is a highly skilled product developer with a strong background in technology and a passion for building innovative products.