About

Prathaban Selvaraj is a technologically strong Director of Engineering at Myntra with over 20 years of relevant experience. He possesses a broad suite of tech skills, including distributed systems, web apps, search applications, analytics systems, cryptography, trend detection and personalization systems, and artificial intelligence. His solid understanding of business needs and perspective makes him a valuable asset to any team. Prathaban's unique selling point is his ability to go end-to-end in putting together the right team, exploring, experimenting, and building the right tech solution, delivering reliable processes, and providing sales support. He has previously worked as a Director of Engineering at Streamoid, a leader in providing cutting-edge solutions for the fashion retail industry using artificial intelligence. At Streamoid, he managed the teams and systems responsible for the on-boarding of clients, delivery of three products, back-end systems, internal and external control panels, analytics systems, and more. Prathaban has also worked as a Director of Engineering at Quikr, where he built a high-performance team that delivered reliably on tight timelines. He handled multiple engineering teams for delivering AtHomeDiva, Quikr Services Listings and Booking product lines, and built a search experience that handled balanced lead delivery to service providers. He also integrated multiple acquisitions made by Quikr in the Services vertical. Prathaban has an MS in Computers from BITS Pilani and a BE from Bharathiyar University. His tech stack includes senior software engineering, search, web, backend, P2P, PHP, Elastic Search, Java, and Android.