About

Rahul Bansal is a curious problem solver who loves bringing ideas to life. With over 13 years of professional experience, he has worked across various domains such as education, travel, location intelligence, payments, financial services, and customer loyalty. Rahul believes in a holistic approach to any situation, covering business, product, design, marketing, customer journey, and technology. As the Head of Engineering at genflix, part of Star Capital, Rahul is responsible for one of the most advanced OTT apps out there, offering VOD, channels, live shows, interactivity, comments, and gifts. He has also worked as the Head of Technology at Star Capital, helping the group in multiple startups, including Genflix and an insurance startup. Rahul has excellent leadership values, including incremental wins over long shots, a bias for action, simplicity over buzzwords, and disagree but commit. His specialties include scalability, stability, security, distributed systems, microservices architecture, messaging systems, leadership, team building, project execution, technology selection, and IT strategy planning. Rahul has an outstanding academic record, with a GMAT score of 750, a GRE score of 333, and a graduate degree from one of the premier engineering institutes in India, BITS Pilani, with a CGPA of 9.04/10 (Distinction). He is also a merit holder in Senior Secondary with a score of 91.23%. Rahul has excellent communication and interpersonal skills and has received the Competent Communicator, Competent Leader, and Advanced Competent Leader awards from Toastmasters International. Rahul has worked as the Head of Rewards and Marketing Platforms at OVO, where he provided a wide array of solutions that drove customer retention, loyalty, and engagement. He was responsible for various cashback programs, game engines, and the notification engine, which drove all the push/SMS/email communication to customers. Rahul is focused on taking OVO's Deals Platform to the next level by ensuring the best inventory, discovery, purchase, and redeem experience for customers. Rahul's tech stack includes senior software engineer, microservices, AWS, New Relic, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, iOS, Java, and Android. With 16.53 years of relevant experience, Rahul is an exceptional problem solver and leader who can bring ideas to life.