About

Rahul Jain is a dynamic engineering and product leader with an entrepreneurial mindset and a strong focus on execution. With over 17 years of relevant experience, he has a proven track record of taking up new challenges and solving complex problems using the latest technologies. Currently, he is the Director of Engineering at Flipkart, where he leads the Marketplace Engineering team. Rahul has extensive experience in building multiple platforms, including Recommendation, Storefront, Audience Manager, and online machine learning platforms for different teams at Flipkart. He is also a founding member of the management team at acadgild.com, where he was involved in strategy, investment, budgeting, and planning. He has co-founded start-ups and has strong experience in setting up product vision/roadmap and managing different stakeholders. Rahul is highly efficient in setting up new processes and executing fast-paced projects under tight deadlines. He has strong experience in design and development of scalable complex systems using microservices architecture. He is also well-versed with technology stacks involving various programming languages, relational & non-relational databases, big data technologies, data-science, messaging platforms, caching frameworks, search engines, and devops stack. At Flipkart, Rahul manages 8 teams, including Sr. EM, EM, Architect & Data Scientist. He works very closely with Product & Business leaders to build a long-term strategy around top-class seller experience, delightful customer experience, improving top-line growth & bottomline savings. He is responsible for building a long-term technology vision, strategy & roadmap for Engineering teams, aligning with the business goals. He is highly efficient in setting up new processes, bringing breakthrough changes to improve overall team efficiency, productivity, and execution. Rahul has successfully turned around 3 teams within 6 months of onboarding. He has a deep understanding of distributed systems, scalable architectures, microservices, real-time streams, and machine learning systems. He has led the re-arch efforts at Recommendation, Audience Manager to build systems that can easily support very high scale data. Rahul holds a B.Tech degree from NIT Warangal. He is proficient in various tech stacks, including Senior Software Engineer, ML, Data Scientist, Microservices, Big Data, Research Scientist, DevOps, Search, MongoDB, AWS, Ansible, Spark, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Docker, PHP, MySQL, Elastic Search, Kafka, infra, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, and VueJS.