About

Rahul Lodha is a seasoned professional with 17 years of experience in the consumer internet, startups, and telecommunications space. He has an entrepreneurial mindset and has been involved in different strategic aspects of a consumer internet startup. Rahul is skilled in fundraising, business models, financial projections, revenue streams, product/technology roadmaps/prioritization, user acquisition and retention, business development & sales, digital marketing, budgeting, tech hiring, outsourcing, and employee motivation. As an Agile Evangelist, Rahul is a natural at product, project, and people management. He is hands-on with various technology architectural designs, including Microservices, MVC, Multi-tier, and Event-driven. Rahul is also proficient in multiple programming/scripting languages/stacks, such as Java, LAMP, node.js, JavaScript, NoSQL, C, C++, and more. He strongly believes in and follows the TDD approach. Rahul has worked on various projects involving Vertical Search/Discovery (Solr, Vespa), Big Data Analytics (Hadoop, Oozie, Map/Reduce, PIG Latin), Machine Learning (Classification), Recommendation Engines, Lead Management System, Mobile Apps (Android, iOS, LiMo), RESTful APIs, SEO and Digital Marketing, Payments, User Management, Ad management, Continuous Integration, Communications - emailers/SMS/Notifications, Front-end UI/UX execution, etc. He is hands-on with DevOps and has managed Deployment Architecture using Amazon AWS and other data centers. Rahul has managed the delivery of several products over highly distributed systems, taking care of high availability, scaling, fault tolerance, monitoring & reporting, low latency, effective usage of resources, etc. Rahul has published two papers in Yahoo! Tech Pulse events and has one patent related to the Telecom domain. He has bagged several awards and worked with global teams. Currently, he works as a Co-learner at Urveera Sustainable Learning & Development Private Limited. Rahul is a B.Tech (Hons) graduate in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has completed his schooling from G.R.K. DAV Public School, Purulia, and Shree Jain Vidyalaya, Kolkata. Rahul's relevant experience is 18.13 years, and he is proficient in a range of tech stacks, including Javascript, AWS, CI/CD, Big Data, ML, NoSQL, Hadoop, iOS, Micro