About

Rahul Saxena is a technology enthusiast with over 12 years of experience in building scalable products. Currently, he works as a Senior Engineering Manager at Flipkart, leading search ranking, data, and Autosuggest teams. His focus is on personalisation and optimisation problems at scale and low latency. Rahul has a keen interest in search, machine learning, micro-services architecture, and real-time web. He is known for his expertise in implementing ML systems at scale. His past experience includes working as a Director of Engineering at Jio, where he led search, personalization, and discovery teams. He built products like personalized search, personalized homepage feed, personalized playlists, and near real-time personalization. Rahul is also interested in distributed system design and solving interesting problems in content discovery and personalization at scale. He invites AI/DL folks to reach out to him if they share the same interests. Prior to his role at Jio, Rahul worked as an Analyst at Nomura, where he was part of the FX Options Quant team. His responsibilities included capturing, pricing, and risk analysis. Rahul holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is skilled in Senior Software Engineering, Search, ML, Microservices, Web, AI, and Deep Learning. Overall, Rahul Saxena is a seasoned professional with a passion for building scalable products and solving complex problems in the field of technology.