About

Rajendra Uppal is a highly experienced Senior Engineering Manager with over 14 years of experience building Enterprise, Third Party Logistics, and B2B Enterprise SaaS products using multiple technology stacks. He is currently working at Microsoft as a Senior Software Engineering Manager, leading a team of 2 Tech Leads and 8 Software Engineers in India and collaborating with Engineering and Product teams spread across 3 geographies (India, Europe, and US). His expertise lies in Java, Python, Golang, Angular, Postgres, and GCP. Prior to Microsoft, Rajendra worked at Workspan as an Engineering Manager, where he led a team of 2 Tech Leads and 8 Software Engineers in India and collaborated with Engineering and Product teams across 3 geographies. He also worked at Infeedo as an AVP Engineering, where he led a team of 15 engineers and contributed to scale, performance, security, standards compliance, design, architecture, code reviews, cloud infra, team management, and hiring. His domain expertise includes HRTech, People Predictive Analytics, Employee Engagement, SaaS, B2B, AI Chatbot, and NLP. He has experience working with tech stacks like AngularJS, React, Node.js, Express, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and AWS. Rajendra is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where he completed his Master of Technology in Computer Engineering. He also holds a Master of Science in Mathematics from M. D. S. University, Ajmer. He has cleared GATE, NET (JRF) from CSIR and UGC, and was a Research Fellow at IIT, where he worked on Computational Complex Analysis - Fractals. Rajendra is passionate about technology and writes about it on his Medium blog. He also advises startups on team building, hiring, people management, project management, engineering processes, best practices, design, and architecture. If you are from a startup, feel free to reach out to him for advice. With his relevant experience of 14.04 years, Rajendra is a valuable asset to any organization looking for a seasoned leader in the field of engineering.