About

Sanjay Dhakar is a highly experienced Senior Engineering Manager, currently working at Flipkart. He has more than 12 years of experience in the software engineering industry and possesses a strong track record of delivering innovative solutions to complex business problems. Sanjay has held various leadership positions throughout his career, including Associate Director Engineering at Myntra and VP Engineering at Jugnoo. At Jugnoo, he was instrumental in launching Meals, Grocery, and B2B deliveries, which grew to 500 orders a day in just six months. He also played a critical role in reducing transactional burn per ride in the backdrop of intense competition from Uber and Ola. Sanjay built business tools to empower merchants on the platform and achieved high system availability with zero downtime by implementing load balancing and automated failover at both application and database level. Sanjay is skilled in a wide range of technologies, including AWS, infra, Data Warehouse, Microservices, ETL, Integration, Mobile, Big Data, and Software Engineering. He has a strong background in engineering and has redesigned the app from an MVP monolith to micro-services architecture. He has also bootstrapped the digital marketing platform leveraging the Big Data warehouse, which is being used as an internal marketing infrastructure for user communication via email, SMS, push, and in-app notifications. Sanjay has optimized the AWS cloud infra by analyzing server usage patterns, leading to a 30% reduction in AWS expenditure. Sanjay holds a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has also built a real-time analytics platform using BigQuery as a data warehouse and implemented ETL packages to load data from various sources. Sanjay automated fraud detection in the system by flagging bad drivers, which reduced cheating cases by 90%. He infused historical data into the pickup location algorithm, which reduced pickup location error from 42% to 26% of rides. Sanjay has increased fulfillment by 10% by optimizing the ride allocation algorithm. Overall, Sanjay is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Engineering Manager who has a proven ability to deliver innovative solutions to complex business problems.