About

Shekhar Sivaraman is a highly accomplished IT industry professional with over 15 years of experience in project management and architecture. He has a proven track record of collaborating with culturally diverse, multi-geographical teams and multiple vendors in building products and resolving complex business issues. Shekhar is currently the VP of Engineering and Technology at Miko, where he provides digital/transformation solutions that engage Product Engineering, Research and Technology Leadership, Customer Experience Management, Marketing Analytics, Data Science, IOT, E-commerce websites and marketplaces, Storefronts, and Marketing Technology domains. Shekhar has an excellent track record of bootstrapping multiple teams and products from scratch, including backend, frontend, data science, mobile app development, data engineering, and cross-cutting concerns like Dev(Sec)ops, SRE, Finops, and security. He has also worked with JSW and was a part of the founding core tech leadership team responsible for setting up India's first tech-enabled B2B marketplace from scratch on a #MACH stack. His key contributions included program management, operations, security, delivery, and architecture for the platform and building the team up from 1 to 40 members. Shekhar has also worked as a Principal Solutions Architect at Cimpress, where he drove efforts on a common E-commerce platform for all business units of Cimpress connecting fulfillers and marketers using #MACH stack. He also worked on a Storefront Platform for building storefronts for all resellers, a homegrown product recommendation platform serving real-time and batch recommendations supporting hyper-personalization at scale using a combination of Amazon Personalize, homegrown ML-based, query-based, and rule-based recommendations. Additionally, he worked on a homegrown crawling infrastructure to crawl companies across the globe at google scale to create a company enrichment offering on par with Dunn and Bradsteet using ScrapingHub and SOTA NLP Classification using ROBERTa/BERT. Shekhar has a PGDBM degree from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, and a BE degree in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai. He is highly skilled in Senior Software Engineering, Data Science, SRE, Data Engineering, Research Science, Mobile, Frontend, Backend, Salesforce, BERT, Snowflake, ECS, NLP, ReactJS, ML, Microservices, and infra. With 13.87 years of relevant experience, Shekhar is a performance-driven IT industry professional