About

Surjyakanta Mohapatra is a highly experienced software engineer with over 16 years of experience in various domains of the software industry. He has worked in the telecom domain, ads industry, automated HR software, and eCommerce. He has experience working with embedded systems, big data tech, full-stack cloud applications, and platforms. Surjyakanta has joined companies and teams at different stages and has moved the needle in both mature setups and chaotic growth stage start-ups. He has done well in remote multi-location team setups or completely home-grown Indian setups. Surjyakanta is always ready to learn and expand his knowledge. Currently, Surjyakanta is a Senior Engineering Manager at Flipkart, where he leads the machine learning platform initiatives. He is responsible for the notebooks platform based on Jupyter open source for EDA, model experimentation and development, an in-house training service developed from scratch, and real-time and offline prediction services based on Kubernetes and Spark. He also led the in-house real-time web analytics platform effort from scratch and delivered v1. Prior to Flipkart, Surjyakanta worked at Zenefits as a Senior Engineering Manager, where he joined as an early employee in the newly launched Bangalore office of this growth stage Silicon Valley start-up. Zenefits is a pioneer in all-in-one-HRMS on cloud for MSMEs. As the senior-most and early engineer, he helped in hiring the team and saw it grow to a 100 member team. He led the Benefits Engineering Team in Bangalore and was considered the no-2 for Zenefits, Bangalore. He also worked at Microsoft as a Senior Software Development Engineer, where he was the tech lead/architect for a data analytics platform for BingAds. Surjyakanta has a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (formerly UCE), Burla. His technical skills include senior software engineering, Jupyter, Spark, ML, big data, Kubernetes, web, software engineering, and ETL. With 17.63 years of relevant experience, Surjyakanta is a highly skilled and knowledgeable software engineer.