raooll

15+ years of experience working in varied domains ranging from aerospace, to casino gaming, to enterprise softwares and various mobile applications. Successfully delivered various solutions including mobile applications on both android & ios. Cross functional experience developing new products from scratch, working on both the product side to define product features and on their technical implementations. Been part of both small and large teams to successfully delivered projects spanning many teams. 

Product Leadership 

Part of the team which ideated products in C2C mobile space. I’ve designed several products from the ground up. Developed Minimum Viable Products from scratch with little or no supervision. Successfully led the development of various mobile apps with my team. 

System Design 

I design & code highly-available systems/web applications with Python, Erlang, Java. I architect systems which are easy to scale up to millions of users. Was responsible for scaling a system to 3 million active users. Experience designing & deploying cloud based highly scalable
 systems using AWS services.

Work Experience 

BlueMango Labs (bluemangolabs.com) May 2022 onwards Position: Founder 

• A unique software development company helping early stage startups with their product, technology and scale. 

• Product and technology consulting for various early stage startups. 

Zefi (zefi.io) Sep 2020 to April 2022 Position: Cofounder & CTO 

• Design, architecture and development of product from scratch.
• Integration and implementation of systems to ensure stable product growth. • Team building 

Zinc (zinc.io) April 2019 to May 2020 Position: Software Engineer 

• Further development of joelister.com working on both product and technology.

Glowing (glowing.io) Aug 2016 to Feb 2019 Position: Director Of Engineering/ Early Employee 

• Architecture and implementation the system to support multi tenancy. 
• Architecture and implementation of true multi channel capabilities. 
• Deployment of the entire systems on AWS to make the system fault tolerant and rapidly 
• scalable. 
• Design and implementations of various engineering practices, internal processes & tools 
• for making the team efficient. 

Freelance Product & Technology Consultant July 2015 to Aug 2016 

• Creating custom application for startups. 
• Design & development of backend components for true cross platform messaging. 
• Design of the deployment architecture on AWS to support rapid scaling. 
• Implementation of custom backend for a few startups like magictiger.com, cyware.co, 
• chaiapp.xyz . 

Paytm (www.paytm.com) Sept 2013 to July 2015 Position: Deputy Engineering Manager 

Paytm Marketplace app 

• • Scaling of chat system to 3 million registered users
  • Design and integration of chat system to power the bargain feature of Paytm marketplace 
• app.
  • Design of the deployment architecture on AWS to support rapid scaling.
  • Clustering of ejabberd to support high amounts of traffic on the chat system. • Tuning of chat machines to support 40K online users each. 

Paytm Wallet app 

• • Design of various product features.
  • Integration of the chat backend to support chat in the Paytm wallet app. • Integration of various backend systems with the app. 

Karosell & Paytm Express 

• • Product description, design and feature specifications.
  • Overall technical ownership of the products along with the android app. • Designed and architected the server components and app integrations.