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Rajat Singhal

Technologist with 25+ yrs of global experience with 11+ yrs working at cos like Corel, Cisco, Thomson Reuters in US/Canada and rest in India

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Eagerly looking to be back in the job world after a tech-entrepreneur stint & am seeking senior engineering roles. SKILLS OVERVIEW ● Mgmt: Team/Org Leadership & Ops; Product Engg & Mgmt; Agile, SCRUM, XP, CSM ● Architecture/Design: OOPS, SOLID, Design Patterns, Clean Code; Monolithic, Microservices ● Cloud: AWS, EC2, ASG, ALB, S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, KDS, ECS/EKS, etc; Azure; GCP ● Devops: Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, CI-CD, Jenkins; Unit, Mock Testing, TDD ● Web: Javascript/Typescript, React/Angular, Node, Express, HTML5, CSS; API, Rest, XML, JSON ● .NET: C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core, SQL Server, IIS ● Java: J2EE, JDBC, Spring, SpringBoot ● Database: MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB ● Other: iOS, Objective-C; Android, SQLite; PHP, LAMP, CodeIgniter, Magento; Git, SVN; Linux, Shell scripting; Visual Code, Eclipse, XCode ACHIEVEMENTS: ✔ @ThomsonReuters: Managed investment research/banking products with $100mil USD annual revenue ✔ @Corel: Built the first JDBC driver for WordPerfect ✔ @Elivotech: Built & sold a product to the Siemens Group; procured a multi-year mobility project for their EHR ✔ @TreSensa: Built HTML5 gaming teams attracting $1 mil & $8 mil USD seed capital. Built BOT teams for Triple Point & Persistent Systems ✔ @TheSparesCo: Built from scratch the B2B/B2C portal & operations for an existing $30 mil USD biz
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Technologicle
Aug 2018 – Nov 2022
Pune, India
Founder & CTO
○ I built their IT skill & talent software platform. We used React, Node, HTML5/ CSS, GraphQL, Postgres to build the application, and AWS (EC2, ASG, ALB, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS clusters, etc) to deploy it. Managed a small team in Pune and worked closely with technical leadership in Boston to architect the product. ○ Also operated a 20+ seat training center and a small Ops/Recruitment team. We conducted corporate/retail training to gain insight into the skilling/hiring industry challenges. These helped design our product features. Technologies we trained/hired for: JS, React, Angular, MEAN/MERN, .NET/C#, Java, AI/ML, etc.
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The Spares Company
Nov 2016 – Jul 2018
Pune, India
CTO
○ Conceptualized from scratch an ecommerce biz for an existing offline $30 million USD annual revenue automobile spares dealership. Worked closely with the promoters, big brands (Tata, Maruti Suzuki, Hero, Honda, etc.) product SKU teams & customers like service stations, auto workshops, retailers to understand business use-cases and build appropriate features in an agile manner. Day-to-day basis, I built & managed the IT strategy and team to build the optimal ecommerce product around the above objectives. ○ Technologies used: PHP, Magento, HTML5/CSS, MySQL, AWS (EC2, ALB, ASG, S3, SQS, SNS, etc). Managed a team size of 15 and a couple of outsourced vendors.
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Elivotech
Sep 2013 – Oct 2016
Pune, India
Co-Founder & CTO
○ I designed & built Elivotech's flagship product, Docs2EHR, and helped sell it to Varian Medical (a Fortune 1000 healthcare co., now with the Siemens group). Worked closely with the Varian product team and a few healthcare SMEs in San Francisco and Arizona to understand the gaps in ARIA - their EHR platform - and built the product around it. We sold an Oncology exclusive license to Varian with an annual support license. ○ Also procured the multi-year ARIA mobility project to build & manage the missing mobile product solution. This team was finally acquired in Jan 2023 as part of a BOT acquisition, resulting in an exit for me. ○ Technologies used: .NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Xamarin, Android, Java, iOS, Objective-C, SQLite, XMPP, AWS. Managed a team size of 25+ and multiple vendors.
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PineappleHR
Jun 2015 – Jul 2016
Pune, India
India Head - Engg & Ops
○ I led the engineering, product & ops teams for building the US market HR SaaS product. Worked closely with leadership and anchor clients to define the product & the technology roadmap/milestones. I also trained the team to adopt Agile/Scrum to develop the product in a rapid iterative manner. Some noteworthy modules designed by me were ACA (commonly known as Obamacare) and PTO (Leave policy) modules. ○ Technologies used: PHP, CodeIgniter, MySQL, AWS. Managed a team size of around 20 and multiple vendors.
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Tresensa / Codewalla
Nov 2011 – Jun 2013
Pune, India
VP of Engineering
○ At TreSensa, I built HTML5 game teams (back-end multiplayer & game studio). Also worked closely with senior mgmt. teams in the US to define the roadmaps/milestones. Additionally headed the engineering @ Codewalla - a mobile / gaming studio - that was their dev partner. Fulfilled BOT deals for Triple Point (ION Group) & Persistent Systems. At both orgs, I rolled out Agile and other infra like CI/CD, SCM practices, etc. ○ Technologies used: Node, Javascript, HTML5/CSS, REST/JSON, SQLite, Phonegap/Cordova, AWS, Java/Android, Objective-C/iOS. Managed multiple teams with a total size of 50+.
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Thomson Reuters
Jun 2001 – May 2011
Boston, MA & Pune, India
Architect / Lead
○ Architected enterprise modules from Pune from Jul ‘08. At TR Boston, I led/managed investment mgmt. product teams for analyst research with $100 mil+ in annual revenue. In the past, I also contributed to other products like company fundamentals, portfolio analytics, etc. Used .NET/C#, and Java/EJB for legacy versions.
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Cisco
Mar 2000 – Jun 2001
San Jose, USA
Senior Software Consultant
○ Contributed to the router config module of their e-commerce platform. Used Java, Swing, JDBC, HTML/CSS
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Corel Corporation
Mar 1997 – Mar 2000
Ottawa, Canada
Senior Software Consultant
○ Contributed to WordPerfect suite; wrote the first Paradox DB JDBC driver. Used Java, Swing, JDBC, Applets
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Ruksun Software Technologies
Jun 1995 – Mar 1997
Pune, India
Software Engineer
○ Contributed to some kids’ internet product line & other service projects. Used C++, MFC, SQL Server, C
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University of Pune
Jul 1991 – Jun 1994
BE, Computer Science