Contact
Ramavtar Meena
www.linkedin.com/in/ramavtar Director Of Engineering - Platforms at Airtel Africa | Hiring EM, SDE
(LinkedIn) & TPM
Gurgaon
Top Skills
Java Summary
Java Enterprise Edition
Innovative implementation of open-source technologies to build
Spring
scalable, secure and highly-available systems.

Honors-Awards
Chairman's Award
Experience
Airtel Africa Digital Labs
Director Of Engineering - Platforms
November 2020 - Present (8 months)

Oxfordcaps
VP & Tech head
February 2019 - November 2020 (1 year 10 months)
Gurgaon, India

I was spearheading technology and product at Oxfordcaps and was involved in

strategising the tech initiatives and product development activities. Some of the
key responsibilities and deliverables were:
* Acting as principal architect for multi-technology solutions, analyse customer
needs and develop proposals. Developed Student Residence App for Android
and iOS platforms with service request, rent payment, social community,
deals and feedback management features. These apps were built on native
technology to provide best user experience.
* Developed Property Booking app for Android and iOS platforms with salient
features like cash reconciliation and on-the-fly inventory management. This
has completely eliminated paper and streamlined all aspect of booking process
like editing/cancelling, refunds and cash management.
* Developed complete P&L and Cashflow management system in-house.
* Launched web-portal with responsive design, fully functional payment system
and backend admin panel for inventory management.
* Actively working with different stakeholders in Finance, Marketing, Sales and
Operations teams to optimise and automate processes.

Gaana
AVP & Tech Head
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April 2014 - February 2019 (4 years 11 months)

Noida Area, India

* Managed tech team of 70+ members.

* As principal architect I oversaw backend system overhaul to handle rapid
increasing traffic. This includes re-writing of complete backend in Java,
breaking up one monolithic system into micro-services and introducing
Aerospike as Memcache alternative.
* Resource optimisation on Android and iOS apps. Introducing security best
practices to protect app source code and data.
* Restructured and reorganised large team into squads and applied Lean
Startup principles.
* Leading tech initiative, collaborating with Product team to define product
roadmap.
* Working closely with marketing team to integrate Gaana platform with
alliance partners.

Times Internet
4 years 10 months

Tech Head, Zigwheels.com

November 2013 - July 2014 (9 months)
Gurgaon, India

* Lead Tech team of TIL's car search venture. Launched revamped web-portal
with responsive design and 60% reduction in load time. The consumer-focused
portal offered content and tools for exhaustive research on new and used cars.
* Migrated iOS and Android app in-house from vendors and spearheaded
major app upgrade.

Technical Architect - Payment Gateway @ Indiatimes Shopping

October 2009 - October 2013 (4 years 1 month)
Gurgaon, India

* Payment Gateway: Worked as Architect and lead developer for PCI-DSS

certified payment gateway that powered payments for Times Group e-
commerce websites.
* Coupon Management System : Developed digital coupon system for
Indiatimes shopping portal. Supporting various types like Gift coupons,
discount vouchers and site-wide coupons with category specific discounts.
* Analytics : Scalable, real-time analytics for Times of India which helped
editors and product heads keep track of performance of the portal.
* News Crawler: Designed and implemented news crawler and aggregator for
Economic Times using Apache Nutch & Solr.

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Amazon.com
SDE
May 2007 - October 2009 (2 years 6 months)
* Developed affiliate project.
* Developed Reviews and Rating project in Perl-Mason.
* Developed Product Detail and Search Result Pages in Java/J2EE.

Mobisoc Technologies Ltd

SDE
2006 - 2007 (1 year)
Designed and implemented website crawler, parser and indexer using Java for
websites, online magazines and blogs.

CSDMS
Intern
2003 - 2003 (less than a year)

Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Bachelor & Master of Technology, Computer Science

Kendriya Vidyalaya

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