Risi V Vivekanand

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

risi.vinayak@gmail.com 9742021423

linkedin.com/in/risi-v-v-2b86b013

Experience
Associate Director
PharmEasy
Apr 2021 - Present (1 year 3 months +)
E-commerce storefront engineering

Engineering Manager
Postman
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021 (8 months)

Senior Engineering Manager

Myntra
Apr 2019 - Sep 2020 (1 year 6 months)
Building customer self-serve flows on Myntra.com (read orders/returns/exchange/alter interactions
and more) including the contact-us/help-center capabilities, and the complementing CRM business
processes software and web services predominantly in the ERP domain with core focus on E-
commerce, Supply chain business function.
Hold practical experience in designing and developing API gateway, scaling web apps and services,
supplementing this through test infrastructure and deployment pipeline and shipping them on IaaS,
PaaS and SaaS platforms.
Been building web applications, targeting major form factors including desktop, tablet and various hand-
held mobile devices with integrated OS/System based web-views.
 
Managerial traits and inclinations:
Effectively navigate team (intrinsic and extrinsic) dynamics to address ambiguity and conflicts.
Thoughtful stakeholder management, AOP and quarterly roadmap planning, RIDA (Risk, Impedance,
Dependency, Assumption) based program tracking. Follow a relaxed Scrum based Agile methodology.
Managed 2 teams of engineers, direct and through an Engineering Manager. Additionally partnered with
contractors/consultants for extended help in executing my charter plans.

Engineering Manager
Myntra
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019 (1 year)
As Eng. Manager, executing SCM ERP charter with a team of 10 engineers. The charter entails
managing suites of ERP web apps catering to SCM Outbound business functions: Order taking and
fulfilment, Warehouse & Inventory management, Logistics & shipment lifecycle and CRM systems.
 
Key wins include :

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Complete overhauling of disparate CRM systems into an all-in-one software suite which greatly cuts
down on Average Handling Time, management costs, among other metrics.
 
Revamped interfaces in logistics workflow activities in shipment operations such as trip lifecycle, bag/
container lifecycle among others. As a part of this project, removed obsolete workflows, introduced
better system instrumentations, mobile form factor support, fast tracked software feature development
leading to overall improvement and greater visibility into logistical metrics across the board.

Tech Lead
Myntra
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 7 months)
As a tech lead, architected a custom web framework based on React eco-system on front end, Nodejs
eco-system with MySQL, Redis for our API gateway tier. Decommissioned the legacy SCM ERP portal
and ported them on to this new tech stack. API gateway layer acts as orchestrator over the SOA based
federated core services managed by individual internal SCM business vertical.
 
Key wins in this tenure were:
Successful adoption of my new framework across SCM tech.
Revamped Warehouse management system UI, leading to increased Ops throughput with improved
UX.
Landed last mile consolidation suite of apps seamlessly with 100% adoption in all warehouses.
Launched new outbound order fulfillment user interfaces with refined controls on key attributes
consumed at warehouse facilities.
Mentored my peers to nurture and help them gain confidence in their hold on tech know-hows.

Software Development Engineer, lead

Opinio
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016 (10 months)
● Enterprise Resource Planning portal for Opinio (Moonshots Internet Pvt. ltd.), the recruitment and
training modules for logistics arm, warehouse management for e-commerce logistics.
 
● Transformed the monolith legacy web app into more modular, maintainable and extensible plug-and-
play packages.

UI Engineer II
Flipkart
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015 (10 months)
● Drive and assist scaling seller side of business at Flipkart. Mostly deal with improving seller
productivity and usability of the seller dashboard.
 
● Improved logistics ops efficiency, regulating the SLA with slotted order listing feature for seller.
Integrated 3rd-party logistics.
 
● Identified and solved for major bottlenecks in the API gateway layer and put together hooks to collate
these info into analytics dashboard to monitor, profile and debug the middleware system.
 

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● Successfully delivered a pilot project on Loopback, a framework for Node.js and paved way for
migration of some main web services.

Senior Software Engineer

Jifflenow
Sep 2013 - Jan 2015 (1 year 5 months)
● Revamp UI for better interaction, user experience and improve page performance through application
of some of the best practices and non-blocking async techniques.
 
● Developed the reporting and meeting analytics tool that replaced flash based solution.
 
● Developed perpetual calendar widget to schedule Meetings/Sessions, with features akin to that of
Google Calendar, and replace rigid tabular based calendar present at the time.
 
● Managed a team of 3, took up initiatives to drive improvements on the UI front at Jifflenow, and to
improve the experience of legacy app.

Senior Software Engineer

Mindtree
Oct 2011 - Sep 2013 (2 years)
● Designed and delivered an enterprise portal at adidas AG. This portal
enables creation, management of product styles and design artifacts.
It includes the planner and a collaboration tool to track product design
life cycle. Won an award for authoring Gantt chart jQuery library.
 
● Leveraging PhoneGap, delivered hybrid mobile applications. Key
contribution on Oauth 2.0 SSO integration, charting tool and authored
a custom HTML5 Canvas based activity workflow library.
 
● Assisted in pre-sales activity creating POCs mobile web portals using
SaaS solution (NetBiscuits). This paved way to on-board a 10+ million
USD customer account for Mindtree at the time. Additionally Delivered
various mobility solutions on Cordova PhoneGap.

Software Engineer
Dhruv Technology Solutions
Aug 2010 - Sep 2011 (1 year 2 months)
Research, learn and develop for the web and mobile.
 
• Engineered Google maps API (v2.x) for building interactive dashboard of a factory floor layout,
integrated with Camstar InSite (MES product) for Hitachi GST (basically using Google map rendering
engine to load factory floor map). Designed to be interactive with real-time heat map indicators on the
factory floor based off of available key performance indicators, all of which is driven with AJAX and long
polling.
 

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 • Pilot Facebook app Health-Tracker, allowing Facebook users to track their calorie intake, weight,
workout schedule, with regular updates on the same targeted at health fanatics using these stats on
daily basis and timeline charts for the same.
 
• Developed and maintained CMS solution for Bharti AXA GI on Drupal.
 
• Involved in maintaining enterprise portals and developing its micro-sites.

Front end engineer

Jan 2009 - May 2010 (1 year 5 months)
Front end design and development for a java based ERP solution
• GWT and eventually ZKoss -- both Java based web frameworks.

Education
University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE)
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2006 - 2010
Extra curricular activites
Authored websites and apps for internal use at IEEE-UVCE chapter in UVCE. Undertook projects
developing web apps for conducting collegiate events namely mock-stock, Treasure Hunt.
 
• Developed and maintained websites on PHP based CMS tools like Joomla, WordPress, bulletin
boards like PhpBB and active posters on Adobe Flash (ActionScript 3).
 
• Conducted hands-on workshops for website designing and PHP development in college.
 

Skills
jQuery   •   JavaScript   •   CSS   •   AJAX   •   HTML 5   •   PHP   •   Java   •   MySQL   •   Mobile Applications   •  
Web Applications

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