Ashish Rai
Hyderabad
Summary
Result oriented professional with 14+ years of experience in providing solutions in the field of Team Management, Software Development and leadership. Immense experience in designing and implementing scalable distributed systems using latest technologies and enable AI solutions. Focused on product, technology, people and delivery.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
VP of Technology
TalentSprint
02.2024 - Current
- Built high performing technology team.
- Ensured seamless integration of new systems with legacy infrastructure while minimizing downtime during migrations.
- Worked on IT security initiatives, safeguarding company data from potential threats through comprehensive risk assessments.
- Implemented open source products to build internal platforms like OpenEdx, Moodle, Drupal, Wordpress.
- Implemented GDPR and PII compliance guidelines with data encryption and RBAC.
- Integrated AI enabled SaaS products into our platform like ProctorEdu, Ottar.ai, Mettl.
- Built a technology roadmap and implemented ERP solutions, Business Process Automation, Platform features.
- Identified security vulnerabilities and open-source licensing and copy-left issues and got it fixed.
Director of Technology
Skill Lync
09.2022 - 07.2023
- Served as primary decision-maker for internal technology spending, creating budget guidelines to reduce waste and decrease unnecessary upgrades.
- Built highly scalable and robust platforms based on micro service architecture.
- Driving Growth and Platform projects to increase revenue.
- Part of leadership team make business and strategic decisions.
- Led team of 50 Engineers to deliver projects on time, within budget and scope.
Director of Engineering
Infinity Learn
09.2021 - 09.2022
- Built strong teams through selective recruitment and post-hire mentorship of junior engineers.
- Led Engineering team of 40 across B2B domain for delivering tools, portal and platforms.
- Coordinated initiatives across teams at InfinityLearn and within technology and Product teams.
- Worked closely with product teams to measure and align operational goals with feature and product goals.
- Built School and Learning Management systems.
- System design and architecture of projects.
- Represented company within client industry organisations and at industry events
Senior Software Engineer
Appdirect
03.2017 - 09.2021
- Designed and implemented various microservices like remote approval service to approve orders remotely, connector services to connect to ISVs, proxy services to customise event payloads.
- Managed team as team lead of backend and qa engineers.
- Developed automation test frameworks for testing team.
Senior SDET
LimeRoad
08.2015 - 03.2017
- Responsible for test design, test material preparation, test execution including coordinating with development team to set up complex test environment in order to commence test execution.
- Rest API automation and framework architecture using Java, Rest Assured.
- UI and API automation.
SDET
Expedia
06.2013 - 08.2015
- Developing/Maintaining Automation framework Automated test suite for Air Pricing Services. Comprehending business requirement.
- API and UI automation.
Lead Engineer - Test Automation
QAInfotech
11.2010 - 06.2013
- Development of automation framework (BDD) to automate testing of web applications using Selenium/WebDriver + JAVA(J2EE) Comprehending business requirement.
- Preparing action plan for the requirements to implement.
- Leading, training & guiding team.
Education
Master of Science -
BITS
Master of Science - Software Systems
BITS
Skills
- Software development
- Team Management
- Enterprise architecture solution development
- Security optimization
- Data analytics
- Application development
- Cross-functional team leadership
Accomplishments
Got featured in https://it-hero-rises.com/ that recognizes the dedicated
and passionate IT Heroes. A SymphonyAI Summit initiative.
https://it-hero-rises.com/working-with-the-right-team-is-crucial-tech-wizard-at-skill-lync-masters-the-it-juggling-act/
Personal Information
Timeline
VP of Technology
TalentSprint
02.2024 - Current
Director of Technology
Skill Lync
09.2022 - 07.2023
Director of Engineering
Infinity Learn
09.2021 - 09.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Appdirect
03.2017 - 09.2021
Senior SDET
LimeRoad
08.2015 - 03.2017
SDET
Expedia
06.2013 - 08.2015
Lead Engineer - Test Automation
QAInfotech
11.2010 - 06.2013
Master of Science -
BITS
Master of Science - Software Systems
BITS
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