Gopinath Rangappa
San Ramon,CA
Summary
Accomplished engineering leader with a strong hands-on technical background in building distributed systems and platforms from zero to one. Led a team of over 35 engineers and 5 managers across multiple locations, overseeing the creation of new platforms while effectively managing critical business projects using the current tech stack. Proficient in recruiting, organizing, and motivating engineering teams to ensure alignment with business objectives. Mentored managers, principal engineers, and staff, implementing comprehensive professional and technical development plans for all engineers within the organization. Collaborated extensively with TPMs, product, UX, marketing, and analytics teams to successfully bring products from concept to launch. Demonstrated expertise in managing SaaS vendors, optimizing AWS costs, and enhancing delivery speed.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Engineering
Chegg
10.2021 - Current
- Architected and built a new Clickstream data platform from ground up to build product insights with near real time latency
- This was built using Spring Boot, GraphQL, Kafka, DynamoDB, Protobuf, gRPC and databricks delta
- Build new Data Platform from ground up on Lakehouse architecture using AWS, Terraform, Databricks, Python, Gitlab CI/CD
- Built new templates and libraries to onboard data pipelines to adhere to best practices
- Led many initiatives to monitor and reduce AWS cost of existing platform by 35% YoY with cross team collaboration
- Migrating to S3 glacier, graviton instances, pruning legacy data pipelines
- Led International growth initiatives to build a team from ground up and launch a new domain localized for LATAM geo in 5 months
- Led collaboration with 25+ teams to resolve all inter team dependencies
- Technologies used - Typescript, NodeJS, React, GraphQL, Spring Boot
- Led AI initiative to parse content and organize them for translating it to multiple languages
- Spring boot based microservices are built using Open AI, Google translate APIs
- Simplified architecture of Marketing platform to reduce cost by 40%
Senior Manager
Chegg
10.2017 - 10.2021
- Architect and Led team of 15 engineers to build Personalization Knowledge Graph platform with 1 Billion+ nodes & edges
- Graph was built using AWS Neptune graph database, Spring Boot based micro services, Apache Kafka running in containers
- Started developer productivity team with golden path created for backend, frontend, Full stack, data science engineers with templates, reusable components, frameworks, CI/CD, IaC
- Led engineering wide initiative to migrate from Jenkins to Gitlab CI/CD by building reusable pipelines
- Engaging with different engineering teams to identify opportunities to improve developer productivity and build solutions
- Built a team from zero and developed a new subscription based consumer product, launched in 6 months
Staff Engineer
Chegg
11.2013 - 10.2017
- Architect and built the search platform from scratch using Spring Boot and integrating with Solr
- Rebuilt the search pipeline to context content in Solr in near real time
- Enhanced existing micro services platform based on OSGi with new features using Java
- Built many REST based micro services integrated with MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Elastic Cache
Architect/Individual Contributor
Chegg, HP, NetApp, Sun Microsystems, Mindtree
04.1999 - 11.2013
- Architected and built from scratch many enterprise and consumer facing applications using Java, Spring boot, C++, Qt, PHP, C#
Education
Bachelor's - Computer Science
Bangalore University
Skills
- Leadership
- Cross-team Collaboration
- Vendor Management
- Strategic Planning
- Architecture
- Mentoring
- Backend
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Kafka
- AWS
- DynamoDB
- MySQL
- GraphQL
- Databricks
- Protobuf / gRPC
- Web Frameworks
- Full stack
- React
- Nextjs
- Typescript
- Optimizely
- Engineering Tools
- Git
- Docker
- New Relic
- Containers
- Terraform
- Side Projects & Gen AI
- Rust
- Cursor AI
- Ollama
Additionalrelevantexperience
Architect/Individual Contributor, 10+ years, Architected and built from scratch many enterprise and consumer facing applications using Java, Spring boot, C++, Qt, PHP, C#.
Timeline
Director of Engineering
Chegg
10.2021 - Current
Senior Manager
Chegg
10.2017 - 10.2021
Staff Engineer
Chegg
11.2013 - 10.2017
Architect/Individual Contributor
Chegg, HP, NetApp, Sun Microsystems, Mindtree
04.1999 - 11.2013
Bachelor's - Computer Science
Bangalore University
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