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DHEERENDER THAKUR

Hayward,CA

Summary

Empowering Global Enterprises through Innovative Solutions

  • As a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of distinguished experience, consistently spearheaded developing and scaling cutting-edge consumer products and platforms for esteemed organizations, including Walmart, AT&T, Capgemini, and DocuSign.
  • Renowned for adeptness in crafting and executing strategic engineering visions, excel in fostering a culture of excellence while providing impactful solutions that drive business growth and customer satisfaction.

Strategic Leadership & Team Development:

  • Orchestrated the formation and expansion of core engineering teams, propelling exponential growth in talent acquisition and organizational capabilities across multiple geo-locations.
  • Pioneered the establishment of new development centers, fostering innovation and collaboration to accelerate product delivery and market penetration.
  • Led globally distributed engineering teams focusing on speed, efficiency, and excellence, setting the benchmark for startup culture in fast-paced environments.

Engineering Excellence & Innovation:

  • Engineered and implemented state-of-the-art solutions, including data platform architecture, microservices migrations, and modern tech stacks, ensuring scalability, performance, and security at the enterprise scale.
  • Spearheaded the development of cutting-edge AI-enabled solutions, laying the foundation for future growth and innovation in 2024 and beyond.
  • Implemented robust technical strategies to drive significant improvements in development velocity, product performance, and infrastructure cost optimization, resulting in substantial revenue growth and operational efficiency gains.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:

  • Collaborated closely with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams to align engineering initiatives with business goals, moving seamless execution and yielding strategic objectives.
  • Championed organizational restructuring initiatives to streamline processes and reduce interdependencies, enhancing agility and responsiveness to market demands.
  • Demonstrated exceptional communication and leadership skills in managing diverse teams and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Engineering, VP

InStride
10.2019 - Current

At InStride, I have led a team of 150+ engineers across multiple locations, leading innovation and producing business-critical solutions for global education and enterprise-grade platforms.

Key responsibilities and achievements:

  • Spearheading formation and expansion of core engineering teams, coercing exponential growth in talent acquisition and organizational capabilities across multiple geo-locations.
  • Championing development and implementation of cutting-edge solutions, including data platform architecture, microservices migrations, and modern tech stacks, ensuring enterprise-scale scalability, performance, and security.
  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to align engineering initiatives with business goals, seamless execution, and achieve strategic objectives.
  • Aligned organizational objectives with company mission to increase business growth and integrate work strategies.

Head of ECommerce, Director of Engineering

DocuSign
06.2018 - 09.2019

At DocuSign, I played a pivotal role in leading the development of an in-house eCommerce platform and significant improvements in product development velocity and time-to-market.

Key responsibilities and achievements:

  • Spearheaded development and implemented in-house eCommerce platform ecosystem, significant product development velocity, and time-to-market improvements.
  • Hired new talent and enhanced team growth to 3x, accelerated development team: velocity, commitments, credibility, and completely rebranded.
  • Optimized system performance by 50-80% using caching techniques, optimizing code, reducing technical debt, and applying best practices in front-end development. These efforts have significantly boosted efficiency and reliability of system, contributing considerably to organization's success.

Director Engineering / Principal Engineer

Walmart / Sam's Club
02.2011 - 05.2018

At Walmart, provided strategic leadership for a high-growth multi-channel retail organization, propelling innovation and fostering positive organizational change.

Key responsibilities and achievements:

  • Pioneered development of micro platform services, enhanced site management, and accomplished 30% overall efficiency boost by guiding high-achieving engineering team.
  • Managing top-tier team of engineers to develop cutting-edge platform infrastructure—optimized micro platform services for 40% increase in site performance and 25% reduction in downtime.
  • Responsible for the teams: Cart & Checkout, my-Account, Holiday Readiness, and platform development.
  • Re-architecture of new Scan and Go Mobile App and backend microservices, addressing all stability and scalability issues.
  • Accountability and led team Security, Identity & access management:

ECommerce Solutions Architect

Walmart.com
08.2010 - 01.2011

Architect/Consultant

AT&T Mobility
08.2009 - 06.2010

Module Lead Consultant

Blue Shield of California
07.2008 - 06.2009

Lead Consultant

Fujitsu Computer Systems
01.2008 - 06.2008

Associate Consultant

Capgemini
10.2006 - 12.2007

Software Engineer

Xsilica Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
06.2004 - 09.2006

Software Engineer

Shrine Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd
02.2004 - 05.2006

Software Engineer

Jasper IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd
05.2000 - 09.2001

Education

Skills

  • E-Commerce Framework: Oracle web (ATG) E-Commerce suite, Magento, Pangea (Walmart in-house), and Personalization Framework
  • Search ATG Search, Endeca, Solr, Elastic Search
  • Application Server: NodeJS, NextJs Tomcat, Nginx, JBoss, ATG Dynamo, Web logic
  • Serverless: AWS Lambda
  • Web Framework/Libs: ReactJs, NextJs, Spring 4/5, Struts, ATG suit, JEE, Django, Flask, Airflow
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure, Google, and OpenStack
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
  • EAI/Integration/ETL: Glue, Redshift, Airflow, Kafka, Confluent, TIBCO Rendezvous, MSMQ, Web Services
  • Analytics: Google Analytics, Mix Panel, Optimizely, Web Trends, Omniture, Cognos
  • Data platform: DataBrick, Big Data, openAI, ChatGPT,
  • Programming Language: Java, Python, C, C, C#, Java scripts/NodeJS
  • Web Development: GraphQL, REST, XML, WSDL, JAXB, SOAP, RPC, JMS, JSON, React, and NextJS
  • Database: Couchbase, Cassandra, MongoDB, Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2000, Solid, MySQL, S3
  • Process and Methodology: Rational Unified Process, Agile, Kanban
  • Resource and Project Management: Jira, Clarity, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Sharepoint
  • CMS (content management system): Drupal 7/8, Django, and ATG CA/BCC
  • Tools: New Relic, Instana, Splunk, LaunchDarkly, ELK stack, GitHub, Kazmon, Jprobe, JMeter, Rational Rose, Erwin Data Modeller, Fortify, WebInspect, Navicat, Unica, Strongmail, Jenkins
  • Change and Growth Management
  • Process Improvements
  • Operations Oversight

Accomplishments

  • Development velocity increased by 40%, and onboarding client time to market was reduced by 50%
  • 95% success rate of committed deliverables with consistent defect espace rate <%5
  • Build the ten core talented teams from scratch (Greenfield), establish team structure and remote organization, and expand to multiple geolocations.
  • Founded and developed a new development center or extension (Onsite/Offshore)
  • Accelerated Revenue Growth:
  • 4% conversion improvement
  • 60% overall site and services performance
  • 300% OPM and 200% PVH
  • Reduce infrastructure costs by 30-40%.

Timeline

Head of Engineering, VP

InStride
10.2019 - Current

Head of ECommerce, Director of Engineering

DocuSign
06.2018 - 09.2019

Director Engineering / Principal Engineer

Walmart / Sam's Club
02.2011 - 05.2018

ECommerce Solutions Architect

Walmart.com
08.2010 - 01.2011

Architect/Consultant

AT&T Mobility
08.2009 - 06.2010

Module Lead Consultant

Blue Shield of California
07.2008 - 06.2009

Lead Consultant

Fujitsu Computer Systems
01.2008 - 06.2008

Associate Consultant

Capgemini
10.2006 - 12.2007

Software Engineer

Xsilica Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
06.2004 - 09.2006

Software Engineer

Shrine Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd
02.2004 - 05.2006

Software Engineer

Jasper IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd
05.2000 - 09.2001

DHEERENDER THAKUR