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EM, Tech Lead)", "location": "Bengaluru, India", "startDate": "2024-02-01", "endDate": null, "summary": "Lead consumer engineering across four products: consumer website, dealer management app, C2C marketplace, and India's first WhatsApp-native vehicle auction platform. Promoted from Tech Lead to Engineering Manager to Software Architect (Apr 2026).", "highlights": [ "Scaled engineering from 0 to 15 across FE, BE, EM and DevOps. Introduced code reviews, hiring hackathons, a weekly TIL club and monthly 1:1s. Attrition stayed under 5% over 2 years.", "Shipped Dealzzz, India's first AI-driven WhatsApp auction platform. 300+ dealers, 40K+ bids placed, 77% of the funnel automated. Replaced manual procurement with multilingual WhatsApp bidding.", "Launched DriveX Direct, a C2C marketplace built from scratch. Funnel grew 9.4x, buyer MAU 3x, and platform revenue 2.8x in Q4 (+193% QoQ in Q3). AI-driven QC cut vehicle approval time by 99.8%. Shipped with escrow, KYC and seller monetization on day one.", "Designed and built the ML Pricing Engine for used two-wheeler valuation. Covers data pipelines, model architecture and the serving platform that powers procurement, retail and auction pricing.", "Architected an internal AI/data platform suite over a service-oriented backend integrating 20+ third-party tools. Includes Atlas (dbt + Airflow + ClickHouse warehouse), VOC (AI call analytics), Cerebro (agentic internal-data chat), Pulse (multi-agent content generation), Ticker (inventory planning), and Pluto (GPU video pipeline).", "Built the unified consumer platform (website + dealer management app) with shared components. Homepage redesign drove +80% B2C exploration, +74% PDP-to-lead uplift, and 1.8x unique-buyer growth.", "Led a zero-downtime migration off legacy infrastructure using DNS-level traffic splitting. Enabled 10x traffic growth and 4x organic user growth." ] }, { "name": "Clootrack Software Labs", "position": "Senior Software Engineer", "location": "Bengaluru, India", "startDate": "2022-08-01", "endDate": "2024-01-31", "highlights": [ "Helped take the company from MVP to ~$4.8M ARR, growing from 3 clients to 100+.", "Led a team of 5 to replace the weekly-report delivery process with automated template generation.", "Shipped a data edits feature that brought dashboard re-publishing down from a 5-day turnaround to instant.", "Clootrack 2.0: laid the foundation for a multi-tenant microservice architecture to prep the product for 10x scale." ] }, { "name": "Reward360", "position": "Senior Software Engineer", "location": "Bengaluru, India", "startDate": "2020-12-01", "endDate": "2022-04-30", "highlights": [ "Built a multi-tenant real-time e-gift voucher sourcing engine from the ground up that reduced voucher delivery time from several hours to under 90 secs. Used by top banking clients including HDFC, SCB, Axis Bank.", "Owned the entire backend API layer for the new loyalty super app. Used by Bangalore Airport.", "Led the technical effort to design and build a real-time server-to-server communication platform to connect external clients with the internal LMS engine. Used by Extramarks' Star program." ], "keywords": ["FastAPI", "Celery", "Docker", "Docker Swarm", "AWS"] }, { "name": "Epic One", "position": "Software Engineer", "location": "Bengaluru, India", "startDate": "2019-08-01", "endDate": "2020-12-01", "summary": "Acquired by Reward360. Team and tech absorbed into Reward360 post-acquisition.", "highlights": [ "Started as the sole engineer, growing the team to 12 people. Built and shipped the MVP of the product, and the 3 follow-up versions.", "Laid out the foundations of loosely-coupled, multi-tenant microservice architecture, built on top of AWS, Docker Swarm, and Python services." ] }, { "name": "Datasutram", "position": "Data Scientist", "location": "Kolkata, India", "startDate": "2018-08-01", "endDate": "2019-07-31", "highlights": [ "Employee #1 at a B2B SaaS startup. Designed and implemented a large portion of the analytics side of the project.", "Modelled a development index using satellite-image classification. Built a Name-Community classifier for Indian names using ULMFiT." ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Heritage Institute of Technology", "location": "Kolkata, India", "studyType": "B.Tech", "startDate": "2015-08-01", "endDate": "2019-06-30" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Languages", "keywords": ["Python", "JavaScript", "Go"] }, { "name": "Backend & Data", "keywords": ["Django", "FastAPI", "Postgres", "Kafka", "Redis", "ClickHouse", "Airflow", "dbt"] }, { "name": "Infra & DevOps", "keywords": ["Kubernetes", "Terraform", "Docker", "AWS", "Traefik"] }, { "name": "AI & LLM", "keywords": ["Gemini", "LiteLLM", "Langfuse", "Agentic Systems", "RAG"] }, { "name": "Frontend", "keywords": ["React", "TypeScript", "Next.js"] }, { "name": "Leadership", "keywords": ["Team Building", "Hiring", "Mentorship", "Architecture Reviews"] } ], "projects": [ { "name": "IdeaMaze", "description": "Framework for autonomous AI research agents. Extends Karpathy's auto-research with parallel git-worktree execution, a structured SQLite knowledge base, batch learning, and gamification detection. 155 experiments across two runs, 68.6% metric improvement in Run 1.", "url": "https://ideamaze.in", "startDate": "2026-01-01", "keywords": ["AI Agents", "Research", "SQLite", "Git Worktrees"] }, { "name": "Dealzzz — WhatsApp Auction Platform", "description": "India's first vehicle auction platform that runs entirely on WhatsApp. Built at DriveX for dealer networks using conversational AI and real-time bidding.", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rohitdv_drivex-dealzzz-conversationalai-activity-7332050254508318720-D3gX", "startDate": "2025-01-01", "keywords": ["Conversational AI", "WhatsApp", "Auctions"] } ], "meta": { "canonical": "https://rohitagarwal.dev/resume.json", "version": "v1.0.0", "lastModified": "2026-05-24" } }