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SAHIL TANEJA

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Summary

A result-oriented and metric-driven engineering leader with 9+ years of experience with the last 5+ years in leading high-performing engineering teams. Experience working with big-tech, scaleup, and startups to co-founding my venture. Proven track record of strategizing and executing quarterly & yearly roadmaps spanning distributed, reliable, and scalable architectures, consumer and partner-side products, and machine learning models.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director of Engineering, Search & Personalisation

OYO Hotels & Homes Fontainebleau
07.2021 - 10.2022
  • Grew the org size by 100%, starting with merely 15 fresh graduates to 30 member team of engineering managers, software engineers, and Machine learning engineers by hiring, IJPs, and promotions
  • Improving average org experience from 4 months to 4 years
  • Increased revenue by $40M and cash margin by $10M by revamping search ranking models across India & SEA markets
  • Increased order conversions by 4% by introducing an experimentation process
  • Reducing the time to go live for a feature from months to a week by introducing agile methodologies
  • Reduced infrastructure cost by $72k/year and improved search results latency by 30% by rearchitecting search monolith to Java microservices using domain-driven design
  • Improved developer efficiency by consolidating latent Ruby monolithic stack of Europen homes business into scalable
  • Java microservices by designing platform search architecture and separating business logic layer

Director of Engineering, China Tech

OYO Hotels & Homes
01.2021 - 08.2021
  • Led a 75-member cross-functional squad of engineering managers and software engineers to migrate an already running end-to-end technology stack of 200+ microservices from Ali Cloud to AWS-based global infrastructure in China
  • Increased EBITA by $50M by working directly with CXOs to reduce developer bandwidth required to maintain China stack
  • Developed 50+ features, integrated with 40+ 3rd-party alternatives, migrated 8 TB+ data for 16M+ users, set up alerting, monitoring, and tech support processes using agile methodologies
  • Director of Engineering, Global Finance Tech

Director of Engineering, Global Finance Tech

OYO Hotels & Homes
10.2017 - 01.2021
  • Led a 40+ member team of engineering managers, product managers, and software engineers to settle accounts in 80+ countries between 125k partners and OYO with an annual sale of $650M
  • Grew the team from merely 4 interns to independently functional squads by hiring, promotions, campus drives, and IJPs
  • Improved partner finance NPS by over 50%, through deep integrations with property management systems for reporting and dispute management systems
  • Increased employee efficiency by over 50% YoY and reduced ERP cost by over 80% by designing highly available, high-volume in-house GL accounting and month-end workflow management systems
  • Improved uptime from 97% to 99.9% by migrating finance and reporting modules of ~$400M European homes business into scalable Java-based microservices of global tech stack
  • Enabled OYO’s explosive growth to 80+ countries and handled 60M transactions at ~3k QPS by breaking Oyorooms’
  • Ruby based monolithic architecture to domain-driven Java microservices

Co-Founder

MadX
10.2016 - 06.2017
  • Spearheaded product & technology of AdNetwork focused on advertisement solutions across search feeds, in-image, and rich media formats using ROR, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, and Redis deployed on AWS
  • Developed personalized ad-targeting algorithms to deliver targeted, contextually relevant, unobtrusive, cognitively engaging ads

Lead Developer

Taskbob
07.2015 - 10.2016
  • Led a team of 5 developers to develop backend services for Android App, IOS App, and admin operations portal using
  • ROR, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis on AWS
  • Led the design and development of a rule engine to iterate over different business models without any code change
  • Automated demand and supply match of service providers and task requests by working closely with the Operations team to reduce the required number of operational executives from 30+ to under 10

Software Development Engineer

Housing
Mumbai
12.2014 - 06.2015
  • Developed Buy service from scratch for searching, filtering, and displaying listings of upcoming projects and individual houses powered by ElasticSearch and ROR
  • Worked closely with the Machine Learning team to improve the relevance of search results

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
Amazon
07.2013 - 12.2014
  • Scaled the Balance Tracking System to 30,000 QPS and improved the latency to SLA of 15ms by implementing a DynamoDB-based eventually-consistent cache on top of MySQL database Used SNS-SQS and SWF to ensure completeness and reconciliation of cache

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Delhi College of Engineering
04.2009 - 06.2013

Skills

Strategic product & tech roadmapundefined

Timeline

Director of Engineering, Search & Personalisation

OYO Hotels & Homes Fontainebleau
07.2021 - 10.2022

Director of Engineering, China Tech

OYO Hotels & Homes
01.2021 - 08.2021

Director of Engineering, Global Finance Tech

OYO Hotels & Homes
10.2017 - 01.2021

Co-Founder

MadX
10.2016 - 06.2017

Lead Developer

Taskbob
07.2015 - 10.2016

Software Development Engineer

Housing
12.2014 - 06.2015

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
07.2013 - 12.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Delhi College of Engineering
04.2009 - 06.2013

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