Director Big Data and Analytics at Western Union
Cupertino, California
Director of Engineering @ Epiance From December 1999 to October 2006 (6 years 11 months) MiliptasProject Manager @ Ramco Systems Corporation From August 1997 to March 1999 (1 year 8 months) Chennai Area, IndiaSoftware Specalist @ Tata Consultancy Services (formerly Tata Unisys) From 1992 to 1997 (5 years) Mumbai Area, IndiaPrincipal Engineer @ Nextag Designed, Developed and...
Director of Engineering @ Epiance From December 1999 to October 2006 (6 years 11 months) MiliptasProject Manager @ Ramco Systems Corporation From August 1997 to March 1999 (1 year 8 months) Chennai Area, IndiaSoftware Specalist @ Tata Consultancy Services (formerly Tata Unisys) From 1992 to 1997 (5 years) Mumbai Area, IndiaPrincipal Engineer @ Nextag Designed, Developed and deployed various features enabling speed and performance improvements of the core catalog processes From November 2006 to May 2009 (2 years 7 months) San MateoDirector Big Data and Analytics Engineering @ Western Union Western Union is a leading global money transfer company operating across 200 countries. (www.westernunion.com)Director of Big Data and Analytics Engineering (Oct 2017 - Present)- Currently managing the Big Data Infrastructure, ML Infrastructure and Big Data Engineering Group within WU-Digital including Application Development, Operations and Application support. - Leading the Data Platform re-architecture effort towards Cloud Transformation for the Enterprise including the Data Lake, Data Warehouses and associated Data Services. Big Data Application Engineering - Development of ML Services to handle predictive Analytics - Development of Analytic Services to handle near real-time operational Analytics - Development of Streaming and ETL Applications into Data Lake, Refined Zones and Data Warehouses Big Data Application Infrastructure - - Development of common Data ingestion frameworks shared across multiple applications - Development of ML infrastructure for rapid experimentation and reduction in latency San Francisco Bay AreaVice President Of Engineering @ Nextag - Leading the engineering group across 2 locations comprising teams across the entire application stack.- Leading the migration to hybrid cloud on AWS of the entire Nextag platform From October 2016 to October 2017 (1 year 1 month) Redwood CityDirector Engineering (Catalog & Search) @ Nextag - Led two engineering groups, namely the Search and the Catalog group and the Data Analytics behind the Catalog and Search applications. - Primary Driver of various projects to improve search quality and monetization, classification quality and infrastructure projects to reduce the total cost of ownership through reduced operational and data center costs. From June 2015 to October 2016 (1 year 5 months) San MateoDirector Catalog @ Nextag - Led the Catalog Engineering group and expanded the catalog from 100 Million to 300 Million plus offers using NoSql Technologies (HBase). - Led the team and architected the migration of the catalog platform from Oracle Enterprise to No-SQL Hbase. This project involved multiple phases spread over 3 years, and involved multiple teams across multiple locations and was achieved with zero downtime. Besides helping in lowering the costs, it helped the company in reducing the SLA latencies from tens of hours to a couple of hours and facilitated increased data analytics resulting in improved search monetization. From June 2011 to May 2015 (4 years) San MateoEngg Manager @ Nextag Selected Results :- Adapting Machine learning techniques to resolve the classification problem- Led the Design and development of various new features enabling increased merchant conversion in conjunction to increased revenue. From June 2009 to June 2011 (2 years 1 month) San Mateo
Epiance
Director of Engineering
December 1999 to October 2006
Miliptas
Ramco Systems Corporation
Project Manager
August 1997 to March 1999
Chennai Area, India
Tata Consultancy Services (formerly Tata Unisys)
Software Specalist
1992 to 1997
Mumbai Area, India
Nextag
Principal Engineer
November 2006 to May 2009
San Mateo
Western Union
Director Big Data and Analytics Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area
Nextag
Vice President Of Engineering
October 2016 to October 2017
Redwood City
Nextag
Director Engineering (Catalog & Search)
June 2015 to October 2016
San Mateo
Nextag
Director Catalog
June 2011 to May 2015
San Mateo
Nextag
Engg Manager
June 2009 to June 2011
San Mateo
What company does Rajan Gangadharan work for?
Rajan Gangadharan works for Epiance
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Rajan Gangadharan is Director of Engineering
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