Srivatsan Mohan

Heading engineering for Employee Engagement solution Empuls (www.empuls.io) and Consumer Promotion/Loyalty solution.

Building next generation engagement and rewarding tools for employees or partners. Building a rockstar team to work on highly scalable SaaS product. Hiring developers with experience in NodeJS, ReactJS, Python, Kafka, Spark, etc.

Head of technology and software products for Carzonrent - Setup new technology excellence centre for Carzonrent in Bangalore - Carzonrent Labs - Successfully launched mobile apps for Drivers (Android) and Passengers (Android & IOS) - Launched APIs for aggregators and other merchants, successfully led efforts to integrate with prominent aggregators - Conceptualized and built an unified portals for call center to improve TAT and reduce cost - Automating multiple activities inside the company such as vehicle allocation, invoicing, etc. which again leads to reduction of cost and inefficiencies - Consolidating the technology stack for the different verticals inside the company to reduce cost - Participating in client meetings for sales conversion and for demo of apps. - Actively participating in core leadership meetings and help in defining the corporate strategy - Managing a development team in Delhi remotely from Bangalore and by frequently visiting the Delhi office - Managing a team of 30+ Engineers

*** April 2015 - Carzonrent India Private Limited has acquired Ridingo. Details - http://bit.ly/ridingo-carzonrent *** Co Founder of one of the Hottest Global Startups (As rated by Forbes Magazine). Responsible for Product Management and Tech Stack in Ridingo. Was also in Involved in Design and Business Development. - Responsible for E2E product design, architecture and lead developer for the complete technology stack. - Built Web, Mobile (Hybrid) and Mobile (Native) applications - Built a highly performance oriented and Scalable architecture. - The application runs on Google Appengine (PAAS) but is also designed to be platform agnostic at a toggle switch control and can be run on AWS or other cloud systems (IAAS) - Lead multiple Design activities - Including product and other graphic designs - Organised Marketing activities - Physical and Social Network Marketing - Corporate Sales - Worked with multiple corporates to buy in to the product and introduce to their employees - Operations - Worked with customers and other partners for day to day operations. Credentials - Forbes Hottest Global Startup 2013 - Speaker - Mahindra Rise Prize Google Hangout - GSF Accelerator 2013 batch - NASSCOM 10K Startups First Batch - TIE Startup Festival Bangalore - selected for launch pad - Startup weekend Bangalore Alumini

Working as a Product + Tech consultant to help Ma Foi build a Customer engagement platform framework for physical retail. Primarily working on Android application UX and development. Working with the Product Management team to help define the business use cases, and the end consumer experience.

Eprint system was built to enable Driverless printing. The idea is to maintain a persistent connection with every web connected HP printer in the world and assign a unique identity (Email ID/PrinterID) to each printer. When a user wants to print to a particular printer, they can simply send an email to the printer's email ID, which will be processed by the cloud server and sent to the printer. Additional filters such as SPAM/VIRUS detection, User Authorization, etc will also be applied. My Role - Cloud Systems engineer - Creating and maintaining RESTful web service APIs and core system modules used to communicate with the cloud printing infrastructure and printer. Also was involved in the development/maintenance of Email Subsystems to Receive and process the inbound emails. Was involved in implementing Test Driven Development (TDD) practice in the team and in improving the unit test coverage of existing code. Other important notes: - 2 Tech Patents accepted for filing - Presented 2 papers during open house and technical conference inside HP - Prototyped a Chrome plugin to enable easy submission and review of print job

Helped build an IOT Solution focussed on improve the power management in hotels. Designing and Developing the Embedded control script that will be used to control the various devices.. Developed a home automation and energy saving application using the VERA home controller for Geckotech LLC. Created an embedded program on the home controller and an array of web services and testing/reporting infrastructure on the server. - Worked with devices that uses Z-Wave, RF to communicate with the centralised controller. - Devices were primarily using uPNP standards to interact with the controller. - Worked with real device scenarios such as sleep times, power optimization, etc. - Setup a simple reporting web service that the embedded controller sends data to.

MY-ACCOUNT WIDGET A Customer self-service widget that can be accessed from TV – enables customers to view bills, promotions, pay bills, place orders and perform referrals. The application aims to reduce call center call volumes and thereby operations cost. The application is hosted in IPTV servers and runs in customers’ Set Top Boxes. The network calls are transmitted through a Proxy server to the backend application, which performs numerous internal SOAP calls to retrieve the customer data. ROLE(s): Offshore lead • Led the offshore development, interface design, database structuring and testing activities in the project. • Conducted meetings with several other systems to get the required web service calls setup. • Was involved in the initial project and middleware setup including creation of DB tables, application domains, build script, Async Logging framework, etc. • Successfully oversaw the product launch into production – involved in the monitoring of production application, setting up of Alerts, Handling production issues/outages, etc. • Involved in creation of web service interfaces with Communifx (third party responsible for customer referral program), internal payment gateways (for bill payment), CRM (for creating a TV based ordering platform).

is the largest offshore IT delivery center for Verizon LLC, USA. The parent company is one of the largest telecom service providers in the world and the 2nd largest provider in the United States. VDSI is involved in almost all major initiatives of the parent company and contains the core design, development and production support units. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Leading the design and development activities for key modules in the project Responsible for the overall architecture, code delivery and production system health. In charge of the system retirement and system consolidation efforts in the team. Participating in business discussions for new requirements and existing system issues - generate critical reports. Prepare presentations for executives and business teams on team's initiatives and their advantages. Leading the trouble ticket analysis team to analyze, categorize and identify issues in various systems. Collaborating with the other development, testing, configuration management, database admin and production support teams for various activities. Evaluating the feasibility of new initiatives, suggest simplifications and estimate time and head-count required for accomplishing those. Daily co ordination with the On-shore team and status updates to the top management. SSP - WORKFLOW SSP (Strategic Solutions Platform) is a unified order processing platform created after the Bell Atlantic, GTE merger (created Verizon). The platform comprises of Ordering Services, Data Services, Workflow and Adapter systems and handles many major telecom products such as Internet, Television, Voice, VASIP (Value Added Services), etc. SSP Workflow is a key sub subsystem of SSP, which is responsible for orchestrating the order flow and notify customers about the order status. The application also contains a GUI, which is provided to Customer support reps to track and correct orders. ROLE(s): Module lead/ Junior Architect

Implemented an indigenous flavor of Natural Language Processing algorithm for text mining and analysis, which aims at providing a qualitative score from product reviews. Achieved a success rate of >80% when compared with manual analysis. Created clear documentation and provided knowledge transfer for the application developed.