Ajay Chauhan

About Ajay Chauhan

21+ years of in-depth experience working with multi national corporations as well as startups in conceptualizing, designing & developing products and solutions that solved complex user/business problems in domains like real estate, e-commerce, agriculture, healthcare, social media, marketing & human resources. Have led large sized teams across verticals (technology / product / design / content and sales) that successfully delivered multiple customer facing scalable, high performance software systems (web and mobile) with most started from scratch.Provided technology consultancy to multiple IT Services companies that further implemented large scale solutions for various central and state government agencies like Delhi Metro, NHIDCL, AAI, IITs & IIMs. As a product & growth consultant, helped many startups find product-market fit and scale. Hands-on comprehensive knowledge of building and deploying applications on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.Technologies:• Java, Spring, PHP, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Python, Django• MYSQL, Oracle DB, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL• Microservices• Flutter, Dart• Solr/Lucene, Elastic Search• Apache, Tomcat, Oracle iAS, JBoss, IIS• Web Services - SOAP, REST• Git, SVN, CVS, Maven, Ant• Zabbix, Zookeeper, Prometheus, Grafana• JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax• React, Angular, Redux• Memcached, Xcache, APC, Redis, flume • RabbitMQ, HornetQ, Kafka, Spark Streaming• Big Data, Analytics• Oracle Reports, Oracle BI Publisher, Pentaho, ELK• Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure• Docker, Portainer, Kubernetes• Linux, WindowsSkills:• Web & Mobile Products• MVP, Product roadmaps• Project/Task/Team management• Requirements gathering, Wireframing• Online Marketing, SEO, SEM• BI, Data Analytics• Object oriented design / Design patterns• Database design and optimization• Highly available and high performance distributed systems• System administration / monitoring• Code and design reviews• Innovate and implement new technologies and concepts• Hiring, mentoring and training of team members• Strong problem solving and debugging skillsCertifications:• HL7 V3, AHM 250

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   SHL

   Dec 2021 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   As an engineering director, I currently lead two high-performing teams, driving the development and maintenance of critical platforms and infrastructure.**Software Engineering Team** I oversee a team of 25+ engineers who are responsible for building and maintaining microservices-based core SHL assessment platforms. These platforms are integral to thousands of recruiters and millions of candidates globally. Our tech stack includes Java, PHP, Python, Go, SpringBoot, Laravel, Flask, Serverless architecture, Containers, SQLServer, MySQL, and MongoDB.**DevSecOps Team** I also manage a team of 20+ engineers focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure supporting multiple platforms and services. This includes the development of CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, and application and cloud security posture. Our tools and technologies include Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Bamboo, Jenkins, Datadog, Site24x7, ELK, and PagerDuty. Both teams work collaboratively to ensure high availability, security, and scalability, enabling seamless experiences for our global user base.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

  B.Tech

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Servlets
• Jquery
• Sdlc
• Jsp
• Php
• Soap
• Xml
• Core Java
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Javascript
• Web Services
• Agile Methodologies
• Asp.net
• Struts