Dheerender Thakur

About Dheerender Thakur

I am an experienced technology leader with a track record of successfully building and executing sustainable Product, Technology, and Startup strategies. I have delivered end-to-end products & experiences across various platforms, resulting in a multifold revenue increase, improved customer satisfaction, successful market penetration, and GTM strategy.While at InStrade, a 5-year-old startup, I led EdTech platforms and engineering organizations. My main focus is driving growth and creating unique experiences for all learners and corporate/academic partners. Responsible for the entire platform ownership of all Digital/SAAS products, including Data architecture fueling AI and Event-driven architecture. Despite post-Pandamic transiting to 100% remote, I managed global teams, including Engineers, QA, PMO(initial), SRE/DevOps(initial), and Operations support. I founded and scaled the core team from scratch globally. My work improved customer engagement & revenue growth, demonstrating my expertise in leading teams and driving innovation.As the Head of eCommerce at DocuSign, I led the technology team to ensure a seamless consumer experience across 180 countries. I spearheaded product design and development, built a next-generation e-commerce platform, and managed a diverse product portfolio, including subscription payments, billing invoices, CRM, digital marketing, data lake, mobile apps, and an API gateway. I oversaw data platforms integrated with internal and external Technology. Led cross-functional teams in devs/QA and web/marketing across multiple counties, showcasing my ability to navigate diverse environments & drive global success. At Walmart Global Tech, I served as a principal engineer/director, leading eCommerce/Digital platforms, Omnichannel, and next-gen Scan & Go systems/mobile apps. I successfully scaled platforms to manage millions of transactions per minute, collaborating closely with diverse teams worldwide. My leadership skills ensured a balance between enterprise architecture, business, and engineering, driving Walmart\'s success & increasing holiday sales revenues.Specializing in talent acquisition and team scaling, large-scale software development, data architecture with ML/AI/GenAI, strategic planning, culture building, digital strategy, transformation, CRM, omnichannel solutions, payments, enterprise app architecture, scalability planning, global leadership to drive revenue growth, shape product and engineering visions, platforms, and cost-effective R&D budgeting, DevOps and quality, payment, data governance, PII, PCI, & security.

Experience

1. Vice President of Engineering Technologist

   InStride

   Oct 2019 — Present

Education

• Andhra Vidyalaya College of Arts, Science and Commerce

  Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science

• Pondicherry University

  PGDSM (PG Diploma), Software Marketing

• Osmania University

  Master of Computer Aplications, Computer sciences

Skills

• Agile Methodolgy
• Portal Technologies
• Soa
• Performance Tuning
• Machine Learning
• Weblogic
• Profiling Tools
• Multi-Channel Retail Scalability
• Ajax
• Android Development
• Supply Chain Management
• Sun Certified Java Programmer
• Omniture
• Endeca
• Web Services
• Hibernate
• Mongodb
• Stress Testing
• Spring Framework
• Checkout
• SEO
• Nosql
• Large-Scale Data Analysis
• Python
• Scrum
• Personalization
• Spring
• Restful Web Services
• Order Fulfillment
• Leadership
• Rest
• Orm
• Atg Commerce
• Akamai
• Atg Dynamo
• Payment Processing
• Jsp
• Crm
• Jprofiler
• Html5