Raunak Kumar Agarwal

About Raunak Kumar Agarwal

I\'m a Software Development Manager in Amazon based out of Bengaluru(India) as part Consumables/Product-Replenishment Org. Leading a cross functional team, working to improve the reordering experience for customers WW. • B.Tech. from IIT Roorkee with 11+ Years experience in Software Development, building and managing highly performance team across geographies. • Leading cross-functional engineering team - consisting of Junior/Senior engineers, Products Managers, TPMs, QAEs, UX designers in Amazon. Developed India team from scratch upto 7+ SDEs (earlier US based team only). Took over additional scope from US team. • Managing the charter to improve reordering of Consumables/Everyday-Essential products across Amazon WW with stakeholders co-located across US, India and Europe. • Strong in problem solving, able to breakdown complex tasks into smaller units and maintain velocity and quality. Have experience building services and teams 0 to 1. Comfortable being hands-on and delegate both development and project management tasks. • Having growth and development mindset. Learning is a never ending process. Being able to apply theoretical concepts in our daily life is very essential. Specialties: Tech Contributor and Enabler | Solving Complex Problems | Good Inter-Personal Skills | Programming | Effective at Communication | Building products from scratch | Hiring, growing and managing an efficient tech team along with various stakeholders and business counterparts.

Experience

1. Software Development Manager

   Amazon

   May 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Managing Replenishment Services Team part of Product Replenishment/Consumables Org.• Managing team to deliver efficient experience to drive customer satisfaction and help selling partners(Sellers, Vendors). End-to-end developments have been done across 15+ tech-stacks - mainly Search, Home Page, Detail Page.• Project management: Leading Sprint planning, retrospectives, demos. Conducting monthly/quarterly planning to understand priorities with stakeholders.• Operational improvement: Increased deployment velocity(3X) including support for pipeline automation. Proper planning and execution for peak-sale(high velocity) events.• Instilled culture of fail-fast and quick decision making: Ran multiple-parallel experiments on Detail Page(DP). Collaborate with principal engineer to have fast-scrappy iterations and reduce cost of developments.• Hands-on tech-lead: code reviews, design/launch review docs/meetings, announcement docs/emails, etc. Leadership/stakeholder escalations and alignments.• Product Owner for programs: Reorder and Save, Reorder Information. Working on new program Buy-Later which helps to purchase products which are Out-of-Stock. Buy-Later is being developed from scratch.• Having low people related churn. Conducting fun meetings(games, talks, etc) increasing team bonding and culture. This has impacted quality and speed of projects for the team. Proactive mentorship provided.

Education

• Delhi Public School , Dhanbad

  All India Secondary School Examination(Class X), General

  1995 — 2007

• Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

  Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2009 — 2013

• Delhi Public School , Dhanbad

  All India Senior School Certificate Examination(Class XII), Science(PCM)

  2007 — 2009

Skills

• C++
• Computer Science
• Software Development
• Python
• Matlab
• Machine Learning
• Visual Studio
• Coffeescript
• Databases
• Windows
• Eclipse
• Microsoft Office
• Django
• Sql
• Linux
• Javascript
• Doing More with Less
• Visual C#
• Mysql
• Data Structures
• Css
• C
• Programming
• Core Java
• Algorithms
• Research
• C#
• Java
• Xml