Ritesh Sharma

About Ritesh Sharma

Director of Engineering with 11+ years of experience building and scaling platforms that power high-traffic, business-critical systems. Known for creating predictable, resilient, and cost-efficient infrastructure through disciplined capacity planning, deep observability, and strong incident leadership.A people-first, data-driven leader who drives organisation-wide transformations while building high-performing engineering organisations and sustainable leadership pipelines.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Dream11

   Jul 2025 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Built and scaled a high-performing 25+ engineer organization, managing Engineering Managers and senior ICs to sustain execution excellence.Institutionalized hiring, performance, and leadership development frameworks, strengthening succession pipelines and long-term talent retention.Spearheaded the transformation from manual infrastructure scaling to a fully automated platform, slashing scale-up time from 1.5 hours to 30 seconds and enabling zero-downtime peak events.Built self-service continuous deployment platforms for 500+ microservices, eliminating deployment-related outages (~99% reduction).Partnered with Data, Product, and Engineering leaders to build predictive capacity models, enabling cost-efficient scaling for 15M+ concurrent users.Designed organization-wide alignment and prioritization frameworks that accelerated strategic decision-making and platform adoption across Product and Platform teams.Established a scalable incident management and SRE governance framework, strengthening reliability, executive response, and operational maturity.Led disaster recovery, security, and operational maturity programs across 1K+ application components, making resilience auditable and repeatable.Drove an organization-wide cloud and FinOps transformation, delivering $7.3M in 5 months and $4M annual run-rate optimization.Created an in-house FinOps platform, giving executive leadership real-time visibility into spend, performance, and ROI.Drove the AI-assisted SRE initiative, delivering beta rollouts to improve anomaly detection and incident triag

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering

  2010 — 2014

• Shastriya Vidyalaya High School

  High School

  2005 — 2007

Skills

• Automation Testing
• Heap Dump Analysis
• C++
• Core Java
• Javascript
• Css
• Flume
• Docker
• Gc Analysis
• Hp Load Runner
• Performance Testing
• Scalability
• Html
• Ansible
• Logstash
• Sql
• Elasticsearch
• Java
• Java Concurrency
• Apache Kafka
• Shell Scripting
• Hadoop
• Kibana
• Xml
• Thread Dump Analysis
• Map-Reduce Programming