Venu Madhav
Principal Engineer at bigbasket.com
- Role
- Principal Engineer at bigbasket
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Venu Madhav
Leading a 15-member engineering team to deliver scalable, high-performance systems across search and catalog domainsCollaborated with Product Managers and business stakeholders to deliver business-critical initiatives in Electronics, Food, and Pharma.Redesigned the catalog management system, migrating from monolith to microservices for scalability and resilience using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS) and Helm on AWSBuilt and scaled a unified Search Service across web, iOS, Android, and PWA, handling millions of queries daily. Designed indexing pipelines with clickstream/sales feedback and a config-driven relevance system, boosting precision, conversions, and enabling A/B testing.Maintained fault-tolerant SolrCloud clusters, ensuring high availability and reliability across multiple verticals.Integrated LLM-based synonym expansion, driving a 7% increase in conversions, and launched an internal chatbot for employees.Implemented rule-based SKU grouping, for optimizing warehouse operations such as indent generation, stacking, and picking.Designed and deployed a Reviews & Ratings system for collection and aggregation of customer feedback.
Experience
Principal Engineer
Apr 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Leading a 15-member engineering team to deliver scalable, high-performance systems across search and catalog domainsCollaborated with Product Managers and business stakeholders to deliver business-critical initiatives in Electronics, Food, and Pharma.Redesigned the catalog management system, migrating from monolith to microservices for scalability and resilience using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS) and Helm on AWSBuilt and scaled a unified Search Service across web, iOS, Android, and PWA, handling millions of queries daily. Designed indexing pipelines with clickstream/sales feedback and a config-driven relevance system, boosting precision, conversions, and enabling A/B testing.Maintained fault-tolerant SolrCloud clusters, ensuring high availability and reliability across multiple verticals.Integrated LLM-based synonym expansion, driving a 7% increase in conversions, and launched an internal chatbot for employees.Implemented rule-based SKU grouping, for optimizing warehouse operations such as indent generation, stacking, and picking.Designed and deployed a Reviews & Ratings system for collection and aggregation of customer feedback.
Education
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
MS, Information Technology
2011 — 2013
IIIT Hyderabad
Masters, IT
2011 — 2013
MVGR College of Engineering
Bachelor's degree, Vizianagaram
2007 — 2011
Skills
- Teamwork
- Aerospike
- Python
- Problem Solving
- Ccna
- Java
- Django
- Php
- Html
- Eclipse
- Elasticsearch
- Memcached
- Jsp
- Node.js
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Mysql
- C
- Programming
- Microsoft Office
- Ajax
- Android Development
- C++
- Javascript
- Solr
- Sql
- Linux
- Core Java
- Servlets
- Perl
- Data Structures
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