Chirag Patel Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, California, Us

Leading overall engineering operation of organization to develop Global Big Data Platform that utilized by Rakuten business units across the globe to manage product catalog data. I am leading and mentoring development, QA and DevOps teams with around 100 engineers in USA, Singapore, and India. I am creating and deploying highly scalable platform using Big Data/Cloud technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Data Flow/Apache Beam, Serverless DB like Data Store, Elastic Search, Java, REST APIs, and Google Cloud with focus to develop an accurate, structured product catalog with capabilities like product search, price compare, sales insights with hundreds of millions of products covering thousands of online retailers from various countries.My Key Accomplishments:• Led significant increase in click though and revenue by improving product search through delivery of catalog platform for Rakuten's flagship e-commerce site in Japan.• Improved and retained business growth by defining business vision and crafting partner strategies and roadmaps for Ebates group in cross-collaboration with C-level executives..• Generated 75M+ yearly new sales in USA by establishing team and platform from scratch to build many consumer facing experiences.

San Jose, Ca, Us

As a Engineering Leader, I have spearheaded and mentored digital wallet consumer experience development teams that designed consumer facing PayPal web site for finance asset management (cash, cards, bank), money movement servicing (send/request money and invoicing), incentives (coupons, offers) management and credit product servicing as part of the consumer wallet.My Key Accomplishments:• Headed and completed projects within set time and budgetary constraints by executing Agile methodology.• Supervised and trained team of over 30 engineers with 3 software development managers in USA and India to optimize operational proficiency.

San Francisco, California, Us

In my role of Director of Engineering, I have overseen engineering teams of 35 engineers in USA and in India at Data Cloud Business Unit of Salesforce (Data.com/Jigsaw) including web site development team and BI to achieve productivity goals. I have managed Jigsaw.com development and operation to streamline workflow.My Key Accomplishments:• Secured double-digit data asset and revenue growth quarter over quarter by delivering various features.• Contributed and supported Salesforce's acquisition of Jigsaw to ensure continuous process improvement.• Deployed agile methodologies for software development to assure on time delivery of projects.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

As a VP of Engineering, I have overseen engineering teams of 40 engineers including QA and DevOps for textbook rental company (Netflix model) with ~1M customers. My primary responsibility was to evolve and maintain chegg's e-commerce site and back-end systems (data, payment, partner integration, fulfillment/warehouse, etc).My Key Accomplishments:• Redesign core system to scale 300% powering double digit revenue growth quarter over quarter• Growing team by 15 engineers in one year.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Yahoo Shopping & Audience Product Platform GroupWorked to build platform from scratch to support catalog & content management capabilities for Yahoo properties like Shopping, Travel, Autos, Real Estate & Local. This includes Catalog management Systems for all known entities in US (products, autos, houses, businesses etc), classification platform (using machine learning and non-machine learning techniques), Attribute extraction platform and Document matching platform(to match objects).

Dublin 2, Ie

Austin, Texas, Us

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Engineering