Chief Technology Officer - Erosnow
May 2018 - Oct 2023
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Lokesh Chauhan Email & Phone Number
Ex-CTO@ErosNow | Ex-Zomato,PayTm | Ex-entrepreneur | IITB
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@craftsvilla.com
4 phones found area 226, 961, 922, and 145
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Role
Ex-CTO@ErosNow | Ex-Zomato,PayTm | Ex-entrepreneur | IITB
Location
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Lokesh Chauhan is listed as Ex-CTO@ErosNow | Ex-Zomato,PayTm | Ex-entrepreneur | IITB based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at craftsvilla.com, phone signal with area code 226, 961, 922, 145, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Lokesh Chauhan.
Lokesh Chauhan previously worked as Chief Technology Officer - ErosNow at Eros Media World Plc and Vice President Engineering at Zomato. Lokesh Chauhan holds Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Civil Engineering from Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay.
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About Lokesh Chauhan
As the Chief Technology Officer at ErosNow, I lead the strategic planning, product scoping, team building, and scaling of the technology platform that powers one of the largest OTT services in India. I have over 15 years of experience in developing and managing large-scale technology platforms across various domains, including fintech, foodtech, delivery, payments, and e-commerce.I am a technocrat with a successful entrepreneurial background, having co-founded and sold Plustxt, a secure chat platform catering to Indian local languages, to Paytm in 2013. I am also an IIT Bombay Alumni and have worked with quality tech-focused companies like Zomato, Paytm, and Craftsvilla. My key strengths lie in building SOA architecture with high scalability, real-time services, and adopting new open source technologies. I have extensive experience with cloud infrastructure and multiple CDNs for low latency delivery of static and dynamic content. My mission is to leverage my expertise and passion to create innovative and engaging solutions for the OTT industry.
Listed skills include Mobile Devices, Mysql, Javascript, Hadoop, and 22 others.
7 roles
Lokesh Chauhan work experience
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Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Vice President Of Engineering
Built a world class team to take Craftsvilla forward. - Accelerated strength of tech team from 10 to 75+ while focussing on bringing high quality of engineers.- Worked closely with vendors and marketing partners for bringing efficiency and better functionality on web and app.- Led architectural revamp of Android App and introduction of IOS App with new API platform.- Architected Angularjs webapp to decouple & streamline checkout flow with rich user experience. 40% improvement in conversions(successful payments).- Revamped search and related serving services' performance.- Partially built micro-services architecture to revamp the underlying technology stack.- Architecting Data infrastructure and Intelligence solutions using pluggable components from AWS- Did infrastructural changes to handle scale. Was able to successfully handle all event/campaign based traffic which is pivotal to ecommerce.
Feb 2015 - Dec 2016
Engineering Manager
Led Engineering team at Paytm Bangalore office. Owner of PaywithPaytm -Paytm’s 3rd party payments platform and Messaging platforms. Joined in as part of acquisition deal of Plustxt for building elite engineering unit for Paytm.- Conceptualised and architected PaywithPaytm infrastructure and WEB/APP SDKs.- Oversaw development of PayWithPaytm SDKs and Paytm wallet app with external agency.- Led the development for backend of Paytm wallet app (Enabling P2P transfers between wallets).- Built offline payments solution using paytm wallet based on QR code.- Developed products built on messaging infra (bargain, request payments)- Hired and mentored engineering team of 15+ developers for Bangalore officeEnvironment: Python (Django framework), mysql, Nginx, ejabberd, Amazon web services stack (SQS, S3,EC2 and RDS), asmack, Android, IOS, angular.js, node.js
Aug 2013 - Feb 2015
Co-Founder & Head Of Engg
Plustxt
Plustxt has been acquired by One97 as of August 2013.Build chat platform (Plustxt) on Android and IOS platforms. Plustxt was selectedin Microsoft accelerator programme. Post Angel round Paytm acquired the startup.- Played role of architect and developed entire server side infrastructure leading a distributed team of handpicked development resources.- Identification and implementation of solution stack for web components exposing APIs.- Wrote custom mods for extending XMPP standards and integration with web backend.- Modification and assimilation of asmack library for android creating base for xmpp messaging layer integral to the client.Environment: Python (Django framework), mysql, Nginx, JQuery, ejabberd, Amazon web services stack (SQS, S3,EC2 and RDS), asmack, android.
Jun 2011 - Aug 2013
Manager - New Media
Building a New Media business platform - Mobile and Internet business for the Balaji Telefilms group that is one of the largest Production Companies in India.- Successful infrastructure choices to handle load of event driven traffic.- Was able to position Hoonur.com into top 100 most visited sites of India.Environment: Python (Django framework), mysql, Nginx & Varnish (static content delivery and caching).
Apr 2009 - May 2011
Software Engineer
Mar 2006 - Dec 2008
2 education records
Lokesh Chauhan education
Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Civil Engineering
Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay
High School
Modern Senior Secondary School, Kota
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Lokesh Chauhan is listed as Ex-CTO@ErosNow | Ex-Zomato,PayTm | Ex-entrepreneur | IITB.
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Lokesh Chauhan is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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Lokesh Chauhan has worked for Eros Media World Plc, Zomato, Craftsvilla, Paytm, and Plustxt.
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What schools did Lokesh Chauhan attend?
Lokesh Chauhan holds Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Civil Engineering from Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay.
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Lokesh Chauhan is listed with skills including Mobile Devices, Mysql, Javascript, Hadoop, Mobile Applications, Python, Scalability, and Linux.
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