Rakesh Rajan Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco, California, US

Rippling is a modern platform that eliminates the friction of running a business globally. Our mission is to free smart people to work on hard problems.I currently lead HR Cloud Engineering, overseeing a suite of products across HR Management, Talent, Benefits and Workforce Management domains. https://www.rippling.com/rippling-hcm

San Francisco, California, US

Led the core Rider engineering, responsible for the flagship Uber app including all the core experiences and platforms:- Consumer Experience: Uber's super app bet to help our consumers plan, discover and engage more with Uber. https://www.fastcompany.com/90520293/exclusive-inside-ubers-billion-dollar-bet-to-deliver-food-people-and-everything-else- Rider.

San Francisco, California, US

- Bootstrapped Uber's SuperApp bet: transforming Uber app from a ride-first service into a daily needs product, ultimately helping consumers go anywhere & get anything https://www.fastcompany.com/90409090/uber-radically-redesigns-its-app-to-remind-you-that-uber-eats-exists - Core ridesharing products & flows in the Uber app - Product recommendations.

Singapore, SG

• InMobi is the world's largest independent mobile Ad Network reaching 1.4B+ users, backed by KPCB and SoftBank
• Drove the product vision, strategy and execution for enabling brands and app developers to create highly relevant and engaging mobile experiences via video and rich media ads
• Led a global team of over 70 Engineers, PMs, Product Marketers and Designers across 7 regions
• Launched Video Ad products across 4 business units; $xxM in 2015 at 2.2x YoY growth; 3x metrics improvements - conversion rates, render rates, playback experience
• Key Video products launched: AppInstall Video Ads for Developers, Interactive Video Ads for Brands, Programmatic Video Ads via InMobi Exchange and Rewarded Video Ads for Publishers - http://goo.gl/Xo3SBD.
• Managed InMobi Studio, a powerful creative platform that empowers marketers to build, run, and measure mobile rich- media ads. Grew platform usage from 1 business unit to 4; $xxM revenue; 35% cost reduction; 90% global.

Singapore, SG

• Led key product and platform initiativesApp Analytics:
• Launched a real-time actionable App Analytics product
• A hybrid streaming and batch analytics platform on AWS and private cloud, built to scale on Cassandra, Redis and HornetQ, with microservices stack in Java and native iOS and Android SDKs
• Platform handled billions of daily events from 1B+ users, used by 1000+ apps including Rovio (of Angry Birds fame); $60M YoY pass through revenueAd Formats:
• Founded InMobi's AdFormats platform that helped scale Interstitial Ads revenue by 12x
• Newer ad products launched on this platform include Native Ads ($xxM), Video Ads ($xxM) and Playable Ads - http://goo.gl/Jjfuk7 and http://goo.gl/aoDF2pMobile Payments:

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Co-founded a photo sharing service that allows users to explore photos through relations in a visually engaging timeline format. Printo acquired Lifeblob in 2011
• Raised funding from Seedfund and recruited and managed a rockstar engineering team
• Developed the company’s technology and SEO strategy, led architecture and full stack development
• Launched rich interactive photo timeline products on the web and via Facebook and MySpace apps
• Developed India's leading photo merchandising store, a web product consisting of a multi-product configuration engine

• Location-based startup focusing on telemetrics and infotainment solutions for Automotive OEMs
• Built and managed a team of 15 engineers, and supported the CEO on fundraising efforts
• Launched fleet management product and OTA framework for J2ME applications

Austin, TX, US

• Founded and led a 5 member India-China engineering team to build Simility, a recommendation engine based on user's browsing pattern
• Architected Trilogy's first analytical engine to identify and target potential car buyers across non-automotive sites by mining the clickstream data. Built user behavior classification modules using SVM, DT and change.
• Led a team to launch automotive CPA product handling 1M+ leads/day