Hemant Rathore — Head of Engineering

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About

Engineering leader with 15+ years building and scaling data, platform, and BI organizations across commerce and enterprise SaaS. Led high-scale data platforms supporting $10B+ in GMV, $1B+ in annual advertising spend, and mission-critical enterprise and government workloads.

Built and scaled end-to-end data platforms and engineering organizations spanning marketplace integrations, large-scale data ingestion, and business intelligence.

Modernized complex data platforms, introduced applied AI where it created real leverage, and scaled engineering teams to deliver reliably at increasing levels of scope and complexity.

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Selected Highlights

$10B+

GMV supported

$1B+

annual ad spend

2,500+

global brands

15+

years leading eng

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Experience

2021 — Present

Teikametrics

Director of Engineering · AI-Powered Marketplace Optimization Platform · Dubai, UAE

Owned end-to-end engineering for Teikametrics' data platform, spanning marketplace integrations, large-scale data ingestion, and business intelligence. Led multiple engineering organizations building and operating high-scale, multi-marketplace data pipelines powering commerce intelligence and retail media optimization across Amazon, Walmart, and TikTok.

→Enabled 2,500+ global brands to operate on a unified marketplace data and intelligence platform, supporting $10B+ in GMV and $1B+ in annual advertising spend.
→Modernized real-time bidding systems, achieving 6× faster bid decisions and enabling 750M+ automated bid adjustments per month.
→Led a full data platform transformation (Snowflake → Databricks), reducing ingestion costs by 50%, cutting secrets-management costs by 99%, and improving customer onboarding from 24 hours to 6 hours.
→Expanded the data platform from Amazon-only to Walmart and TikTok Shop, enabling multi-channel commerce intelligence and accelerating customer acquisition.
→Delivered a unified optimization platform consolidating advertising, inventory forecasting, market intelligence, BI, and automation into a single enterprise-grade system.
→Enabled GenAI-powered capabilities including automated listing optimization and conversational analytics in Looker, by exposing trusted, governed data models for natural-language exploration.

2019 — 2021

Optum

Senior Engineering Manager · Healthcare Technology & Government Digital Platforms · India

Led cross-functional, distributed engineering teams delivering a large-scale Medicaid and Medicare modernization program for U.S. state healthcare systems. Accountable for end-to-end engineering delivery across application development, platform components, and DevOps under strict regulatory, security, and compliance requirements.

→Delivered the Provider Enrollment Portal for U.S. state governments, replacing fragmented legacy workflows and improving provider onboarding efficiency.
→Implemented engineering KPIs and Agile operating models that improved release predictability, execution transparency, and stakeholder confidence across U.S.–India teams.
→Introduced CI/CD and DevOps automation across the program, reducing release cycles by 70%+ and significantly lowering production defect rates.

2018 — 2019

Nutanix

Engineering Manager · Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure · India

Led engineering execution for reliability and observability initiatives within Nutanix Cluster Health. Worked closely with SRE and core platform teams to improve system stability, diagnostics, and operational visibility across enterprise deployments.

→Reduced open production defects from ~800 to under 100 by driving quality-improvement initiatives and expanding automated test coverage.
→Revamped the LogBay observability platform, improving log aggregation, integration with core platform services, and root-cause analysis for global support teams.
→Strengthened telemetry and diagnostics pipelines, improving detection and resolution of infrastructure issues across large-scale customer environments.

2015 — 2018

Druva

Engineering Manager · Cloud Data Protection & Governance · India

Built and led the Governance engineering function for Druva's enterprise SaaS data-protection platform — owning design and delivery of compliance, eDiscovery, legal hold, and enterprise search capabilities from inception to production.

→Scaled the Governance engineering team from 3 to 12 engineers, establishing a dedicated function responsible for Druva's enterprise governance and compliance roadmap.
→Built eDiscovery and Legal Hold products from scratch, enabling defensible data preservation and audit readiness for enterprise legal and compliance teams.
→Implemented scalable data indexing, enterprise search, and proactive compliance scanning (PII and regulatory violations), significantly improving risk visibility and discovery across large distributed customer environments.

Early career

Alethea CommunicationsFounding Engineer

Anite (now Keysight Technologies)Lead Engineer

Ashley Laurent (acquired by Cisco)Software Engineer

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Core Competencies

AI & Data Platform Strategy

Cloud Architecture & Modernization

Scalable Distributed Systems

Engineering Organization Leadership

Platform & Architecture Transformation

Marketplace & E-commerce Intelligence

GenAI Product Enablement

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

Cloud Infrastructure Optimization

Product–Engineering Alignment

Operational Excellence & Delivery Governance

Cross-Functional Technical Leadership

Global Team Leadership

Architecture Governance & Reliability

Performance, Scale & System Resilience

Technical Roadmap & Architecture Ownership

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Technical

Architecture

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesCloud InfrastructureData PlatformsTrusted Data Pipelines

Platforms & Tools

AWSDatabricksKafkaElasticsearchDockerGit

Languages

PythonJavaSQL

Observability

DatadogGrafanaSplunkSentrySquadcast

AI Tooling

OpenAIClaude CodeCursor

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Education

Executive General Management Programme

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore

B.Tech., Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi

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Get in touch

Email

hemant.rathore@gmail.com

Phone

+971 58 512 1775

linkedin.com/in/hemantrathore ↗

Based in

Dubai, UAE