Hemant Rathore
Engineering leadership · Bangalore, India

Hemant Rathore

Head of Engineering
Data, AI & Platform Transformation Leader

Architecting large-scale data platforms, AI-powered products, and
high-performance engineering organizations.

Available for leadership roles · hemant.rathore@gmail.com
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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 in engineering
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Experience

2026 — Present

AI Strategy & Technical Advisor

Independent · Applied-AI & Agentic Systems · Bangalore, India

Independent advisory and applied-AI build work, focused on production-grade Agentic systems.

  • Advising an early-stage AI/data founder on LLM-platform architecture and the operational shift to Agentic-AI workflows.
  • Building Answer Ready, a publisher-side AI-readability product that makes web content discoverable by AI agents like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
2021 — 2026

Teikametrics

Director of Engineering · AI-Powered Marketplace Optimization Platform · Remote

Owned end-to-end engineering for Teikametrics' data platform, spanning marketplace integrations, large-scale data ingestion, and business intelligence. Led multiple distributed engineering organizations across US and India, 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.
  • Re-architected real-time bidding from batch polling to event-driven processing, achieving 6× faster bid decisions at 1B+ automated bid updates per month.
  • Built the multi-tenant marketplace integration layer across Amazon (SP-API, Ads API), Walmart, and TikTok Shop, with per-tenant OAuth token lifecycle and a fair-share rate-limit and backoff strategy under Amazon's dynamic API throttling.
  • Led a full data platform transformation (Snowflake to Databricks) with zero-downtime migration, replacing a legacy stack with a cost-efficient, modern analytics foundation.
  • Reduced customer onboarding from 24 hours to 6 hours end-to-end by coordinating five team-owned modules into a unified event-driven pipeline.
  • 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.

  • Built and launched LogBay in Go, the log-collection utility that replaced Nutanix's legacy log_collector and became the standard tool Support used for at-customer diagnostics, with tag-based selective collection and on-site anonymization of IPs and PII.
  • Authored net-new NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check) health checks that auto-raised alerts and auto-opened support cases, and drove the Cluster Health defect burn-down from ~800 to under 100 open defects.
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 from scratch, sustaining 125 GB/hour per node of audit-ready data preservation, with chain-of-custody and audit-trail mechanics for enterprise litigation defensibility.
  • Built enterprise search and federated indexing on Druva's global-deduplication block store, and launched Proactive Compliance scanning for PII across HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR templates.
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
AWSDatabricksSnowflakeKafkaRedisElasticsearchDockerKubernetesGitLooker
Languages
PythonJavaSQL
Observability
DatadogGrafanaSplunkSentrySquadcast
AI Tooling
Claude CodeCodexOpenClawMulti-agent orchestration
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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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