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Maneesh Agrawal
Head of Production Engineering (Sr. Director) at Olacabs.com

maneesh1978@gmail.com
Summary
15+ years experience in System Operations, Service Engineering (ProdOPS, Tech, DevOPS, SRE) with
experience managing large scale distributed systems, BIG DATA technologies, Hadoop eco systems, Internet
application and technologies.
* Accomplished technical / people leadership with strong 15+ years experience with the ability to build and
manage global teams and having strong business sense in various domains.
* Proven leadership skills in leading and managing geographically dispersed large scale data infrastructure &
production engineering, devops, techops and operations engineering teams with close collaboration across
product, operations & business leadership teams.
* Expertise of Big Data, Hadoop eco-system & technologies.
* Expertise in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data mining, Reporting & Analytics.
* Strong knowledge of Data Integration & Messaging Services.
* Strong knowledge of Advertising/Publishing and relative domains in advertising eco-system
* Operated massive User data & Mobile App Analytics products.
* Strong experience in production readiness, product strategy, engineering management & leadership
* Highly involved in Project Management, developing Success Criteria, Impact Analysis, Failure Mode and
Effect Analysis, Business Process
* Analysis and Requirement Gathering, Collecting requirement and preparing both Functional and nonFunctional Specifications, Product Evaluation, Solution Design, Technical Design, Development and testing
during execution phase of the projects.
Specialties:
* Large Scale Distributed Operations, Automations
* Grid Computing, Data Pipeline Operations, Remote Management, Incidence Management, Hadoop Eco
System
* ETL, Data ware housing
* Large-scale data infrastructure, distributed data systems
* Service and Production engineering
* BIG Data processing and eco system
* e-commerce services like product catalog development, payment gateways development as service, B2B and
B2C in depth business sense.
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Experience
Head of Production Engineering (Sr. Director) at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd)
January 2015 - Present (1 year 9 months)
Sr. Engineering Manager (Production & Infrastructure Engineering) - Data Platform at InMobi
October 2011 - December 2014 (3 years 3 months)
Part of core engineering leadership & management team. Managing an awesome team working on
InMobi's core Data & User Platform. This group has been managing a highly scalable DATA system, Data
Management & Processing Platform 'Falcon, Conduit' which is now Apache Incubator Projects. And
process entire InMobi data using Hadoop eco system with massive infrastructure and manage production
Engineering / DevOps projects.
Working on thrilling challenges around designing and running systems that work at incredible scale (petabyte
scale data, 10 billion+ of events per day and 600+ million monthly users) across multiple data centers,
massive Hadoop / HBASE clusters.
Working closely with core development, product and business group for customising solutions on Infra/
operations side and deliver really tight SLAs keeping high profile consumers like king.com, EA Sports,
Samsung and many more.
Key focus Areas:
- Big Data platform for massively large-scale data processing (batch & stream).
- Manage massive Hadoop and HBASE clusters across various co-locations and ensuring cluster caters the
data processing needs.
- Involve from the first day of development phase, work on performance benchmarking analysis, operability,
and production readiness analysis till production implementation and post-production operations.
- Keeping an HAWKEYE on production issues, perform the pattern / behavior analysis and have appropriate
corrective measures and come up with remediation.
- Deep understanding of system and regular check on capacity analysis and work on capacity planning.
- Unified Big Data Analytics Platform to support multiple analytics use-cases (batch, real-time, ad-hoc)
Leveraging right technologies and consistent innovations in the Hadoop & eco-system.
- Production engineering of User platform, which is building user behavioral & intent profiles and leveraging
these user insights in ad relevance prediction models and audience targeting.
Engineering Manager (Data platform and production engineering) at Yahoo!
February 2005 - October 2011 (6 years 9 months)
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- Managed production engineering group that supports data systems for yahoo search and ads customers using
open source, in-house technologies developed on open source platforms.
- Search Engine Optimisation and Marketing.
- Data Highway (Real time Data Collection of web events ) - The Data Highway Platform enables real time
data collection and processing within Yahoo. The largest Data Highway deployment spans tens of thousands
of nodes over 20+ data centers and carries over 12 terabytes of data per day.
- Lexus Low latency execution framework for efficiency scheduling of complex workflows.
- Data Processing (ETL)
- GRID (Cloud computing platform)

Sr Consultant at Polaris Software Lab
2004 - 2005 (1 year)
Worked for client GE-plastics and handled printer gateway development.
Sr Soft Eng at Lifetree Convergence Ltd
2003 - 2004 (1 year)
Lifetree is global software company with a suite of products and services in the telecommunications and
financial services domains. Founders of Lifetree include renowned persons such as Richard Siemens,
founder of Hutchison Telecom and Orange, Tom Gibian, COO of the AIG Africa Fund, and Craig Erlich,
the co- chairman of the GSM Congress. Lifetrees solutions have been acknowledged by the leading billing
communities including, Tarifica.
Lifetree has world-class development centres located at New Delhi and Bangalore, having completed more
than two thousand person years (cumulative) of hard-core software development.
My major accomplishment in lifetree was MDX+ component (SMS based solution) - most of us might have
sms to indian idol , getting PNR from Railway and pulled news from indiatime or checked balance from
ICICI....and this is all implemented by MDX+
Some of major customers include Hutchison Max Telecom Limited, Airtel, Indiatimes, SUNDAY Hong
Kong, Old Mutual-Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance, SBI Life Insurance and Spice Telecom.
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Web Developer at Indiamart Intermesh Limited

2000 - 2003 (3 years)
more detail about indiamart - http://www.intermesh.net/
My Career started with Indiamart as 5th technical team member out of a small strength startup company of 50
employees.
Here I have exposed to all aspects of a e-commerce and internet industry starting from technology ,
managing, leadership, sales, web promotion, web designing, DATA BASE administration and system admin
with networking.
My major assignments were
* B2B catalog (http://catalogs.indiamart.com/)
* B2C products (product categorization and online shopping portal)
* Payment Gateway solutions
* And also ensured quality of customer's web sites by building platform to perform analysis of html source
code and site structure, this tool severed as QA tool to ensure quality of sites.
Skills & Expertise

Hadoop
Big Data
Scalability
MapReduce
Distributed Systems
HBase
Perl
Agile Methodologies
operations
Project Management
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Apache Pig
Open Source
Shell Scripting
Business Continuity Planning
DevOps
Puppet
Data Processing
Scrum
ETL
REST
NoSQL
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Rally
SCM
Distributed Applications
Private Cloud
Chef
Process Scheduler
job sched
Torque
Web Development
ETL Tools
Coaching
Mentoring
Cloud Computing
Apache
Linux
Unix
ITIL
Databases
Web Applications
Mobile Applications
Analytics
MySQL
Management
Team Management
E-commerce
Data Warehousing
Education
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Executive Mgmt Course in Emerging Leadership, Emerging Leadership Modules, 2009 - 2010
University of Lucknow
PGDIM, Information Management, 1999 - 2000
Activities and Societies: - Inter College debates - Come up with distillation of Parag Milk using automation as
part of college project and finally implemented in Parag Milk federation.
Lucknow University
PGDIM, Information Mgmt and Computer Science, 1998 - 2000
Doctor Ram Manohar Lohia Awadh University
B.Sc, Maths, 1995 - 1998
Languages
English
Hindi
(Full professional proficiency)

(Full professional proficiency)
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Maneesh Agrawal
Head of Production Engineering (Sr. Director) at Olacabs.com
maneesh1978@gmail.com
5 people have recommended Maneesh

"Maneesh is undoubtedly one of the most diligent and responsible leaders I've worked with. His sense
of ownership is absolute and keeps things rocking all cylinders in production engineering. He has a keen
ability to identify and isolate the right questions to be looked at to do justice to the job at hand and rightfully
encourages the team to do things properly, whatever the cost. It was a real privilege working with him. "
Santanu Sinha, Architect, Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd), worked with Maneesh at Ola (ANI
Technologies Pvt Ltd)
"Maneesh is a very skilled and resourceful engineering talent that I had the good chance of working with
and my interaction with him was absolutely delightful. He has strong execution skills, a great discerning
engineering mind to problem solving, excellent communication(specially so in my interaction with him as
part of geo-distributed teams) and is fun to work with. He is energetic, responsible and having him on a
project means that part which he owns is worry-free and going to be high quality."
Guruditta Golani, managed Maneesh indirectly at Yahoo!
"Maneesh Agrawal is an excellent leader. He demonstrated true respect for everyone. He meets and is a great
human being. Maneesh leads by example and great example he sets. Hes very smart and knowledgeable
about technology and digital."
Sanjay Bansal, worked with Maneesh at Indiamart Intermesh Limited
"Maneesh is hard working, fast learner and always available for helping others. At indiamart.com, he
improved quality of customer's web sites by building automated tool do analysis of html source code and and
site structure, this tool severed as QA tool to ensure quality of sites. Beside this he worked on generic product
catalog solution that is in use for multiple customers, despite of complexity and tight deadline, he delivered
this large project on time. He helped me to finish my hack project on time at Yahoo!."
Surat Singh Bhati, managed Maneesh indirectly at Indiamart Intermesh Limited
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"maneesh is a bundle of energy, always inquisitive. he always came out with quick solutions to the problems
at hand & had a good temperament. he never missed out on any social activity in office & was liked by
everyone. it was pleasure working with him."
pankaj agarwal, worked with Maneesh at Indiamart Intermesh Limited
Contact Maneesh on LinkedIn
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Maneesh Agrawal

Head of Production Engineering (Sr. Director) at Olacabs.com

- Data Processing (ETL)

- GRID (Cloud computing platform)

Web Developer at Indiamart Intermesh Limited

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