Quantic School of Business and Technology

San Jose State University

Gujarat University

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Engineering leader delivering results  -  Executive MBA  -  Cloud SaaS  -  People Focused  -  Mentor

FBN brings together agriculture and data science at vast scale. We provide members with unbiased and unprecedented insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network. We provide farmers with product performance, benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real world performance data.
- Lead and oversee the development and expansion of the E-commerce teams.
- Execute the recruitment strategy to attract top talent, leveraging successful methodologies employed in scaling the engineering team over the years.
- Manage the entirety of operational tasks integral to the growth trajectory of a startup, navigating through the less conspicuous yet crucial facets, culminating in the evolution of the company from its inception to a multi-billion-dollar entity.

Farmer's Business Network, Inc.

Senior Engineering Manager

- Orchestrated various impactful feature deliveries for 10M+ users, 3000+ customers in 26 languages across 80 countries.
- Led strategic integrations and solutions with key Workday products.
- Led cross-functional collaboration for feature execution.
- Shaped design and architecture of critical components.
- Attracted top-tier talent in a high-growth environment.
- Mentored engineers and leaders for growth.
- Fostered high-trust relationships with stakeholders.
- Advocated for opportunities showcasing team innovation.

Workday

Software Development Manager

The EBCs help strengthen an inclusive workplace environment that enables the maximum potential of employees’ talents, skills, and abilities, as well as provides new perspectives that enhance positive collaboration and communication across our organization. 

- Focused on creating a space with value, belonging, inclusion, and equity for our members
- Leading and managing global chapters
- Work collaboratively with Workday's Belonging & Diversity initiatives to positively promote and visibly support our team members
- Developed professional development workshops, networking and cultural events to connect and empower members
- Developing objectives and executing to align with strategic business initiatives.
- Developing programs for talent retention, community belonging and awareness.
- Overseeing and managing multiple events throughout the year focused on career development, mentorship, networking, and culture.
- Partnering with other EBCs, departments and companies for intersectionality initiatives.
- Align, promote and support Belonging & Diversity and VIBE strategies.
- Budget management and negotiations.
- Leadership, advocacy and influencing across, up and down to successfully complete goals and objectives.

Events Manager, Asian Pacific Islander and Dosti EBC (One of Workday's Employee Belonging Councils)

Kalio is a full service cloud-based eCommerce platform provider. KalioCommerce is designed specifically for mid-market online B2C and B2B businesses with complexity and unique requirements, We have full control of the technology stack, giving us great flexibility to meet changing requirements. Our expert services team acts as an extension to each of our customers' ecommerce teams, helping them grow year after year.

Designed self service software to include building and deploying of custom integration adapters with on-premise/cloud based ERP and OMS systems.

•	Built and led a small and extremely effective development and DevOps team.
•	Manage the development and successful maintenance & delivery of our next generation E-commerce platform of a platform for the mid-market on a Microsoft stack serving 50+ web sites with over $500M transactions/year flowing through the system.
•	Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and roll-out software releases.
•	Drive software technical design and development.
•	Designed self service software to include building and deploying of custom integration adapters with on-premise/cloud based ERP and OMS systems.

Kalio Commerce

Manager

Lead Engineer

Flash Seats (Veritix) provides the most state-of-the-art digital ticketing, event marketing, and relationship management applications to entertainment venues, artists, professional sports teams, universities, and arts organizations around the world, enabling clients to truly take ownership of their ticketing operations and build better relationships with their customers and fans.

•	Developed ticketing platform with eMarketplace that lets consumers buy and sell digital tickets
•	Flash Seats® marketplace was used by 20+ million consumers
•	Architected product to achieve 3-second per patron gate-entry by DL, credit card, or smartphone
•	Deployed platform to large venues/events: Cleveland Cavaliers, Houston Rockets, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, NCAA Final Four, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Madonna, Billy Joel, and many more.
•	Led a project to convert paper tickets to a digital tickets, to develop pocket PC application for Symbol MC7094/MC 55 devices, and to develop privilege System for the e-commerce site based on roles and permission.
•	Implemented PCI Compliant online credit card transaction service using PayPal and Monetra’s Electronic payment processing.

Flash Seats

Senior Software Engineer

•	Developed data driven web pages using ASP. Net, C# and ADO.Net as the data consumer.
•	Created a configuration-based architecture that makes an application flexible and independent from libraries. Hence, any changes to the application requires modification to configuration files and do not require re-building the code.

Rakesh Dangar