About

Rakesh Kumar is a Senior Engineering Manager at Freshworks with over 4 years of experience in management and technically leading, and 8 years of software development experience. He has a demonstrated history of handling and working in the real estate industry and e-commerce domain. Rakesh is skilled in Postgres, Oracle Database, SQL and NoSQL Db, JAVA, Ruby on Rails, Redis, AWS EC2, C/C++ STL, Spring, Infra, Rabbitmq, and more. Rakesh has experience in handling and delivering complex products, including ML solutions and automation. He has owned and developed key services of real estate (Supply/Demand Team) and e-commerce (Automated product removal flow based on AI in advance (using ML)). Rakesh has won all attended hackathons in Housing and Amazon, and has been the Hiring Manager for Backend for all levels since 4+ years (taking 1000+ interviews and onboarding them with the company). In his previous role as Engineering Manager at Housing, Rakesh managed the Demand Team (17 heads in it (4 BE, 4 FE, 3 QA, 5 PM)) which makes sure the adequate supply (Supply Team) of listings are present on site and more relevant (demand) listings are shown to the users. He has also led the Housing Supply Team (4 BE, 4 FE, 2 QA), which takes care of the supply of properties for Housing.com (Website, App, Panels, Seller App). Rakesh has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from iiit and has completed Intermediate and Metriculation from Chinmaya Vidyalaya and D.A.V. Public School respectively. He has relevant experience of 9.78 years and is proficient in Senior Software Engineering, AWS, ML, Ruby, SQL, AI, Search, RabbitMQ, Postgres, Backend, Redis, NoSQL, Spring, Software Engineering, Infra, QA, Elastic Search, Product Management, Random Forest, Java, Jenkins, Mobile, Web, and C.