Rakesh Chand

Director, India Operations at November First

Rakesh Chand has a strong background in software engineering and management roles. Rakesh currently serves as the Engineering Manager and Principal Architect for Internal Tools at PW (PhysicsWallah), where they lead a team in developing innovative solutions to enhance operational efficiency and drive business continuity. Prior to this, Rakesh worked as an SDE-3 for the same company.

Earlier in their career, Rakesh held positions at November First®, where they served as the Director of India Operations and later as a Front End Supervisor and Senior Software Engineer. Rakesh was responsible for various tasks such as web component development, backend for frontend service development, and managing pipelines and web app services in Azure. Additionally, they built the UX and UI of an international payment platform and collaborated closely with design teams.

Rakesh also worked as a Frontend Lead for Student Experience at Interview Kickstart, where they designed and built platforms to manage activities and coaching sessions for a large number of students. Rakesh also led the development of the IKBase component library.

Before this, Rakesh held roles as a Full Stack Engineer at Obsessory, where they converted a PHP-based application to an Angular-based single page application, and as a Software Engineer at Uniserved - Growth. Crowdsourced. Rakesh began their career as a Jr. Software Engineer at InTimetec vision soft pvt.ltd.

Overall, Rakesh Chand's work experience encompasses a diverse range of responsibilities, including engineering management, software development, and front-end development, with a focus on enhancing operational efficiency and customer-facing applications.

Rakesh Chand pursued their Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Information Technology from Guru Ghasidas University from 2011 to 2015. In March 2019, they obtained a certification in Learning RxJS from LinkedIn.

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Timeline

  • Director, India Operations

    October, 2019 - present

  • Front End Supervisor

    October, 2020

  • Senior Software Engineer

    May, 2019

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