Hari Balasubramanian

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VP of Engineering at Rivet Commerce · Search and ranking · Java, Python

Rivet Commerce
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
13+ years experience
IIT Bombay
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Overview

I lead search and ranking at Rivet Commerce in Hyderabad. Moved 69% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Larsen & Toubro and Axis Bank.

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LinuxLuceneScalaA/B testingJavaPythonlearning to rank
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a design-minded co-founder: data labelling in India and SEA

The idea
Data labelling in India and SEA
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
11 years in search and ranking
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Hyderabad or remote

I bring 26 years of search and ranking (currently Rivet Commerce). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Full-time from day one.

Hyderabad, India · remote OKlinuxlucenelearning to rank
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Rivet Commerce · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 26% in two quarters.
    • Shipped 19 launches on the search team without a rollback.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2020 - Feb 2024
    Larsen & Toubro · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Wrote the Lucene service that now handles 86 million requests a day.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
    Axis Bank · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Wrote the Python service that now handles 65 million requests a day.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
    TCS · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 41% in two quarters.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2013 - Sep 2015
    Tata Motors · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 46% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 42 minutes to under 3.

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Search and ranking benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing A/B testing and Python on real workloads.

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Education

  1. IIT Bombay
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    1996 - 2000

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