Ravinder Hardeep Brar

Overview

VP of Engineering at Heron Grid, focused on search and ranking. Moved 75% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Brought on-call pages for search down from 24 a week to 3. Board member at a local non-profit.

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Jul 2024 - Present
   Heron Grid · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Led the migration of 49 services to learning to rank.
   • Shipped 6 launches on the search team without a rollback.
   • Moved 62% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Nov 2022 - Jul 2024
   Zomato · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Wrote the A/B testing service that now handles 36 million requests a day.
3. Director of Engineering

   Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
   ITC · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Grew the search team from 5 to 28 engineers.
4. Staff Software Engineer

   Dec 2015 - Jun 2019
   Larsen & Toubro · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Grew the search team from 4 to 29 engineers.
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 22 a week to 4.
5. Engineering Manager

   Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
   Mahindra Group · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 22 product teams use to ship changes safely.

Projects

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Education

1. IIT Bombay IDC

   M.Des, Electronics and Communication
   2002 - 2004
2. Anna University

   B.E., Electronics and Communication
   1995 - 1999