Arpit Mohan

Employment

• CTONov, 2017 - Present

  Mobshow

  Mobshow is an interactive live video platform. We launched a trivia quiz as the first show on the platform. The Android app reached 800,000 installs with 4.5 rating in a span of 6 months. I was responsible for architecting the application for aggressive growth (15x every month) and handling ~75,000 concurrent requests.

• CTOAug, 2016 - Oct, 2017

  Wise Mobile Technologies Inc

  Working on building human-in-loop AI agents that can hold complete conversations with website visitors. Was responsible for building the team & architecting the infrastructure to enable the Machine Learning pipelines.

• Senior Platform EngineerApr, 2015 - Jul, 2016

  Exotel Techcom Pvt. Ltd

  Exotel is a fast growing startup in the cloud telephony space. I was working on the team to re-imagine the entire technology stack in order to scale the backend for future business growth internationally. In this new team, I was a key player instrumental in designing and deploying a large scale distributed system that could handle ~20 million calls/day. The entire code was written in Golang.

• Principal EngineerMay, 2014 - Apr, 2015

  Ezetap

  Ezetap is a mobile Point of Sale device (very similar to Square) & platform for merchants. I worked on designing & implementing observability for the android application & Java backend powering the payment gateway. Also streamlined the entire build pipeline and setup some best practices for a growing technology team.

• CTOJuly, 2013 - May, 2014

  Clink

  Clink was a financial data marketing platform for financial institutions to monetize their transactional data. Within 3 months of working with the bank, we increased debit card spends by 30% in volume and 50% in value.
  We achieved this by running large-scale analytics and machine learning algorithms on the bank's transactional data streams in order to predict consumer behaviour and target the right consumers at the right time. It was a completely real-time system built on the Hadoop platform using Apache Mahout & Storm.

  Funded by Sequoia Capital, Blume Ventures and Kae Capital.

• CTOJanuary, 2011 - June, 2013

  Gharpay

  Responsible for architecting and implementing a completely real-time and scalable system that managed 850 merchants and their BPO centres. Our focus on technology and automation helped us cut operational costs and achieve much higher efficiency by a small team.

  Funded by Sequoia Capital, Blume Ventures and Kae Capital.

• Software EngineerMay, 2010 - January, 2011

  Kony Labs

  Responsible for enhancing and developing the middleware architecture that communicated with merchants at one end and Kony mobile applications at the other. Also architected end-to-end authentication and licensing models for the product

Education

• B.E(Hons) Electrical & Electronics2005 - 2009

  Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Studied one of the most interesting tracks in BITS, Pilani. It gave me a chance to dabble in hardware chip design, robotics, microprocessors and software engineering.