JOTISH SUTHAR

Associate Director of Engineering
Bangalore, IN.

About

Engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building scalable systems in healthtech and e-commerce. Proven ability to manage cross-functional and international teams, drive cost optimization, and lead cloud-native transformations. Skilled in leading high-impact initiatives, scaling complex systems, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineering teams. I prioritize user-centric design while maintaining a strong focus on technical excellence.

Work

Pharmeasy (API Holdings)
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Associate Director of Engineering

Summary

PharmEasy is a leading Indian healthtech platform providing online pharmacy, diagnostics, and telehealth services.

Highlights

Led Procurement, Warehouse & Finance Ledger tools in Supply Chain; improved KPIs including DOH of inventory by 10%, Operations TAT by 14%, Margin by ~1%, and reduced leakages in returns and payments. Ensured ITGC audit compliance and drove structured team development through mentoring and capability building across 3 teams (16 developers).

Spearheaded Cl integrations, Canary deployments, and AWS to On-Prem migration for lower environments; delivered an Al-driven ParseEasy library and achieved 20% AWS cost reduction via Kubernetes resource optimization.

Pharmeasy (API Holdings)
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Senior Engineering Manager - Backend

Highlights

Led the migration of Warehouse Management from offline Easysol ERP to SaaS (Oneroof project), coordinating batch data migrations, supporting real-time warehouse and procurement operations and ensuring system stability.

Implemented event-driven architecture, optimized API performance to stay under 150 ms P95, and achieved 99.9% uptime with proactive alerting on slow queries and other critical alerts via victoria metrics, redash & metabase alerts.

Practo Technologies
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Engineering Manager - Backend

Summary

A healthcare company leveraging technology to improve health services

Highlights

Scaled Practo Plus for Corporates to serve 1.1M users across 450+ organizations by combining health and insurance offerings. Led 2 teams (13+ developers), driving OKRs, mentorship, and long-term technical roadmaps.

Designed and implemented a scalable, automated doctor payout engine, later rearchitected using RazorpayX and migrated some of core old system from PHP to Java to improve performance and reduce memory footprint.

Practo Technologies
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Technical Lead - Backend

Highlights

Built cost-per-lead systems & ad engine using Kafka, migrated to Java stack with CI/CD best practices

Zooplus AG
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Senior Software Engineer - Mobile

Summary

An online retailer specializing in pet food and supplies in Europe

Highlights

Migrated hybrid app to native Android using MVVM; improved unit test coverage from 0% to 60%

Practo Technologies
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Senior Software Engineer

Highlights

Spearheaded Android initiatives including Practo Tab, MDM features (COSU), and mobile performance

Chalkstreet (FACE Pvt. Ltd)
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Associate Developer - Full Stack

Summary

An educational technology platform providing engaging learning experiences

Highlights

Developed RESTful APIs, optimized AWS deployment, and implemented CI/CD pipelines to enhance Learning Management apps for 20+ colleges.

Education

SRM University

B.Tech

Computer Science Engieering

Skills

Languages

Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript.

Frameworks & Libraries

Spring Boot, Flask, Symphony, Android, React.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (ECS, SQS, SNS), Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins.

Databases & Caching

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch.

Infrastructure & Observability

Kafka, Git, Maven, Gradle, Grafana, Sentry, ELK.

Architecture & Patterns

REST, SOLID, MVVM, MDM, Unit Testing.

Interests

Mentor at ACSGaming

Guided development of casino management tools and scalable APIs using PostgreSQL; implemented regression models to predict player net worth, supporting the company's expansion to 15 casinos.

Projects

ASN Automation for Procurement

Summary

Built a parser to extract structured data from scanned and digital ASN PDFs using OCR, converting them into CSVs for automated purchase entries. Improved PO tracking and lead time closures, streamlining procurement workflows. Tech Stack: Python, Tesseract OCR, AWS Lambda, SES, S3, Pandas

ERP Migration & Modernization

Summary

Led migration from Easysol ERP to existing live setup using Spring Boot and PostgreSQL, later transitioning to Apache Spark for scalable ETL. Achieved seamless data sync and zero downtime across 30+ warehouses.