Rk Sharma

Vice President of Engineering, Product Engineering & ML

Thrive Market

Apr 2026 - Current (7 months)

Lead the org that attracts new members and builds products to drive member engagement.
Lead the org that builds and delivers machine learning models to drive revenue.

Senior Director of Engineering, Product Engineering & ML

Thrive Market

Oct 2024 - Current (2 years 1 month)

Mission-driven e-commerce grocerly startup where I lead Product Engineering and Machine Learning teams

Vice President of Software Engineering

sennder

Feb 2024 - May 2024 (4 months)

The UberFreight of Europe digitizing freight logistics with ~1B annual revenue

Senior Director of Software Engineering

sennder

Jan 2021 - Mar 2024 (3 years 3 months)

helping scale our engineering org while enabling fast flow of value to drive business outcomes

- partnering with engineering managers across two business domains
- one focused on internal customers who operate our brokerage business
- the other B2B focused on our shipper partners and increasing revenue
- while iteratively transforming our org and our technical platform, internally coined SennOS
- launched a new tech hub in Barcelona, Spain and hired 55 techies in 2 years saving company $$
- sponsored & led complex, tech-wide migration from a legacy system to an orchestrated, event-based system w/ clear business sub-domains enabling fast flow across multiple product domains
- hired or developed 4 Dir

Director Of Engineering, Platform

WeWork

Nov 2019 - Aug 2020 (10 months)

- Leading teams of senior and staff engineers focused on metrics to improve the velocity (lead time, cycle time) & experience for product team engineers developing against WeWork's user-facing applications.

- Team contributions: GraphQL BFF (Backend for Frontend) in golang, localization process improvements, mobile design system (iOS/Android), org-wide migration to Kubernetes, Docker-ization of all backend services, observability click-stream data ingestion, iOS Swift app modularization

Senior Software Engineering Manager

WeWork

Jul 2018 - Oct 2019 (1 year 4 months)

- Built (and helped hire into) new product engineering team focused on rebuilding the WeWork messenger experience in iOS and Android. Shipped the initial rebuild -- improving usage and quality metrics.

- We stabilized and improved Ruby on Rails monolith by prioritizing and addressing legacy technical debt related to background processing, database indices, and continuous deployment.

- Org wide contributions: we program managed the revamp of interviewing processes and re-trained engineers, we built an engineering-wide onboarding program, and I provided mentorship to peer engineering managers

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Head Of Engineering

LifeCo Inc

Jul 2017 - Jun 2018 (1 year)

- This was a very hands-on technical role, contributing most to backend.
- Recruited and hired 7 senior engineers.
- We delivered a HIPAA compliant EHR system using Postgres, micro-services (Java & Python) with CI/CD, automated testing, Docker, ECS, GraphQL and Lambda used by our doctors and patients. All within 6 months.

- We shipped an iOS Swift application with real-time chat using WebSockets.

Director Of Engineering

ClassPass

Aug 2014 - Apr 2017 (2 years 9 months)

- Helped hire and lead multiple cross-functional, bi-coastal teams that delivered 10+ complex consumer products across web, iOS, Android with backend microservices in Java and Python.
- Initially, very hands-on role, contributing mostly to iOS application with some backend work.
- Helped navigate the journey from monolith to microservices (0 to ~80 services)
- Improved engineering lead time by ~10% by overseeing development of an API auth gateway (Java).
- Formulated strategy to improve release frequency & lead time by transitioning 20+ native mobile engineers to React Native and created roadmap for engineering training.

Co-founder/CTO

Chatwala

Jan 2014 - Aug 2014 (8 months)

- This was a very hands-on development role, contributing to iOS (Objective-C) and Node.js backend development.
- Cofounded an asynchronous video messaging app.
- Helped recruit and hire internal engineering team while managing offshore engineers
- We shipped multiple iterations of iOS and Android application while redesigning Node.js backend.

Senior iOS Engineer

Vimeo

Mar 2013 - Dec 2013 (10 months)

- Lead iOS engineer on team that delivered a new iOS application for streaming, uploading and watching Vimeo videos both online and offline.

Senior iOS Engineer

Major League Baseball

Apr 2012 - Feb 2013 (11 months)

- Delivered 15+ large features within MLB's premium, high-revenue, award winning mobile apps (At Bat, Ballpark) on schedule while maintaining code quality.
- Rebuilt and delivered MLB.tv and MLB radio experiences in the iOS applications.

iOS Mobile Developer

Major League Baseball

Sep 2010 - Apr 2012 (1 year 8 months)

Software Engineer

Microsoft

May 2006 - May 2009 (3 years 1 month)

- Worked with extremely gifted engineers who schooled me in engineering fundamentals, professionalism, and writing testable code. Forever grateful!

- C#, WPF, Javascript, Java

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Software Engineer

Massive Incorporated

Jun 2005 - Apr 2006 (11 months)

- Smart people from the start. Did not understand quite how bright the assembled team was back then. Seeing where those people have gone now -- amazing first work experience of how to do do things with excellence (and have fun doing it)!

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