Résumé

Ruturaj Jadhav

Engineering Leader · System Designer · Product Builder

Summary

Head of Engineering at Styldod with 9+ years building and scaling technology products. At Styldod I've grown from full-stack engineer to Head of Engineering, helping scale the platform to 2.1M+ users across 185+ countries while building AI products, scalable systems, and the teams behind them. I set technical direction, stay hands-on, and keep engineering tied to business impact.

Experience

Head of Engineering

Apr 2024 — Present

Styldod · Bengaluru, India

Lead engineering across AI, web, mobile, backend, infrastructure, and operations — first as AI Solution Architect, now as Head of Engineering, working closely with founders.

  • Helped scale Styldod from zero revenue to ~$2.5M ARR, serving 2.1M+ users across 185+ countries.
  • Lifted product conversion from 0.67% to 8%+ and cut AWS cost ~40–50% through autoscaling, serverless, and workflow redesign.
  • Architected ReimagineHome AI with multi-model orchestration across OpenAI, Gemini, Replicate, Stability, and Flux.
  • Built the engineering organization — 8–10 engineers plus QA and operations — largely from scratch.
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • React
  • Flutter
  • AWS
  • LLMs

Lead Software Engineer (I & II)

Apr 2021 — Mar 2024

Styldod · Bengaluru, India

Led teams and built the core platform while scaling reliability, throughput, and the AI media pipeline.

  • Built the multi-tenant Smart Media Module — white-label deployments, MLS/RESO data mapping, and tenant isolation.
  • Scaled event-driven systems to ~1M requests/day and the image pipeline to 100K+ images/day.
  • Set architecture, review, and delivery standards as the team grew.
  • Node.js
  • React
  • GraphQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS Lambda
  • SQS

Software Development Engineer (I & II)

Sep 2019 — Mar 2021

Styldod · Bengaluru, India

Joined as a full-stack engineer and shipped foundational product and internal tooling.

  • Built the Styldod web app and the internal order-processing pipeline (React, Unity engine, Python, AWS Thinkbox Deadline).
  • Kicked off the R&D that automated image processing with OpenCV and TensorFlow.
  • React
  • Redux
  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
  • Python
  • AWS

Full Stack Developer

Nov 2018 — Sep 2019

Edulyx · Bangalore, India

Built Edulyx, an AI/ML self-learning portal and ERP, and its companion mobile app.

  • Shipped the Edulyx web platform with React and Node.js.
  • Built a React Native parent–school app with real-time chat, progress tracking, and push notifications.
  • React
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ

Software Developer

Oct 2017 — Oct 2018

Digverve · Bangalore, India

Delivered full-stack products across learning, payments, and commerce.

  • Built a learning management system, the eDvPay school-fees platform, and the DigVed e-commerce PWA.
  • AngularJS
  • PHP
  • Polymer
  • Node.js
  • Firebase
  • AWS

Web Developer, Intern

Dec 2016 — Jul 2017

AppiVa Software · Bangalore, India

Started my career building real products for early-stage teams.

  • Built AppiVa, an automated school-admission platform, and ezMap, a retail discovery product.
  • PHP
  • AngularJS
  • jQuery
  • Firebase
  • MySQL
  • Google Maps API

Skills & Technologies

Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Dart
Frontend
React, Next.js, Redux, React Query, Material UI, Tailwind CSS
Mobile
Flutter (iOS & Android)
Backend & APIs
Node.js, Express, REST, GraphQL (Apollo), WebSockets
Databases
MongoDB Atlas, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS Lambda, SQS / SNS, S3 / CloudFront, API Gateway (REST + WS), SageMaker, Docker / ECR
Payments & Identity
Stripe, Paddle, PayPal, AWS Cognito, Firebase Auth
AI & Computer Vision
OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Stability AI, Replicate, Vertex AI, ResNet / ViT / YOLOv7
Architecture & Practice
System Design, Distributed Systems, Event-driven Architecture, Multi-tenant SaaS, Technical Leadership

Education

MCA, Computer Science — CGPA 8.85

Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Sangli

2015 — 2017

BCA, Computer Applications

Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Sangli

2012 — 2015