I'm looking to lead technology and engineering for product-led businesses where I can shape architecture, build strong teams, improve engineering effectiveness, and translate business goals into scalable, secure technology.

Rakesh Nair
@rakeshnair
Technology leader with 17+ years building scalable products, platforms and engineering teams across consumer tech, fintech, SaaS and mobility.
What I'm looking for
I’m a technology and engineering leader with 17+ years of experience spanning engineering, architecture, information security, product development and organisational leadership. My career has ranged from building and operating high-scale consumer platforms to leading engineering at startups and growing technology organisations.
I spent more than 12 years at BookMyShow, where I worked across engineering and security as the platform grew substantially in scale. My work included platform modernisation, architecture, performance and reliability, security and PCI DSS, as well as systems operating at tens of thousands of requests per minute with significantly higher peak traffic.
Since then, I’ve held senior technology leadership roles across consumer technology, fintech, music technology and mobility. At SHEROES and Mahila Money, I led multidisciplinary engineering teams, modernised platforms and engineering processes, strengthened security for a regulated financial product, and reduced AWS infrastructure costs by roughly 60% without sacrificing functionality or scale. I also helped deliver a Google WomenWill initiative serving 100,000+ women within approximately six weeks.
As CTO at GSharp, I worked on music-technology products including a licensing marketplace, real-time music customisation and an AI-assisted brand recommendation system. More recently, as Founding CTO at Quicoo, I led the engineering organisation building a rideshare and courier platform from the ground up, covering mobile, backend, web, cloud infrastructure, architecture, security and engineering delivery through production launch.
I’m particularly interested in CTO, Head of Engineering, VP Engineering and senior engineering leadership roles where technology is central to the business. I enjoy problems involving scalable architecture, platform engineering, developer experience, security, reliability and engineering effectiveness. I’m equally comfortable discussing architecture with engineers, product and commercial trade-offs with leadership, and getting close to the technology when that is the fastest way to solve a problem.
My approach to engineering is pragmatic: build for the problems we have and the scale we can reasonably anticipate, rather than for hypothetical complexity. I care about high ownership, clear communication, strong technical judgment and creating teams where engineers understand not just what they are building, but why.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Consulting and Founding CTO
Quicoo Pty Ltd
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026 (1 year)
Defined technology strategy and architecture for an Australian multi-vertical mobility platform. Built and led a lean cross-functional engineering team from greenfield development to production launch.
Chief Technology Officer
GSharp Media
Jun 2024 - May 2025 (11 months)
Led technology, product and design strategy as part of the leadership team. Oversaw delivery of hooprsmash.com, India's first music licensing marketplace, and launched Music Mixer for real-time stem-level audio customization.
Chief Technology Officer
SHEROES | Mahila Money
Mar 2021 - May 2024 (3 years 2 months)
Led technology and product strategy as part of the executive leadership team. Modernized engineering organization, reduced infrastructure costs by ~60%, and architected WomenWill digital learning platform in collaboration with Google.
DGM | Security
BookMyShow
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021 (3 years 3 months)
Led PCI DSS certification efforts, achieving audit completion ahead of schedule. Defined and executed compliance roadmap for GDPR and India's DPDPA.
Senior Manager | Engineering
BookMyShow
Oct 2015 - Sep 2017 (1 year 11 months)
Led multiple engineering teams (20+ across functions) responsible for 6-7 high-impact platform services, balancing feature delivery with platform stability.
Manager | Engineering
BookMyShow
Oct 2013 - Sep 2015 (1 year 11 months)
Created and led multiple engineering teams across parallel projects including Customer Management, Music and Video, and Referral System. Delivered first-generation recommendation engine and re-architected review and rating engine into a microservice.
Software Developer | Engineering
BookMyShow
Nov 2008 - Sep 2013 (4 years 10 months)
Built the original review and rating engine for the platform. Rebuilt and maintained the BookMyShow website in PHP-MySQL, executing a full migration from .NET-MSSQL at the application layer.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
AC Patil College of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from AC Patil College of Engineering, completed in 2008.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Portfolio
hooprsmash.comSalary expectations
Social media
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