Sumit Malhotra

Chief Technology Officer

2021 - Current

RocketLawyer makes it more affordable and simpler than ever to take care of any legal matter. More than 30 million people and 2 million businesses use Rocket Lawyer to create custom legal documents, connect with a good lawyer, incorporate a business or handle other common legal situations.

Investor

2022

Technical Advisor

2019 - 2022

SVP Engineering and Chief Architect

2018 - 2021

Innovation in New Ventures: Spearheaded the launch of six cloud-based SaaS B2B enterprise products, pioneering in-house startup incubation. Hired and led a team of over 100 to harness cutting-edge technologies including GCP, Kubernetes, Microservices, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, CloudSQL, and AI/ML, using Node.js and Angular for development. This initiative not only demonstrated leadership in cloud technology innovation but also showcased a strong capability in managing large-scale, high-performing teams. Leadership in Product and Technology: Directed the development of the Insights Platform, a Big Data and ML platform that integrates services across Azure and AWS. Managed an 80+ member team to deploy advanced solutions such as AKS/EKS, Spark on Kubernetes, Data Lakes (ADLSg2, S3), Kubeflow, Argo, Kafka, and Micro-services. Emphasized the use of modern data processing tools like Dremio, Snowflake, and visualization tools Qlik, PowerBI, and Tableau. This role underscored strategic vision in leveraging cloud and machine learning technologies to deliver actionable insights and foster data-driven decision-making across the enterprise.

Chief Technology Officer

2017 - 2018

- Acquired by Meltwater - Installed the entire engineering, data science, QA and DevOps teams - Team size: 60+ - Scaled the community 6x in 2 years, developed Owler's core IP - the competitive relationship graph (used community detection) - which maps more than 75M competitive relationships across 15M+ companies and 10,000+ clusters - Built Owler's hugely popular Daily Snapshot email product, custom-tailored to each user - Introduced new Tech Stack: Go, React, AWS, MongoDB, Spark, Scala - Built 100+ Micro-services, containerized/ dockerized, 1-click release and rollback system - Created AI based personalization, used NLP/ML for News, categorization clustering and recommendation - Used Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) - for clustering news articles - Used Labelled data to train models (SVM and Bag of words, Word2Vec techniques: NLTK) for auto-tagging & Named Entity Recognition (Stanford NER) to extract news information

Chief Technology Officer

2016 - 2017

- Built and Led engineering and technology teams - Built & Released first version of product which is at use at leading academic institutes around the world, including Harvard, MIT and Stanford - Introduced Tech Stack like big data technologies, spark, elasticsearch, elasticache, scala, golang, data science, React, D3 and completely on AWS

Sr. Director, Software Development, Data Cloud

2014 - 2016

- Strategic Leadership: Spearheaded the establishment of the Silicon Valley engineering office for Datalogix, leading the charge in hiring and managing a highly skilled team of 40 engineers, architects, and senior managers. This pivotal move was instrumental in enhancing the company's data engineering capabilities. - Innovation in Identity Mapping: Developed the ID Graph, Datalogix's core IP, enabling seamless identity connections across Oracle Data Cloud (ODC), thereby revolutionizing data integration and utility for targeted applications. - Data Linkage Solutions: Implemented cutting-edge solutions for Online to Offline, Cross-device, and Cross-channel linkages using Spark and GraphX, marking the largest deployment of its kind and significantly boosting audience targeting accuracy. - Efficient Data Ingestion Pipeline: Established a sophisticated data ingestion pipeline with Spark, processing diverse datasets from Exposure, CRM, Transactions, and 3rd Party Impressions. This development streamlined ETL processes, enhancing data quality and availability. - Data Accessibility Initiatives: Ensured comprehensive data accessibility by integrating all processed datasets into S3 and Qubole, supporting Oracle Data Cloud and Oracle Marketing Cloud, and facilitating advanced data analytics.

Director of Engineering/Chief Architect

2012 - 2014

- Hired and managed 5 Engineering teams comprising of 40+ Engineers, Sr. Managers and Architects - Chaired and managed the Architect group of 10 Enterprise expert architects who acted as architectural governance to Acxiom - Led the launch of (Audience Operating System) AOS - Data on-boarding (30TB daily) of all forms of data: Media (e.g.. DFA), CRM, Consumer Behavior - Created Data Distribution channels for DSPs, DMPs, Premium Pubs, Email - Integrated with 25+ DMP/DSPs & major Premium Publishers including Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Apple & Amazon - Created a Hadoop based Big Data Environment using Hue, which provides Hive, Pig, Impala, Oozie, Tableau, Open R and Revolution R integrations as well as online to offline linking capability. - Built an Audience Segmentation tool to create audience segments - Used Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Vertica, Cassandra, Aerospike

Principal Architect, Consumer Technology

2009 - 2012

- Founding Engineer, fortunate to experience the hyper growth to 150+ employees and revenue growth from $0 - $50M & cookied users base to 1 bil & 20 bil+ hits/day - Delivered comprehensive & highly scalable sharing solution for site publishers – sharing tools, real time streams, share analytics, and APIs (“social in a box”). These tools generate 20+ billion monthly social events - Built Count Service, aggregating and serving counts on over billion daily page views using Cassandra, Hadoop and Flume - Conceived and developed Data Aggregation Framework that Processed more than 700 million records daily (using Hadoop), generated multiple Hive tables for ad-hoc analytics and marketing reports - Implemented web crawler, detected image, title and description on the page - Implemented a web pipe that takes any data source as input(ShareThis, Facebook, Twitter, Google and Yahoo), performs data analysis and generates a lucene index as output for data consumption. Used Cassandra & SQS. - Implemented location based Social Ad Builder to create dynamic display ads - Implemented APIs for ShareThis button, installed on more than a million websites and received over 20 billion page views by 200+ mil unique users in US and 1+bil users worldwide - Built the external APIs infrastructure with security, authentication, white listing and IP throttling

Sr. Software Engineer

2006 - 2009

- Spearheaded the development of Yahoo mobile web search's inaugural version, oneSearch, setting a precedent for mobile search efficiency and user experience. - Engineered the mobile web frameworks for key Yahoo! properties including Mail, Movies, Driving Directions, Front Page, utilizing WAP XHTML and WML technologies to enhance accessibility and performance. - Led the creation of the Yahoo Blueprint web rendering engine, a pivotal technology that dynamically rendered Yahoo's extensive suite of properties and external widgets on mobile web, significantly improving the mobile user interface. - Innovated the Yahoo! Go HTML/XHTML experience, presented at CES 2008, which incorporated major Yahoo properties like a customizable Front Page, Mail, Flickr, News, Finance, Sports, Weather, oneSearch, and Calendar, heralding a new era in mobile web functionality. - Designed and launched the Yahoo! Mobile Widgets Platform at CTIA 2008, enabling external developers to create widgets and snippets for the Yahoo! Front Page and Gallery, fostering an open, collaborative platform for mobile development. - Oversaw the strategic planning and implementation of all redirects and rewrite rules across Yahoo! mobile properties, ensuring seamless navigation and user experience. - Proficient in leveraging technologies such as PHP, MySQL, XML, HTML, XHTML, C++, Apache, PHP extensions, Linux, and MVC Architecture to drive project success and innovation. - Honored with the “Yahoo! Go To Town Award” for exceptional contributions to the Yahoo Mobile Mail project, recognizing my role in advancing Yahoo's mobile web presence.