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Ritwik Mitra · Bengaluru, India

Engineering executive building high-scale consumer platforms, resilient organizations, and practical applied-AI systems.

Engineering executive with 20 years of experience building high-scale consumer platforms, resilient engineering organizations, and practical applied-AI systems.

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Selected impact

Scale with a product attached

Dailyhunt · ₹45m to approximately ₹23m per month

Dailyhunt · 49%

Dailyhunt reduced monthly infrastructure spend by approximately 49% through shared cost transparency, service ownership, and cross-functional execution with finance and infrastructure teams.

Dailyhunt · 350m+

Dailyhunt grew beyond 350 million monthly active users while its backend platforms supported major traffic events.

Dailyhunt · 4 to approximately 200

Dailyhunt · approximately 3 per week

Dailyhunt expanded personalization signals and established a repeatable feed-experiment cadence.

Dailyhunt feed platform · 35% to 75%

Dailyhunt increased automated test coverage as the feed platform scaled.

Experience

Leadership scope, organized around outcomes

October 2021 — Present

VerSe Innovation · Dailyhunt, Magzter and Josh

Senior Director of Engineering

Leads backend, platform, applied-AI, and data responsibilities across major consumer products, working through senior leaders and architects.

  • Dailyhunt services sustained millisecond-class performance during elections, IPL, and notification spikes.
  • Dailyhunt put classification, summarization, and notification-title generation into production, with Qdrant serving as the system of record and Elasticsearch retired from that path.

2019 — 2021

VerSe Innovation · Dailyhunt

Director of Engineering

Led Dailyhunt feed, personalization, API gateway, experimentation, and a multi-service move to Google Cloud.

  • Dailyhunt's personalized For You feed grew while maintaining bounded tail latency.
  • Dailyhunt moved more than 40 services and data stores from private infrastructure to Google Cloud, improving reliability and capacity predictability.

2016 — 2019

VerSe Innovation · Dailyhunt

Senior Engineering Manager

Built the notification platform and initiated Dailyhunt's personalized For You feed with a small founding team.

  • Dailyhunt's notification platform handled a large daily event volume.

Operating principles

How I lead through complexity

Put scale in product context

Technical scale matters when it is connected to the product experience, business constraint, and operating decision it enabled.

Build mechanisms, not heroics

Durable engineering outcomes come from observability, ownership, repeatable reviews, and platform capabilities that teams can adopt independently.

In practice

Influence across organizational boundaries

Ritwik combined transparent operating data, service-owner reviews, and reusable engineering mechanisms with direct partnership across finance, infrastructure, and product teams.

Technology landscape

Deep enough to guide the decisions that matter

Tools follow the problem. These are systems I have used in practice.

  • Java
  • Go
  • Python
  • Kafka
  • Spark
  • Flink
  • Redis
  • Cassandra
  • Qdrant
  • PostgreSQL
  • ClickHouse
  • Google Cloud
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • LangGraph
  • RAG
  • Model Context Protocol

Selected work

Exploring how intelligent systems reason

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