Raj Maitra

Vice President of Engineering & Innovation at Simple But Needed, Inc.

San Francisco Bay Area

About

VP of Engineering and Innovation with 10+ years designing and developing enterprise software. Moonlights as an Ultimate Frisbee coach for the semi-professional level. Manages a small music production studio from Minneapolis, Loonatic Productions: www.loonaticproductions.com

Experience

  • Simple But Needed, Inc. (12 yrs 7 mos)
    • Vice President of Engineering and Innovation
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

      - Define the long-term technical vision and innovation strategy in alignment with business goals - Identify emerging technologies (LLMs, predictive analytics, etc.) that can be leveraged to create a competitive advantage - Maintain oversight of the system architecture to ensure scalability, security, and reliability - Foster an environment for developers to collaborate and learn; lead seminars on usage of new technology to enhance internal workflow and inspire new products

    • Director of Platform Engineering & Innovation
      May 2023 - Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      - Synthesize client feature requests and industry/technology trends into a proposed Platform innovation strategy - Lead Web Platform Engineering / Development

    • Software Engineering Manager
      Dec 2017 - May 2023 · 5 yrs 6 mos

      - Manage agile team of developers - Manage projects and design timeline for product delivery - Work with product owner to define the requirements and scope of project - Administer code reviews for pull-request workflow - Mentor developers and provide a path to expand skill sets - Organize and schedule weekly sprints - Develop and maintain full scale of web applications (tools and skills include Angular 6+, Django API, Docker containers, Continuous Integration testing platform, Linux Administration)

  • Founder at Loonatic Productions
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

    Audio production from composition, mixing and mastering. Video production from digital art to music videos.

  • Coach (Ultimate Frisbee) at Berkeley High School
    Sep 2015 - Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Coached the freshman team for the Berkeley High School Ultimate Program.

  • Software Developer at Apple
    Mar 2015 - Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    - Maintained and developed Ruby on Rails (4+) internal web applications for Apple Retail - Migrated and updated older Rails applications from MacOS and Ubuntu based servers to CentOS and MySQL to Postgres - Designed relational database models for novel Rails applications. Implemented API-based applications for other front-end systems - Helped institute continuous integration and testing-based workflows across the Retail Tech department - Managed multiple projects across several departments.

  • Web Developer at Major League Ultimate (MLU)
    Feb 2014 - Sep 2014 · 8 mos

    - Developed and maintained central and team sites for Major League Ultimate - Used PHP, wordpress and Apache stack