Vishal Kuchanur

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led technology strategy at Varaha as CTO.
  • Transitioned systems to microservices at bigbasket.com.
  • Built a successful data analytics platform.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce technology leader with extensive experience in scalable systems and product innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology ManagementProduct InnovationEngineering ManagementScalable SystemsMicroservicesProduct ManagementData AnalyticsSaas DevelopmentCloud ComputingSoftware EngineeringCloud SolutionsApplication DevelopmentInvestment Banking SolutionsSoftware DevelopmentIntegration Solutions

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)ArchitectureAutomated TestingC# DevelopmentChange Data CaptureCloud ApplicationsCloud ArchitectureCloud StrategyCustomer Data ManagementDistributed SystemsDockerElastic Load Balancing

About

Leading tech, product innovation and strategy at Varaha, a startup that aims to transform the way carbon credits operate. As the CTO, I oversee the entire technology strategy, architecture, and development of our products and services, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality, performance, and security. Prior to Varaha, I held engineering leadership roles at Flipkart and bigbasket.com, two of the most successful e-commerce platforms in India. There, I was responsible for building and managing scalable microservices, solving critical challenges in inventory, delivery, and customer data management, and spearheading the transition from monolithic to distributed systems. I also mentored and trained a team of high-performing engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, excellence, and innovation. Throughout my career, I have leveraged my technical expertise, business acumen, and leadership skills to create value for my customers, partners, and stakeholders. I am driven by a purpose to make a positive impact in the tech industry and society at large.

Experience

Varaha

Co-Founder and CTO

Jun 2022Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Technology StrategyArchitectureProduct DevelopmentTechnology ManagementProduct Innovation

Flipkart

Engineering Manager

Jan 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Majorly worked on building Retail as a service, was also responsible for scaling up grocery business line from an Inventory perspective.
  • Actively participated in Hiring, training and upskilling of SDEs at all levels, managed a team of 20+ engineers managing critical workload in Retail Engineering.
  • Was primarily responsible for ensuring Product catalogue, Product Inwarding, Shelf-to-site availability of products, Contract Management and Vendor Onboarding flows.
  • Solved critical scale issues with respect to scaling up of grocery and hyperlocal verticals.
Distributed SystemsRetail as a ServiceTeam ManagementEngineering ManagementScalable Systems

Bigbasket.com

Engineering Manager

Feb 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Typical deliverables & Achievements:
  • Technology:
  • Spearheaded the transition of the current monolith system to more scalable microservices architecture.
  • Was instrumental in strengthening the reliability and performance of the system by introducing many alerting mechanisms and processes.
  • Currently support the foundational microservices in BB ecosystem which deals with customer data management, data security, Delivery slot management, with each microservice having an average throughput of around 100k+ rpm.
  • Currently managing multiple charters which spans across the Hub operations management, Data analytics, Customer lifecycle management and Delivery capacity management.
  • Product\Project Management:
  • Actively participated in Product ideation, MVP classification and Customer feedback solicitation sessions.
  • Acted as a product manager for many key initiatives built around data analytics. Built a successful and widely used in-house data analytics platform, which is used to run all analytics report, canned reports, data exploration activities and scheduled reports.
  • In a constant pursuit to improve the performance and usability of the system, along with managing new releases and NPI's.
  • Managing a team of 13 members covering Development, Manual & automation testing, reporting and production support verticals.
Microservices ArchitectureData AnalyticsCustomer Data ManagementMicroservicesProduct Management

Cropin technology

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2017Feb 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Technology stack includes: AWS Elastic beanstalk, Lambda, SNS, S3, SES, Rekognition, EC2, ECS, Docker, Spring Boot, Spring services, Angular JS, Sql server 2016, MySql, GraphQL services.
  • Typical deliverables & Achievements:
  • Technology:
  • Engineering an entire overhaul of the tech stack for a Multitenant SaaS solution.
  • Embraced the cloud first strategy which helped us to quickly and efficiently scale the system horizontally to suit the seasonal needs.
  • Led the evaluation of any emerging technologies to determine potential benefits and working with CxO's to get the activities prioritised.
  • Financial:
  • Make budgetary recommendations
  • Infrastructure strategy and upscaling recommendations.
  • Evaluate Make vs Buy strategies for Turn key projects
  • Ensure licensing needs are audited.
  • Ensure that the technology projects are appropriately funded and financial projections for the financial year.
  • Business:
  • Oversees the entire planning, timely execution and product feature prioritization based on multiple factors like customer retention index, impact on customer acquisition cost and overall product stability.
  • Product\Project Management:
  • Actively participated in Product ideation, MVP classification and Customer feedback solicitation sessions.
  • As part of Get-Lean Initiative have created a funnel to be presented to the CxO's and key stakeholder's on the product features which aren't being used and present a case to take off the features from the product to improve the agility.
  • Managed a team of 6 lead developers covering ETL, mobile, web, QA, reporting and production support verticals and indirectly managed a team of 40+ engineers.
SaaS SolutionsCloud StrategyProduct ManagementSaaS DevelopmentCloud Computing

Technical Architect

Jul 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Six Sigma Greenbelt certified Software engineer with 7+ years of experience in successfully creating high quality and maintainable software, designing easily scalable and robust applications, and maintaining software.
  • Specialties:
  • Experience with Cloud first approach in Enterprise Application Architecture, Performance Tuning, Test Driven Development, Design patterns, Data-modelling, Web Applications, Performance Tuning, RESTful services based on SOA.
  • Hands-on with Java, Spring boot, Amazon web services, PL SQL and Angular JS.
  • Developing an expertise in AWS services and an aspiring Cloud solution architect.
  • Enjoys programming, documenting workflows and process improvement.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Designing, developing and testing web\windows based applications in an Agile environment.
  • Proven experience in managing and maintaining the software products which involves end-user interactions, requirements gathering and validation, release management.
  • Responsible for the whole suite of applications ranging from Multitenant SAAS based web apps
  • to mobile applications and BI tools.
  • Responsible for grooming team members and helping with the technical expertise.
  • Working with CXO's to identify business needs, CTQ's and brainstorm on strategic initiatives.
Software DevelopmentCloud ArchitectureAgile MethodologiesSoftware EngineeringCloud Solutions

Goldman sachs

Associate

Oct 2012Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Embassy golf links, Bangalore

  • Responsibilities
  • Was engaged in uplifting existing legacy applications to get rid of tech debt and was part multiple NPI initiatives in Investment banking division.
  • Managed a whole suite of expense management solutions for Investment banking division.
  • Created and executed a framework to establish a unique traceabiity for each and every expense entering the IBD systems. Worked with 8 other firmwide teams to establish a common understanding of this framework.
  • Prepare communication plans to keep all stakeholders informed on ongoing development and the application incidents.
  • Responsible for managing a team of developers, SCRUM planning, CTQ (Critical to Quality) prioritization and status reporting to higher management.
  • Had created multiple validation frameworks to ensure the monthly and quarterly reserve calculations were accurate.
  • Worked very closely with system architects to develop proof-of-concepts and to evaluate new technology.
Legacy Application ManagementFramework DevelopmentTeam ManagementApplication DevelopmentInvestment Banking Solutions

Honeywell process solutions

Engineer

Jan 2010Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

  • Have been a part of development team for 3 releases of Honeywell Field Advisor.
  • Being a part of core development team my responsibilities include implementing the services which are based on SOA principles, designing automated test cases which include coding against the interface, Implementing the code in C# .net with use of LINQ to EF, Implementing WM based application on .NET compact framework.
  • During the course of Field Advisor I got an opportunity to collaborate with different teams in Honeywell to enable multiple product integration.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for Coding in .NET, .NET compact framework.
  • Responsible for Unit testing, developer integration testing of the modules.
  • Low level design and unit test cases
  • Responsible for coding against SQL Server 2008 using Entity Framework
  • Involved in software design reviews, peer code reviews and test case reviews on a regular basis.
C# DevelopmentSOA PrinciplesAutomated TestingSoftware DevelopmentIntegration Solutions

Education

Indian School of Business

Chief Technology Officer Executive Programme — Organizational Leadership

Jun 2023Feb 2024

Visvesvaraya Technological University

BE — Electronics and communication Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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