Divyanshu Das

VP of Engineering

Delhi, India12 yrs 4 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of experience in tech startups.
  • Expert in software architecture and data analytics.
  • Proven track record in engineering leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology leader in the gaming and tech startup industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipCloud Computing

Other Skills

AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaCross-functional Team LeadershipDatabasesDistributed SystemsDjangoElasticsearchGenerative AIJavaLeadershipNew RelicNode.jsPHPProcess Improvement

About

With over 13 years of experience in the tech startup industry, I am a seasoned technology leader and tech applications expert. I have a strong background in software architecture design, data analytics, and cloud computing, as well as proficiency in Django, Python, nodejs, Spring Boot, Java, PHP, Elasticsearch, and AWS. Currently, I am the Head of Engineering at Rusk Media, a leading gaming and entertainment platform for Gen Z. I am responsible for building the tech team, setting up KPIs and processes, and driving growth through data-driven strategies. I have led the team to achieve significant improvements in application performance, response time, caching, concurrency, and infra cost reduction. I am passionate about creating engaging and immersive gaming experiences for the next generation of digital natives.

Experience

Playsuper

Head of Engineering

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Rusk media

Head of Engineering

Jan 2023Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · South Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

  • Building Rumble Gaming platform
Generative AIEngineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsSolution ArchitectureServer ArchitectureScalability+7

Wedmegood

Vice President Of Engineering

Jan 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • Wedmegood is India’s top wedding planning app. It is a wedding service aggregator network with 8 million+ page views and 1.5+ million+ MAUs.
  • Building the tech team and setting up KPIs and processes for efficient working of the tech team.
  • Led the team to bring Core Web Vitals to Green of all urls across the desktop and mweb.
  • Led the team to improve response time for core listing APIs from 3.4 sec to 0.5 sec.
  • Created the architecture for caching leading to reduction of 70% load on API servers.
  • Same APIs that used to peak at 70-80 req per minute now works on 200 req per minute.
  • Web concurrency improved to > 1000 users from 200-300 users while also reducing the infra cost.
  • Infra improvement to reduce AWS cost by 20%.
  • More than 50% reduction in page size from 2.9 mb to 1.2 mb for pages.
  • Improved app stability by reducing android crash rate from 5% to 0.02 %.
  • Setting up alerting and monitoring systems using new relic, sentry, kibana etc.
  • Increased focus on resolving issues reported by sentry for improved web stability leading to reduction of error count by 75%
  • Launch of multiple B2C products like E-invitations, Genie concierge , makeup packages.
  • Security audit & setting up security practices based on recommendations.
  • Engaging with various SAAS companies to explore new tools to increase productivity.
Cross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsDatabasesRedisLeadership+12

Healthassure

Vice President Of Engineering

Jul 2020Jan 2021 · 6 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • Healthassure is a B2B2C healthcare service aggregator network.
  • ● Driving growth through Data First strategy using MixPanel and GA extensively.
  • ● Created and redefined team structures with increased focus on technical excellence.
  • ● Completed data analytics funnels and several other projects which were stuck for the last one year.
  • ● Optimized app by reducing size by 20% and improved crash free users from 60% to 95%.
  • ● Creating a data bridge for integrating with National Health Stack.
Cross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsDatabasesSolution ArchitectureTeam Management+6

Moglix

Tech Lead

Feb 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Noida Area, India

  • ● Rebuilt supply chain architecture for Moglix
  • ● Moving supply chain monolithic system to spring boot based micro-service system
  • ● Scaling systems to 100k requests per hour.
  • ● Rewriting communication protocols to queue and pub-sub.
  • ● Led the team to build a data lake which streams all transactions across all databases to Kafka
  • ● Leading tech team of 15 people
  • ● Interviewing and hiring senior developers and architects
  • ● Setting up best engineering practices and other technical guidelines across multiple teams at Moglix
  • ● Technologies - Java, MySQL, MongoDB, CakePHP, SQS, Kafka
  • ● Aligning business and tech priorities
  • ● Working with business heads and product managers to create long-term tech strategy.
Cross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsDatabasesRedisSolution Architecture+7

Betterbutter

CTO

Sep 2015Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • BetterButter is a recipe-discovery platform of user generated text and video recipes having more than 1,50,000 text recipes and 15,000 video recipes in 7 indian languages. BetterButter website has 3.3+ million monthly page views and 800,000 app downloads.
  • Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.betterbutter.android&hl=en
  • IOS App - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/betterbutter-indian-recipes/id1136613532?mt=8
  • Website - https://www.betterbutter.in/
  • Joined the startup in its second month of operation.
  • Rebuilt the technology architecture in Django, Nodejs, MySQL, Redis and Elasticsearch.
  • Hired & managed distributed tech team and shipped out website and android app in 2 months.
  • Built a custom video tool through which users can create video recipes. User can shoot small clips, add subtitle/text on each clip, can choose different themes, choose music and add ingredients. All these videos then get combined and form a comprehensive video recipe, step by step video and a text recipe.
  • Used AWS Lambda to build an on-the-fly image resizing tool.
  • Communicating across different sections e.g product, marketing, operations etc. to ensure that a quality product is built while keeping the user feedback as a key component of development.
  • Repeatedly optimising server architectures for faster response times while keeping the server costs low.
Cross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsDatabasesRedisSolution Architecture+8

Zooter

Co Founder & CTO

Sep 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr · Goa, India

  • My own start-up. It was an aggregator for cricket academies, linkedin style portfolios for
  • cricketers, end-to-end match management web app & live scoring module (used in
  • Goa Premier League).
  • ○ Worked on all aspects of the product right from conceptualization to coding.
  • As the CTO, I was involved in hiring/interviewing the tech team, deciding
  • what technologies to be used and managing a team of 5 developers.
  • ○ Front-end Development - Bootstrap 3.0, Materializecss, material-ui, Jquery,
  • Highcharts and few other libraries.
  • ○ Front-end Server - NodeJS, ExpressJS and React JS. Used browserify and
  • watchify to compile react code.
  • ○ Back-end Server - Cakephp 2.6. Created REST API which is consumed by
  • the frontend server.
  • ○ Database - Mysql. Designed the database structure and used liquibase for
  • database version control.
  • ○ Real-time Server - NodeJS, Socket IO. Created realtime socket server using
  • JWT Auth.
  • ○ Caching - Redis. Created caching structure. Redis was also doubled up as a
  • session store.
Engineering LeadershipDatabasesRedisSolution ArchitectureServer ArchitectureScalability+3

Diet code

Software Architect

May 2013Sep 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Goa, India

  • Diet Code later
  • called Newscase was a german news aggregator app. Quite similar to Flipboard.
  • ○ Worked with CTOs to design backend architecture.
  • ○ Backend Server - Cakephp 2.1. Designed and created REST APIs
  • ○ Search Server - Created search server using Tornado and Solr
  • ○ Data Parser - Designed and developed a global data parser to aggregate news
  • feeds from multiple sources which were available in various formats like xml,
  • rss feed, json. It was quite robust and was able to handle multiple data
  • inconsistencies.
Engineering LeadershipDatabasesRedisSolution ArchitectureServer ArchitectureScalability+3

Alphabeta labs

Developer

Jul 2012May 2013 · 10 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Worked
  • on following web applications at Alpha Beta Labs :-
  • ○ Cancerlife : - It is a private invitation only social network for cancer patients
  • to communicate their emotional and physical status to family and friends so
  • that they can better respond to a patient’s needs. Cancerlife is developed using
  • Cakephp, Mysql, Twitter-Bootstrap and JavaScript libraries like jquery, ajax
  • and highcharts.
  • ○ Towngroove : - It is an event management company that bridges the gap
  • between event organizers and event-performers like DJs. Towngroove is
  • developed using Cakephp, Mysql, Twitter-Bootstrap, jquery and ajax.
  • ○ The Art Renter : - The Art Renter, founded in 2011, is a unique venture that
  • allows individuals, companies and organizations to rent original art pieces of
  • all values. Collaborating with artists and galleries, The Art Renter provides an
  • online catalogue through which paintings can be booked. The Art Renter is
  • developed using Cakephp, Mysql, jquery and ajax.
Cloud Computing

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

B.E. (Hons) — Electrical & Electronics

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sec-VIII, R.K.Puram, New Delhi

A.I.S.S.C.E — STD XII

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Indian Public School

A.I.S.C.E — STD X

Jan 2003Jan 2005

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