Lokesh Basu

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led technical advancements in Fintech at Hike.
  • Increased ad revenue to $500K+ at Udaan.
  • Developed India's first VR design collaboration software.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and MarTech expert with strong VR product engineering skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software ManagementEngineering ManagementPaymentsBackendProduct RiskAdvertisement TechnologyData AnalyticsBackend DevelopmentVr Product EngineeringVr Framework Development

Other Skills

3D ModelingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentApache KafkaApache OozieApache SparkBackend SystemsBig DataBig Data AnalyticsCC#C++CSSData StructuresData Validation

About

At Hike, my focus has been on leading the technological advancements for Wallet, Payments (UPI), and Product Risk. My team's mission is to streamline financial transactions and safeguard our products, delivering an exceptional user experience in a secure environment. Our efforts are pivotal in maintaining the integrity and reliability of Hike's services. Previously, at Udaan and Hotstar, I contributed to shaping the future of Advertisement technology. Developing cutting-edge solutions, I played a key role in enabling advertisers to engage with their audiences more effectively. My dedication to innovation and quality has always been driven by a passion for creating impactful technology that resonates with users' needs.

Experience

Amazon

Software Engineering Manager

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Working with a group of passionate and extremely talented engineers and leaders to develop a platform that powers Quick Commerce across the world for Amazon, including Amazon Now for India, the US, MENA, and more to follow soon.
Software ManagementEngineering ManagementSoftware Product Management

Hike

Engineering Manager

Sep 2022Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Managing Tech for Gaming, Payments, Wallet, Taxes, and Product Risk.
  • Lead a team of six engineers, driving technical strategy, and high-level architecture.
  • Process $1 million+ in payments on a daily basis for more than 20 million users.
  • Actively involved in hands-on coding.
  • Automated payment gateway routing, reducing downtime and improving success rates
  • Implemented fraud detection systems to prevent game matchmaking collusion and
  • withdrawal fraud.
TechPaymentsWalletProduct RiskBackendTeam Leadership

Udaan.com

Product Engineer - Advertisement

Nov 2020Sep 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked with ownership of both engineering and product development for Ads Tech.
  • Owned and scaled ad monetization solutions for Display Ads (static & video).
  • Helped increase the Ad Revenue to $500K+ per month.
  • Actively contributed to backend and frontend development.
Advertisement TechnologyBackend DevelopmentFrontend Development

Hotstar

Software Engineer - Ads Data & Backend

Jan 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Founding Engineer for the Digital + TV Advertisement project.
  • Built real-time data pipelines for Ad targeting, bidding, and analytics, for performance
  • optimization ensuring seamless Ad delivery across digital and TV platforms across 300million+ monthly active users.
  • Responsible for designing and implementing backend systems and data pipelines from
  • scratch.
  • Worked closely with data scientists, product managers, and sales teams to optimize Ad
  • targeting and enhance campaign performance.
Real-time Data PipelinesBackend SystemsData Analytics

Rippling

Software Engineer

Jul 2018Dec 2018 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Founding Engineer for Insurance Tech Systems where I helped design and implement a
  • backend system for crawling, aggregating, and validating insurance data from multiple
  • sources in the USA.
  • Developed automated data validation algorithms, achieving ~90% accuracy in detecting
  • mismatches and inconsistencies.
  • Built the entire system from scratch using Django and Python, ensuring scalability and
  • maintainability.
Backend DevelopmentData ValidationDjangoPython

Smartvizx - we are vr®

Senior Software Engineer | SmartVizX VR Product Engineering

Nov 2016Jul 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Founding Engineer for Trezi Suite – India’s First VR Design Collaboration Software where I
  • helped design and implement the product architecture for rendering and interacting
  • with 3D models inside a VR environment.
  • Developed custom VR file formats to enable seamless streaming of large 3D files
  • without data loss.
  • Built real-time rendering and interaction models, enabling smooth multi-user VR
  • collaboration.
VR Product Engineering3D ModelingReal-time Rendering

Zerive technology private limited

Founder

Dec 2015Nov 2016 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Built a real-time healthcare search and home service platform.
  • Designed and developed the entire backend, frontend framework, and iOS app.
  • Managed a team of 17, overseeing product development, strategy, and operational
  • execution.

Samsung electronics

Software Engineer | GearVR Team

Jul 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Virtual Reality
  • Founding Engineer for GearVR - VR framework team at Samsung R&D where I helped
  • develop an Android framework for scene graph rendering, optimizing VR experiences
  • on mobile devices.
  • Designed high-performance rendering pipelines in Android, ensuring low-latency VR
  • interaction to enhance performance on Samsung VR devices.
  • Worked with graphics engineers, product managers, and hardware teams to
  • improve VR application performance and usability.
  • https://github.com/SRIB-GRAPHICS/GearVRf
  • https://github.com/Samsung/GearVRf
Backend DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentiOS Development

Alethe consulting pvt ltd

Summer Intern

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Our project was to identify the current challenges with Hadoop architecture and propose as well as implement the improved solution. We came up with a new version of the scheduling that could schedule the job, prioritizing the assignment of local job rather than non-local job. The proposed new scheduling algorithm was able to obtain the highest data locality rate and the lowest average response time for map tasks. This improved scheduling helped us decrease unnecessary inter-rack network bandwidth as well as localize and maximize the computational work to the TaskTrackers which had the data required for the processing of the job locally. This also helped us decrease the load on the scheduler queue as most of the job were now assigned without following the strict restriction of FIFO and were also avoiding deadlock between jobs. Our project also compromised of proposing impovements for specific uses like real-time Big-Data analysis using Hadoop.
VR Framework DevelopmentAndroid Development

Ifest iit roorkee

Convener

Apr 2012Apr 2013 · 1 yr · Roorkee

  • IEEE student chapter, IITR presents you iFest, the online technical festival, a platform for engineering geniuses across the globe to showcase their intellectual might. The fest aims at bringing together the engineering virtuoso and the industrial wizards for the upsurge of science and technology. Here, you will the feel the ease of unveiling your creativity from wherever you are. Now distances can't hold you back from competing with the best of technical geeks. So sharpen your skills and get ready to be a part of this battle of ignited minds.

Geek gazette

Web Development Manager

Jan 2012May 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · IIT Roorkee

  • Geek Gazette, IIT Roorkee's official technical magazine aims to satisfy the geek inside every one of us by providing insightful artices, tricks & latest tech researches. Grab an issue and u'll proudly wanna call urself an uber geek.

Nss iit roorkee

Web Development Manager

Jun 2011Jun 2012 · 1 yr · IIT Roorkee

  • With the goal to work for the betterment of society and instill the spirit of social service among the young students, IIT Roorkee established NSS at institute level, headed by Dean of Students Welfare, IIT Roorkee.Currently, NSS, IIT Roorkee has over 700 active members from different disciplines, working rigorously for community health care, literacy drives, and environmental protection. Blood donation camps, AIDS awareness camps, informative lecture on Human values are organized regularly. A total of 8400 hours dedicated by only 1st yearites to NSS IITR, this year. As highlighted by the motto ' Not for me, but for the nation ' the aim of the organization is to produce engineers, who are socially responsible, and work for the development of nation.

Ieee student chapter iit roorkee

Secretary

Apr 2011Apr 2013 · 2 yrs · Roorkee

  • IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.

Ifest 2011

Web Development Manager

Mar 2011Sep 2011 · 6 mos · IIT Roorkee

  • IEEE student chapter, IITR presents you iFest, the online technical festival, a platform for engineering geniuses across the globe to showcase their intellectual might. The fest aims at bringing together the engineering virtuoso and the industrial wizards for the upsurge of science and technology. Here, you will the feel the ease of unveiling your creativity from wherever you are. Now distances can't hold you back from competing with the best of technical geeks. So sharpen your skills and get ready to be a part of this battle of ignited minds.

Spic macay

Team Member

Jun 2010Jun 2012 · 2 yrs · IIT Roorkee

  • SPIC MACAY IIT Roorkee Chapter, as elsewhere, is managed by a group of student enthusiasts who are engaged in a constant endeavor to create further awareness and appreciation of our culture. With the doyens of classical music and dance lending their support to the movement, the IIT Roorkee Chapter organizes a number of programs on campus as well as in the neighboring schools.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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