Sachin Gupta

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of Solid Platform 2.0 with compliance focus.
Reduced infrastructure costs by 40% through strategic insights.
Scaled Unacademy platform to support millions of users.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong technology leadership and management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipTechnology ManagementComplianceSecurity

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAngularJSCC++CSSData StructuresDjangoHTMLJavaScriptLinuxMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft WordMobile Game DevelopmentMySQL

About

CTO @ Solid, Ex - Livspace, Unacademy, Goibibo With over a decade of experience in the tech industry, my core competencies lie in technology leadership and management. At Solid, I am responsible for aligning technology functions with our business goals to foster innovation and growth. My mission is to leverage my expertise in Python and compliance to support the company's vision, infusing our culture with diverse perspectives and practices that catalyze success. Recently, my focus has been on spearheading the development of the Solid Platform 2.0, working closely with the CPO and CEO to ensure its design meets the highest standards of reconciliation, compliance, and security. I've also been instrumental in improving cross-team communication and processes, resulting in increased productivity and a more efficient development cycle. Additionally, my strategies have successfully reduced infrastructure costs by 40%, demonstrating my commitment to cost-saving without compromising quality or security.

Experience

10 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Solid

2 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

Led and managed all technology functions - Platform, Application, DevSecOps & Quality consisting of upto 30 members in alignment with business goals and objectives.
Solid Platform 2.0 - Worked with CPO & CEO and tech teams to build the design and architecture for
Solid Platform v2.0 from ground up with built in reconciliation, compliance & security as per the banking standards.
Cross Team Efforts - Worked on improving the cross team communication and processes resulting into higher productivity and efficient development cycle.
Cost Saving Efforts - Worked on reducing the infrastructure costs by 40% using insights from CloudHealth platform and AWS.
Compliance & Security - Led the efforts of renewing the compliance certifications (PCI & SOC II) along with mandatory security trainings for all the employees.

Technology ManagementTechnology Leadership

Head of Platform Engineering

Nov 2020 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Architected & headed the development of Solid Platform from ground up which supported 4 major products - Onboarding & Verification, Banking, Payments and Cards and integrated with 30+ partners like Alloy, DCI, Stripe, i2c, VGS, Visa DPS etc.
Collaborated with the other teams - DevSecOps, Quality Engineering and Application Engineering for smooth development and launching high quality and scalable features.
Process Development - Setup all the technical processes for the ever growing development and team ranging from development methodologies, deployment lifecycle management, quality processes, On-Call rotation, Sprint planning & Daily Standup.
Donning multiple hats of a Product Manager and Engineering Manager as and when required and worked with the CEO to work on refining the product requirements and then working with the engineering team to implement and launch them on time.

Livspace.com

Software Architect & Team Lead (3D Design Tools)

May 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Roles & Responsibilities -
Led and managed all Engineering (Dev & QA) efforts of 3D Design Tool & Ecosystem team of 12 members, one of the biggest and most performant engineering team at Livspace.
Set up various processes like On-call process, Dev & QA process, Sprint planning, Daily Standup, Documentation and Test cases for new services thus improving overall productivity and efficiency of the team.
Revamped 3D Design Tool with enhanced UX and various new functionalities to design Modular Kitchens in 3D.
Design Library 2.0 - Auto tagging of Designs, Improved Filters & Search Discovery backed by ES which resulted in decrease of API response time by 90%, 10X Increase in search usage, 5X increase in filters usage and 3X CTA increment.
HQ Rendering - Led the efforts of improving the real time 3D Rendering to HQ Rendering with a modular and scalable rendering engine making the renders look real with lighting and shadow managers.
3MS (Model & Material Management System) - Conceptualised, designed and framed architecture of a new system to manage the lifecycle of textures, materials and models which are used in rendering and decoupled the 3D system from in-house catalog system.
Search & Discovery (Docket) - Conceptualised, designed and framed architecture of a new service to remove tight coupling from in-house catalog system improving the designer experience for products search and discovery.
Collaboration with End User - Made the design tool available for the end user to visualise and collaborate with designer in real time along with tagged comments on products to iterate over the design.

Unacademy

Co-Founder & Head of Engineering

Jul 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Roles & Responsibilities -
To strategise, design and implementation of product features based on requirements
Ensure development, testing and deployment of the product on multiple platforms and devices
Collaboration with other teams for gathering requirements, their refinement and implementation
Ensure stability of servers and to keep overall system up and running 24x7
Initiated the organisational processes like peer reviews to ensure quality of code and daily scrum meeting to identify and resolve blockers of the team
Responsible for hiring and scaling of engineering team
Designed data flow & code architecture of backend systems
Wrote high quality and scalable backend services & API's Scaled up the platform to support 150K lesson, 15K Courses, 2M Users, 6K Educators and 10M monthly views

Ibibo group

Software Developer

Nov 2014 – Jun 2015 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Technologies involved : PHP, Codeigniter , Javascript, JQuery, MySQL, HTML, XML

Commonfloor

Software Developer Engineer

Aug 2014 – Oct 2014 · 2 mos · Bangalore

I worked with Data-Ops team to develop and enhance the internal tools which served as the central point for all the data entry, processing, report generation and other internal requirements.
Technologies involved are PHP, Zend, Python, MySQL, MongoDB, Git.

Shopibin

Founder

Jul 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

A web based cashback platform where users can earn cashback when they shop from their favourite e- commerce sites through Shopibin.
A Chrome extension to provide great user experience where users just have to press Ctrl+M before creating the cart to earn cashback on their purchase.
Kept the operations running for ~2 years before shutting it down.

Cisco systems (india) pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer

Aug 2013 – Jul 2014 · 11 mos · Bangalore

I worked with platform dependent team on defect fixes and feature enhancement of the Cisco’s proprietary router's operating system.
Technologies involved were C, Clear Case