Pulkit Swarup

CTO

Gurugram, Haryana, India19 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20 years of engineering leadership experience.
  • Expert in building scalable platform-based applications.
  • Proven track record in driving product innovation and transformation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in scalable applications and microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipArchitectureProduct DevelopmentMicroservicesTeam ManagementPerformancePerformance MonitoringDatabase ManagementPerformance Optimization

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementApacheBudgetingContainerizationCore JavaDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsDockerEmerging TechnologiesExpress.jsGitHigh AvailabilityIntegration ManagementJSON

About

Seasoned engineering leader with ~20 yrs of experience, currently Sr. Vice President - Engineering (CTO Office) at PhysicsWallah Previously, worked with BrowserStack, Naukri, Nykaa, and other leading tech companies, where I have driven product innovation, growth, and transformation. Expert in building scalable platform-based applications, specializing in web development, microservices, and agile methodologies. Passionate about delivering customer-centric solutions, fostering collaboration, and driving business growth. Experienced in leading cross-functional teams and aligning engineering with business strategy. Let’s connect to drive innovation together!

Experience

Pw (physicswallah)

Sr. Vice President - Engineering

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Browserstack

Senior Director of Engineering

Nov 2023Jun 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • BrowserStack is a SaaS-based, end-to-end testing platform trusted by 50,000+ customers worldwide, enabling 6M+ developers and supporting 1B+ annual test cases across a global network of 19 data centres running 3000+ real devices/browsers
  • Leading 50+ member Automation & Observability engineering teams, driving overall technical strategy, OKR execution, architecture, development, quality, budget engineering and operational excellence.
Technical VisionTechnology LeadershipOKRsArchitectureBudgetingOperational Excellence+1

Nykaa

2 roles

Director Of Engineering

Jan 2021Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Led the development of pre and post order fulfillment journeys, including inventory, allocation, delivery timelines, and seller experience
  • Developed scalable, multi-model marketplace and inventory applications supporting B2C, B2B, and B2B2C business models, including JIT, SOR, and OR frameworks.
  • Managed the development of high-traffic, multi-tenant platform microservices.
  • Define tech roadmap, OKRs and strategic plans
  • Established different metrics to drive engineering and operational excellence across the organization
  • Manage a team of 40+ members, including Backend, Frontend, Apps(iOS& Android), DevOps & QA
Product DevelopmentMicroservicesTeam ManagementOKRsScalable Applications

Head Of Engineering | Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Deliver as Head Of Engineering for https://www.nykaafashion.com
  • Collaborated with the CEO and CXOs to define the tech roadmap, OKRs, and strategic plans.
  • Led the 0-to-1 journey from catalog management and category enablement to order fulfillment
  • Led monolith to microservices migration, enhancing scalability & availability, promoting rapid development of new features
  • Managed stakeholders and vendors, driving integrations, developments, and build-vs-buy decisions.
  • Managed a team of 20+ members, including Backend, Frontend, Apps(iOS & Android), DevOps & QA
MicroservicesTeam ManagementOKRsScalabilityIntegration Management

Coosto (eindhoven, the netherlands)

Senior Engineer

Jan 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Eindhoven Area, Netherlands · On-site

  • Responsible for development/maintenance of new services and help convert existing ones into new smaller, independent ones.
  • Migration of existing monolithic code base to microservices oriented architecture.
  • Responsible for building platform to support performance, security, scalability and high availability.
  • Defining and documenting architecture and technical solutions.
  • Introduction and development to/in clean code principles (SOLID, KISS, DRY, etc.)
  • Tech Stack: PHP, Laravel, Node.js, Express.js, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD, Nginx, Apache, Microservices, RestAPI, SOA, PHPUnit
MicroservicesPerformanceSecurityScalabilityHigh Availability

Naukri.com

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager / Technical Architect

Promoted

Apr 2013Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Led planning, monitoring, and management of all website aspects (e.g., performance, uptime, error reporting), successfully improving overall uptime from 96% to 99.6%
  • Developed website performance & application monitoring application receiving over 40 million requests per day
  • Managed team resources and mentoring, focusing on accountability, resource allocation, team cohesion, motivation, and process adherence
  • Research, development, and deployment of emerging technologies
  • Implemented containerization and developed a proof of concept (POC) for environment setup using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Managed a team of 12+ members, including Backend & Frontend
  • Tech Stack: PHP, MySQL, Symfony, Node.js, Express.js, Redis, RabbitMQ, Nginx, Apache, RestAPI, SOA, Capistrano, Bash Scripting, Restify
Performance MonitoringTeam ManagementEmerging TechnologiesContainerizationResource Allocation

Project Manager ← Team Lead ← SSE ← SE

Apr 2006Nov 2013 · 7 yrs 7 mos

  • Contributed to developing multiple projects serving a user base of over 20 million.
  • Managed large-scale databases (400G+), successfully sharding, partitioning and optimising the application performance
  • Successfully launched multilingual website (in Arabic) using Google Translation API (and built in-house dictionary system for cost/performance optimization)
  • Massively improved site performance by improving search ranking & visibility with numerous SEO projects
  • Received “Star Performer Award” for the October-December 2009
  • Received “Team Excellence Award” for the 2011-12
  • Tech Stack: PHP, MySQL, Symfony, Memcached, Apache, RestAPI, SOA, Capistrano, Bash Scripting, Perl
Database ManagementSEOMultilingual Website DevelopmentPerformance Optimization

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Senior Leadership Programme

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science & Engineering

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