Rishi Bhardwaj — CTO

Professional Summary Experienced Software Engineer and Technical Leader with 10+ years in backend development, platform architecture, and team leadership. Proven expertise in Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and distributed systems. Successfully led platform teams supporting payment systems, fund management, and gaming applications at scale—strong background in system optimization, technical debt resolution, and cross-functional collaboration. Technical Skills Summary Java, Spring Boot, AWS, SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, AWS Aurora, Elasticache, RabbitMQ, System Architecture, Distributed Systems, Database Design, System Performance Optimization, Infrastructure Maintenance, Infrastructure Optimization, Infrastructure Rightsizing, Project Leadership Experience Games24x7 Tech Lead(Mar 2022 – Present) Leading the Platform Team to support Payment, Withdrawal, Fund Management, and Bonus Management across organizational offerings Drove Tech Debt resolution, operational improvement charters, and key feature development Actively involved in PR reviews, architectural design, and operations reviews for platform services Actively involved in hiring and setting up a team for my pod and for roles across the Org, across Developer roles Scaled system to support IPL scale Reduced infrastructure costs by 50% through optimization and rightsizing initiatives Lead minimal downtime migrations for mission-critical services by ensuring data correctness, data replay, and rollback steps(if needed) Received Extra Mile Award for leading R/D initiatives across the Organisation, resulting in a 50% improvement in R/D after GST implementation for RummyCircle. On average, completed tasks at 2x the normal sprint velocity for this and was recognised across the org Senior Software Engineer (Oct 2019–Dec 2020) Worked on scalability, system optimization, and database improvements Supported new features that led to a 50% jump in revenue. These included Leaderboards, game timer optimizations Received the Spot Award for fixing a long-term issue of stuck games using Redis locking Software Development Engineer (Apr 2018–Oct 2019) Contributed to backend development for payment and gaming services Participated in architecture discussions and system performance enhancements Oracle – Remote / Bengaluru, India IC3(Dec 2020– Mar 2022) Worked on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Block Storage IaaS offering Responsibilities: Feature development, on-call handling, ticket resolution, architectural reviews, and hiring Dell Technologies (EMC) – Bengaluru, India Software Engineer (August 2015 – April 2018)

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Fintech and Cloud Infrastructure.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 11 yrs 1 mo

Skills

Java
Aws
System Architecture
Cloud Infrastructure
Feature Development
System Optimization
Database Management
Backend Development
System Performance
Containerization
Distributed Systems

Career Highlights

Led platform team to optimize payment systems.
Achieved 50% reduction in infrastructure costs.
Recognized for outstanding contributions and sprint velocity.

Work Experience

Games24x7

Technical Lead (4 yrs 1 mo)

Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 2 mos)

Software Development Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)

Oracle

Software Development Engineer 3 (1 yr 3 mos)

EMC

Software Engineer (2 yrs 8 mos)

Oracle

Student Intern (5 mos)

Education

Bachelor’s Degree at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

High School at Delhi Public School, Bhilai

Rishi Bhardwaj

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led platform team to optimize payment systems.
Achieved 50% reduction in infrastructure costs.
Recognized for outstanding contributions and sprint velocity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Fintech and Cloud Infrastructure.

Contact

rishi2861993@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

JavaAwsSystem ArchitectureCloud InfrastructureFeature DevelopmentSystem OptimizationDatabase ManagementBackend DevelopmentSystem PerformanceContainerizationDistributed Systems

Other Skills

AWS AuroraAgile ModelingAkkaAnsibleArchitectural reviewsCC++Database improvementsDatabasesDockerEclipseElasticacheGaming servicesGitHTML

About

Experience

11 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Games24x7

3 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading the Platform Team to support Payment, Withdrawal, Fund Management, and Bonus Management across organizational offerings.
Added new Gateways and Banks for all gateways to ensure redundancy and Load sharing. Integrated reconciliation mechanisms with banks, resulting in a 100% decrease in average Payout TAT from an average of 2 hours to within 1 hour, reducing Customer complaints by 80%.
Drove Tech Debt resolution, operational improvement charters, and key feature development.
Actively involved in PR reviews, architectural design, and operations reviews for platform services.
Actively involved in hiring and setting up a team for my pod and for roles across the Org, across Developer roles.
Scaled system to support IPL scale with 2.5K RPS Add Cash resulting in upto 2.5 million joins per minute per and 500 RPS withdrawals, migrated from Redis to Elasticache. Helped reduce Latency for Add Cash calls from near 1 second for 1k RPS to around 50ms for 2.5KRPS.
Reduced infrastructure costs by 50% through optimization and rightsizing initiatives: Mongo version upgrade from 3.x to 4.2 and 6.x, Spring to SpringBoot and Java 21 migration to help migrate to AWS Graviton instances, MySQL migration from MySQL 5.6 to self managed MySQL 8.0.
Scaled service to consume and persist offers at the rate of 4 million offers per minute, improving scaling by a 1000% to support increased offer attachments per user.
Lead minimal downtime migrations for mission-critical services by ensuring data correctness, data replay, and rollback steps(if needed).
Received Extra Mile Award for leading R/D initiatives across the Organisation, resulting in 50% improvement in R/D after GST implementation for RummyCircle. On average, completed tasks at 2x the normal sprint velocity for this and was recognised across the org.
Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, AWS, SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, AWS Aurora (MySQL), Elasticache, AWS Lambda, System Architecture, Distributed Systems

JavaSpring BootAWSSQLMongoDBRedis+5

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

ScalabilitySystem optimizationDatabase improvementsSystem OptimizationDatabase Management

Software Development Engineer

Apr 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

Backend developmentPayment servicesGaming servicesBackend DevelopmentSystem Performance

Oracle

Software Development Engineer 3

Dec 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Remote

Worked as Senior Software Engineer on Block Storage IAAS Offering of Oracle Cloud Storage.
Worked on Feature development, oncall and ticket handling, architectural reviews and hiring.

Feature developmentArchitectural reviewsOn-call handlingTicket resolutionCloud InfrastructureFeature Development

Emc

Software Engineer

Aug 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Projects:
o Description: Optimizing the networking, communication and orchestration of Docker container clusters for distributed and highly scalable environments
Role: Team member/Developer
Contribution: Implemented a POC on Networking around Docker using OpensVswitch to compare the benefits of using Vagrant and Ansible for orchestration of Virtual machines running Docker container clusters in the production environment.
Technology Used: Docker, OpenVswitch, Ansible, Vagrant
o Description: Incorporating new features and fixing JIRA issues in Account Service, a wrapper around Keystone, which is used by OpenStack for authentication and high-level authorization.
Role: Team member/Developer
Contribution:
Incorporated following features:
 LDAP syntax validation using regex based on RFC’s
 lockout mechanism on multiple failed login attempts
 Migrating keystone container’s startup script from shell to python,
 Generalizing the current code base from using dependent libraries to using open source libraries
 Including new libraries to include new libraries for etcd and logstash.
 Tested the above-incorporated features on Virtual cluster environment.
Technology used: Docker, Java, Ansible, Gradle
o Description: Incorporating new features for ESM(Enterprise Server Management ) team, a part of the SAS product
suite for managing the server side of the network topology
Role: Team member/Developer
Contribution:
 Instrumental in integrating the product with OpenStack hosts and services.
 Restructured the code for using AMQP queues (rabbitmq).
 Integrating the product with Kafka messaging service.
 Solving critical customer issues.
Technology used: Java, Kafka, AMQP(RabbitMQ)
Achievements:
o Team player of the month .
o Bronze award for contribution to Neutrino 1.1 release.

DockerOpenVswitchAnsibleJavaKafkaContainerization+1

Oracle

Student Intern

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Projects:
o Description: Including new plugins for the Oracle Enterprise Manager’s extensibility team.
Role: Team member/Developer
Contribution: Extended functionalities in the modules which mostly involved security issues (abstraction of information), incorporating new plugins, adding automation for various parameter checks
Tools Used: JDEV IDE.

Oracle Enterprise ManagerJDEV IDE