Varun Singh — VP of Engineering

Accomplished engineering leader with 17+ years of experience architecting secure, performant, highly available, low-latency, distributed systems catering to multi-million user traﬀic. Proficient in stakeholder management and leading diverse engineering teams, including recruiting, mentoring, and providing technical oversight to Dev, QA, Architects, Techops, DevOps etc. Demonstrated success in overseeing engineering managers, principal engineers, senior tech leads, etc., and fostering a high-performance culture with strong collaboration. Skills: Management & Leadership : Stakeholder Management, Team Building, Coaching, Mentorship, Strategic Planning, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Project Planning, Budgeting, Resource Allocation, Hiring, SLA Definition, Talent Recruitment & Mentoring, Building High-Performance Culture, Technical Oversight. Technical : Programming Language: Java, Python, C#, JS(Javascript) Frameworks, SDKs, and Tools: Git, SubVersion, IntelliJ Idea, Gradle, Java Spring-boot, Mockito, Mistral, JUnit, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Spark, Airflow/Dehleez Databases/Cache/FileSystem: Mysql, MongoDB, Redis, Aerospike, DynamoDb, Influxdb, Cassandra, NewSql, HDFS Messaging : Kafka, RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ Protocols: HTTP, Stomp, Protobuf, Websockets, and REST Cloud: Openstack , AWS(S3, Dynamo, Data Pipelines, SES, EC2 etc) . Domains: Digital Bank, Digital Payments(Fintech), Database-as-a-service (Cloud), Ecomm(Seller Platform), Casino, E-gov etc.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in engineering management and distributed systems architecture.

Location: Delhi, India

Experience: 17 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Engineering Management
Digital Payments
Data Governance
Analytics
Infrastructure Management
Devops
Software Architecture
Microservices
Database Management
Software Design
Team Mentoring
Web Applications

Career Highlights

17+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expert in architecting high-performance distributed systems.
Proficient in stakeholder management and team mentoring.

Work Experience

Paytm Payments Bank

Associate Vice President - II (3 yrs 11 mos)

Associate Vice President - I (11 mos)

Director of Engineering (1 yr 11 mos)

Senior Engineering Manager (7 mos)

Paytm

Senior Engineering Manager (5 mos)

Engineering Manager/ Architect (11 mos)

Reliance Jio

Senior Software Engineer/ Manager (2 yrs 3 mos)

Snapdeal

Software Engineer (1 yr)

Amazon

Software Development Engineer II (1 yr 1 mo)

Aristocrat

Sr. Software Engineer II (3 yrs 4 mos)

RV Solutions pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer (9 mos)

Indus Valley Partners

Associate Software Engineer (1 yr 2 mos)

Education

B.E at Delhi College of Engineering

Varun Singh

VP of Engineering

Delhi, India17 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expert in architecting high-performance distributed systems.
Proficient in stakeholder management and team mentoring.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in engineering management and distributed systems architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementDigital PaymentsData GovernanceAnalyticsInfrastructure ManagementDevopsSoftware ArchitectureMicroservicesDatabase ManagementSoftware DesignTeam MentoringWeb Applications

Other Skills

.NET.NET FrameworkADO.NETAJAXAJAX ToolkitASP.NETAWSAWS Data PipelinesActiveMQAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon DynamoDBAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)C#

About

Experience

Paytm payments bank

4 roles

Associate Vice President - II

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

Led the engineering for Bank Middleware Systems like Bank Authentication System(>45k tps and scalable to 120k tps), Bank User Profile System(300 million+ users), Device Binding, Notification(>10k tps), OTP, Subscriptions Platform , Super Recon( i.e, Regulatory recons in Bank)Platform , Payment Hub, LMS( Hard Limit Management System for UPI Payments), Fraud Management System, Onboarding Engine Platform, KYC Platform and DWH(Data WareHouse System) etc. ensuring scalability to meet high transactional volumes. Handling more than 1/3rd of Bank Engineering portfolio.
Collaborated with stakeholders to align tech strategies with company vision, working closely with Business, Product, Compliance, Operations, and Legal teams.
Implemented AI coding tools (cursor/github copilot) at bank scale. Orchestrated vendor evaluations, security reviews, and procurement. Accelerated feature delivery, code quality in bank while enforcing coding best practices.
DWH (Data Lake): Led end-to-end management of the enterprise Data Lake(DWH) in the banking domain, ensuring secure, reliable, and optimized data pipelines with strong governance to support compliance, analytics, and reporting for the business.
Setup of Bank Data Center( Ctrls & Nextra ) as part of our long term cost initiative and compliance requirements for Bank along with the Devops, Network, Infra and Data Center teams and migrated critical applications from AWS to Data Center.

Software Architectural DesignDigital PaymentsMicroservicesEngineering ManagementManaging ManagersDistributed Systems+3

Associate Vice President - I

Apr 2022 – Mar 2023 · 11 mos

Software Architectural DesignDigital PaymentsMicroservicesManaging ManagersDistributed SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)+3

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Software Architectural DesignDigital PaymentsMicroservicesManaging ManagersDistributed SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)+3

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2019 – Apr 2020 · 7 mos

Software Architectural DesignDigital PaymentsMicroservicesManaging ManagersDistributed SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)+3

Paytm

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2019 – Sep 2019 · 5 mos

Head of Engineering of Insurance Tech - comprises of 40+ engineers inside the team.
Led backend of Digital Proxy & Mini Apps.

Software Architectural DesignDigital PaymentsMicroservicesEngineering ManagementManaging ManagersDistributed Systems+3

Engineering Manager/ Architect

May 2018 – Apr 2019 · 11 mos

Led Engineering for Paytm- Transportation team (All intracity travel e.g. Metros, Bus ticketing, IOCL Rewards etc.)
Led Digital Payments (All kind of Recharges & Bill Payments) tech team

Software Architectural DesignDigital PaymentsMicroservicesSoftware ArchitectureDistributed SystemAmazon Web Services (AWS)+1

Reliance jio

Senior Software Engineer/ Manager

Feb 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · India

Design ,architect, develop Jio Cloud RDS (Database as a service) platform. We were creating public cloud platform in Jio and my team was working on building public cloud Database as a service platform for customers just like AWS RDS platform.
Created different independent REST based micro-services, Instance Agents in Java(Spring boot) and Python(Pecan).
Developed complete monitoring service and auto recovery feature for each database instance in production
Mentoring/ Leading a team of 3 people, providing technical work and guidance to build the system efficiently which involves working with Java, Mysql, Mistral, Openstack etc.
Technology used : Java, Spring Boot, Python, Git , AWS services, Openstack , mistral, Mysql etc.

Software Architectural DesignMySQLMicroservicesSpring BootOpenStackJava+5

Snapdeal

Software Engineer

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

Design, development and testing of snapdeal seller platform - for onboarding seller products on snapdeal platform with validation and QC and pushing both products and dynamic price data for products to downstream systems with various in-built pipelines .
Worked on building Pricing and Product Pipelines using Multithreaded Java app , Messaging Queues(ActiveMQ), MongoDb.
Worked on building Web application for QC for onboarding products so that product can be manually verified by QC team before any further processing. The functionality given to them was creating draft of product and verifying each and every field of a product.The coding involves working in Java, Spring MVC(with REST architecture) framework and on database side using Mysql.
Mentoring/Leading a team of 7-8 people, distributing work among them and providing proper guidance for building product and also having interaction with Product Managers and QA team for proper execution of the functionalities.
Technology used : Java, Spring MVC, Git, ActiveMQ, MongoDb, AWS services.

Software Architectural DesignMicroservicesTeam MentoringMongoDBDistributed SystemSoftware Design+5

Amazon

Software Development Engineer II

Oct 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

Worked on “Report A Problem” maps feature and was mainly responsible for server side - Development, Design and requirement gathering of creating web service for reporting a problem in maps. This requires coding in Java, using Spring MVC framework, DynamoDb for data store and workflow systems etc.
Developed the initial framework for backup, restore and validation of customer feedbacks. This requires AWS datapipelines, DynamoDb and S3.
Mentoring juniors in team and coordination with cross functional Teams, requirement gathering and communication with vendors(Here Maps Managers) for requirements/problem fixing
Technology used : Java, Spring MVC , S3, DynamoDb, AWS Data pipelines, Git and other amazon internal technology.

Web ApplicationsMicroservicesAmazon S3AWS Data PipelinesSpring MVCAmazon DynamoDB+2

Aristocrat

Sr. Software Engineer II

Jun 2010 – Oct 2013 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Design and development of various casino related products.
Worked on different web\windows services to handle different casino\player related operations.These were multithreaded applications, Asp.net web applications and also WCF services. This involves coding in C#, Asp.net,JS, WCF, Sql Server etc.
Mentoring of Juniors in the team for technical help.
Technology used : C#, Linq , Asp.net, WCF services, Sql Server, TFS ,VSS etc.

MicroservicesTeam MentoringMicrosoft SQL ServerLINQASP.NETDistributed Systems+2

Rv solutions pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer

Sep 2009 – Jun 2010 · 9 mos

Development, Design, Requirement gathering, Testing and Implementing Algorithms of Reservation roster for allotting post to different reserved categories in a web application.
Worked on a web application to maintain officer information and for monitoring and implementation of Transfer & Posting orders issued by a govt. department.
Worked on web application to store, track, maintaining status and generating reports of acrs of different govt. officers.
Technology used : C#, Asp.net, WCF services, Sql Server, TFS ,VSS etc.

Microsoft SQL ServerAJAXHTMLASP.NET.NET FrameworkWCF Services

Indus valley partners

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos

Worked in IVP for creating various applications for Hedge Funds and I-Banks. Also created a web application from scratch for internal employee management inside IVP.
Technologies Used: .Net 3.5,Asp.net 2.0,c#,Sql Server 2005,Ajax,Html , Xml ,WCF.