Yagyank Chadha

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams to increase revenue from $2M to $30M.
  • Developed a recommendation system for inventory management.
  • Designed a financial services platform from scratch.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Fintech and Cloud Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipArchitectural DesignCloud ComputingSystems DesignLeadershipAmazon Web Services (aws)Apache KafkaJavaDistributed SystemsKafka

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAWS LambdaApache CamelCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cloud StorageElasticSearchEngineering ManagementGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)HTML5JavaScriptKotlinKubernetesLinux

About

CONTACT: yagyank@gmail.com Experienced Research And Development Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. I have worked on distributed systems scaling to millions of people. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor's Degree focused in Computer Science from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Experience

Google

Software Engineering Manager

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Technical LeadershipArchitectural DesignCloud StorageProduct Development

Flexport

Engineering Manager

Mar 2022Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • People Leadership: Transitioned and led 4 backend engineering teams (Channels, Parcel, Carrier Network, Public API) relocated from global locations to India; built a high-performing team.
  • Team Culture & Development: Drove a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous learning. Initiated company-wide tech sessions to foster cross-team collaboration and shared domain expertise.
  • Recruitment & Onboarding: Managed recruitment processes, including feedback, compensation, and team selection reviews, ensuring the onboarding of top talent.
  • Project Risk Management: Identified and mitigated architectural and delivery risks early in complex, cross-team projects. Actively managed dependencies, introduced fail-safes, and conducted risk reviews with stakeholders.
  • Revenue Growth: Increased annual revenue from $2M to $30M by developing high-impact features, enhancing OMS integrations, and improving tracking visibility.
  • Technical Leadership: Directed architectural decisions and developed key features for the Storage division. Delivered a recommendation system for inventory management using AWS Lambda, messaging queues, REST APIs, and MySQL DB.
  • Stakeholder Management: Managed relationships with Product Managers, Directors, and cross-functional teams. Aligned engineering efforts with business objectives and communicated technical concepts in business terms.
  • Company-Wide Technical Leadership: Contributed to reducing AWS costs by 30% by improving logging, provisioning correct instance types, and improving system performance.
  • Strategic Roadmap Planning: Collaborated with Product Managers and Directors to design and execute quarterly roadmaps, ensuring timely delivery of critical milestones.
  • Cross-Team Collaboration & Product Launches: Initiated and led cross-team efforts to improve code quality and consistency. Developed quarterly OKRs and partnered with Product Marketing Management (PMM) for successful product launches.
Team LeadershipNode.jsProblem SolvingLeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Systems Design+4

Goldman sachs

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Singapore

  • Part of the Regulatory engineering team
Apache KafkaLeadershipProblem Solving

Gojek

Software Developer | Financial services platform

Jun 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Singapore

  • Designed/implemented micro services (distributed system) and decompose the existing monolithic system into smaller services.
  • Automate docker application deployment to Kubernetes cluster running on AWS by using helm and gitlab ci for continuous integration/deployment.
  • Implemented data distribution, messaging queue with Kafka as a message broker.
  • Designed/implemented a financial services platform in Java from scratch.
  • Automate server provisioning on AWS by using terraform, gitlab ci.
  • Logging/monitoring with ELK stack, datadog, newrelic.
  • Data loading with BigQuery to be consumed for BI by data scientists.
  • Developed a platform to send Loan related data (like customer details, loan details) to lenders using Kafka, apache camel, Java 11 and ensuring high quality using TDD, SOLID principles etc.
  • Developed a retry mechanism for failed messages ensuring 100% accuracy, high availability and throughput.
  • Developing a deduction management system which deducts data from customer’s wallet for a particular subscription on a daily basis using Kafka, Quartz, Java 11, PostgreSQL ensuring no downtime, high availability, and high accuracy. The live system addressed around 10k merchants in first month, 100k merchants in 3 months and 1 million merchants in six months time.
  • Developed a Lending App from scratch which allows users to apply for loan. Worked on both Android App and backend service using Kotlin, Kafka, Postgres, Arrow.io deployed on GCP
Apache KafkaProblem SolvingKotlinAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Works applications co., ltd.

Software Engineer

Oct 2016Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Singapore

  • Led the development of a Personal Information Management system and an inventory management system as part of a starter training mission
  • Designed the user interface for an ERP software, enabling clients to create and manage their E-commerce websites
  • Built and designed the back-end architecture of an Electronic Book Management system using AWS serverless cloud technology, including Java 8, Elasticsearch, and DynamoDB
  • Developed automated screen tools to support various products and projects using Java 8, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch in collaboration with the Base technology team
  • Spearheaded code reviews for a 4-member team, ensuring adherence to TDD, proper coding practices, and OOP principles
Problem Solving

Makemytrip.com

Software Trainee

Jan 2016Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • 1) Development and Integration of Couch Base Thin client.
  • 2) Deployed REST service on Docker ensuring maximum efficiency of CouchBase Server.
  • 3) Developed Map-Reduce programs in Couch Base to answer some static queries thereby
  • improving execution time by 10x.
  • 4) Integrated CouchBase Lite in android app to reduce latency of data transfer over HTTP.

Discvr

Software Developer Internship

Jun 2015Jul 2015 · 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • 1) Developed API for Android Application which managed their time slots for order management system
  • 2) API was created using JSON and PHP
  • 3) Created Admin Panel for the Lead management system Website
  • 4) Admin Panel was created using PHP, java script, HTML, CSS and MySql

Codechef

College Representative

Jan 2015May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Patiala Area, India

  • Organizing workshops in college to promote competitive programming, also hosting programming contests time to time.
  • Problem Setter & Tester.

Education

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor's Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2012Jan 2016

Amity International School, Mayur Vihar

High School

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Amity International School, Noida

Jan 2002Jan 2010

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