Kumar Vinit

Software Engineer

London, United Kingdom23 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in architecting high-performance systems.
  • Proven track record in fraud prevention and gaming technology.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional team collaboration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with expertise in Gaming and E-commerce sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software ArchitecturePythonCore Java

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementArchitectureC++CasinoE-commerceGaming IndustryJavaJava Enterprise EditionOnline GamingPython (Programming Language)SOAScrumSoftwareSoftware Development

About

Engineering professional with deep experience architecting, building, and scaling high-performance systems across web-scale, B2C, B2B, and B2G platforms. Proven expertise in both technical leadership and hands-on engineering across domains such as large-scale social feeds( Facebook News Feed), Ads systems, Gaming, Search, and E-commerce. Skilled at leading distributed teams, shaping system architecture, and aligning technology with business goals—while staying hands-on with complex backend systems, distributed infrastructure, and performance-critical code paths. Comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels to drive product impact. Known for delivering scalable, reliable solutions under high load, mentoring engineers, and driving cross-functional collaboration across product, data, and operations teams. Passionate about clean architecture, system resilience, and using data to guide decision-making in both product and engineering contexts. Whether leading a team or contributing deeply as an individual engineer, I bring clarity, execution, and ownership to every layer of the technical stack.

Experience

Facebook

Software Engineer

Feb 2019Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Python (Programming Language)Software ArchitectureC++SoftwareCore JavaJava+2

Target

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangaon, West Bengal, India

  • Highlights:
  • Building search experience to serve highly relevant, accurate and contextual product discovery.
  • Building quick, seamless, scalable and high performant NRT search solution.
  • Building insights through big data and ML algorithms for intent discovery and support relevancy, ranking, recovery models to drive convenience, conversion and engagement.
Software ArchitectureSoftwareCore JavaJavaArchitecture

Snapdeal

Director of Engineering

Aug 2015Jun 2016 · 10 mos · Bangaon, West Bengal, India

  • Highlights:
  • · Responsible for buyers fraud prevention - realtime bulk buy detection, Common Customer Profile (customer clustering), address similarity to detect and policy enforcements to prevent fraud.
  • · Responsible for building customer rating and intelligence system to build loyalty and policy scores for fraud prevention and reward system.
Software ArchitectureSoftwareCore JavaJavaArchitecture

Bwin.party digital entertainment

3 roles

Senior Manager

Promoted

Apr 2008Feb 2013 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Build next generation casino platform for end-to-end delivery of product line through in-house development team, independent gaming operators, out-sourcing and independent game developers.
  • Pre – Merger casino integration- before bwin platform could move to common party platform, it was a tactical integration to replace bwin casino suppliers with PartyCasino games to save on royalties. This required huge integration supporting casino games with bwin wallet and decoupling gaming functionality with party CRM features.
  • Envisioned 3rd Party Game Development Kit (GDK) for external developers to seamlessly develop server and client code for casino platform. It helped us ramp up slot portfolio from 20 to 100 with NextGen (Australia ) and WMS being the primary developers along with few individual developers
  • Established Gaming Studio team with designers and mathematicians in India and worked seamlessly with London Studio team to produce one of the best slot portfolio in gaming industry
  • Envisioned Gaming Service for independent operators to seamlessly integrate games with casino, account and wallet services. This strategic component help us integrate several suppliers to platform.
  • Developed highly robust, fault tolerant, scalable and configurable Jackpot System with overall liability of $8M at times and supporting 60% of overall gaming revenue.
  • Developed a very elaborate configuration, client integration and build management system to Cross-Sell casino games through every possible products like and Poker, Sports and bingo for every client channel.
Software ArchitectureSoftwareCore JavaJavaArchitecture

Lead Programmer And Team Lead

Apr 2003Feb 2008 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Component Guardian of core casino platform; development, architectural integrity, security, reusability being key responsibilities.
  • Built Next Generation Casino platform with dedicated TCP connection, custom protocol, high performance backend, scalable and secure system supporting mobile, applet, VC, Flex and HTML based clients
  • Enjoyed gaming mathematics and numbers.
Software ArchitectureSoftwareCore JavaJavaArchitecture

Head Of Casino Techonology

Jan 2003Apr 2014 · 11 yrs 3 mos

  • Heading development of Casino product with cross location teams in Hyderabad and Vienna and working closely with Ukraine team.
  • Responsible for IT Development and Technical Operations of casino vertical generating revenue of over € 200 million
  • Managing engagement and defining integration strategy with cross functional teams like pokers, sports, bingo, core-platform, Social, Customer Service and operations.
  • Built Casino organization, strategy and platform from scratch to make it the Star performing and most stable product for party gaming.
  • Transformed fragmented, component teams into agile, efficient, multi-skilled and high quality delivery engines.
  • Handled implementation of online gaming compliance with regulatory authorities in American (New Jersey) and European markets (Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Spain and United Kingdom).
  • Spearheading enterprise integration, operations and management with multiple B2B remote gaming operators across the world like Borgata and Danske Spil, IGT, Amaya, WMS, WIN Interactive, Evolution and NETENT.
Software ArchitectureSoftwareCore JavaJavaArchitecture

Pramati technologies private limited

Software Associate

Apr 2001Jan 2003 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Responsible for development on J2EE compatible IDE called Pramati Studio.
  • Developed Pramati Extension for Web services support based on Apache Axis. This involved definition of services, deployment of web services, Client code generation based on services WSDL and ability to plug generated code into application code.
Software ArchitectureSoftwareCore JavaJavaArchitecture

Ibm

Software Engineer

Jun 2000Apr 2001 · 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Worked on Application development team based on WebSphere. Involved in migration of internal applications to J2EE compatible EJB components
Software ArchitectureSoftwareCore JavaJavaArchitecture

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

B Tech

Jan 1996Jan 2000

G D Birla Memorial School, Ranikhet

Senior School Certificate Examination

Jan 1988Jan 1995

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