Nikunj Manocha — CTO

Nikunj is a Distinguished Architect with over 21 years of experience in the software development industry, known for leading complex, high-impact technology transformations at scale. At Expedia Group, he spearheads the architectural vision and strategic convergence of checkout platforms across web and mobile, significantly improving time-to-market for new features across B2C, B2B, and B2B2C channels. As one of just 30 Distinguished Engineers/Architects in a 8,000+ employee global tech organization, he plays a pivotal role in driving engineering culture and architectural standards across the company. He has a proven track record of architecting and delivering highly available, scalable, and configurable platforms that support mission-critical travel ecommerce experiences. His previous work at Expedia Group includes designing Expedia’s payment orchestration system—processing over a million transactions weekly—and leading the global expansion of Vrbo.com across multiple points of sale with localized and compliant experiences. His architectural leadership ensures platform extensibility, modularity, and regulatory flexibility, enabling support for hundreds of thousands of daily checkout events with enterprise-grade resilience. Nikunj brings deep technical expertise across modern tech stacks including Kotlin, Java, NodeJS, ReactJS, and GraphQL. He is well-versed in Domain-Driven Design, scalable cloud-native architectures, and distributed systems running on AWS and Kubernetes. An early adopter of generative AI in engineering, he is actively driving the use of AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot and intelligent coding agents to elevate developer productivity and code quality. Throughout his career, Nikunj has led cross-functional and geographically distributed teams at organizations including Goldman Sachs, Oracle, and ThoughtWorks. He is known for fostering a culture of innovation, mentoring engineering talent, and building systems that balance technical elegance with business outcomes. With a strong foundation in architecture and a passion for scaling global platforms, Nikunj remains a strategic asset to any forward-looking technology organization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled architect in the E-commerce industry, specializing in scalable and resilient platform solutions.

Location: Delhi, India

Experience: 21 yrs 10 mos

Skills

Architecture
E-commerce

Career Highlights

Led architectural vision for global e-commerce platforms.
Expert in scalable cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
Pioneered generative AI tools for enhanced developer productivity.

Work Experience

Expedia Group

Distinguished Architect (3 yrs 5 mos)

Principal Engineer (Vrbo) (3 yrs 7 mos)

Senior Software Architect (2 yrs 8 mos)

Goldman Sachs

Vice President (6 yrs 4 mos)

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.

Senior Principal Consultant (2 yrs 4 mos)

Senior Principal Consultant (1 yr 3 mos)

ThoughtWorks Ltd.

Software Consultant (3 mos)

Plateau Systems Ltd.

Software Engineer (2 yrs 2 mos)

Education

Master of Science (M.S.) at The University of Texas at Dallas

at Marine Engineering and Research Institute

Nikunj Manocha

CTO

Delhi, India21 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led architectural vision for global e-commerce platforms.
Expert in scalable cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
Pioneered generative AI tools for enhanced developer productivity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled architect in the E-commerce industry, specializing in scalable and resilient platform solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

ArchitectureE-commerce

Other Skills

AWS ServicesAgile MethodologiesArchitecture strategyArchitecturesBusiness AnalysisCheckout platformsConfigurable solutionsConsultingDatabasesDesign PatternsEAIEnterprise ArchitectureEnterprise SoftwareGenerate AIGenerative AI

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Experience

Expedia group

3 roles

Distinguished Architect

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Evangelizing a paradigm shift in Architecture strategy. Responsible for Architecture strategy to converge various disparate product solutions that are critical to traveler booking conversion for Expedia Group.
Architect of the application enabling Checkout of Travel products for all of Expedia Group customers
Initiative Accountable for: Converge existing disparate Checkout solutions into a single new checkout platform solution to eliminate redundancies of solution plus enable faster time to market for any new capability across all checkouts needs.
To support the above initiative, Architected and helped deliver a solution that
o Is configurable, modular and extensible to multiple travel products
o Is configurable and extensible to support multiple local and global geographies that each have different regulation and commercial needs,
o Supports multi-tenancy for the use cases to support B2C, B2B2C and B2B partners.
o Is highly available (99.95% availability), resilient, reliable and maintainable to support the business-critical checkout step in the ecommerce funnel
Providing Architecture guidance and support to multiple teams across the globe for the shop, book and serve ecommerce journey steps of the traveler

Architecture strategyCheckout platformsE-commerceArchitecture

Principal Engineer (Vrbo)

Promoted

Mar 2019 – Oct 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Architect responsible for applications and system integration solutions towards providing a great post-booking product and experience for the vacation rental brands and customers of Expedia Group. Lead the technology architecture transformation of the tech stack from a legacy software to a more modern, fast performing architecture built on React, GraphQL, gRPC and Kotlin technologies.
Responsible for architecture and design of launching Vrbo.com across 10 points of sales across the globe . Implement a platform to offer local versions of our product globally and on a distributed architecture. Successfully rolled out rebranded points of sale with complete technical and product performance metrics.
Skills: Front end platform development and design. Java, MicroServices, JavaScript, NodeJS, React, GraphQL, gRPC, Apollo, HAPI, Java, Kotlin, Microservices and Microfrontends design and development. SEO, AWS Services.
Responsible Principal Engineer assigned to the core team that developed trip and stay experience product for the traveler. Responsible for mentoring senior software engineers to migrate the application stack to the AWS Cloud infrastructure. Responsible for delivery of business critical feature enhancements with a $7million realisation opportunity over the next couple of quarters.

ReactGraphQLMicroservicesArchitectureE-commerce

Senior Software Architect

Jul 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Responsible for design and architecture strategy for payments orchestration, along with payment with points capability for Expedia's Ordering Platform. Helped transform the Stored Value platform (a.k.a pay with points) from being a (points bank) partner integration service to an Integration platform as a service that enabled and empowered the brand businesses to scale by having the control of the partner integration themselves.
Skills: Java, eCommerce, SOAP, REST API, Spring, MySQL, AWS Services, Microservices, Design and Architecture

Payments orchestrationIntegration platformMicroservicesArchitectureE-commerce