Tarun Kumar

Director of Engineering

Delhi, India13 yrs 3 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led a team of 25+ engineers in fintech solutions.
Developed a risk engine with under 50ms latency.
Created scalable payment products for BharatPe.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong engineering leadership and product development skills.

Contact

tarun14691@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipFintechPayment SystemsJavaScalaWeb Development

Other Skills

AMLAPI developmentActiveMQAgile product managementAmazon SQSAngularJSApache KafkaApache SparkChrome plugin developmentCore Payment productsDirector levelDynamic bank scoring engineDynamic reconciliation moduleGenerative AI for LeadershipHive

About

At BharatPe, the focus of our engineering division has been on developing cutting-edge payment solutions. By leading a team dedicated to building scalable core payment products, we've achieved remarkable success in optimizing payment systems. The Payment Payout Settlement module, Merchant Plugin(TPAP) and QR UPI transaction platform are testaments to our commitment to innovation. My expertise in real-time transaction monitoring and risk mitigation has been honed through the crafting of a highly configurable risk engine with AML & FIU Reporting, achieving latency of under 50ms. This, alongside the development of a dynamic reconciliation module, underscores our team's ability to deliver complex fintech & wealth-tech solutions with agility and precision, enhancing BharatPe's ecosystem. Technical Skills: Languages/ Server-side scripts : Scala , Java , Javascript Frameworks & ORM : Play / Spring & Hibernate / Slick Web Technologies : Jquery , Node.js , AWS , Apache Spark Database : Postgresql , Mysql ,MS SQL, MongoDB, Hive Cache & Queue Mgmt : Redis , Active MQ Search Engine: Elastic Search, Solr Server skills : Tomcat , Jetty , LAMP environment Other Web skills : API integration Industry Skills: Product Development, Agile product management, Scrum Master, Product design, Product scalability

Experience

Ht digital streams

Director of Engineering

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Hybrid

Engineering LeadershipGenerative AI for LeadershipFinTechScalabilityMongoDB

Bharatpe

2 roles

Associate Director of Engineering

Apr 2024 – Feb 2025 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Spearheaded a high performance team of 25+ Engineers to build the highly scalable Core Payment products for the fintech eco-system.
Successfully developed products while understanding of the complexities of payment systems:
1. Payment Payout Settlement module for merchants with dynamic bank scoring engine and high fault tolerance.
2. QR UPI merchant transaction module with proven peak handling capacity of 140K TPM.
3. End-to-End Payment-Gateway(PG) solutions and Merchant Plugin SDK(Mini TPAP) for BharatPe use-cases around Wealth-tech (Gold & FD) and BBPS.
4. Highly configurable risk engine for real-time & post-facto transaction monitoring and AML with Latency below ~50MS.
5. Highly configurable dynamic reconciliation module for Money flow via BharatPe.
Built a culture of Operational Excellence:
1. Self-Healing Settlement module with dynamic rule engine.
2. Lowest MTTD and MTTR defined via automated critical alerting engine with intensenses to help oncaa.
3. Alerting engine to focus on System KPIs and Business metrics as well like SR/Volume drops, Latency degradation, CPU/Thread Monitoring, Database degradation, GC spikes, HTTP exceptions.

Payment Payout Settlement moduleQR UPI transaction platformCore Payment productsRisk engineDynamic reconciliation moduleFinTech+1

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Engineering LeadershipStakeholder ManagementScalabilityPayment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)Payment GatewaysPayment Systems+3

Nucleus software

2 roles

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Sep 2021 – Jul 2022 · 10 mos

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JavaAngularJSActiveMQ

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Also, i was building the analytics pipeline for Roposo notification using Apache Spark and hive.

JavaScalaMongoDBAmazon SQSApache SparkHive

Exzeo

Software Engineer

Nov 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India

I am working as Scala Developer for Exzeo Public API . I am one the founding members of the Scala team for the company . I am responsible for team building , requirement gathering , system design & flow , code developement with TDD and architectural design as per API system requirement in discussion with the CEO.

ScalaAPI developmentSystem design

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Team Size: - 4 members
Project name:- MetisMe
URL:- www.metisme.com

jQueryREST API developmentChrome plugin developmentWeb Development

Improvi technologies

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Sep 2012 – Apr 2013 · 7 mos · Bangalore , India

Improvi technologies is startup . Working with cutting edge technologies to built products in health care sector and social causes. I have been involve in designing, development , testing , implementation and maintenance of all products built till today by the company .