Vivek Marakana

Director of Engineering

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India11 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 9 years of full stack development experience
  • Led teams to achieve significant revenue growth
  • Passionate about team happiness and customer solutions
Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech and SaaS expert with strong leadership and full stack development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipProject ManagementPeople ManagementFull Stack DevelopmentDatabase OptimizationBlockchain DevelopmentApi IntegrationSaas DevelopmentData AnalyticsWeb DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentWeb Application DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentUi Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsApache KafkaBlockchainCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationCore JavaCross Functional Team BuildingDelegationElasticsearchGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)HTMLHands-on Technical LeadershipJava

About

Engineering Manager II @ Apollo.io. Leading End-to-end Intelligence squad, automating sales plays to empower SDRs across wide range of companies. Over 9 years of experience in full stack development including 2+ years of experience in leadership position. Worked in different sectors like FinTech (consumer lending, crypto & payments), SaaS and HealthTech domains in companies like GoJek (GoTo Financials, BrowserStack & PharmEasy). Passionate about improving team happiness and helping solve pain-points for customers.

Experience

Apollo.io

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Engineering Manager II

Mar 2023Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Gojek

3 roles

Engineering Manager - Financial Services

Jul 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Leading and managing a team from 8 to 18 talented developers (Android, iOS, Full Stack) to build and maintain BNPL product GoPayLater Akhir Bulan. Delivered important business features to increase monthly transacting users and revenue by more than 2.5x while keeping the business complaint with ever changing regulatory framework. Achieved important milestones like scaling to 1 million MTUs and more than 30 million USD in monthly disbursement amount.
  • Also technically led another team to launch a new EMI loans product GoPayLater Cicilan in Tokopedia and acquire new users from their platform directly.
  • Working closely with the team to keep the team's productivity, morale, and happiness high. Guiding team members to progress in their careers by offering new challenges and helping them find out their career ambitions & achieve their goals.
Agile MethodologiesDelegationRequirements AnalysisSystem ArchitectureProblem SolvingTechnical Leadership+5

Engineering Manager - Financial Services

Promoted

Oct 2020Jun 2021 · 8 mos

  • Started with engineering leadership role for Gojek's BNPL product GoPayLater in Thailand office. Led a team of 8 developers (BE + FE + QA) for growth charter of GoPayLater. Was moved to Indian entity's payroll after the company sold Thai operations to AirAsia before the IPO.
MentoringPeople ManagementCross Functional Team BuildingProduct EngineeringHands-on Technical LeadershipTechnical Leadership

Full Stack Engineer - Financial Services

Nov 2019Sep 2020 · 10 mos

  • As part of PayLater core squad, worked on challenging features like:
  • Optimising the database performance for faster transactions
  • Improving notification delivery for collection messages
  • Implementing fee service to fulfil complex compliance rules
  • Improving usage and reliability of scheduled jobs
Apache KafkaNode.jsPostgreSQLGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)SQLJava+6

Coinfalcon

Software Engineer

Jan 2018Jul 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • Deposit & Withdrawal systems for various cryptocurrencies
  • Historical prices graph apis and price change alerting system
  • Multi-threaded trading engine for faster order matching using in-memory data structures
  • Cross market order matching for buying or selling any crypto with fiat currencies
  • Integration with banking APIs for SEPA and SWIFT transfers
  • Integration with various credit/debit card processors for fiat deposit
  • RESTful APIs for website & mobile apps
PostgreSQLElasticsearchRedisSQLRuby on RailsReact.js+4

Browserstack

Software Engineer

May 2017Dec 2017 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

  • Admin panels for sales, support & operations teams
  • Backend for payment and subscription handling
  • Analytics admin panel
MySQLSQLRuby on RailsJavaScriptCascading Style Sheets (CSS)HTML+2

Pharmeasy

Full Stack Developer

Jun 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

  • Responsive website build using React & Redux
  • REST API for website and mobile application using PHP Yii2 Framework
  • Medicine search & suggestions using Apache Solr
  • POS software with inventory management for pharmacy stores built using ReactJS & Electron
MySQLSQLSolrRedux.jsJavaScriptReact.js+5

Errlytics

Founder

Apr 2015Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Built a SaaS product to track javascript errors and web app performance
  • Data collection SDK using JavaScript with cross-browser support
  • Data ingestion pipeline using Apache Kafka, Redis and Sidekiq
  • Analytics dashboard using Ruby On Rails, MySQL and ElasticSearch
  • Payment and subscription management
SalesApache KafkaMySQLElasticsearchRedisRuby+7

Coupondunia

Frontend Developer

Apr 2014Jun 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

  • Built lightweight MVC framework using PHP & Mustache Engine
  • Desktop Website (PHP, MySQL, HTML5/CSS3, jQuery)
  • Responsive Mobile Website
  • Whitepaper website builder
  • Landing pages for festivals and special occasions like Diwali, GOSF etc.
  • CMS for content and operations teams
MySQLSQLJavaScriptCascading Style Sheets (CSS)HTMLPHP+2

Gigabit networking laboratory (iit bombay)

UI Development Intern

Dec 2013Apr 2014 · 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • UI Development for a network management system for routers developed by IIT-B using JavaFX
  • Topology rendering using custom Node Placement Algorithm to show network topology on screen as it is deployed on the field i.e. Ring, Mesh, Bus, etc.
Core JavaJavaFXUI Development

Education

Dharmsinh Desai University

Bachelor's degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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