Vikash Kumar

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs experience

Key Highlights

Led architectural transformation to microservices.
Managed high-performance engineering teams.
Drove significant cost optimization initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Fintech and E-commerce.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesSystem DesignOrder Management SystemSystem ArchitectureTeam ManagementSoftware DevelopmentAgile Methodologies

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)CassandraCloud PlatformsConflict resolution and feedbackCross-team CollaborationData StructuresDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsEclipseElasticsearchEnd to End DeliveryFull-Stack DevelopmentHive

About

Engineering Manager with 12.5 years of experience leading high-performance teams, building large-scale distributed systems, and driving architectural transformation. Strong expertise in team development, mentorship, hiring, and cross-functional leadership. Hands-on experience in System Design, Microservices, and SQL & NoSQL DBs.

Experience

Mobikwik

Software Engineering Manager

Jun 2024 – Feb 2025 · 8 mos

Led the Core team responsible for building and maintaining core services used across Mobikwik.
Drove the transformation of a monolithic architecture microservices-based system, helping in scaling Profile service to handle 2x traffic with improved uptime.
Designed and delivered multiple key services, including User Service, History Service, and Notification Service resulting better scalability and uptime.

MicroservicesSystem DesignJavaSpring BootAWS

Myntra

Associate Architect

Sep 2021 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hybrid

Led the Order Management System (OMS) team handling end-to-end Order lifecycle, My Orders page and
Returns for Myntra’s high-scale e-commerce platform.
Re-architected Orders system to handle 4X (20000 Order per minute) traffic to handle projected future
traffic growth.
Drove Infra Cost optimization initiative across SCM OB department resulting in 30% cost reduction.
Designed and maintained strategic technology and architecture roadmap for OMS team aligned with
business goals.

Order Management SystemJavaSpring BootKubernetesAWSSystem Architecture

Ticketmaster

Engineering Manager

Mar 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Managed Resale Marketplace platform of 6 engineers which takes care of entire lifecycle of resale tickets in North America which contributes around 25% revenue of Ticketmaster.
I lead a team of dynamic and smart engineers working on the Resale Marketplace of Ticketmaster Gurgaon. We enable to fans to sell their ticket on our marketplace and buyers to buy those tickets. Our team handles resale inventory management, tax calculation, fee processing and order processing for resale tickets.
Marketplace is micro service based architecture in which we use java, spring boot, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI CD, AWS cloud, Splunk and Grafana.

MicroservicesJavaSpring BootKubernetesAWSTeam Management

Unitedhealth group

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

As Part of F-Box development team, I contributed in converting a complex monolithic application (GPS) into micro service architecture based application, Contributed in the system design and architecture of the project.
Developed Rest Micro services using Spring boot , Rest , Java 8, JPA , Postgre, Kafka , Cassandra.

MicroservicesJavaSpring BootPostgreSQLKafkaSystem Design

Software Engineer

May 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos

GPS Project – Jan 2016 - Aug 2020
As Part of GPS development team designed and developed software module in Agile model
Developed multiple features for GPS product (java , oracle , spring web service , jsp, Struts, Kafka ).
Integrated Kafka messaging with GPS

JavaOracleSpring Web ServiceKafkaSoftware DevelopmentAgile Methodologies