Krish .

CTO

New Delhi, Delhi, India13 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Co-founded a startup and secured a term sheet in one month.
  • Led engineering at BharatPe, driving significant growth.
  • Built multiple MVPs solo, delivering fast and functional solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Healthcare-focused technical leader with extensive full-stack experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipDatabase ManagementMobile ApplicationsInfrastructure OptimizationAi DevelopmentEmerging TechnologiesBusiness Intelligence (bi)

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsC (Programming Language)CSS3Capacity PlanningCommunicationContinuous Process ImprovementCultural SensitivityDjangoElectronEngineering ManagementEthical HackingHands-on Technical LeadershipHealthcare SystemsInterpersonal Skills

About

Alpha Ninja 🥷 | Builder. Coder. Dreamer. Doer. I’m a passionate, unconventional tech leader who thrives on building bold ideas and leading from the front. I proudly embrace my inner geek and love being the odd one out, the one who dreams big and delivers even bigger. Creator of NexaDB - The AI Database https://nexadb.io 🔥 In the Industry standard YCSB benchmarks, NexaDB have beaten MongoDB, PostgreSQL & Cassandra in retrieval speed at a million records scale. (https://nexadb.io/benchmarks) 🚀 Future Goals: I don’t just think outside the box, I’m not even on the same planet. I want to die on Mars. I’m obsessed with space tech, brain-chip cloning, and anything that sounds a little too crazy to be real, because that’s where the real magic happens. 🧠 Career Highlights: • Co-founded a startup and got a term sheet in just 1 month, later returned it by choice after re-evaluating priorities • Spent 4 years at BharatPe ($2.8B fintech, Unicorn) – built teams, shipped products, scaled culture • Led engineering at Blinkit (formerly Grofers, $10B, Unicorn) – contributed significantly to growth and stability • Founded the GrowJs Community – a space for devs who love to build and learn • Managed 5 high-priority projects in parallel and delivered all before deadline while boosting team productivity • Built multiple MVPs solo – fast, functional, and battle-tested ⚙️ Strengths & Work Ethic: • 10+ years of full-stack experience, I don’t just lead, I build • Self-taught and hands-on, if I don’t know something, I will get back with the most optimised solution • Fast-paced executor, I thrive in chaos, solve tough problems, and bring clarity to teams • Team builder, from 0 to 1, and then making them self-sustaining 🧰 Tech Skills: • Frontend: React, Redux, React Native, Vue.js, Next.js, Electron • Backend: Node.js, Java, Go, Python, PHP • Mobile: Java, Kotlin, Swift • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB • Infra: AWS, Google Cloud, CI/CD, monitoring, scaling, cost optimization • Others: Blockchain, RTMP live streaming, video processing 🧩 Fun & Geek Mode: • Built my first social network, e-commerce, and community platform at age 19 • National Level Ethical Hacking Champion, Cybermania - 2013 • Student of the Year & Academic Medalist - 2011,12,13 • Created and launched dozens of side projects just for fun • Rubik’s Cube PBs: 47s, 54s, 57s • Always love building something wild I’m not here to play it safe. I’m here to build the future, one crazy idea at a time.

Experience

Sprive

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Dec 2025Present · 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Transforming UK fintech's infrastructure, performance, and team capability. Driving tech for a record-breaking 300x business growth.
  • Revamped mobile app performance and optimization across iOS and Android
  • Re-architected infrastructure for scalability and reliability
  • Solved database choking by writing zombie-killer events in MySQL to eliminate blocking queries
  • Built a real-time scraping engine with offline mode for fast voucher access
  • Used MK Kit for data extraction and parsing to fetch balances
  • Built an end-to-end passkey authentication module
  • Much more to do ! Keep an eye on this section
Engineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementMobile ApplicationsDatabase ManagementInfrastructure Optimization

Jivi ai

Head of Engineering

Jun 2025Dec 2025 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Led the engineering team and delivered multiple high-impact systems at exceptional speed and quality:
  • Designed and ran the AI Doctor pipeline, achieving a highly optimized and ultra-robust performance.
  • Built Sigma, the global healthcare search engine, in a weekend.
  • Developed and globally launched Longevity, our health optimization module, in under a week.
  • Created Pulse, the diagnostic model with detailed case studies and verified accuracy, within a day.
  • Engineered UX for the interactive AI assistant integrated with Samsung.
  • Built the developer productivity tracker in just one day.
  • Developed the entire Multi National Wallet System (V0) over a weekend.
Engineering LeadershipAI DevelopmentHealthcare Systems

Stealth ai startup

Head of Engineering

Oct 2024Jun 2025 · 8 mos · Remote

  • Built the MVP in just a week, scaled the team from the ground up, and delivered key products including the Agentic Dashboard, AI Assistant, and Voice Agent.
  • Built an ultra strong lean team with 10x productivity.
  • 2 People | 45 Days | Live - Payouts Engine | Neo Banking | Web, Dashboard, IOS & Android.

Yellow

Fractional CTO

Oct 2024Feb 2025 · 4 mos · Remote

  • Led core engineering initiatives, set up scalable processes, defined team structures, and hired and oversaw infrastructure and security. Successfully completed security and compliance audits required for partnerships with banks and insurance providers. Spearheaded AI integrations and delivered innovative modules across the platform.

Bharatpe

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Mar 2024Apr 2024 · 1 mo

  • Merchant Experience, MAX, LastMile, PixelUp & Tech Branding.
Emerging TechnologiesBusiness Intelligence (BI)Hands-on Technical Leadership

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • BharatPe | Lending | PostPe | Unity | 12% Club | Zillion
Emerging TechnologiesBusiness Intelligence (BI)Hands-on Technical Leadership

Associate Director Engineering

Apr 2020Apr 2022 · 2 yrs

  • Revolutionizing the Way Indian Merchants Do Business
  • We’re building a one-stop solution for SMEs with the ambition to become the go-to financial platform and future bank for India’s small merchants.
  • As part of the core engineering leadership, I’ve driven major tech initiatives and built scalable systems across product lines:
  • Played a key role in building and scaling flagship platforms like PostPe, BharatSwipe (India’s first ZERO commission POS, crossed ₹700 Cr+ in transactions within months), Merchant Dashboard, XCard, eKYC, and more.
  • Led performance revamp of the BharatPe and PostPe apps through an in-depth, full-stack audit analyzing every layer from frontend to backend. Architected the optimization roadmap by aligning across multiple pods, involving backend, infra, web, and data teams. Successfully drove the implementation, significantly improving app speed and reliability.
  • Built internal frameworks and dev tools (BharatUI, ReactBoilerplate, GMapify, Utileo, etc.) that streamlined development and boosted productivity across teams.
  • Transformed legacy CI/CD processes in collaboration with DevOps achieving 12x faster deployment cycles.
  • Initiated and led company-wide engineering events like HackFest 2021 and ThinkBig, cultivating a strong innovation culture and breaking silos across functions.
Emerging TechnologiesBusiness Intelligence (BI)Hands-on Technical Leadership

Onebharat

Founder & CTO

Jan 2024Feb 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Redefining a $900B Business Collections Industry
  • OnePulse - Revolutionizing Business Credit Assessment beyond traditional credit scores, built on top of the Account Aggregator (AA) framework. We’re the first in the market to create a dynamic scoring engine leveraging AA data, along with a multi-AA switch that intelligently selects the best-performing AA based on our proprietary health engine.
  • OneCollect (SmartNach) - Designed to bring 0% bounce rates, powering efficient and intelligent collections for businesses.
  • 🥷 Built and launched fully functional iOS and Android apps in just 5 days, while working from the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh.
  • The entire infrastructure was built to be self-sustaining, even after operations ceased, our integrated clients faced zero downtime or disruptions.
  • Led the fundraising process and secured a term sheet at $10M valuation within 3 weeks of launch. Engaged in extensive discussions with Antler India (15+ meetings), Sequoia India, RTP Global, Elevation Capital, and Leo Capital.
  • Ultimately, I chose to return the term sheet, recognizing challenges with regulatory licensing and long-term roadmap clarity. Instead of burning investor capital without conviction, I decided it was wiser to pause, sometimes, stepping back is the smartest move forward.
  • Truly, one hell of a journey, full of lessons and grit.

Blinkit

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Oct 2019Apr 2020 · 6 mos

  • Led - Engineering @ Growth
  • Worked closely with Product, UI/UX, data & QA to boost growth.
  • GrowJS - Started a tech community to share & spread knowledge among JS ninjas in Delhi NCR.
  • Tech stack - Python, Android (Java, Kotlin), ES6, ReactJS, React Native, Redux, Webpack, Node.js, Android (Java, Kotlin), AWS, etc.
Emerging TechnologiesHands-on Technical Leadership

Tech Lead

Mar 2019Dec 2019 · 9 mos

Emerging TechnologiesHands-on Technical Leadership

Pitchvision

4 roles

Head of Engineering

May 2018Feb 2019 · 9 mos

  • Lead - Tech, Product, R&D teams.
  • Handling 3 Major Products.
  • Working smart to convert dreams -> reality.
  • Tech stack: Electron, ES6, React, Redux, LokiJs, Ugram, H.264(x264)-MP4 (Mux), Python, PHP, AWS etc..
Emerging TechnologiesHands-on Technical Leadership

Engineering Manager

Feb 2017Apr 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Summary -
  • Playing a major role in web & software product development mainly focusing on technologies like JS (ES6), React, Angular, Electron, LokiJS, Node, PHP, Mysql etc.
  • Improved page performance and decreased time for FMP, FIP with help of sw, workbox etc.
  • Implemented a progressive interaction between ReactJS application and Angular (Legacy) app
  • Working on PVMatch - Windows-based Electron application + Web Interaction.
  • Interacting with API team and Mobile App team frequently for making the integration perfect & getting the robust output.
  • Managing a team of web developers which includes code reviews, meetings etc.
  • Taking care of whole recruitment process (Profiles - Frontend Engineer, PHP Developer, Full Stack Developer, QA Engineer)
  • PV Match
  • Javascript UI + Score Engine on the "Electron" platform ( React, Redux )
  • Integrated React (ES6) + Angular to make PVM scorecard run on PV Web.
  • Implemented Match Limit - Coach Level
  • Asynchronous player registration + Web Access for claiming the player via OTP.
  • Added state handling for Live streaming - compatible with YouTube + Facebook Live
  • Embedded the LIVE streaming into PV Web + Youtube connect integration UI.
  • Made PVM responsive to landscape mode.
  • Responsive scorecard UI on the web.
  • Work with customer-facing team to capture customer requirements, support field tests with potential customers + prioritize work
  • Work with server teams to build full customer experience of uploading scores + videos for review on Web + iOS/Android App.
Emerging TechnologiesBusiness Intelligence (BI)Hands-on Technical Leadership

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr

  • Developed scalable frontend stack from scratch.
  • Developed PV‐Review ‐ Includes (PV‐splitter, PV‐Canvas). Which can show analysis of more than 1 Million deliveries using pv canvas UI for plotting. Made the canvas responsive and interactive, User can click on the plotted delivery to get the delivery information.
  • Developed PV‐Tv ‐ Includes (PV‐Audio, PV‐Video, Image, Doc) ‐ An Interactive, Flexible media player with additional speed controls, playlist tool. Built on HTML5 Video player. Currently dealing with millions of videos using PV‐Playlist.
  • Interacting with API team frequently for making the integration perfect & getting the robust output.
  • Managing a team of frontend developers which includes code reviews, meetings.
  • Responsible for taking the technical interviews for hiring the frontend developers.
Emerging TechnologiesProblem SolvingCommunication

Software Engineer

Oct 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Written reusable code and build many more interesting features like Workload Tool (Graphical analysis of bowler stats) , PvNotes (Interactive widget with 4 GUI's can be trackable, smooth flow from any session), Public Pages (Similar to Facebook pages), Timeline (Filter by player) , Newsfeed (Public, Trending, Personal) etc.
  • Working with the UI/UX team and bridging the gap between graphic design and technical implementation.
Emerging TechnologiesProblem SolvingCommunication

Heartynote

Founder & CEO

Sep 2013Oct 2018 · 5 yrs 1 mo · www.heartynote.com

  • Heartynote is a social networking platform works like an online memorable diary , which connects people with their memories & friends lifelong. Introduced "On this day" concept as "Calendar notes" in 2013 before Facebook has introduced it.
  • Heartynote - Just note with your heart
  • Krishcdbry's @ production
Emerging TechnologiesProblem SolvingCommunication

Leadership foundation

Director - Leadership Club

Jun 2012May 2016 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Conducted workshops on Web development, Programming & Ethical Hacking
  • Trained many people & achieved so many things apart from my academic career. Learned Leadership skills, Personality development etc.
  • Developed Websites from scratch : Leadership , Aitam alumni, Aitam college and also developed discussion boards, Chat apps, Mobile com @ Leadership.
  • Represented Ethical hacking center at Leadership.
Emerging TechnologiesBusiness Intelligence (BI)Negotiation

Haifriend

Founder

May 2012Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Haifriend is a new social networking platform that offers users the ability to share multimedia content, known as "Pubs," and play online games. Users can create groups and clubs to share their thoughts and interests, and their articles and important pubs will be displayed in their public profile view, or "Myplace." The platform also features chat rooms for conversation, a note-taking function for collecting notes, and allows users to create free ads and sell items. In summary, Haifriend.com provides a variety of entertaining options for its users.
  • Haifriend.com - Multiple flavors of fun
  • Krishcdbry's @ production
Emerging TechnologiesProblem SolvingCommunication

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada (AITAM)

Bachelor's Degree — Computer Science & Engineering

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