Vikas Gupta

Engineering Manager

Delhi, India11 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of engineering leadership experience.
Successfully led cross-functional teams in Payments and InfoSec.
Passionate about mentoring engineers and aspiring leaders.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS engineering leader with expertise in scalable systems and team mentorship.

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Skills

Core Skills

PaymentsInfosecPayments ApiMobile Application DevelopmentData Processing

Other Skills

API OptimizationAlgorithmsApache KafkaCore JavaData StructuresETL ToolsEvent InfrastructureFraud DetectionGoHadoopHiveJavaJavaScriptKafkaMentorship

About

I am an Engineering Leader with over 10 years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams, delivering impactful projects, and mentoring engineers to achieve their full potential. My expertise spans designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems with a deep understanding of microservices architecture, web services, horizontal scaling, and data structures. As a leader, I am passionate about fostering collaboration, driving innovation, and empowering teams to embrace new challenges and technologies. Beyond technical delivery, I find immense satisfaction in coaching engineers and aspiring leaders—helping them navigate technical complexities, develop leadership skills, and grow in their careers. Having successfully led cross-functional teams in Payments and InfoSec, I bring a unique blend of technical depth, leadership experience, and business acumen. I believe that combining these strengths with a focus on mentorship enables me to create lasting impact, both for the organizations I serve and the engineering community at large. I’m always keen to connect with engineers, leaders, and industry professionals to share insights, solve challenges, and grow together. Feel free to reach out—let’s collaborate and build a thriving engineering ecosystem.

Experience

Coindcx

Engineering Manager

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

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2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2023 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading Payments and InfoSec engineering teams to drive secure payment solutions and enterprise-wide security initiatives.
Spearheaded Recurring Payments and Fraud Velocity checks, resulting in 25% GMV growth and 15% fraud reduction.
Built and scaled teams, hiring 6 engineers for Payments and establishing the InfoSec team with strategic SD1 and SD2 hires.
Mentored junior engineers, fostering technical growth and enabling career advancements to senior roles.

PaymentsInfoSecTeam BuildingMentorship

Technical Lead

Jul 2022 – Mar 2023 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Rescued the Payments Platformization project midway by resolving technical and operational roadblocks, delivering a scalable system with no downtime.
Transformed team culture, fostering collaboration and accountability to enhance productivity and delivery efficiency.
Optimized payments API performance with Go routines, reducing p99 latencies from ~2s to under 200ms.
Drove key initiatives like recharge flow experiments, RBI-compliant card tokenization, and agency-led model, increasing PSR by 50% and PCR by 40%.
Strengthened system reliability by prioritizing and executing reconciliation jobs for critical payment services.

Payments APIGoTeam Culture Transformation

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Principal Engineer

Jul 2018 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Led the development of a Mobile Application Platform, reducing app development cycles from 3 months to 2 weeks and standardizing practices.
Designed and implemented the Borrow feature platform, creating a new revenue stream and architecting the end-to-end solution.
Built an enterprise-wide event infrastructure using Kafka, enabling real-time data processing and improving system reliability.
Led data infrastructure modernization, migrating from Hive on Spark to Tez, optimizing ETL, and improving processing times by 35%.

Mobile Application DevelopmentEvent InfrastructureData Processing