Sourav Kumar Sharma

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led teams to achieve 5.5 million orders monthly.
Built high-performing engineering teams from scratch.
Expert in optimizing performance and scalability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce engineering leader with a strong focus on scalable systems and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

B2cTeam LeadershipTeam ManagementMachine LearningImage ProcessingMultimedia

Other Skills

ARMActive ListeningAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsAndroidCC++CommunicationComputer ScienceCore JavaData StructuresDigital Image ProcessingEclipseEngineering Documentation

About

Sourav is a results-driven technology leader with over 15 years of experience delivering engineering excellence across fintech, e-commerce, social, and multimedia domains. He is known for building and scaling high-performing, globally distributed engineering teams and driving the development of complex, scalable systems aligned with strategic business goals. With a unique blend of deep technical expertise and strong product sensibility, Sourav thrives at the intersection of technology, execution, and innovation. His leadership style is grounded in clarity, ownership, and continuous improvement. 🔹 Proven track record in defining technology roadmaps, optimizing performance, and architecting for scale 🔹 Deep experience in distributed systems, system design, and modern backend and mobile technologies 🔹 Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale programs with precision across time, quality, and business outcomes 🔹 Recognized for cultivating high-trust teams and engineering cultures rooted in excellence and innovation 🔹 Business-aligned engineering leader adept at translating strategy into resilient technical solutions Technical Focus Areas: Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Multimedia, Mobile Technologies, B2C Platforms Leadership Strengths: Technology Strategy, People & Team Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Product Collaboration Sourav continues to make a significant impact at the convergence of engineering, product, and business strategy.

Experience

Arintra

Head of Engineering

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Engineering to optimise Revenue Cycle for US healthcare using Gen AI

Slice

Senior Director of Engineering

Sep 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Building platforms around finance and banking products.
Problem areas are compliance, security, scale, experience and cost.

Dunzo

2 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

Led the team from 0 to clocking 5.5 million orders per month in one of the products(Dunzo Daily).
Built the user engineering team in this journey from ~16 to ~100 member team.
Increased AOV from ~Rs 280 to ~Rs 650 thus with order frequency of ~1.2 per user per week thus improving burn margin by more than 40%.
Improved conversions by more than 100% during this journey by focussing on onboarding, discoverability and payment success.
Improved MTTA(mean time to acknowledge) for issues by more than 90%.
Improved stability and performance of apps by more than 90% leading to one of the most stable and performant user experiences and thus contributing to conversion and retention.
Representing Dunzo on internal/external forums

Strategic VisionReliabilityAnalytical SkillsB2CEngineering DocumentationTeam Leadership+9

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · On-site

Grew the org from 11 member to 35 member team
Improved stability and performance of apps by more than 90%.
Improved conversion of marketplace products by more than 50%.
Closely involved in ideation, creation and evolution of Dunzo Daily product which later contributed to ~5.5 million orders per month for Dunzo

ReliabilityAnalytical SkillsB2CEngineering DocumentationTeam LeadershipCommunication+7

Hike messenger

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2017 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore · On-site

Grew the team from a small 10 member team to ~20 member team during this time
Led Hike Android team while building multiple social solutions while growing the team.
Bringing multiple process initiatives to improve developer productivity.

ReliabilityB2CEngineering DocumentationCommunicationProduct DeliveryTechnical Documentation+3

Samsung r&d institute india - bangalore

4 roles

Technical Lead

Mar 2017 – Sep 2017 · 6 mos · Bengaluru

Led a team which built a camera filter based on AI using SVM and SecIPX accelerated framework leading to much more performant image processing solutions
Migrated the team from traditional camera based solutions to machine learning based solutions which led to multiple project spin-offs like Style Transfer and Portrait Segmentation using CNN.

Engineering DocumentationProduct DeliveryProblem SolvingTeam ManagementMachine LearningImage Processing

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru

Led a team to build multiple camera solutions for Galaxy series like Event Shot, Beauty Shot, JumpShot etc which were marketed well and directly contributed to business.
Built a world class camera team in Samsung Bengaluru office who were instrumental in building multiple multimedia solutions for Samsung devices.
Collaboration with multiple R&D centres throughout the globe on multiple projects.

Engineering DocumentationProduct DeliveryProblem SolvingMultimedia

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru

Built an accelerated processing engine using ARM-Neon intrinsics for faster processing of images/video
Build multiple 2D/3D augmented reality solutions

Engineering DocumentationProblem Solving