Vinay Singhal

CTO

New Delhi, Delhi, India19 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led team processing over 100 million transactions daily.
  • Architected a robust payment solution for Paytm.
  • Spearheaded development of Paytm-Lending.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on payment solutions and system architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

System DesigningPerformance Engineering

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsConcurrencyCore JavaData StructuresDesign PatternsDistributed Network and DesignHibernateJMSJSPJavaJava Enterprise EditionJavaScriptMemory ManagementMicroservices

About

๐Ÿš€ My Paytm Journey: Architected the Future of Payments ๐Ÿš€ Greetings! I'm Vinay Singhal and I've had the incredible privilege of playing a pivotal role in revolutionizing the payments landscape at Paytm. At the heart of this journey lies my passion for building and architecting cutting-edge solutions that scale seamlessly to meet the dynamic demands of the digital payments realm. ๐Ÿ”น The Infinite Scale Challenge: I led a dynamic team in crafting a completely home-grown solution within Paytm PG. This robust system was designed to handle the vast spectrum of online and offline merchant workflows, as well as core transactional and post-transactional processes. The result? An ecosystem that's as stable as it is dynamic, processing millions of transactions daily while ensuring security and efficiency. ๐Ÿ”น Navigating the Microservices Maze: Our architecture involved orchestrating transactions across multiple microservices, seamlessly integrating with multiple bank acquirers, and employing dynamic routing to cater to a variety of payment methods like UPI, Wallets, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, and more. ๐Ÿ”น Fund Flows in Focus: Migrating from our existing system was no small feat, but we did it seamlessly. My team and I implemented real-time monitoring and alerting systems to meticulously track fund flows, ensuring that every financial transaction was accounted for and accounted correctly. ๐Ÿ”น Operational Excellence: A real-time reconciliation mechanism and a T+1 view of Receivables and Payables were introduced to eliminate operational hiccups. We also introduced a dashboard for a comprehensive view, substantially reducing operational issues and enhancing user experiences. ๐Ÿ”น Team Leadership: In this journey, I've had the privilege of leading a dedicated team that thrives on excellence. Together, we handle over 100+ million daily transactions, maintaining an impressive uptime and cost efficiency, all while embracing the challenge with unwavering customer obsession. With this chapter successfully closed, I've embarked on a new and exciting challenge: spearheading the development of Paytm-Lending.

Experience

Paytm

4 roles

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Promoted

Jun 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 9 mos

Vice President Of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2022 โ€“ Jun 2025 ยท 3 yrs 2 mos

AVP Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2021 โ€“ Apr 2022 ยท 7 mos

Director Of Engineering

Dec 2019 โ€“ Sep 2021 ยท 1 yr 9 mos

Sapient global markets

3 roles

Solution Architect

Promoted

Mar 2014 โ€“ Nov 2019 ยท 5 yrs 8 mos

  • Started POC in 2014 for joint venture of FannieMae and FreddieMac and Design and Architect entire platform to on-board Millions of Loans and provided End to End solutions and designing entire application which has been Live on 2017 for Freddie and Fannie is coming up in 2019. Act a role of solutions architect and performance engineer and take up the platform from very scratch to running application, Key Skills - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Designing, Distributed Network and Design, Problem solving, Memory Management, Performance engineering and tuning, Concurrency, Multithreading, Transactions Management, Java, JMS, Tibco, XML, Microservices, AWS.
Data StructuresAlgorithmsSystem DesigningDistributed Network and DesignProblem solvingMemory Management+11

Senior Associate Platform

Promoted

Oct 2012 โ€“ Feb 2014 ยท 1 yr 4 mos

  • Fidelity Investments (Dec 2010 to Apr 2014)
  • Create a simple structure for ISA plan years by bundling all plan years within a single account and decrease system development complexity and simplify the operating model to allow growth capacity and a potential decrease in the related Run the Business costs.
  • Reduce operational processing time and cost in multiple departments. Improve the customer investment experience by creating a more transparent structure, simplifying the switch and redemption process, reducing call times for customer queries and dealing and reducing the amount of paper sent

Associate Technology

Dec 2010 โ€“ Oct 2012 ยท 1 yr 10 mos

Reliance industries limited

Software Engineer

Jan 2007 โ€“ Dec 2010 ยท 3 yrs 11 mos ยท Mumbai Area, India

  • The main application for one of Indiaโ€™s largest retail chain provides utility to all vendors for registration and generates sap code after MDM approval. Vendors have to follow full registration life-cycle before supply their goods. Application was based on Struts framework and was deployed on tomcat application server. The business layer composed of Struts, java multi-threading and design patterns like MVC.

Education

Maharishi Dayanand University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) โ€” Computer Engineering

Jan 2003 โ€“ Jan 2007

Ravindra Public School

Jan 2000 โ€“ Jan 2002

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