Vikas Saini

Engineering Manager

Gurgaon, Haryana, India9 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in microservices and serverless architecture.
  • Led significant migrations to gRPC and Elasticsearch.
  • Proven track record in engineering management and strategic hiring.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with strong expertise in FinTech and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

GrpcCore JavaEngineering ManagementAws LambdaElasticsearchLucene

Other Skills

KubernetesProtocol BuffersKotlinRabbitMQStrategic HiringJUnitProject ManagementApache KafkaAWS AuroraCassandraSpring BootAmazon KinesisRedisJavaPHP

About

• Maintaining, managing and creating microservices. Scaling them, making fault tolerant and reliable. • Extensive experience with search technologies Lucene, Solr, and Elasticsearch. • Experience with chat bots and messaging platforms. • Experience in Voice bot technologies like Alexa, Google Home, IVR and Messaging platforms. • Experience with Serverless Architecture (AWS Lambda). • Have designed and developed novel search applications and its relevancy from scratch.

Experience

Freecharge

Engineering Manager

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Disco

Software Architect

Apr 2024Nov 2024 · 7 mos

  • Migration of Internal Microservices from HTTP to gRPC : Led the migration of 15+ mission-critical internal microservices from REST to gRPC to optimise inter-service communication. Reduced end-to-end service latency by 45% and improved system-wide throughput by 300%. Enabled seamless scaling of microservices to handle 10k+ RPS during peak traffic.
  • Designed and implemented gRPC service contracts using Protocol Buffers (protobuf) to enforce strict API schemas, ensuring backward compatibility and reducing serialization/deserialization overhead by 35%
KubernetesCore JavagRPCProtocol BuffersKotlin

Olx group

Technical Lead

Mar 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Loan Management System : Led the development of loan Management System and implemented complex business requirements like loan schedule, refinancing, prepayment, repayment, and penalty. This resulted in a reduction in the processing of loan error from 6% to 0.2%, increase in online collection from 40% to 60% (200K per month).
  • Led a team of 15+ team members in the launch of a Loan Management System. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align organisational goals with company objectives. New engineers were viewed, hired, and on board.
  • Interviewed, hired, and on boarded new engineers, with a retention rate of 95%. Part of campus and
  • leadership hiring team.
  • Worked on design of complete competency framework of technology for the whole OLX group.
RabbitMQEngineering ManagementStrategic HiringJUnitProject ManagementApache Kafka+2

Netomi

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Oct 2021Mar 2022 · 5 mos

  • Multi-Channel Chatbot : Led the development and scaling of an AI-driven chatbot to handle customer service inquiries across multiple channels, improving cross-channel user engagement by 40%. Optimised chatbot scalability by migrating infrastructure to AWS Lambda and iPaaS, enabling real-time handling of 10,000+ concurrent conversations during peak traffic with 99.9% uptime
  • Lead a team of 10 plus members. Handled end to end delivery of integration projects. Taken care of performance reviews, code reviews, decision making and mentoring fellow engineers for CS team projects.
  • Created Voice bot with Alexa and Google Dialogflow. Centralised logs into Elasticsearch and written backend services for ai powered chatbots.
  • Managed a module for integration with customer APIs. Wrote multiple backend services to maintain and manage the client data , making it searchable. Integrated this module with IPAAS solution Workato to separate the concerns and code for each client.
CassandraElasticSearchSpring BootAmazon KinesisAWS LambdaRedis+2

Senior Software Development Engineer

Sep 2018Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Implemented serverless solution (AWS Lambda) for third-party API calls using Kinesis as a trigger.
  • Created Voice bot with Alexa and Google Dialogflow.
  • Centralized logs into Elasticsearch.
  • Design and implementation of workflows for the messaging platform.
  • Maintaining, managing microservices, detecting bottlenecks and scaling them.
  • Alexa skill design and implementation for voice bot.
  • Apache Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis, Spring Boot
JUnitKubernetesCore Java

Naukri.com

Software Engineer

Jan 2017Apr 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Search Engine migration to Elasticsearch : Led the end-to-end migration of a legacy Lucene-based custom search engine to Elasticsearch to enhance scalability, performance, and maintainability.The migration improved search accuracy, reduced latency by 40%, and enabled horizontal scaling to support 10x growth in data volume.
PHPJavaMySQLElasticSearchLuceneRabbitMQ+3

Newgen software inc

Software Design Engineer

Jun 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Full-Text Search for Document Management System : using Elasticsearch to replace legacy SQL-based search, improving query performance by 85% and enabling complex search operations (fuzzy matching, phrase queries and synonym support). Enabled faster, more accurate document retrieval, boosting user productivity by 60% and supporting a 30% increase in system adoption across departments.
ElasticSearchLogstashKibanaMySQL

Education

National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra

BTech — Information Technology

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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