Deepak Chauhan — CTO

Seasoned engineering leader in building and scaling high-performing global engineering solutions and teams. I bear a track record of influencing product and business strategy decisions, recruiting top talent, leading distributed teams and hands-on involvement to deliver industry-leading products, infrastructure, and growth. Spearheaded engineering efforts from small scale to unicorn startups including Ephesoft, UNO Minda and CARS24. Grew Ephesoft’s India team from 0 to 55+ engineers to develop a SaaS based analytics platform and grew the CARS24 India team from 30 to 75+ engineers. Held the pivotal role of spearheading the development of vehicle connectivity solutions for automotive OEMs and the aftermarket in Minda iConnect. My approach relied on cutting-edge IoT and IT technologies supported by highly scalable cloud platforms, ensuring our solutions remained at the forefront of the market. Orchestrated CARS24 product engineering overhaul, to support 10x growth from 500K to 5M users and developed multiple products from scratch for supply chain, landing and buyer segments. Known for delivering outsized business impact through technology innovations. My teams are the biggest achievements I have – often outgrowing the limits, my teams have managed to deliver extraordinary results impacting the growth of the business everyday. Specialties: Leadership, Architecture, Technology and Product Engineering, Team building & mentoring, Training, Hiring, Resource Planning, Risk Management. Extensive expertise in designing and building large-scale distributed platforms, optimizing the latency and throughput by putting best possible solution and implementation, Microservices, Event Driven Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Enterprise Integration Pattern (EIP), Reactive applications, Data Platform, BigData Technologies, Distributed Systems, System Security, Performance Tuning, Lambda/kappa Architecture, Serverless Architecture, Code Refactoring. Website performance optimization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on engineering leadership and architectural design.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 19 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Architectural Design
Microservices
Engineering Leadership
Application Development

Career Highlights

Led engineering teams to scale from 0 to 75+ engineers.
Orchestrated product engineering overhaul for 10x user growth.
Expert in building large-scale distributed platforms.

Work Experience

Tekion Corp

Engineering Leader (1 yr 1 mo)

Zealthix

Co-Founder and CTO (9 mos)

CARS24

VP of Engineering / Chief Architect (2 yrs 10 mos)

Director Of Engineering (1 yr)

Minda iConnect Pvt Ltd

Chief Technology Officer (2 yrs 10 mos)

Ephesoft, Inc.

VP Technology (1 yr 2 mos)

SoftDive Technologies Pvt Ltd

Co-founder (2 yrs 7 mos)

HealthKart

Solution Architect (5 mos)

MakeMyTrip on behalf of Nagarro

Technical Architect (Individual contributor) (7 mos)

Nagarro

Technical Architect (1 yr 5 mos)

Senior Member of Architecture Group (2 yrs 5 mos)

Associate Technical Lead (1 yr 5 mos)

Senior Software Engineer (5 mos)

Software Engineer (11 mos)

Education

MCA at Aligarh Muslim University

Bachelor of Science at D.S. Collage, Aligarh

High School at GIC Aligarh

Deepak Chauhan

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams to scale from 0 to 75+ engineers.
Orchestrated product engineering overhaul for 10x user growth.
Expert in building large-scale distributed platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on engineering leadership and architectural design.

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Skills

Core Skills

Architectural DesignMicroservicesEngineering LeadershipApplication Development

Other Skills

MentoringSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Executive TeamBudgetingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Docker ProductsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)SpringWeb ServicesCore JavaAntTomcatMavenDesign PatternsJavaScript

About

Experience

Tekion corp

Engineering Leader

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

Zealthix

Co-Founder and CTO

Mar 2024 – Dec 2024 · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

MentoringArchitectural DesignApplication DevelopmentSoftware as a Service (SaaS)MicroservicesExecutive Team

Cars24

2 roles

VP of Engineering / Chief Architect

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

As the Head of Engineering for India, I assume a leadership role in guiding the technological direction of our organization.
I lead and manage a diverse team of approximately 70 professionals across multiple teams, ensuring cohesion, productivity, and a shared vision for success.
I take full ownership of the solution, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of multiple products, leveraging my technical expertise to drive successful outcomes.
In a fast-paced environment, I implement industry best practices to facilitate growth and execution, ensuring that our engineering teams remain agile and adaptable.
I'm passionate about mentoring team members, fostering their technical growth, and nurturing their career development. This commitment to mentorship contributes to both individual and team success.
I am dedicated to recruiting and retaining high-caliber engineering talent, essential for maintaining our competitive edge and innovation.
I collaborate seamlessly across functions, working closely with product managers, technical leads, operations teams, and other stakeholders to align the technical vision with overall organizational goals.

BudgetingMentoringArchitectural DesignApplication DevelopmentMicroservicesAmazon Web Services (AWS)+3

Director Of Engineering

Apr 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr

MentoringArchitectural DesignApplication DevelopmentMicroservicesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Executive Team+1

Minda iconnect pvt ltd

Chief Technology Officer

May 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

Responsible for aligning and building technology to support all business initiatives and goals. Structured the technology department into a focused product engineering team with clear ownership and responsibilities, established SDLC.
Simplified the technology architecture, prepared for disaster recovery, redundancy and portability of
systems.
Mentored and coached a very young team to develop and deliver.
Scaled technology to 3x traffic, and improved performance, reducing the cost of server infrastructure. • Implemented industry standard monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics tools and performance measurement for developers, system engineers.
Enabled security best practices, audit and monitoring. Enabled Data protection as per GDPR and Indian IT act. Dealt with cyber-crime attacks like DDOS and Brute Force.
Migrated the monolithic system to a highly distributed and high performance platform using progressive and incremental approach.
Technology partnership with Microsoft where Microsoft helped/helping us to best suitable technology for big data and IOT in Azure cloud.
Handling team of 30 people which includes QA, backend, UI frontend, Android and iOS.
Resource planning for short term and long term achievements/vision.