Vinit Bothra

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams scaling from 30 to over 250 members.
Architected high-performance loyalty systems with <50ms latency.
Built AI-driven personalization pipelines achieving 95-98% accuracy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned engineering leader in E-commerce and Food Delivery sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementPlatform DevelopmentTrust & Fraud ManagementLoyalty SystemsSystem DevelopmentApi Development

Other Skills

People ManagementJavaJavaScriptjQueryJSPMySQLGitRubyRuby on RailsAJAXWeb DevelopmentMongoDBNeo4jRedisLinux

About

Engineering leader building large-scale commerce & engagement platforms powered by distributed systems, personalization pipelines, and applied AI. 15+ years experience across India’s largest digital ecosystems (Flipkart, Swiggy, Nykaa, Allen, Amazon) leading multi-site orgs, architecting user growth engines, merchant lifecycle systems, trust & fraud platforms, high-scale loyalty frameworks, and high-accuracy agentic workflows. Leadership focus: • Scaling engineering orgs (30 → 250+), building strong EM/Staff pipelines, performance leveling, and hiring governance. • Platform thinking — reusable systems for commerce, onboarding, logistics, loyalty, rewards, personalization, and analytics. • Distributed systems at scale — 5B+ events/month real-time analytics, 200K+ RPS loyalty systems, <50ms latency retail APIs. • Applied AI — agentic learning systems (95–98% accuracy), personalization, insight generation, content automation, support efficiency. A career built at the intersection of engineering velocity, business outcomes, and platform durability.

Experience

14 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 mo

Current Experience

Rippling

Director of Engineering

Apr 2026 – Present · 1 mo · Bangalore Urban · On-site

Engineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementPeople Management

Allen digital

Director of Engineering

Aug 2023 – Apr 2026 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore Urban · On-site

Nykaa

Director Of Engineering

Feb 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Built merchant lifecycle platform (onboarding → order → credit → fulfillment); improved accuracy +25%, field efficiency 3×.
Architected hyperlocal Trust Engine reducing false delivery claims by 80%; NPS +20; return rate 40% → 10%.
Scaled team 10 → 30+; established engineering cadence across backend, mobile, platform.

Flipkart

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Led Retention Platform: Loyalty (Plus), Rewards, SuperCoins; 200K+ RPS, <50ms latency during BBD.
Delivered personalization pipelines improving session-level engagement, wallet loads & upgrade triggers.
Partnered with BizFin, Analytics, CX Ops, PM for GMV, churn and retention OKRs alignment.

Engineering Manager

Jul 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Swiggy

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Aug 2017 · 4 mos

Founding engineer; built hyperlocal systems including restaurant listing, real-time delivery tracking, catalog, comms platform, and OMS. Led to 1000x growth in revenue
Set up org-wide engineering practices including on-call, monitoring, and cost optimization. Operational issues went down by 40%, AWS cost by 30%.

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2015 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Rakuten

2 roles

API developer

Oct 2011 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Designing and developing the API for Global E-Commerce platform of Rakuten.
Developing robust scalable APIs using Java + spring framework to sustain the high load we get as we move into new markets. Make use of Service Oriented Architecture principles to make everything accessible via an interface.