Jul 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led product and engineering teams of 45+ members, covering Backend, Frontend, Mobile Apps, Cloud, Data Science, and DevOps/SRE functions.
• Strong ability in stakeholder management and solving complex problems across technology and business teams.
• Planned and executed platform strategy, resulting in faster go-to-market, improved development efficiency, and reduced costs.
• Introduced a lean team structure to reduce dependency between Developers, QA, and Ops, improving talent utilization and product quality.
• Achieved significant revenue growth by delivering new features and initiatives.
• Reduced team costs by optimizing roles and removing redundancies.
• Increased team productivity by encouraging ownership and reducing interdependencies.
• Lowered AWS costs by 30%, saving around $360,000 per year through infrastructure cleanups, storage optimization, and system migrations.
• Managed P&L and budgets, including tools, licenses, infrastructure, and team costs such as salaries and rewards.
• Improved platform security by completing VAPT, audits, and system hardening with minimal downtime.

Apr 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• 1. Architected and maintained key modules such as payment systems, multiple payment gateway integrations, PG routing engine, user KYC handling, closed loop wallet, fraud detection system with auto blocking, and authentication & authorization.
• 2. Improved database performance by implementing horizontal sharding with Apache ShardingSphere, making queries faster and systems more scalable.
• 3. Designed a multi-PG routing engine to route traffic based on success rates and integrated multiple payment gateways efficiently.
• 4. Built and optimized real-time gaming systems by designing games like Ludo, Poker, and Rummy using
• Protobuf + gRPC with WebSockets for fast, real-time performance.
• 5. Developed a real-time fraud detection system that blocks suspicious activity instantly at both game level and attribute level.
• 6. Strong hands-on experience in Spring Boot microservices, APIs, Java/J2EE.
• 7. Led the development and launch of complex gaming systems like Rummy and Ludo, ensuring scalability and high performance.
• 8. Enhanced security by improving standards across all platforms to ensure compliance and protect user data. Conducted regular performance reviews and gave constructive feedback to help team members grow.
• 9. Played multiple roles effectively, contributing as both a team leader and an individual contributor whenever required.

Jun 2021 – May 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Architect for Payment module and Wallet of Paytm First Games. Architect for authentication and authorization module of Paytm First Games.
• Worked on performance bottlenecks to improve the performance of the PFG Backend by multiple folds.
• Fostered positive and performance-oriented environment by implementing successful reward systems.
• Developed proposals for PFG outlining project scope and timeline.
• Reviewed project goals and objectives on monthly basis with project manager and design team.
• Coordinated project team of 8 engineers for 2 projects in tech development.
• Worked with 8 team members to accomplish technical aspects of projects.
• Participated in development meetings for high-value customers and business operations updates.

Jun 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Designed and developed the Payment Module, Wallet, and Authentication & Authorization systems for Paytm First Games.
• Fixed major performance issues, improving the backend speed and efficiency by multiple times.
• Reviewed project goals and progress regularly with product managers and design teams to ensure smooth delivery and proper alignment.
• Led a team of 8 engineers across two projects, managing both technical development and on-time delivery.
• Actively contributed to development meetings for high-value customers and shared regular updates on business operations.

Oct 2012 – May 2018 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Various roles in One97 / Paytm mobile VAS business. Before moving to the Paytm First Games worked as a backend architect of "idea game spark" project.

Jul 2008 – Oct 2012 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• STPL was my first company. It's a startup company. I joined as Java Developer the year 2008. Its software product - MobiVite - was acquired by One97 Communications.
• After some time led all the technical initiatives and gained "hands-on" work experience in different verticals within an IT company i.e. IT infrastructure setup, mentoring, product & project planning, architecture/design of applications, framework development.
• Designed and developed common framework components, was responsible for all architectural decisions & mentored team to become proficient in various leading open source frameworks.

Jul 2007 – Jun 2008 · 11 mos · Delhi, India · On-site

• Working as Junior Software Developer with Nirvana Infocomm, a leading organization dealing in Application Development and delivering e-Solutions to its US and Canada based clients.
• The job mainly involves the design and development of web portals and web applications of ERP solutions. Responsibilities are to design and implement the entire application after understanding the requirement starting from client interaction and programming the application with the team in advanced frameworks like Struts and languages like Hibernate and J2EE (Servlets, JSP).