Vivek Goynar — Director of Engineering

As a seasoned Engineering Leader with 14+ years of experience in designing and building scalable systems, including 6+ years of successful people management, I bring a proven track record of managing high-performing teams with enthusiasm and satisfaction. My expertise lies in working within product-based companies, where I excel in crafting products from inception, with no compromise on quality even within tight deadlines. Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Data structures and algorithms, designing scalable distributed systems, Design Patterns, Restful services, Message brokers (Kafka), SQL, NoSQL(Cassandra, Redis), Caching(EhCache, Redis) and CDC pipelines(Debezium), Cloud services (AWS), Over-the-Air (OTA) Technology Over the past two years, I have spearheaded the development of several microservices from scratch, one capable of handling over 500 TPS. Presently, I lead a dynamic team of 35 full-stack professionals overseeing 10+ microservices, with our core service efficiently processing over 100,000 requests daily, reaching a peak TPS of 1000. My leadership is underscored by a focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement. I prioritize unit testing during development (TDD), achieving an impressive unit test coverage of 87%. Additionally, I have made significant strides in enhancing operational efficiency, notably reducing Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) of production outages by 30% through the enrichment of Grafana dashboards and implementation of proactive alerting mechanisms. During my tenure at Samsung, I oversaw the delivery of Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA) updates to more than 10 billion devices worldwide. My strategic initiatives have yielded substantial cost savings. By implementing open-source parsing solutions and innovative simulation techniques, I had realized significant annual savings of $175k and ~6MM resources. Impactful multiple on-site visits to Samsung Headquarters(HQ) in South Korea and Samsung R&D centre in Seattle, USA. I orchestrated the establishment of a team at Samsung India, following a successful project pitch at Samsung HQ. Prior to Samsung, I worked as a Full Stack Developer at Sopra Steria, where I contributed to the development of advanced Java-based web app for a leading French bank. Hold B1/B2 USA Visa (expired). In summary, I offer a unique blend of technical expertise, leadership acumen, and a proven track record of delivering results. As a Director-Engineering, I am poised to drive innovation, foster collaboration and elevate organizational performance to new heights.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with extensive experience in Fintech and Consumer Electronics.

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Experience: 14 yrs 8 mos

Skills

Microservices
Monitoring
Java
Cost-saving Solutions
Software Updates
Fota
Over-the-air Updates
Software Customization
Team Management
Firmware Updates
Automation
Web Applications

Career Highlights

Led a team of 35 professionals in microservices development.
Delivered FOTA updates to over 10 billion devices.
Achieved 87% unit test coverage through TDD.

Work Experience

Paytm

Senior Director of Engineering (11 mos)

Director of Engineering (2 yrs 2 mos)

Sr. Engineering Manager (1 yr 3 mos)

Samsung India Electronics Limited, Noida

Engineering Manager (1 yr 10 mos)

Technical Lead/Staff Engineer (3 yrs 11 mos)

Software Engineer (3 yrs 3 mos)

Sopra India

Software Engineer Development (1 yr 4 mos)

Education

Master of Technology - MTech at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Vivek Goynar

Director of Engineering

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India14 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a team of 35 professionals in microservices development.
Delivered FOTA updates to over 10 billion devices.
Achieved 87% unit test coverage through TDD.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with extensive experience in Fintech and Consumer Electronics.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesMonitoringJavaCost-saving SolutionsSoftware UpdatesFotaOver-the-air UpdatesSoftware CustomizationTeam ManagementFirmware UpdatesAutomationWeb Applications

Other Skills

Monitoring dashboardsGrafanaAPIsSpring BootError logs analysisTroubleshootingSeleniumC++CHTMLJavaScriptProgrammingMySQLCSSXML

About

Experience

14 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Paytm

3 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Director of Engineering

Apr 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Sr. Engineering Manager

Jan 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Managing a high performance team of size 33 people with a mixture of 15 Backend, 3 Frontend, 10 QA, 4 L1 support engineers and 1 TPM.
The team handles the ~35M merchant data. The team is the custodian of the end to end merchants' data within the Paytm ecosystem.
Successfully designed and delivered a 500 TPS microservice which is used at the time of merchants' money settlement into their bank accounts.
Improved the MTTR of the production outages by 30% by improving the Monitoring dashboards on Grafana and applying the proper alerts on 200+ Apis.

MicroservicesMonitoring dashboardsGrafanaAPIsMonitoring

Samsung india electronics limited, noida

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Spearheading a team of 7 members for 4 projects (Software upgrades, OmaCP, OmaCPSimulator, OMC)
A result-oriented leader with proven record of developing and delivering cost saving solutions. Saved 175k USD pa (3rd party Royalty cost) in OmaCP. Saved ~6 MM resources pa (Business Trip costs, re-test efforts) in OmaCP Simulator.
Successfully rolled-out Software Updates for more than 10 billion android phones across the globe (Flagship series: Galaxy Fold, Note, S series; Mid-segment: Galaxy M, A, On, J series etc; Budget-segment: Galaxy J2Core, A01Core, M01Core, and even old-
generation feature phones).
Management of the ‘Software Upgrades’ Server which is responsible for providing software updates to Samsung mobile phones; for managing more than 30 billion android devices and more than 1million firmware zip files.
Cleared SWC Professional Coding Exam and won a cash reward of 50k INR. (Exam passing %age: ~2%)
Conducting technical interviews for B.Tech. fresh graduates and transforming them into effective resources.
System Design, low level design and code review; co-work and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Communication with multiple stake holders such as Global Product Planning (GPP) team, QA Engineers, Project Managers and South Korean Counterparts.

Cost-saving solutionsSoftware updatesTeam management

Technical Lead/Staff Engineer

Mar 2016 – Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

PROJECT: OMC (Open Mobile Customization)
DESCRIPTION & RESPONSIBILITIES
Download and install the Customizations (of apps, language, ringtones, wallpaper etc) over the air based on the SIM card inserted in device. Release one single factory binary for different regions thereby reducing testing efforts by more than 30%.
Visited South Korea (Samsung HQ) for 3 weeks to co-work on development of OMC.
Setup a new team of 3 members to start commercial work in OMC and successfully commercialized OMC in India’s super-hit Galaxy M series launched at Android Oreo OS. Thereafter, commercialized it in other models also.
PROJECT: Improvising the authentication mechanism in Mobile Phones
In-house project under guidance of HOD, Mr. Amitabh Thapliyal Aug 2019 – Nov 2019
DESCRIPTION & RESPONSIBILITIES
Aims to prevent unauthorized users to login to a system (or, unlock a phone) even if password (or, PIN) is leaked or known.
Identified factors such as Key-press latencies, Swipe Speed, Swipe Time and Accelerometer, Gyroscope sensors’ parameters.
Applied various Machine Learning based classification algorithms such as Gaussian Naïve Bayes, kNN, Isolation Forest to find out FAR, FRR and EER ratios. [EER: <5%, Accuracy: 87%]

Over-the-Air updatesTeam managementSoftware customization

Software Engineer

Nov 2012 – Feb 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

PROJECT: FOTA – Firmware Over The Air (Software Upgrade)
DESCRIPTION & RESPONSIBILITIES
Aims to provide Software Updates to Samsung Android mobile phones across the globe.
Co-worked with HQ engineers to automate the FOTA Delta generation system.
Created a POC on FOTA Delta Size Reduction and thereby implemented the solution officially in Samsung’s FOTA mechanism.
Troubleshooting of Issues and Error Logs Analysis reported in FOTA process. (Delta Generation, Delta download, Delta installation)
PROJECT: FOTA for Samsung feature phones
RESPONSIBILITIES
Used Redbend’s Update Engine (Generation+Installation) mechanism to create and install FOTA delta respectively.
Co-worked with other stakeholders such as Bootloader, FileSystem teams to apply FOTA update successfully.

Firmware updatesError logs analysisAutomation

Sopra india

Software Engineer Development

Jul 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Worked as a full Stack Java Developer in a financial project used for Credit operations of France’s third largest bank.
Implemented new features, Coding, debugging, error logs troubleshooting.
Developed and delivered a new test automation tool (SeleniumFusion) for testing Web based applications using Selenium and Java. Used in official testing of one of the biggest Fashion brands website.

JavaSeleniumWeb applications