Arun Singhal

CEO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India18 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Architected scalable systems for high-growth businesses.
Boosted engineering productivity using AI tools.
Led high-performance teams of 50+ engineers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS technology leader with expertise in scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsScalabilityProcess Improvements

Other Skills

Agentic AICore JavaApache KafkaElastic SearchMySQLJavaAgile MethodologiesaerospikeDesign PatternsHibernateJSPMicrosoft SQL ServerRequirements AnalysisSQLTomcat

About

Seasoned Technology Leader with 18 years of experience building and scaling software products across Publishing, Fintech, B2C, Farming, Logistics, and Adtech. Over the past decade, I have excelled in startup environments, driving innovation while leading and growing high-performance teams of 50+ engineers. Recognized for architecting scalable, distributed systems and shaping product roadmaps, I combine technical depth with strategic leadership to deliver resilient platforms for fast-paced, high-growth businesses. Most recently, I leveraged AI-powered tools such as Cursor AI to boost engineering team productivity by 30%, built automation solutions saving 10+ person-days per week in OPEX, and developed an Agentic AI tool that reduced CST ticket TAT from 4-5 days to 30 minutes. I will be happy to connect over LinkedIn or over email at arunsinghal01 at gmail.com Highly scalable distributed systems | Agile / Scrum Methodologies | Process Improvements | Hiring & Building Teams | Talent Retention | Agentic AI | AI Agent | Generative AI

Experience

18 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Paytm

Associate Vice President

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Designed a 3-layer Elasticsearch cluster for Passbook, sustaining 20K TPS ingestion and 8K TPS reads. Added a third cluster for 3 years of data at zero additional cost.
Automated operational workflows using Agentic AI, reducing TAT from 5–7 days to 15–20 minutes.
Architected Paytm UPI TPAP Multi-PSP Model from scratch, integrating 4 banks in ~2 months; scaled to millions of daily UPI transactions, achieving ~99% success rates and contributing 14.66% of India’s UPI volume.
Built Paytm’s P2P Suggestion Service (5K TPS, 50TB data), boosting market share by 3%, retention by 10%, and reviving 4% of lapsed users.
Optimized AWS infra, cutting costs by 15% (~$60K/year) and improving UPI reliability via Java 21 virtual threads.

Agentic AICore JavaApache KafkaElastic SearchMySQLDistributed Systems+1

Inmobi

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Boosted AIP team productivity from 20% to 98% in Q2 2022, sustaining 100% through Q3 and Q4.
Raised Ingestion team productivity from 33% to 75% in Q3 2022 and 95% in Q4.
Scaled platform to process over 10 billion events per day and manage 650TB of data across 10 clients.
Migrated approximately 100 pipelines to Databricks, delivering $100K in annual savings.

Rakuten india

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Oct 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Scaled India logistics team from 2 to 20 within 2 years, building a high-performance culture of execution and quality.
Delivered complex Logistics Management System (LMS) on time with zero bugs, earning the trust of Tokyo leadership.
Secured ownership of high-impact projects (LMS, SLAP) from Tokyo teams, including reviving SLAP after 2 years in backlog.

Engineering Manager

Jan 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Trringo

Principal Architect

Aug 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Designed and developed most core modules (supplier, order, user, inventory, pricing, promo, rating, operator, reporting) as one of five founding engineers.
Built a complex calendar scheduling algorithm ensuring farming instruments and operators were available, scheduled, and transported without conflicts.
Mentored a small team of four engineers, reviewing code and providing regular technical guidance.

Snapdeal

2 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Aug 2017 · 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

Sr. Lead Engineer

Jul 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

Redesigned search architecture with layered design patterns, improving maintainability; ensured 100% uptime during a critical Diwali outage through a temporary workaround, earning an award.
Enhanced search relevance by 5% with a new popularity algorithm and built an A/B testing framework to safely validate features on live traffic before rollout.
Created a reusable Spark SQL framework that streamlined all pipeline jobs, eliminating redundancy and enabling teams to focus purely on business logic.

Sapient global markets

2 roles

Senior Associate Platform L2

Oct 2012 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

Led migration of a large-scale app from Struts to Spring with a 3-member team, reducing technical debt and boosting maintainability.
Built a Selenium + Cucumber automation suite, cutting manual testing by over 60% and improving release confidence.
Ensured 24x7 global production support and automated Atlas deployments, enabling faster, error-free releases.

Senior Associate Platform L1

Aug 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

Mps technologies ltd.

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

Led client requirements gathering in the US and UK, delivering the first prototype that enabled product launch and onboarding of IOP as the first customer during POC—reducing the typical 1-month client onboarding effort to near zero.
Designed and implemented a log-processing module capable of handling over 500 million monthly records, achieving a 7x performance boost by reducing processing time from 1.5 days to 5 hours without Hadoop or big data frameworks.
Extended system capabilities by integrating Pentaho Kettle (ETL tool) and developing a custom plugin to address unique product requirements.