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Vishal Arora

Engineering Manager

Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia14 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
  • Led multiple successful product initiatives in Fintech.
  • Strong background in engineering management and team leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong engineering management and product development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementSystem ArchitectureProduct EngineeringTeam Management

Other Skills

Engineering LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentCommunicationProduct ManagementCollaborative LeadershipCommerceJavaC++Data StructuresMachine LearningProgrammingDistributed SystemsDatabasesSQLJDBC

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the e-commerce and payments industry. Vast experience in building highly scalable distributed systems from scratch and delivering end to end products. Skilled in Java Technologies et.al. Strong engineering professional with M.Tech. Integrated in Mathematics and Computing from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Experience

14 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Bolt

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

  • Scaling Billing for Bolt Food and the Team
Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipSystem ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentCommunicationProduct Management+1

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2021Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

  • Building Billing Platform and the Team
Team ManagementEngineering ManagementCommunicationProduct EngineeringCommerce

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

CommunicationProduct EngineeringCommerce

Careem

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Building disruptive Consumer Products at Careem PAY for the Middle East Region -
  • Led and developed Careem COVID19 Donations feature to help our captains and various NGOs across markets in a team of 5
  • Led and developed Utility Bills and Payments feature in a team of 6
  • Led Mobile Recharges Revamp Project in a team of 5
  • Led P2P Revamp feature to include P2P request and multi factor authentication features in a team of 6
  • Integrated and implemented new fraud prevention trust tiering system in P2P product
  • Single handedly developed negative credits platform for Careem Ride Hailing Domain
  • Led Careem & Uber Compliance Project for the whole Careem PAY team
  • Led CVE mitigation project in Wallet team for removing vulnerabilities from 13+ services
Team ManagementCommunicationProduct EngineeringCommerce

Paytm

2 roles

Technical Lead - Bus Marketplace

Promoted

Jul 2018Mar 2019 · 8 mos

  • Scaling up the Bus Marketplace
Team ManagementCommunicationProduct EngineeringCommerce

Technical Lead - Forex Marketplace

Jun 2017Jun 2018 · 1 yr

  • Single handedly built Forex Marketplace Tech from scratch
Team ManagementCommunicationProduct EngineeringCommerce

Freecharge

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Apr 2017Jun 2017 · 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Built and Managed superb applications that power the amazing Customer Experience at FreeCharge.
Team ManagementCommunicationProduct EngineeringCommerce

Software Engineer

Jan 2016Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Complete ownership of FreeCharge Refunds service and key implementations to drastically reduce customer queries and improve overall user experience.
  • Currently developing FreeCharge Help Centre aimed at reducing customer tickets and improving overall user experience.
  • Single owner of FreeCharge admin panels, used by more than 100 CS executives daily to solve customer queries and improve user experience.
  • Revamped Customer Support (CS) Dashboards of FreeCharge improving the overall Customer Experience.
  • Performed various integration to furnish the dashboards with required information related to product, orders and transactions for efficient Customer Ticket Resolution.
  • Single handedly implemented and delivered various components used by analytics for NPS, CPS calculations etc.
CommunicationProduct EngineeringCommerce

Royal bank of scotland

Associate

Oct 2013Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Part of the Banking Analytics team, within the FiRST group, responsible for providing end to end support for OFSAA product in terms of requirements gathering, design, impact analysis, configurations and support.
  • Removed dependency on vendors and contractors by taking complete ownership of the project
  • Gathered Business requirements, formulated technical requirements, implemented design change, and performed impact analysis for incremental releases
  • Created Functional and Technical Design documents, application configuration and deployment documents, Unit test cases and ST, SIT, and UAT Test scenarios
  • Proactively took ownership to deliver SIPOC and Use Case documents by liaising with multiple offshore and onshore teams
  • Configured and Unit Tested GL Recon for Mortgages and SGL release and migrated the same across environments
  • Resolved multiple defects in ST, FSIT (Functional SIT), ASIT (Automated SIT) and UAT
  • Led a team of 2 and delivered KT Sessions to Application Support Team, before go-live, apart from covering warranty period. In process, constructed Knowledge Solution document and Application Support document for the same.
CommunicationCommerce

Oracle financial services softwares ltd.

Software Developer

Aug 2011Aug 2013 · 2 yrs · Bangalore, India

  • Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA) Engineering R&D Group.
  • Gained expertise in Oracle Analytical Application (OFSAA) platform through R&D and provided areas of improvement
  • Worked on enhancement and optimization requirements for OFSAA platform modules
  • Updated Technical and Functional Design Documents with changes for new enhancements across the platform
  • Implemented Data Filter functionality, in JSP, for Filters module using MVC2 architecture
  • Designed and Developed the User Interface for Database Model Upload (DMU) in JSP using Struts2 framework
  • Developed the log generation capability of DMU at each checkpoint by modifying the related business logic
  • Integrated DMU with View Log module to incorporate the functionality of dynamic log viewing and downloading
CommunicationCommerce

Inria

Intern

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

  • Implemented the selective flow scheduling mechanism for congestion control, proposed in Alcatel Lucent framework "Semantic Networking"​, to improve the Quality of Service, the Quality of Experience for users and the network efficiency for ISPs with the help of "flow-aware" traffic management
  • Formulated and solved the Optimization problem for finding the fair share for each link in a network using Lagrangian methods (using CVX Matlab)
Commerce

Institute for development and research in banking technology

Intern

May 2009Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, India

  • Proposed and developed an improved version of the original ant colony based miner (Ant-Miner) to find the best possible rule set for any given prediction problem
  • Improved predictive accuracy approximately by 6%, from 89% to 94%
  • Involved the combined use of Metaheuristic Optimization and Ant Colony Optimization

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

MTech. Integrated — Mathematics and Computing

Jan 2006Jan 2011

Delhi Public School Ghaziabad

Jan 2003Jan 2005

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