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Kshitiz Agarwal

CEO

Gurugram, Haryana, India19 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Scaled engineering team from 18 to 120+ members.
  • Achieved 99.99% service availability.
  • Led development of Unified Payments Interface products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Travel technology leader with extensive experience in scaling teams and driving product innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipProject ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

Team BuildingManagementProcess ImprovementDatabasesStrategic ThinkingApache KafkaMicroservicesRedisJiraTechnical DesignLeadershipSoftware Development MethodologiesEnglishCloud ComputingArchitecture

About

With 18+ years in technology leadership, I specialise in scaling high-performing engineering teams, architecting high-availability, cloud-native systems, and driving business growth through technology innovation. At Tiket.com, I grew the team from 18 to 120+ while improving service SLAs to 99.99% availability and reducing high-severity incidents by 80%. I’ve led large-scale transformations in fintech, travel, and e-commerce, optimising costs and streamlining operations for multi-million dollar platforms. Passionate about building the right technology culture, I thrive at the intersection of business strategy, product vision, and engineering execution.

Experience

19 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Freelance (self employed)

Angel Investor

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Technology Leadership

Tiket.com

Senior Vice President

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • Product Development : Building Accommodation Tech, B2B Corporate Tech & Pricing Tech. Improve consumer experience, Supplier Experience and operational efficiencies.
  • Team Building and Management : Scaled from 18 member team to 120+ member teams in 3 years with <10% annual attrition.
  • Process Improvement : Enhanced service SLAs with > 99.99% availability. Decreased High Severity incidents from 6+ incidents to <1 in a quarter. Improve sprint deliveries from <70% to >85%.
  • Cross Functional Collaboration : Streamline processes across teams to ensure better collaboration. I was able to deliver multi teams projects like Multi currency, Multi Order, reduce efficiently Quarter on Quarter.
  • Talent Acquisition and Policy Development : Established and refined hiring processes for cross-location technology teams, developed comprehensive policies, and built high-performing Talent Acquisition teams.
Technology LeadershipProject Management

Paytm payments bank

AVP

Sep 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Spearheaded the development of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) products : P2P, P2M transactions, Corporate Payouts, Merchant Payouts, and Transaction History..
  • 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Worked with internal and external stakeholders, including Paytm teams (PG, Wallet, KYC, Auth, CBS, Data, CST, Notification, Risk & Fraud, Compliance & Audit, Infra, IT, Legal), NPCI, banks, and audit firms, to drive Key Result Areas (KRAs), ensure timely delivery, and enhance consumer experience.
  • 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Expanded and led a team from 6 engineers to over 50 professionals, including Directors of Engineering (DOEs), Senior Engineering Managers (SEMs), Engineering Managers (EMs), Software Developers, Database Administrators, and DevOps specialists.
Project ManagementDatabasesStrategic ThinkingApache KafkaMicroservicesRedis+20

One97 communications limited

Associate Vice President

May 2018May 2020 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, Haryana

  • 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Technology head for Entertainment Tech (Movies, Events, Amusement Parks & Box Office) , Fastag & UPI switch for PSP.
  • 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Partnered with Product, Business, Commercial, Marketing teams and with Government organizations to develop, track, and execute strategic roadmaps, ensuring effective delivery of business objectives.
  • 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Managed 4 scrum teams comprising 30+ Software Development Engineers & 3 Engineering Managers with dotted line reporting of 2 DevOps engineers.
Project ManagementDatabasesStrategic ThinkingApache KafkaMicroservicesRedis+20

Oyo rooms

Director Of Engineering

May 2017May 2018 · 1 yr

  • 1. Built horizontal systems : Ordering, Fulfilment & Payments, Platform services (Logging, Monitoring, Metrics & Alerting, Scheduler, Asynchronous Jobs & Service Discovery
  • 2. Moved Monolith to micro services.
  • 3. Built the teams for above horizontal systems.
Project ManagementDatabasesStrategic ThinkingApache KafkaMicroservicesRedis+20

Reliance jio cloud services

Software Development Manager

Dec 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Worked with a team which developed IAM from scratch for Jio Cloud Services.
  • MVP done within 2.5 months of joining.
  • Team built a robust and scalable product with great features and solved interesting problems.
  • The product was well adapted by jio internal teams and customers by invitation.
Project ManagementDatabasesStrategic ThinkingApache KafkaMicroservicesRedis+20

Intel corporation

Software Development Engineer

Apr 2011Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 8 mos

DatabasesApache KafkaRedisTechnical DesignSoftware Development MethodologiesEnglish+10

Samsung india software operations

Lead Engineer

Jul 2006Apr 2011 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Gstreamer Multimedia Framework, Video Telephony, Gtk.
  • OpenAl, Webkit
RedisTechnical DesignSoftware Development MethodologiesEnglishArchitectureAnalytical Skills+5

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Master’s Degree — Electronics and Communication Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Mathura

B.Tech.H.C.S.T

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