Kamal Sharma — VP of Engineering
Experienced Engineering Leader with a strong track record of architecting and scaling highly concurrent, highly available systems to handle large-scale traffic. I bring deep expertise across a robust tech stack, including HAProxy, Nginx, Tomcat, Java, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, AWS, and Aerospike. At Paytm, I led the team behind the development and scaling of the UPI platform serving 300M+ users, and contributed to building critical systems such as Authentication, Beneficiary Management, and the RuPay Card Acquiring Gateway. Previously at Kotak, I spearheaded the development of the Loan Management System (LMS), focusing on lead management and building an instant loan disbursal system. I also designed the innovative Credit Line on UPI solution. Currently, serving as AVP Engineering at Paytm, leading efforts to scale and optimize Ads Engineering to power the next phase of growth.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on scalable systems and high concurrency.
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Experience: 15 yrs 4 mos
Skills
- Scalability
- Distributed Systems
Career Highlights
- Led UPI platform for 300M+ users at Paytm.
- Spearheaded innovative Loan Management System at Kotak.
- Expert in architecting scalable, high-availability systems.
Work Experience
Paytm
AVP Engineering (1 yr 4 mos)
Kotak Mahindra Bank
SVP Engineering (1 yr 8 mos)
Paytm Payments Bank
Director Of Engineering (1 yr 1 mo)
Senior Engineering Manager (1 yr 4 mos)
Engineering Manager (2 yrs 1 mo)
Paytm
Technical Lead (2 yrs 4 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)
Tavant
Senior Software Engineer (1 yr)
Sopra Steria
Software Engineer (3 yrs 1 mo)
Education
at Birla Institute of Applied Sciences
