Amit Verma

CTO

Delhi, India18 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

18 years of technology leadership experience.
Successfully scaled payment platform to handle 10x traffic growth.
Led engineering teams for 50 million monthly active users at Microsoft.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS technology leader with extensive experience in scaling and optimizing systems.

Contact

amit.verma1@htdigital.in LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipTechnology Management

Other Skills

AI AgentsAI Software DevelopmentAccountabilityAgile MethodologiesApache FlinkApplication DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataBlockchainCareer ManagementCascading Style Sheets (CSS)ChatGPTCommunicationCore JavaCorporate Finance

About

As Chief Technology Officer at HT Digital Streams, I bring over 18 years of expertise in technology leadership, distributed systems, and digital transformation. My work focuses on driving innovation through Generative AI, optimizing SEO strategies, and enhancing AdTech solutions. By implementing a robust Customer Data Platform and refining cloud workflows, we have significantly improved operational efficiency while advancing monetization and personalization initiatives. Previously, at Microsoft, I oversaw engineering teams responsible for Search, Discovery, and Playlists on Microsoft Stream, driving video engagement for 50 million monthly active users. My tenure at Paytm included leading 170 engineers to scale a payment platform to handle 10x traffic growth, transitioning to microservices architecture, and achieving 99.99% availability. I am dedicated to fostering collaborative teams and mentoring emerging leaders to build scalable, impactful technology solutions.

Experience

18 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

3 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Ht digital streams

Chief Technology Officer

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Delhi, India · On-site

Technology LeadershipTechnology Management

Microsoft

Engineering Leader at Microsoft

Dec 2020 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Led Stream's Search & Discovery and Playlist crews that make Videos searchable and discoverable across Office 365 and enables customers to seamlessly organize videos/audios in an efficient way using Playlists.

Paytm

General Manager Engineering

Sep 2016 – Dec 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Noida Area, India

Worked as General Manager Engineering at Paytm and took care of the next generation payment gateway.
Handled team of 150+ backend and frontend engineers to build next generation payment gateway that processes millions of transactions a day
Improved payment success rate by doing continuous analysis on user behaviour, banks success rate, and improving card routing logic.
Increased system availability by improving monitoring and alerting in the system, scaling systems, and automating failover of all components.
Scaled Payment Gateway 8x to handle increased traffic

Ion trading

Lead Software Engineer

Jan 2011 – Aug 2016 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Led re-architecture of Pricing engine to enable more flexible and dynamic rules
Speed up the pricing calculation of bonds creating a multithreaded graph calculation layer.
Designed the in house ORM framework
Involved in increasing the performance of the application by using profiling tools.

Agnity,inc

Member Technical Staff

Apr 2010 – Jan 2011 · 9 mos

Worked on Sip Server and was involved in designing and server side implementation of a product for Healthcare vertical.
Technologies Using:Core Java,Spring,Hibernate,Servlets and GWT
Protocols Used:SIP,SMTP