Anuj Gupta

CTO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India10 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering for 17M concurrent users.
Architected microservices for high-throughput performance.
Strong advocate for data-driven decision making.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer in B2C consumer tech.

Contact

anuj@dream11.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipTeam ManagementEngineering ManagementProduct Road MappingProject ManagementSystems DesignBackend DevelopmentDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesData EngineeringWeb Development

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAWS Step FunctionsAerospikeAgentic FrameworksAmazon AuroraAmazon CloudFrontAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSApache KafkaApollo GraphQLArchitecture ReviewsBack-End Web DevelopmentBandwidth ManagementCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Coaching & Mentoring

About

Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience driving scalable product platforms and technical innovation for high-growth consumer tech. Currently AVP Engineering at Dream11, leading and mentoring cross-functional teams building resilient backend systems that support 17M concurrent users and 260M registered users. I specialise in engineering strategy, distributed systems, and product-driven innovation at scale. My career spans building and transforming engineering organizations, architecting high-throughput microservices (up to 350M RPM, 32K TPS), and fostering team growth through best-in-class hiring and talent development. Strong believer in data-driven decision making, continuous learning (recently delving into Google ADK and Agentic AI), and transparent cross-functional collaboration to solve complex challenges and enhance end-user experience.

Experience

10 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Dream11

4 roles

AVP of Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos · On-site

Leading a 45+ member engineering organisation, driving technical excellence and ensuring the delivery of critical features. My team handles the critical charter of core Revenue and Gameplay microservices, such as Contest, Leaderboard, and Winners, along with the screens on the app. These microservices directly touch the golden flow that drives revenue, hence service uptimes, deliverables and operational maturity always need to stay on track.
Driving horizontal engineering initiatives through ARAB (Architecture Review and Advisory Board), such as building an efficient GraphQL federation framework using Java Vertx, Incident Management, Service Operational Maturity Assessment and others.
Leading horizontal AI initiatives and upskilling tech teams by helping them explore Agentic frameworks such as Google ADK, LLM models and AI toolkits through AEGIS (AI enablement Group for Innovation & Support).

Team ManagementStakeholder ManagementTeam BuildingTechnical LeadershipCoaching & MentoringProcess Improvement+2

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo · On-site

Supervised the technical strategy of the “Contest Join with DreamCoins” feature for ~40K TPS by breaking the Contest Join flow by breaking it into Orders service and Inventory service, similar to e-commerce.
Rearchitected and scaled the Leaderboard service to handle ~20M concurrent users by doing service boundary segregation of contest, leaderboard and teams microservices and using DynamoDB’s Infrequent Access Tables for data archival.
Delivered key product initiatives for driving Net Gaming Revenue (NGR), including Contest Join with DC, Contest Bundles, Powerplay Contests, Currently Winning and DreamSale.
Led hiring initiatives with the Talent Acquisition team by conducting hiring drives and hiring interviews. This helped enhance capacity to support rapid prototyping, operational excellence and maturity.

HiringProcess ImprovementBandwidth ManagementEngineering ManagementProduct Road MappingDistributed Systems

Software Development Engineer 3

Promoted

Jul 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs · On-site

Engineering Manager for Revenue Squad
Led a team of 6 engineers to deliver multiple product features and expanded the team for increased efficiency.
Revamped the crucial data pipeline using Kafka Consumer to ensure robustness before the IPL-22 season.
SDE 3 in Platform Engineering Team
Reduced API gateway costs by 90% through migration to Kong API Gateway and developing custom Lua plugins for enhanced functionalities.
Build real-time push messages platform using EMQx for RoundLock Extension and Pull To Refresh features. Explored MQTT protocol stress tested the system for broadcasting messages with 5M concurrent MQTT conns.

Project ManagementStakeholder ManagementTeam BuildingEnd to End DeliveryArchitecture ReviewsKong API Gateway+6

Software Development Engineer 2

Dec 2018 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · On-site

Developed backend microservice in Java (Vertx framework) to serve personalised contests on the app.
Sharded core gameplay microservices to handle IPL scale.
Integrated referral service with the new wallet service.

JavaVertxAerospikeAmazon AuroraAmazon Web Services (AWS)Node.js+4

Bookmyshow

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

Engineered near-real-time tracking of various payment modes to optimize success rates.
Advised customers on optimal payment options to reduce transaction failures.
Implemented automatic actions based on real-time data analysis to prevent failures.
Integrated Stripe payment aggregator into the new payment system.

Node.jsAgile MethodologiesAngularJSInfluxDBGrafanaDocker+4

Capgemini

Consultant (Insights & Data)

Jun 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

Developed a UI dashboard using AngularJS for efficient inventory management for a European client.
Implemented ETL data pipelines using SAP BW to power daily and weekly reports.

AngularJSNode.jsHTMLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)Java+3