Arvind Sharma

Director of Engineering

Gurgaon, Haryana, India9 yrs 4 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led a team of 30+ engineers in cloud migration.
Achieved 50% cost savings through infrastructure optimization.
Developed high-velocity systems handling thousands of transactions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong engineering leadership in cloud and data solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipCloud ComputingData AnalysisArtificial Intelligence (ai)LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentProject ManagementMicroservices

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsAmazon ECSAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon SQSAnalytical SkillsApache KafkaApache SparkAthenaBig DataBoost C++C++CDCClickHouseContainerization

About

At Park+, as Director of Engineering, my role encompasses leading a diverse team to deliver groundbreaking infrastructure and data solutions. Our recent cloud migration project not only optimized operations but also achieved cost savings in the millions, reflecting our commitment to efficiency and fiscal responsibility. We thrive on synchronizing technology with business requirements to propel organizational success, managing large-scale systems with precision. Previously as Engineering Manager, my efforts were instrumental in the development and expansion of ParkPlus' Fastag service, bolstering daily transactions and integrating with multiple banking partners. Mastery in system stability and database optimization underpins the high-velocity environment we navigate. The team's growth and skill enhancement remain a testament to our dynamic leadership approach, ensuring our systems are robust for consumer reliance.

Experience

9 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Park+

4 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs

As the Director of Engineering at ParkPlus, I lead the B2C/B2B backend, Hardware, DatawareHouse,ML/AI, and DevOps teams, managing a team of 30+ people. My core responsibilities include maintaining a stable and efficient infrastructure to support large-scale operations. Last year, I oversaw the migration from AWS to GCP, which resulted in cost savings of approximately 50%. I regularly sync with the business team to understand ground requirements and align our direction to drive organizational growth.
Here are some major projects I’ve worked on, with a few still ongoing:
1. Innovated and implemented an in-house data warehousing solution, managing a staggering 1800+ TB of data daily. Leveraged cost-effective strategies within Athena and S3, enhancing scalability while minimizing expenses.
2. Helmed the AI/ML/Hardware division, driving the creation of proprietary products like ANPR and PGS. These solutions, crucial for our B2B operations, boast exceptional accuracy levels, bolstering our offerings in the market.
3. Recently assumed leadership of the B2B vertical, tasked with addressing multifaceted operational and hardware challenges. Implementing streamlined processes aimed at maximizing organizational profitability.

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Associate Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr

1. Pioneered the development of an internal event management system pivotal for user profiling. This system facilitates personalized offerings and content tailored to individual user behavior through dynamic rule-based decision-making, resulting in notable enhancements in user engagement.
2. Conceptualized and executed an architecture for content recommendation in our social community product, contributing to a significant increase in daily active users (DAU) within the community.

Engineering Manager

Apr 2021 – Mar 2022 · 11 mos

As an Engineering Manager at ParkPlus, I managed a team of 15-20 people, fostering growth in a dynamic environment. I conducted multiple tech sessions to enhance team skills. For the growing business, I designed and implemented the Fastag issuance and recharge service, a core aspect of ParkPlus' operations. I ensured the system's stability to handle 10-15k requests per second with minimal latency and optimized database costs to improve overall API performance. I utilized the latest technologies to make the system stable and reliable for consumers.
Spearheaded the expansion of the Fastag issuance and recharge sector, achieving a daily throughput of 7-8k issuances and establishing integration with numerous banking partners. Currently overseeing a Fastag recharge volume exceeding 70k plus transactions. Crafted the foundational architecture for both issuance and recharge processes.
I established the dealer service from scratch to support business growth and led core DevOps projects to stabilize the infrastructure. As the leader of the DevOps and backend teams at ParkPlus, I implemented numerous infrastructure optimizations to reduce overall DevOps costs.

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Development Team Lead(SDE-2)

Jan 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

I built the microservices architecture from scratch and designed and implemented the core parking system for a consumer-facing app. I worked on and stabilized multiple core microservices, significantly improving overall system latency. I led a team of 7-8 freshers and established the core foundational tech platform at ParkPlus. Additionally, I designed and developed a central reporting system to analyze business data. I managed the core backend architecture, ensuring scalability and stability.

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Voorent

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Working in an early-stage startup, responsible for end-to-end product development from design to implementation of complete products.
1. Logistics Automation: Designed and implemented database design, backend services, APIs, and dashboards to automate inbound and outbound logistics, including assignment, pickup creation, and tracking updates for orders and returns. Integrated with all major logistics partners for each process.
2. Product Management System: Designed and implemented a product management system and created dashboards for internal teams with access control across three levels of hierarchy, utilizing single sign-on for streamlined access.
3. Third-Party Vendor Integration: Designed and implemented backend systems to integrate and manage third-party vendors. This included managing their accounts, orders, and sending notifications for the services/orders they were associated with.
4. Cloud Deployment Automation: Set up, deployed, and automated project deployment on the cloud, ensuring end-to-end server maintenance.

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Betterbutter

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Oct 2018 · 9 mos

1. Notification System Development: Designed and implemented a notification system from scratch, capable of sending 100,000 concurrent notifications to users based on their profiles within seconds. This system significantly increased the Daily Active Users (DAU) on our app.
2. API Caching System: Centrally designed and implemented an API caching system to improve the latency of REST APIs. The system efficiently handles caching for listing APIs, resulting in a tenfold increase in overall web performance.
3. Multi-Language Search Engine: Designed and implemented a search engine supporting multiple local languages from scratch. Utilized Elasticsearch to serve content in real-time and implemented a trie data structure in Redis for efficient autocomplete results. Developed a core algorithm for fuzzy matching with 95% accuracy.
4. Asynchronous Request Handler: Designed and implemented an asynchronous request handler to reduce the load on synchronous threads. This handler efficiently executes heavy tasks in the background without disrupting the system.
5. Video Processing System: Designed and implemented a video processing system in multiple languages using the core FFMPEG library. Parsed video frames to attach selected text themes, developed an algorithm to merge multiple videos with custom themes, and enhanced videos based on user-selected themes.
6. Cloud Deployment Automation: Set up, deployed, and automated project deployments on the cloud, resulting in reduced server costs.

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Software Engineer

Dec 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr

Payu

Software Developer

Mar 2016 – Nov 2016 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

My current title in payu is Software Developer. I am working on Merchant Onboarding system project. My responsibilities are develop new features for merchant and solving issues of merchant.

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Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2015 – Jan 2016 · 7 mos

1. Static Memory Detection Implementation: Designed and implemented a static memory detection system to identify excessive memory usage in coding assignments. Utilized the Boost C++ library to create the system, developing multiple complex regex patterns to detect 13 types of static memory declaration patterns in user code, leveraging core language fundamentals for pattern detection.
2. Recursion Detection System: Developed a recursion detection system to enforce coding pattern constraints by restricting the use of recursion in specific use cases.
3. Cheat Detection System: Created a cheat detection system from scratch to identify code similarities between different users, ensuring the integrity of coding assignments.
4. Three-Level Web Crawler: Designed and implemented a three-level web crawler from scratch. This crawler fetched raw data from multiple sites and passed it to a cleanup process developed using Boost C++. This system expedited the process of business data gathering and analysis.