Kapil Malhotra

Director of Engineering

Gurgaon, Haryana, India19 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

Proven track record in building and scaling engineering teams.
Expertise in developing complex, scalable systems.
Passionate about mentoring and user-centric product development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong leadership in engineering and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team Building And LeadershipProduct Development And ManagementSoftware Engineering And ArchitectureCloud Computing And Distributed Systems

Other Skills

Workload PrioritizationCoachingConstructive FeedbackProject DeliveryJavaKotlinAWS ECSDockerLambdaSQSS3SolrDistributed SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Agile Methodologies

About

Experienced Leader of Engineering & Product with a proven track record of building and scaling teams in various domains like edtech, supply-chain, and communication. Expertise in developing complex and highly scalable systems that meet the needs of demanding users. Skilled in: * Team building and leadership * Product development and management * Software engineering and architecture * Cloud computing and distributed systems * Data science and machine learning Passionate about: * Using technology to solve real-world problems * Building innovative and user-centric products * Mentoring and developing others

Experience

19 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

10 mos

Current Experience

Nielsen

Director of Engineering

Aug 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Network18 media & investments limited

AVP Engineering

Sep 2023 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Byju's

Director Of Engineering

Mar 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Workload PrioritizationCoachingConstructive FeedbackProject DeliveryTeam building and leadershipProduct development and management

Chegg inc.

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Aug 2021 · 7 mos

We are building a high traffic low latency job-search portal for Chegg (internships.com) having various components like Job Ingestion, Recommendation Engine, Fraud Detection, Search Jobs/Candidates, Send Email for Job matches, Skills match & Assessments. Architecture is built on AWS ECS Docker containers, Lambda, SQS, S3, Solr using Java & Kotlin as the primary languages.
As an engineering manager, I am responsible to lead individual contributors to ensure a rock solid architecture that can scale, code reviews, putting up processes in place to ensure top notch product quality.

Workload PrioritizationCoachingConstructive FeedbackProject DeliverySoftware engineering and architectureCloud computing and distributed systems

Lead Engineer

Nov 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

CoachingConstructive FeedbackProject Delivery

Xebia

2 roles

Principal Consultant

Oct 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Spearheaded the integrations team to make the XL Deploy and XL Release products cloud ready. We built integrations from scratch for AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform and many more.
My role as a team lead involved working closely with Product Owner in defining the roadmap, ensuring the team understands the motivations behind the tasks being picked up, building rapid demonstrable prototypes, ensuring quality deliverables by rigorous code reviews and automation tests, improving CICD processes, putting in place infrastructure-as-code and pipeline-as-code practices and many more.

CoachingConstructive FeedbackProject Delivery

Senior Consultant

Aug 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

Worked with XebiaLabs as Senior Developer

CoachingConstructive FeedbackProject Delivery

Tavant technologies

2 roles

Associate Technical Architect

Jul 2011 – Aug 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Took complete ownership and applied enterprise integration patterns to integrate disparate ERP systems for American agricultural giant. As a team, we transformed complex and brittle architectures into agile integration networks by connecting, virtualizing, and managing interactions between services and applications.
As an architect, my resposibilities included working on PoCs, automating all that's possible, helping with code reviews, product backlog grooming and prioritization, and mentoring new engineers.

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