Ketan Somani

Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built 30+ products generating $200M+ revenue.
Scaled engineering teams from 4 to 30+ members.
Led successful MVP development for high-profile clients.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS product development expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentLeadershipSystem ArchitectureFintechLarge Scale SystemsSoftware Development

Other Skills

AJAXAWSAlgorithmsAngularJSAngularJsAsset ManagementAutomationCC++CSSCSS3Cloud ComputingCore JavaData StructuresDesign Patterns

About

Hi, I'm Ketan Somani, and I help companies build their tech products. Here's what I do: -> Full-cycle product development -> In-depth product discussions -> Design and develop tech architecture -> Execute and manage tech roadmaps -> Review and optimize system performance I step in when companies need: -> Tech Partner Focus on the product, business, and user experience while I handle the technology side as your right hand partner. -> Extra Support When you have an existing team but need to accelerate development, test new features quickly, or stay ahead in the market. -> Tech Expertise Whether it’s proof of concept or solving existing challenges, I help avoid reinventing the wheel. What I bring to the table: Reliability, Ownership, Accountability, and Trust. Over the past 10 years, I’ve worked with startups, mid-sized companies, and enterprises to bring solid products to the market. I've built 30+ products from scratch, with 2 companies generating $200M+ in revenue and 1 company acquired in a multi-million-dollar deal.

Experience

11 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Eternalight infotech

Founder

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Secured and served high-profile clients, including billion-dollar companies such as Razorpay, Navan, and Scrut Automation, by addressing their unique requirements across travel, fintech, and automation domains. Successfully deployed 20+ engineers to support these projects.
Scaled the engineering team from 4 to 30+ members, spanning roles from Junior Engineers to Architects, across multiple technologies and industries.
Led end-to-end development of successful MVPs for clients such as Vanna, Famo, Smartheritance, and Gorally — including product design, system architecture, go-to-market strategy, and infrastructure capable of supporting millions of users.
Built Proof of Concepts (POCs) for niche research initiatives in automation and asset management for clients like Qualcentric and Xetlink.
Provided dedicated on-site engineering resources to companies including Razorpay, Navan, ISHIR, Smartheritance, Hooly, and Scrut Automation, ensuring seamless integration and delivery support.

Large Scale SystemsFinTechPeople ManagementProduct DevelopmentTeam BuildingLeadership

Razorpay

Engineering Manager

May 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Built the architecture and design of the issuer tokenisation product, this product process ~1MN
card tokenisation per day and ~10MN transactions per day.
Tech used: Java, Springboot, Mysql, AWS, Redis, Hashicorp vault.
Scaled emandate payment file generation and file processing from 10 lahks to 40 lahks per day, this
resulted into acquiring biggest customers into lending and mutual fund.
Tech used: GoLang, MySql, Batch service, Kube workers.
Setup the alerting framework for multiple services to ensure the 99.95% availability of my services
using promethesus, graphana and alert manager.
Managing 20 people of team across NB+ ( Netbanking, Wallet, Emandate, Cardless EMI ) and
issuer tokenisation team.

JavaSpringbootMySQLAWSRedisGoLang+2

Tripeur

Technical Lead

Jan 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Managed & mentor team of ~6. Worked closely with team to deliver product on time. Involved in feature requirement & discussion, architecture, distribution.
Worked on flight search engine to improve response time using Redis cache. Able to reduce latency approximate from 2s to 300ms. Tech used: NodeJS, Redis
Implemented algorithm to show unique hotels from different providers(MMT, Yatra, Oyo ) which improved hotel selection by 22%. Tech used: NodeJS, MongoDB, Typescript
Developed GSTRecon product to parse, compare, analyze invoices of 35+ airlines. In a 30 sec service was able to parse 2000 invoices. Tech used: NodeJS, MongoDB, Typescript, SQS, pdfutils, Puppeteer

NodeJSRedisMongoDBTypescriptProduct Development

Browserstack

Software Engineer

Apr 2019 – Jan 2020 · 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Integrated Google Auth with authentication system and it result to 12% signup increase on monthly basis.
Hosted latest Android devices with system library modification, as well upgraded some devices to Android 10.
Working with visual regression research team to build image comparison algorithm. Tech used: Ruby on Rails, MySQL 5.6, ImageMagik

Ruby on RailsMySQLImageMagikSoftware Development

Medwell ventures pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer

Dec 2015 – Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Designed and developed microservice to capture Staff travel for route analysis and
optimization; real-time data pushed to Customer app and Operations portal, increased
accuracy using Google Road API.
Tech used: Nodejs, WebSocket, google map, google Road API
Implemented Service availability and Staff assignment algorithm that reduced
Operational overhead. Worked closely with Operations to continuously track
performance, fixed issues and increased staff productivity by 30%.
Tech used: Nodejs, MongoDB, python, PostgreSQL.
Single point of contact for Finance module; wrote complete software to handle Billing,
Receipts, Bill/Receipt correction, Payment Gateway integration. Ensured all edge
conditions were handled with high integrity. Resulted in making complete Nightingales
business was paperless.
Tech used: Nodejs, MongoDB, AngularJs.
Ensured uptime for each of my Services by tracking for average response time, error %
and RPM. Enabled ease of debugging by using log aggregation and tracking request trace
id across services.
Tech used: NewRelic, Graylog.
Wrote unit test cases for majority of Services to ensure product quality.
Tech used: Mocha, Chai, nock.
Key resource in Sprint planning, Execution and Deployment; responsibilities; task
breakdown, estimation, tracking, interactions with QA & Deployment.
Tech used: GitLab, Kubernetes, Jenkins

NodejsMongoDBAngularJsPythonPostgreSQLSoftware Development

Fruits evo pvt ltd.

Co-Founder

Jul 2015 – Dec 2015 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Fruits Evo was the first on-demand fruit delivery service. The idea behind Fruits Evo was to cater to people's daily nutrition by providing them different flavoured and nutrition-valued fruit boxes.
Boxes were designed according to people's health needs (e.g. a person diagnosed with diabetes can't consume any sweet fruits). Our team identify these medical conditions and customize their boxes accordingly. Tech used: Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, HTML5

Ruby on RailsMongoDBHTML5