Sachin Chugh

Director of Engineering

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India12 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of experience in software engineering.
  • Expert in leading high-performance engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in product development and agile methodologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong leadership in engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureUser Experience (ux)AnalyticsUser ExperienceWeb DevelopmentCloud DeploymentCloud Services

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon EC2Amazon ECSAmazon RDSAmazon S3Amazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkCI/CDCloudCore JAVACore JavaCross-platform Development

About

Successfully led and mentored a team of engineers, fostering a high-performance culture focused on achieving company goals and objectives. Oversaw the entire product development lifecycle, from conception to delivery, ensuring timely execution and adherence to quality standards. Implemented agile methodologies and process improvements to streamline operations, resulting in increased efficiency and productivity. Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and QA, to align engineering efforts with business objectives. Developed and implemented engineering strategies and roadmaps to support long-term business goals, driving technological advancements and innovation. 13+ years of experience in technologies like Java-J2EE, Spring Boot Restful API’s (Microservices), Mybatis, Junit, Cucumber, AWS (ELB, EC2, S3, Elasticbeanstalk, SNS, SQS, Lambda, ECR, Dynamo DB, IAM, VPC, Cloud Formation etc), Spark, Kafka, PL/SQL, RDBMS and Aerospike. Hands on expertise in implementing maintainable, scalable and unit, integration & performance tested code with object oriented concepts.

Experience

12 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Dream11

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2025Sep 2025 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Gameplay Engineering is the core USP of Dream11 — our 260M+ users log in to play, compete, win big and most importantly, have fun on the platform.
  • I lead the engineering efforts for Gameplay, where every feature my lean, high-impact team builds directly shapes the experience of millions of sports fans.
  • I oversee the DreamPicks app, which introduces diverse gameplay formats that enhance fun, engagement and creativity in team creation.
Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipDirector level

Engineering Manager

Mar 2023Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Peak

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2022Jan 2023 · 11 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

  • Leading the console (horizontal) squad in Peak, taking care of resource usage analytics, telemetry, subscription/quota & RBAC/ABAC.
  • Usage Analytics : This system is being used for upselling & subscription. Also being used by tenant admin/manager to see features usage on their account.
  • Subscription : This service is used to control the usage of resource/service for the tenant, which is directly associated with pricing.
  • RBAC & ABAC: This system is being used to provide minimum required access to tenant users.
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Designed usage analytics system on pub/sub model (Event bus) using kafka. It also handles idempotency in kafka consumer to avoid any discrepancy in case of unordered/retry/duplicate events.
  • 2. Formed squads with 6 members from scratch.
  • 3. Worked on cross-squad features. Ensured contract closure, development, assigning PoC for each squad and met delivery timeline.
  • 4. Involved in working with product manager/business to finalise the PRD, phases, scoping & milestone.
  • 5. Involved in LLD, HLD, planning for implementation & delivery in agile methodology.
  • 6. Designed access control to support RBAC, ReBAC and ABAC.
KanbanRequirements AnalysisUser Experience (UX)Software Architecture

Paytm

Engineering Manager

Aug 2021Feb 2022 · 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Leading the User onboarding in Paytmmoney, it consists of User Identity creation in Depository, BSE, NSE (Exchanges), trading system & risk management system for customer onboarding.
  • This system is built on top of unstable systems using circuit breaker, auto retry and API/File Mode to meet customer onboarding TAT.
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Designed system to bring down user onboarding TAT.
  • 2. Setting up appropriate processes to ensure system stability.
  • 3. Working with the product team in setting up the roadmap.
  • 4. Involved in hiring and mentoring the team.
KanbanRequirements AnalysisUser Experience (UX)Software Architecture

Cardekho

Technical Lead

Jan 2019Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Jaipur Area, India

  • The team builds auto portal catering to car buyers by giving them unbiased reviews, great deals on car, finance and insurance.
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Involved in creating URL shortener to handle huge load.
  • 2. Involved in integrating with Whatsapp to ease end user life by providing relevant information – Car Specs, Brochure, Reviews, Variants, Dealer contact/location information, Cost, Offers, News etc.
  • 3. Involved in integrating with HDFC bank for automating loan application.
  • 4. Involved in creating application to disburse unsecured loan on the basis of Cibil score. Integrated with NSDL for d-kyc, Experian for score, Digio for e-nach and Yes bank for account verification using penny drop & disbursement. Application URL : https://loan.cardekho.com/personal-loan
  • Technologies used - Core JAVA (JDK 8), Spring boot, Maven, REST API, Zookeeper, Docker.
KanbanRequirements AnalysisUser Experience (UX)Software Architecture

The home depot

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2018Nov 2018 · 5 mos · Atlanta, Georgia

  • The team builds the authoritative information services to manages the supply chain in order to identify the right balance between inventory, transportation, and manufacturing cost.
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1.Involved in creating java based spring boot application to create customer order and assign ordered inventory from nearby Distribution center.
  • 2.Unit testing using Junit, Mockito & Powermock.
  • 3.Involved in continuous integration & deployment on cloud using Groovy Scripts, Docker, Kubernetes & Jenkins.
  • Technologies used - Core JAVA (JDK 8), Spring boot, Gradle, REST API, Google Cloud (GCP), Dataflow, Spanner, Kubernetes, Bigquery, Junit, Mockito, React.js, Apache Log4j.
Software Architecture

Nordstrom

Technology Lead (Infosys, USA)

Mar 2012Jun 2018 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Seattle, Washington

  • The team builds the authoritative information services for all product and store data at Nordstrom which is used by systems throughout the enterprise including the online site. Led teams to cut latency for retrieving product information in half, reduce latency for store information access 4 fold, and fashioned a new general purpose api for product item retrieval which met usecases which previously required 4-6 calls and returned unwanted data with a single call which returned precisely the desired detail.
  • Roles (Lead Developer):
  • 1. Involved in cloud migration track for developing Maven based Spring boot REST Web Services with Swagger (2.0) and XML-JSON transformation
  • 2. Deployed Spring boot application on Elastic Beanstalk using AWS client through Jenkins.
  • Services Used : EBS, Elastic Load Balances (ELB), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Route 53
  • 3. Deployed static angular application on S3 using AWS client through Jenkins.
  • Services Used : Simple Storage Service (S3), Cloudfront, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Route 53.
  • 4. Involved in creating java based JMS application for data ingestion in Cassandra on Elastic Beanstalk.
  • Services Used : EBS, Elastic Load Balances (ELB), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Simple Notification Service (SNS), Simple Queue Service (SQS)
  • 5. Unit testing using Junit & Mockito and Integration testing using cucumber.
  • 6. Involved in performance testing for Restful API using artillery box & Jmeter.
  • 7. CI/CD technology : Groovy Scripts, Docker & Jenkins/Kubekins.
  • 8. Used filebeat agent for sending logs to Kibana.
  • 9. Used telegraf, dropwizard & spring actuator for metrics/analytic/monitoring & alerting (TPS,P90/P95, Heap etc ) in grafana dashboard.
  • Technologies used - Core JAVA (JDK 8), Spring boot, Maven, REST API, AWS, Cassandra, Spark, Cucumber, Junit, Mockito, Lambda in Node.js, Apache Log4j

Education

Jaipur Engineering college,Kukas

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Cmputer Science Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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