Sameer Akhtar

CTO

Singapore, Singapore15 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 15 years in software design and development.
Led high-performing engineering teams at Grab.
Expert in fintech and e-commerce platform development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with strong leadership in software development.

Contact

sameervitian2006@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

GolangFintechMarketplace DevelopmentE-commerce EngineNode.js

Other Skills

AJAXAWSAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)CC++CSSCore JavaCouchDBData StructuresDesign PatternsDjangoGitGoHibernate

About

With over 15 years of experience in software design and development within product companies, I have made substantial contributions to the success of multiple applications currently in production. My passion lies in being hands-on with technologies, and I find fulfillment in managing and mentoring high-performing engineering teams for the greater good

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

7 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Grab

4 roles

Head of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2020 – Jan 2025 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Engineering Manager

Mar 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

Engineering Lead

Aug 2018 – Mar 2019 · 7 mos

Tokopedia

2 roles

Principal Architect

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 · 6 mos

Technical Architect

Mar 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

Tech Head for all the fintech initiatives - eWallet, mutualfund, eGold etc
Designed, developed and scaled wallet system(Tokocash) for Tokopedia. Tech owner for this project and built it from scratch. Took the project live in 5 months.
Migrated Tokopedia monolithic transaction system from perl to golang microservice + improved the latency and cut down the running servers.
Hired and managed software engineers, QA and tech lead for various projects.
Worked with different teams across the organization in building engineering processes, culture and workflows.

golangeWalletfintechmicroserviceslatency improvementteam management

Paytm

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Early employee at Paytm, built paytm marketplace from scratch.
Owned multiple modules.
Hired engineers, leads and EMs
Hands on Engineering Manager. actively involved in coding.

marketplace developmentteam managementcoding

Team Lead

Oct 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Design & Development of various modules in the e-commerce engine.
These module include Catalog, Fulfillment, Order Management, Merchant Panel, Storefront, SEED etc.
Infra Setup in aws and deployment process.
Leading a team of ~10 people and owner for Catalog Management, Storefront Management from tech side. Hired software engineers and tech leads.

e-commerce engineAWSteam leadership

Urbantouch.com

Senior Software Development Engineer

Nov 2011 – Oct 2012 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Contributed in developing e-commerce platform completely build on node.js. Contributed in design and implementation of the webstore and the admin site. Implemented store search using sphinx.
Worked on UI implementations.
Involved in interviewing software engineers.

node.jse-commerce platformUI implementation