Vinay Mehta

CTO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India21 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in technology architecture.
Led AI strategy for high-scale systems.
Expert in building scalable microservices architectures.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Career Tech expert with strong AI and architecture capabilities.

Contact

vinay.mehta.79@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Solution ArchitectureMicroservicesJavaAndroid DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

AI AgentsAI-based image generationAWSAgile MethodologiesApache MahoutApache solrAutomationBUODCMSChatGPTCritical ThinkingData AnalyticsDatabasesDockerE-commerce

About

Summary : I’m a technology architect with 20+ years of experience in building high-scale systems, leading cross-functional teams, and driving innovation at the intersection of AI and product. At Coolboots Media, I currently lead the technology vision and architecture for platforms like Outspark and TimesJobs, working closely with product, engineering, and business teams to ship solutions that scale to millions of users. My recent focus has been on applying LLMs and Generative AI to solve real-world problems in career tech, support, and automation. Leading AI strategy and productization across Resume, LinkedIn Headshots, and Intelligent Agents Exploring LLM fine-tuning, agent workflows, AI Agents, RAG pipelines, and AI-based image generation Empowering Engineering teams to adopt modern AI tools and build faster with autonomy I believe AI is not just a tool but a new mindset for building software — and I'm passionate about exploring its possibilities responsibly and practically.

Experience

21 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Coolboots media pvt ltd

2 roles

Chief Technology Architect - Outspark & Timesjobs

Promoted

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Leading AI-first engineering and technology strategy across products like Outspark and TimesJobs, with a focus on scaling platforms, integrating LLMs, and enabling rapid innovation across teams.
🔹 Designed and led development of:
Career AI Assistant tools
Professional Headshot Generator using LoRA-trained Flux models
Banner Generator using custom-trained AI models
🔹 Building and deploying real-world AI agents:
Exploring AI Agents for sales and Sales
Automated AI Email Responders
🔹 Research and Development:
Fine-tuning LLaMA, Qwen, and Mistral on proprietary datasets
Exploring RAG-based systems and semantic search pipelines
🔹 Team Enablement & Leadership:
Enabled engineering teams to adopt modern AI dev tools
Fostered a culture of AI experimentation and cross-team collaboration
Driving AI-readiness across all tech layers of the organization

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Solution ArchitectureProject ManagementMicroservicesTeam Leadership

Sr. Technical Architect

Feb 2016 – Aug 2024 · 8 yrs 6 mos

Led the architecture, development, and deployment of high-scale digital products across domains. Spearheaded initiatives that improved system performance, resilience, and time-to-market.
Key Responsibilities:
Designed scalable microservices-based architectures for apps handling millions of users
Built real-time analytics & data mining platforms to power business insights
Developed intelligent alert & monitoring systems (SMS/Telegram integrated)
Architected fraud detection and user behavior systems that saved substantial cost
Drove database automation, optimization, and scale across SQL/NoSQL systems
Led containerized deployments using Docker
Enabled rapid MVP delivery from scratch to production within tight timelines
Mentored engineering teams, established high-quality coding & review standards
Key Achievements:
Scaled backend systems to handle 100M+ API hits and 90K+ concurrent users
Reduced platform costs significantly with internal fraud detection algorithms
Delivered multiple product rollouts in record time with minimal resources
Tech Stack:
Java · Spring Boot · React.js · MongoDB · Redis · RabbitMQ · Kafka · Apache Spark · Python · MySQL · Docker · AWS · Jenkins · GitHub · CI/CD

JavaSpring BootMicroservicesDockerAWS

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Software Specialist

Nov 2012 – Feb 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Solution Architect, Project Management,Product Development , Android Application , Service Api Using Node.js , MongoDB , Online Api Documentation using node.js with I/O Docs - Mashery, Ranking and User Preference Matching Algorithm, Git version control , Open source tool for bug tracking and project management -RedMine , Code Review Open source tool - Fabricator. Hybrid Mobile App Development , Phone-gap, Cordova, Iconic Framework, SOA, ESB- WSO2/MuleSoft, OLTP/OLAP, VoltDB,PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Recommendation Engine - Apache Mahout, Air-Watch(VMWare)

Android DevelopmentNode.jsMongoDBProject Management