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Bharat Verma
Director of Software Engineering – India Engineering Pods
Experience
Jun 2023 - Present
2 years 8 monthsPune, India
Director of Software Engineering – India Engineering Pods
Guidepoint Global
- Currently working on the modernization of different parts of the CRM (along with advisor and client portal) by moving them to microservices.
- Completed PHP-8 transformation of entire systems to achieve SOC2 compliance within two months of joining.
- Revamped the Guidepoint Now client-facing portal by migrating the backend from a monolith to microservices.
- Designing module-federated microfrontend to unify client experiences for Advisor Search, Guidepoint Insights 2.0, and AI Co-pilot.
Feb 2021 - Jun 2023
2 years 5 monthsPune, India
Manager, Engineering – Cloud Data and ACN Upgrades
Acquia
- Hired and developed a team of SDEs and SDETs ranging from freshers to 10+ years of experience.
- Delivered approximately USD 660K in COGS savings by migrating Acquia Cloud Classic customers to Acquia Cloud Next, while managing AWS monthly expenses of around USD 2.5 million.
- Managed end-to-end delivery of Cloud Next feature sets to drive adoption from Cloud Classic to ACN.
Nov 2016 - Feb 2021
4 years 4 monthsGurugram, India
Java Tech Lead (Architect) and Engineering Manager
One MobiKwik Systems Private Limited
- Developed and deployed the hotels backend architecture for website and aggregator APIs, hotels admin dashboard, scheduled jobs, and customer operations dashboard in three months.
- Integrated Cleartrip hotels into the MobiKwik platform for instant inventory addition and bookings, and launched hotels on the Android app.
- Proven track record of hiring top performers across experience bands (SDE-1/2/3).
- Changed the payment flow from wallet only to wallet-as-payment gateway in compliance with new RBI PPI guidelines.
- Delivered bike rentals and cab booking features in collaboration with OLA on the MobiKwik Android app, integrating wallet payment systems.
- Launched insurance products within two weeks, powered by ICICI Lombard, ICICI Prudential, Bajaj Allianz, and Aegon Life.
- Introduced and built ELK monitoring for backend applications from scratch, providing real-time insights to product and engineering teams.
- Organized and participated in a Bug-a-thon event for the recharge vertical, solving critical tech and product hurdles and increasing average GMV from ₹181 crores/month to ₹210 crores/month.
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
1 year 3 monthsGurugram, India
Staff Software Engineer (TLM for Catalogue Team)
Clues Network Private Limited
- Enhanced new product creation throughput from 30K to 100K products per day via bulk upload.
- Transformed product CRUD operations into single-point RESTful services using the PHP Phalcon framework, including a dedicated API for inventory changes.
- Refactored the forbidden/banned product detection mechanism to remove such products within a day of creation (previously five days).
- Contributed to hiring and people management tasks, including appraisals and one-on-one meetings.
Nov 2011 - May 2015
3 years 7 monthsNoida, India
Senior Software Engineer and Lead Engineer
InfoEdge (India) Public Limited
- Refactored and revamped the complete website by migrating from Symfony to version 2.x.
- Acted as a founding contributor for Agile and Git adoption across the organization.
- Developed two new products from scratch: Naukri Background Check and Priority Application.
- Optimized the existing system via application optimizations and tuning slow queries.
- Enhanced the CRM for email and SMS service to send communications by 11 AM instead of 3 PM for 1 million active profiles.
- Contributed to continuous delivery with PHPUnit test cases, reducing time and effort for issue detection.
Dec 2009 - Mar 2011
1 year 4 monthsGurugram, India
Software Engineer
Comviva Technologies
- Solely developed PreTUPS™ (Prepaid Top Up Systems), a top-selling product with 50+ clients worldwide.
- Managed version 4.x for Indian clients including Idea, Vodafone, and Aircel.
- Served as SPOC for Vodafone’s East, West, and North units, handling onsite client coordination.
Summary
- A technology geek, playing concurrent functions in engineering management, system design/architecture, and product development for customer-centric organizations.
- 14+ years of software engineering experience, starting from backend developer to software architect and now a (hands-on) director for engineering teams.
- Industry exposure includes - fintech, e-commerce, expert network, and SaaS domains which included implementing microservices and migrating legacy to service-based architecture.
- Follow a conscientious leadership style, and keep a balanced EQ required to manage a diverse team, with key areas such as empathy, delegation, motivation, and overall career growth.
Skills
- Programming: Java, Php, Go & Python3 With Shell Scripting
- Querying: Declarative (Sql, Cql) & Imperative (Mongodb Query Language)
- Frameworks: Spring Boot (Java), Api-platform And Symfony (Php), Echo (Go)
- Rdbms: Mysql, Postgres, Ms Sql Server
- Nosql Databases: Mongodb, Cassandra
- Orms: Hibernate, Jpa (Java Persistence Api), Jdbc, Doctrine, Spring Data Mongodb
- Caching: Redis (In-memory Data Cache), Aws Elasticache
- Search Engine: Elasticsearch (Data Ingestion And Retrieval)
- Message Brokers: Kafka, Rabbitmq, Amazon Sqs
- Cloud: Amazon Web Services (Ec2, S3, Elb, Elastic Beanstalk, Eks, Cloud Vpc, Iam)
- Cloud: Google Cloud Platform - Maps Api (Geo-coding, Places, Directions)
- Planning Tools: Jira, Confluence, Trello, Zeplin, Asana
- Code Tools: Git With Github And Bitbucket, Vscode, Intellij, Swagger For Api Documentation
- Build Tools: Maven, Helm, Jfrog Artifactory, Make, Azure Container Registry
- Testing Tools: Junit, Phpunit, Sonarqube, Synk, Jfrog Xray, Selenium, Postman
- Release & Deploy: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible
- Ci/cd: Jenkins, Azure Devops, Github Actions, Argo Cd
- Operate & Monitor: Datadog, Elk, Grafana, Pagerduty, Sentry, Bugsnag
- Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, Apache, Nginx
- Operating Systems (Personal & Servers): Linux (Debian & Redhat), Windows 10/11, Mac Os
Languages
Hindi
NativeEnglish
AdvancedSpanish
ElementaryEducation
Jul 2005 - Jun 2009
Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering · Computer Engineering · New Delhi, India
Jul 2002 - Jun 2004
SKD Academy Inter College, U.P. (State) Board
Higher Secondary Education, PCM (Physics, Chemistry, Maths) · PCM (Physics, Chemistry, Maths) · Lucknow, India
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