Bharat V.
Director of Software Engineering – India Engineering Pods
Experience
Director of Software Engineering – India Engineering Pods
Guidepoint Global
Guidepoint is an expert network platform with deep insights and a 20-year track record in offering growth opportunities to clients and advisors. The company is growing at 30% year-over-year.
- Modernizing the CRM, advisor portal, and client portal by moving them to microservices.
- Completed the PHP 8 upgrade of all systems for SOC2 compliance within two months of joining.
- Revamped the Guidepoint Now client portal by splitting the backend from a monolith into microservices.
- Designing a federated microfrontend module to unify the client experience across Advisor Search, Guidepoint Insights 2.0, and AI Co-pilot.
Manager, Engineering – Cloud Data and ACN Upgrades
Acquia
Acquia is a SaaS company offering a digital experience platform on the open-source CMS Drupal. I lead the NGC Experience team for the Acquia Cloud Next (ACN) project in the Drupal Cloud Engineering department.
- Hired and developed a high-performing team of SDEs and SDETs with experience ranging from freshers to over 10 years.
- Delivered $660K in COGS savings by migrating classic Acquia Cloud customers to Acquia Cloud Next (ACN) (we manage around $2.5M monthly AWS spend).
- Managed end-to-end delivery of cloud-next features, boosting adoption from Cloud Classic to ACN.
Java Tech Lead (Architect) and Engineering Manager
One MobiKwik Systems Private Limited
Mobikwik.com is India’s second-largest e-wallet and a B2C platform. As principal architect and engineering manager with 18 direct reports, I designed and launched four products—Hotels, Bus Tickets, Cabs & Bike Rentals, and Insurance—and supported all verticals from merchants to payments.
- Developed and launched the production backend for hotels, including site APIs, admin dashboard, scheduled jobs, and operations dashboard in three months.
- Integrated Cleartrip hotels into the Mobikwik platform for instant inventory and bookings and added hotels to the Android app.
- Hired top tech talent across all experience levels (SDE-1/2/3).
- Redesigned the payment flow from wallet-only to wallet-as-payment gateway per new RBI PPI guidelines.
- Rolled out bike rentals and cab booking with OLA on the Android app using the wallet payment system.
- Launched personal accident and life insurance products in two weeks, powered by ICICI Lombard, ICICI Prudential, Bajaj Allianz, and Aegon Life.
- Built ELK monitoring for backend apps from scratch, giving real-time insights for product and engineering teams.
- Organized and took part in a Bug-a-thon for the recharge vertical, solving critical issues and raising average monthly GMV from ₹181 crore to ₹210 crore.
Staff Software Engineer - (TLM for Catalogue Team)
Clues Network Private Limited
Shopclues.com is an Indian e-commerce unicorn. As team lead and associate technology manager for catalog management, I led six developers alongside the product and tech roadmap teams.
- Increased daily new product uploads from 30K to 100K via bulk upload.
- Redesigned product CRUD operations into single-point RESTful services using PHP Phalcon, including a dedicated inventory-change API.
- Refactored the banned-product detection mechanism to remove forbidden items within a day (down from five days).
- Helped hire and mentor freshers and experienced developers, handling appraisals and one-on-one meetings.
Senior Software Engineer and Lead Engineer
InfoEdge (India) Public Limited
Naukri.com is India’s top job site with the largest pool of jobseekers and employers. I joined as senior developer and later led the FastForward team, which offers paid services to jobseekers.
- Refactored and relaunched the site from Symfony to version 2.x.
- Was an early advocate for Agile and Git across the company.
- Built two products from scratch: Naukri Background Check and Priority Application.
- Optimized the system via code enhancements and tuning slow queries.
- Upgraded the CRM to send email and SMS campaigns by 11 AM instead of 3 PM for 1 million profiles.
- Implemented continuous delivery with PHPUnit tests, cutting down issue-finding time.
Software Engineer
Comviva Technologies
Comviva is a telecom solutions company. I joined as Software Development Engineer I via campus placement in the Mobile Business Solutions vertical.
- Sole developer for the top-selling PreTUPS™ (Prepaid Top Up Systems) product, used by 50+ clients worldwide.
- Managed version 4.x for Indian clients like Idea, Vodafone, and Aircel.
- Served as SPOC for Vodafone’s East, West, and North units, handling major onsite client interactions.
Summary
- A technology geek juggling engineering management, system design/architecture, and product development in customer-focused organizations.
- 14+ years of software engineering experience, from backend developer to software architect and now a hands-on director leading engineering teams.
- Industry exposure in fintech, e-commerce, expert network, and SaaS, including building microservices and migrating legacy systems to service-based architecture.
- I follow a conscientious leadership style and maintain a balanced EQ to manage a diverse team, focusing on empathy, delegation, motivation, and career growth.
Languages
Education
Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University
Bachelor of Technology · Computer Engineering · New Delhi, India
SKD Academy Inter College
Higher Secondary Education · PCM (Physics, Chemistry, Maths) · Lucknow, India
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