Bharat Verma
Director of Software Engineering
Experience
Director of Software Engineering – India Engineering Pods
Guidepoint Global
Guidepoint is an expert network platform, with deep insights and a proven track record of 20 years in providing growth opportunities to its clients and advisors. With a deep market reach currently, org is growing at 30% Y-O-Y growth.
- 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 which is due for the company to get SOC2 compliance, within 2 months of joining.
- Currently working on expanding the India Engineering team via hiring SDE-1/2/3 for PHP along with frontend developers
Manager, Engineering – Cloud Data and ACN Upgrades
Acquia
Acquia is a SaaS-based company providing digital experience platform over opensource CMS – Drupal. Currently leading and managing projects of NGC Experience team for ACN Project (Acquia Cloud Next) under Drupal cloud engineering department.
- Hired and developed a team of top performers that includes SDEs and SDETs from fresher to 10+ years of experience.
- Delivering ~660K in COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) savings by migrating existing Acquia Cloud classic customers to ACN (Acquia Cloud Next) (on a side note we are having monthly expenses on AWS of around USD 2.5 million)
- Managing end-to-end delivery of project cloud next feature sets which will directly results in increased adoptions from cloud classic to ACN.
Java Tech Lead (Architect) and Engineering Manager
One MobiKwik Systems Private Limited
Mobikwik.com is mainly a B2C company and the 2nd largest e-wallet in India. Worked as principal architect and engineering manager with 18 direct reports. Designed and developed 4 products from scratch Hotels, Bus Tickets, Cabs, Bike Rentals, and Insurance. Contributed to almost all verticals - merchants to payments from time to time.
- Developed and deployed on production hotels backend architecture for website and aggregator APIs, hotels admin dashboard, scheduled jobs, and customer operations dashboard in 3 months.
- Integrated Cleartrip hotels on Mobikwik hotels platform for instant inventory addition and bookings, along with bringing hotels on the Android app.
- Proven track record of hiring top performers for technology across all the experience bands - SDE-1/2/3.
- Changed the entire payment flow from wallet only to wallet-as-payment gateway as per new RBI guidelines released for wallets (PPI).
- Delivered bike rentals and cab booking in collaboration with OLA cabs on Mobikwik Android app linking wallet payment systems.
- Delivered insurance products within 2 weeks for personal accident and life insurance powered by ICICI Lombard, ICICI Prudential, Bajaj Allianz and Aegon Life.
- Introduced and built ELK monitoring for backend applications from scratch giving clear insights in real-time for both product and engineering teams.
- Organized and participated in Bug-a-thon event, for recharge vertical, It solved critical tech and product hurdles increasing average GMV from 181 crores/month to 210 crores/month
Staff Software Engineer - (TLM for Catalogue Team)
Clues Network Private Limited
Shopclues.com is one of the e-commerce companies in India. I worked as a team lead cum associate technology manager for the catalog management section of an Indian e-commerce unicorn and managed a team of 6 developers in coordination with product and tech roadmap.
- Enhanced the new product creation threshold from 30K products per day via bulk upload to 100K.
- Transformed the product CRUD operations to single point RESTful services-based architecture using the PHP Phalcon framework, which also includes a dedicated API for inventory changes.
- Refactored the entire forbidden/banned product-catching mechanism to remove such products within a day of creation (earlier it was 5 days).
- Contributed to the hiring of freshers and experienced developers that later proved assets to the organization, along with people management tasks like appraisals, and one-on-one meetings.
Senior Software Engineer and Lead Engineer
InfoEdge (India) Public Limited
Naukri.com is India's no. 1 jobsite with largest pool of jobseekers and employers. I worked as senior developer and later as lead developer for the FastForward team of Naukri which is into providing paid jobseeker services.
- Contributed to refactoring and revamp of the complete website in terms of moving from Symfony to version 2.x
- Founding contributor for Agile and Git in the overall organization.
- Developed two new products from scratch - Naukri Background Check and Priority Application from scratch.
- Strived hard to optimize the existing system via app optimizations and tuning slow queries.
- Enhanced CRM for email and SMS service to send it before 11 AM earlier it took till 3 PM every day with 10 lac active profiles.
- Contributed to continuous delivery with PHPUnit test cases, thus reducing time and effort for finding issues.
Software Engineer
Comviva Technologies
Comviva is a telecom company. Joined as software development engineer I, selected via campus placements to Mobile Business Solution vertical.
- Solely worked as a developer for a high-end top-selling product called PreTUPS™ (Prepaid Top Up Systems) which has 50+ clients across the globe.
- Single-handedly managed version 4.X for all Indian clients like - Idea, Vodafone, Aircel, etc.
- Worked as SPOC for 3 out of 5 units of Vodafone - East, West, and North, largely dealing with clients onsite.
Summary
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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) · India
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