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Bharat Verma

Director of Software Engineering – India Engineering Pods

Bharat Verma
Pune, India

Experience

Jun 2023 - Present
2 years 8 months
Pune, 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 months
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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 months
Gurugram, 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 months
Gurugram, 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 months
Noida, 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 months
Gurugram, 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
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary

Education

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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