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Senior Director of Engineering @ Paytm | Data and Backend Engineering, Technology Innovation

About

With over a decade of experience in software engineering, I currently serve as the Senior Director of Engineering at Paytm, leading initiatives in data engineering, big data platforms, and backend technologies. I specialize in designing and building large-scale data platforms, real-time data ingestion frameworks, and high-performance backend systems that power data-driven products at scale. My expertise spans distributed systems, Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink, Trino, AWS, and modern data lake architectures, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. At Paytm, I lead engineering teams responsible for developing robust data ingestion frameworks, real-time pipelines, and platform capabilities that enable billions of events to be processed efficiently while supporting business-critical analytics and decision-making. I am passionate about solving complex engineering challenges, mentoring high-performing teams, and leveraging emerging technologies, including AI, to drive innovation and accelerate engineering productivity. My goal is to build scalable technology platforms that create long-term business impact while fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Location

Faridabad

AI stack

claude code

cursor

Work experience

Senior Director of Engineering at Paytm, 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 10 mos, Noida, Data Platform & Backend Organization • Own Paytm's enterprise Data Platform and critical Backend engineering ecosystems, driving strategy, architecture, execution and long-term technology evolution. • Lead a 50-member organization spanning Data Engineering and Backend Services, including 7 managers; own hiring, talent development and cross-functional delivery. • Direct technology roadmaps, AOP, engineering budgets and platform economics across data infrastructure and operational backend systems. • Lead architecture across distributed systems, data platforms, APIs, high-throughput processing and production reliability. Backend Systems & PAP → PAO Transformation • Led consolidation and architectural overhaul of Paytm's core backend payment systems, migrating 100% of PAP transaction traffic to PAO in ~1 month. • Directed backend teams through a highly business-critical migration involving high-throughput transaction processing, API routing and production readiness. • Drove backend platform consolidation to leverage PAO's scalable distributed infrastructure and simplify the payment technology landscape. Enterprise Data Platform & Scale • Lead a ~12 PB data platform spanning ~5,000 datasets and processing ~14B Kafka events/day across batch and real-time workloads. • Built and scaled in-house Data Lake and monitoring/observability platforms supporting enterprise-wide data operations. • Drive platform reliability and operational excellence for business-critical data and backend infrastructure at 99.9% availability. Cost, Governance & Reliability Transformation • Reduced Data/Backend platform compute and storage costs from ~$1.62M to ~$1.08M, delivering ~33% cost reduction and ■6 Cr September savings/impact. • Established cost-management initiatives across microservices, compute, storage and workload architecture while maintaining business-critical SLAs. • Led enterprise Data Governance capabilities for PII discovery, masking, encryption and Apache Ranger-based access contr

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Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, National institute of technology kurukshetra

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana