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title: "Geetanshu Singla - Engineering Leader in Delhi | Tal"
description: "Meet Geetanshu Singla, Engineering Leader at Syfe| Co-Founder & CTO at GenWise | ex-VP Engineering at BharatPe| ex-Engineering Lead at Paytm based in Delhi."
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# Geetanshu Singla on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader at Syfe\| Co\-Founder & CTO at GenWise \| ex\-VP Engineering at BharatPe\| ex\-Engineering Lead at Paytm

## About

Engineering leader with deep experience in driving impactful technology transformations at fast\-growing startups and scale\-ups\. Currently, I am Co\-founder and CTO at GenWise, where our mission is to bring joy, connection, and purpose to India’s elders and senior citizens—helping them go from loneliness to laughter\. In under two years, we’ve built India’s largest online club for 50\+ with over 1m\+ users\. I built & scaled the tech\-stack across social network & digital communities, secure fintech for elders & AI companion\. Proud member of the Google for Startups Accelerator 2025 cohort\. Previously, I was VP Engineering and the first senior engineering hire at Bharatpe, where I built and led 100\+ member engineering team and architected, built & scaled the tech stack across payments, lending, investments, cards, commerce & more — powering 15M\+ transactions daily for merchants & consumers in India\. Before that, I spent five transformational years at Paytm, where I played a pivotal role in building and scaling India’s largest payment transaction platform—serving over 8 million merchants and 220 million consumers, enabling 10 million transactions daily at 500\+ TPS\. I led the engineering team for Paytm Wallet\. My journey spans scaling teams from zero to 100\+, delivering complex ground\-up products, and architecting reliable, high\-scale systems—across fintech, e\-commerce, payments, cloud computing, and distributed systems\. I am deeply committed to solving real\-world problems at scale, fostering world\-class engineering cultures, and using technology for genuine social impact\. I’m hands\-on, innovative, and thrive at the intersection of systems thinking, team building, and meaningful growth\.

## Location

Delhi

## Work experience

Engineering Leader at Syfe, Dec 2025 \- Present · 10 mos

Co\-Founder & CTO at GenWise, Feb 2023 \- Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Delhi, India, • GenWise is India’s largest online community for elders, with 1M\+ users, solving for loneliness and enabling better tech through a social network, secure fintech offerings, and an AI\-powered companion\. • Achieved double\-digit user growth with 70% monthly engagement and 50%\+ retention, scaling to 400K\+ MAUs\. • Monetisation driven by microtransactions, generating $400K\+ in revenues with 50K\+ paying users and $10\+ ARPUs\. • Built a secure fintech stack for elders in partnership with NPCI, banks, and insurers, including UPI TPAP, FD marketplace, and cyber\-protect insurance\. • Selected for the Google for Startups Accelerator 2025\.

VP Technology at BharatPe, Mar 2019 \- Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Greater Delhi Area, Head of Engineering \- 1st Senior engineering hire by the founding team \- Built the engineering function from scratch: across domains and levels \- Built scalable payments, lending, deposits, cards, loyalty, and other cross\-functional products and their entire tech stack to offer seamless solutions to millions of small & medium Indian merchants

Head Of Engineering at Caroobi, Sep 2016 \- Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Head of Engineering \- Led cross country engineering teams in India and Europe to deliver solutions to automobile consumers and service providers \- Built the entire engineering function from scratch

Engineering Lead at Paytm, Aug 2011 \- Jun 2016 · 4 yrs 11 mos, Noida, Head of payments engineering and digital fulfillment platform\. \-Founding member of the payments team\. Started out as a hands\-on engineer and went on to lead the team\. \- Scaled the platform from less than 1 million users to 120 million users with 5 million transactions/day and millions of queries/hour\. \- Worked on all the layers of tech stack as we scaled \- web server \(HA Proxy \-> Nginx\), DB, asynchronous order processing system, AWS migration, Redis, AWS SQS, AWS SES, DynamoDB, RDS\. \- Defined the tech stack to support multiple frontends \- mobile app, desktop web, and mobile web\. \- Dabbled in a little bit of front end as we optimized payment experience on the desktop web \- Worked on setting up OAuth 2\.0, Paytm's User Module where entire customer data of millions of customers is governed from

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), RBGI \- Rayat Bahra Group of Institutes

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