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Sunny Shah

Head of Engineering @ Sarvam.ai | Ex-Head of Engineering, Indmoney | Ex-Head of Data Science & Engineering, Goibibo (MakeMyTrip Group)

Bengaluru, Karnataka

10+ years of work experience

Sarvam
Dec 20258 mosPresent

Bengaluru

INDmoney
Apr 20241 yr 6 mosSep 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Scaled user base from 35K to 18M while infra cost grew only 6x through continuous optimization. • Built backend, DevOps, data, and AI teams from scratch, enabling rapid org growth. • Drove strategic migrations (ECS -> EKS, Elasticsearch -> Loki, Spark/Airflow on K8s). • Transitioned from Python monolith -> GoLang/Scala microservices, MySQL -> Postgres, and Celery -> SQS workers. • Implemented processes to keep latencies <200ms and error rates <0.01%. • Migrated data infra from S3+Athena (daily refresh) → ClickHouseDB (real-time ingestion). • Introduced and migrated to Google Looker for BI reports, enabling reliable reporting and insights.
INDmoney
Sep 20203 yrs 10 mosJun 2024

Goibibo
Apr 20191 yr 5 mosAug 2020

Bengaluru Area, India

• Migrated from Hive/Pig/HDFS -> Debezium, Kafka, Redshift, Spark, S3, building a reliable 100TB+ data platform. • Developed dynamic pricing & intelligent invite systems, driving ~15% revenue growth.
Goibibo
Apr 20181 yr 1 moApr 2019

Bengaluru Area, India

Goibibo
Apr 20171 yrMar 2018

Bengaluru Area, India

Apr 20204 mosJul 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Architected and built privacy-first data & BI platform for India’s COVID-19 contact tracing app. • Scaled platform to support 100M+ users in 2 weeks under massive demand. • Tech stack: Kafka, Spark, Scala, Delta.io, Debezium, Airflow, ElasticSearch, Redash.
TinyOwl
Jun 201511 mosApr 2016

Mumbai Area, India

Built reliable data platform from scratch using Hadoop, Pig, Luigi, Spark.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tackling the Challenges of Big Data

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

20142014

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Headline

Head of Engineering @ Sarvam.ai | Ex-Head of Engineering, Indmoney | Ex-Head of Data Science & Engineering, Goibibo (MakeMyTrip Group)

About

I am an engineering leader with over 15 years of experience scaling high-growth fintech and consumer platforms. My expertise spans backend architecture, data engineering, and AI systems, with a proven track record of managing infrastructure at scale while driving significant cost efficiency. Throughout my career, I have successfully built and mentored high-performing engineering teams from the ground up, delivering resilient systems that support millions of users. I am passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex business challenges through strategic technical roadmaps and operational excellence.

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Work experience

Head of Engineering at Sarvam, Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mos, Bengaluru

Head of Engg (Financial Services, AI, Data Science & Dev Ops ) at INDmoney, Apr 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Scaled user base from 35K to 18M while infra cost grew only 6x through continuous optimization. • Built backend, DevOps, data, and AI teams from scratch, enabling rapid org growth. • Drove strategic migrations (ECS -> EKS, Elasticsearch -> Loki, Spark/Airflow on K8s). • Transitioned from Python monolith -> GoLang/Scala microservices, MySQL -> Postgres, and Celery -> SQS workers. • Implemented processes to keep latencies <200ms and error rates <0.01%. • Migrated data infra from S3+Athena (daily refresh) → ClickHouseDB (real-time ingestion). • Introduced and migrated to Google Looker for BI reports, enabling reliable reporting and insights.

Founding member & SVP, Tech at INDmoney, Sep 2020 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Associate Director ( Data engineering and Data science ) at Goibibo, Apr 2019 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Migrated from Hive/Pig/HDFS -> Debezium, Kafka, Redshift, Spark, S3, building a reliable 100TB+ data platform. • Developed dynamic pricing & intelligent invite systems, driving ~15% revenue growth.

Sr Engineering Manager ( Data Platform ) at Goibibo, Apr 2018 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru Area, India

Engineering Manager ( Data Platform ) at Goibibo, Apr 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr, Bengaluru Area, India

Data Platform Lead and Architect ( Volunteer ) at Aarogya Setu, Apr 2020 - Jul 2020 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, • Architected and built privacy-first data & BI platform for India’s COVID-19 contact tracing app. • Scaled platform to support 100M+ users in 2 weeks under massive demand. • Tech stack: Kafka, Spark, Scala, Delta.io, Debezium, Airflow, ElasticSearch, Redash.

Engineering Manager ( BigData ) at TinyOwl, Jun 2015 - Apr 2016 · 11 mos, Mumbai Area, India, Built reliable data platform from scratch using Hadoop, Pig, Luigi, Spark.

Education

Tackling the Challenges of Big Data, Massachusetts Institute of Technology