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title: "Sunny Shah - Head of Engineering in Bengaluru, Karnataka | Tal"
description: "Meet Sunny Shah, Head of Engineering @ Sarvam.ai | Ex-Head of Engineering, Indmoney | Ex-Head of Data Science & Engineering, Goibibo (MakeMyTrip Group) based in Bengaluru, Karnataka."
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# Sunny Shah on Tal

## 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

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