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Vijay Kumar

Technical Director at PlotsRadar

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Aug 20262 mosPresent

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Nov 20253 mosJan 2026

Banglaore

Building a location-aware marketplace for last-minute deals on excess inventory — fast, local, and sustainability-driven.
Gojek
Sep 20223 yrs 4 mosDec 2025

India

I worked as a backend engineer on large-scale payments and financial systems, building and maintaining critical services used by millions of users and drivers across Southeast Asia. My role focused on designing, scaling, and operating high-throughput distributed systems, particularly around driver payouts, customer payments, and regulatory financial workflows.
Voyager
Apr 20226 mosSep 2022

Building KYC service to launch product outside of USA
Thoughtworks
Oct 20216 mosMar 2022

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Client: FAB (First Abudhabi Bank) Helping them to make customer experience services to unified services basically moving from monolithic to microservices architecture.
Thoughtworks
Jul 20174 yrs 4 mosOct 2021

Karnataka, India

June 2021 - Present, ThoughtWorks Client: FAB (First Abudhabi Bank) Helping them to make customer experience services to unified services basically moving from monolithic to microservices architecture. Nov 2020 - March 2021, ThoughtWorks Client: Tesco I was part of the team where we update the daily price changes of products to Tesco stores across UK. May 2019–2020, ThoughtWorks Client: Gojek Project: GoPay I worked closely with clients in e-wallet service which allows Gojek customers to use its on-demand services seamlessly, including making faster purchases, tracking their spending easily, and transferring money in no time. I was involved in designing and implementing new features in the e-wallet system using Golang, Java, Clojure. Actively proposing new enhancements for scaling the e-wallet system. May 2018–May 2019, ThoughtWorks Project: Bumblebee I was involved in building a chatbot to solve employees day to day concerns. where employees can gather personal data, fill timesheets and raise tickets for tech ops and search for organizational blogs. July 2017–May 2018, ThoughtWorks Client: McKinsey Project: Wave Wave is a program management solution that focuses your organization on impact, not just activities. we built a sophisticated platform that acts as a single source of truth for tracking each transformation initiative and KPI, allowing teams to collaborate and act on real-time insights.
Thoughtworks
Jul 20152 yrsJun 2017

India

Client: McKinsey Project: Marketing Navigator Overview McKinsey’s Marketing Navigator translates complex complex marketing return-on-investment (ROI) data into simple visualizations to help marketers make better decisions. Responsibilities: Involved in building an easy-to-use interface turns complex calculations into simple data visualization to help compare marketing-spend scenarios against a broader strategy, capturing both big picture and granular insights. Worked on building econometric models and pragmatic models based on rules. Gained knowledge on R, where it's used to recommend the optimum blend of communications channels to achieve the best short- and long-term sales impact as well as maximize ROI Worked on MVC models (marionette) to help customers visualize their ROI. Worked closely with column base database (vertica)

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Headline

Technical Director at PlotsRadar

About

Senior software engineer skilled in Go, Java, distributed systems, micro-services and fintech domain. I am not here for to get your approval.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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ChatGPT

Work experience

Technical Director at PlotsRadar, Aug 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Founding Engineer at OTM, Nov 2025 - Jan 2026 · 3 mos, Banglaore, Building a location-aware marketplace for last-minute deals on excess inventory — fast, local, and sustainability-driven.

Senior Software Engineer at Gojek, Sep 2022 - Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos, India, I worked as a backend engineer on large-scale payments and financial systems, building and maintaining critical services used by millions of users and drivers across Southeast Asia. My role focused on designing, scaling, and operating high-throughput distributed systems, particularly around driver payouts, customer payments, and regulatory financial workflows.

Senior Software Engineer at Voyager, Apr 2022 - Sep 2022 · 6 mos, Building KYC service to launch product outside of USA

Senior Application Developer at Thoughtworks, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 · 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Client: FAB (First Abudhabi Bank) Helping them to make customer experience services to unified services basically moving from monolithic to microservices architecture.

Application Developer at Thoughtworks, Jul 2017 - Oct 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos, Karnataka, India, June 2021 - Present, ThoughtWorks Client: FAB (First Abudhabi Bank) Helping them to make customer experience services to unified services basically moving from monolithic to microservices architecture. Nov 2020 - March 2021, ThoughtWorks Client: Tesco I was part of the team where we update the daily price changes of products to Tesco stores across UK. May 2019–2020, ThoughtWorks Client: Gojek Project: GoPay I worked closely with clients in e-wallet service which allows Gojek customers to use its on-demand services seamlessly, including making faster purchases, tracking their spending easily, and transferring money in no time. I was involved in designing and implementing new features in the e-wallet system using Golang, Java, Clojure. Actively proposing new enhancements for scaling the e-wallet system. May 2018–May 2019, ThoughtWorks Project: Bumblebee I was involved in building a chatbot to solve employees day to day concerns. where employees can gather personal data, fill timesheets and raise tickets for tech ops and search for organizational blogs. July 2017–May 2018, ThoughtWorks Client: McKinsey Project: Wave Wave is a program management solution that focuses your organization on impact, not just activities. we built a sophisticated platform that acts as a single source of truth for tracking each transformation initiative and KPI, allowing teams to collaborate and act on real-time insights.

Application Developer at Thoughtworks, Jul 2015 - Jun 2017 · 2 yrs, India, Client: McKinsey Project: Marketing Navigator Overview McKinsey’s Marketing Navigator translates complex complex marketing return-on-investment (ROI) data into simple visualizations to help marketers make better decisions. Responsibilities: Involved in building an easy-to-use interface turns complex calculations into simple data visualization to help compare marketing-spend scenarios against a broader strategy, capturing both big picture and granular insights. Worked on building econometric models and pragmatic models based on rules. Gained knowledge on R, where it's used to recommend the optimum blend of communications channels to achieve the best short- and long-term sales impact as well as maximize ROI Worked on MVC models (marionette) to help customers visualize their ROI. Worked closely with column base database (vertica)