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# Vikash Varma on Tal

## Headline

building rovia \- everything tech & infra

## About

I am Vikas and currently building Rovia\. Previously built B2B payments for Aspora and lead the tech and product\. Previously, I was part of the Growth and Revenue Team at Zepto and improved the overall experience for the end users, whether it was coupons, offers, cart, orders, and whatnot\. 0\. Designed a centralized Fraud System and scaled pretty well, currently holding 2L RPM with 3ms as P99\. 1\. Redesigned the entire coupon framework and built up a new microservice that improved the latencies by 70%\. 2\. Designed and Developed Dynamic Home Page Content System\. 3\. Improved Coupon and Cart APIs in latencies and improved by 25%\. 4\. Designed Central Libraries and Repositories to fast\-track the microservice development\. 5\. Migrated crores of records from monolith systems to the new services\. 6\. Designed a Personalised Coupon Recommendation Engine for the users as a part of Coupon Service Migration\. Previously worked with PharmEasy as a software engineer\. My day\-to\-day responsibilities include the design and implementation of the new features in scale\. 0\. Design and develop a Substitute and Similar Module \( showing substitute and similar products for the given intent \) using Reactive Programming in Spring, MongoDB for the persistent layer, and ES for storing the documents\. 1\. Using Spring with Reactive Programming for implementing the APIs\. 2\. MongoDB for Databases\. 3\. Redis for caching\. 4\. Elastic Search for efficient search functionalities\. 5\. Kafka and Zookeeper as a messaging queue\. Previously worked with BNY Mellon as a Software Development Engineer and responsibilities include 1\. Mentor new joiners and give KT sessions to explain the business flows\. 2\. Migrate Angular 2 to Angular 6 for better code maintainability and usability\. 3\. Used Spring and Spring Boot for the design and implementation of APIs 4\. Used Angular 6 for the design and implementation of UI screens 5\. Used mySQL for Databases\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

codex

## Work experience

Head of Engineering at Rovia, Feb 2026 \- Present · 7 mos, Hybrid, everything tech & infra

Founding Team Member \- Engineering at Rovia, Aug 2025 \- Feb 2026 · 7 mos, On\-site, everything tech & infra

Senior Software Engineer \| Product Owner B2B at Aspora, Nov 2024 \- Jul 2025 · 9 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Everything B2B \| Tech & Product

SDE\-3 at Quince, Apr 2024 \- Nov 2024 · 8 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Building E\-commerce Platform

Senior Software Engineer at Zepto, Oct 2023 \- Apr 2024 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Building Recommendations\. Everything about coupons and offers\.

Software Engineer 2 at Zepto, Oct 2022 \- Sep 2023 · 1 yr, Remote, Building Coupons and Offers

Software Engineer at Zepto, Mar 2022 \- Sep 2022 · 7 mos, Remote, Building Checkout, Fraud Management Systems

Software Engineer at PharmEasy, Aug 2021 \- Mar 2022 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 0\.Worked as a Backend Engineer in \`SEARCH TEAM\` to improve the search experiences\. 1\. Design and Develop Substitute and Similar Product Service\. 2\. Intergrated Third Party Services to the application called Customer Glu\.

## Education

Data Structures And Algorithms, Scaler

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Vishnu Institute of Technology \(Autonomous\)

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