name: Bharat Verma
location: Pune, Maharashtra, India 🇮🇳
title: Director of Platform Engineering @AssetMark USA 🧭
experience: 16+ years ⏳
status: Open to engineering leadership roles 🟢
open_to_locations: [India, Singapore, Dubai / UAE] 🌍
scale_owned:
throughput: 5K–15K TPS 💳
daily_volume: $60M–$90M 💰
org: 21 engineers directly, 33+ influenced 👥
domains:
- Payments & Fintech Platforms 💳
- Distributed & Event-Driven Systems 🌐
- Cloud-Native Platform Engineering ☁️
- GCC / Site Scaling & Org Design 🏗️
- SRE, Observability & FinOps 📊
focus_areas:
- AI-assisted SDLC (review, refactor, docs, test generation) 🤖
- Monolith → microservices modernization (Strangler Fig) 🧩
- Cost-per-transaction optimization & reliability engineering 📉
learning: RAG, LLM agents, MCP, n8n workflow automation 🤖timeline
title 16+ Years — Engineer to Director of Engineering
2009 - 2011 : Comviva — Software Engineer : PreTUPS prepaid top-up across 50+ global telcos
2011 - 2015 : InfoEdge / Naukri.com — Senior to Lead Engineer : Symfony 1.x to 2.x modernization : CRM pipelines for 1M+ active users
2015 - 2016 : ShopClues — Staff Software Engineer : Led 6 engineers on catalogue & inventory : 30K to 100K products ingested per day
2016 - 2021 : MobiKwik — Java Tech Lead to Engineering Manager : Launched Insurance, Lending & Travel businesses : Wallet to payment-gateway re-architecture : 40+ engineers hired
2021 - 2023 : Acquia — Engineering Manager : Acquia Cloud Next & Data platforms : $660K annual COGS savings
2023 - 2025 : Guidepoint Global — Director, Software Engineering : CRM modernization & AI co-pilot : Pune office scaled into a GCC
2025 - 2026 : Razorpay — Senior Engineering Manager : Cards & Recurring payments at 15K TPS : Real-time observability & FinOps ownership
2026 - Now : Open to Director / Head of Engineering roles : India, Singapore, Dubai UAE
| Role | Company | Period | Scope & Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Engineering Manager | Razorpay 💳 | Mar 2025 – Apr 2026 | 21 engineers · 3 pods · 15K TPS · $60–90M/day |
| Director, Software Engineering | Guidepoint Global 🌐 | Jun 2023 – Feb 2025 | CRM modernization · GCC build-out |
| Engineering Manager | Acquia ☁️ | Feb 2021 – Jun 2023 | IST + EST teams · Cloud Next migrations |
| Tech Lead → Engineering Manager | MobiKwik 💰 | Nov 2016 – Feb 2021 | Built teams 0→12 · 40+ hires · 99.90% SLA |
| Staff Software Engineer | ShopClues 🛒 | Sep 2015 – Nov 2016 | 6 engineers · Catalogue & inventory platform |
| Senior → Lead Engineer | InfoEdge (Naukri) 📋 | Nov 2011 – May 2015 | Platform modernization · 1M+ users |
| Software Engineer | Comviva 📡 | Dec 2009 – Mar 2011 | PreTUPS™ · 50+ telecom deployments |
| Metric | Before | After | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merchant issue detection | ~20 minutes | < 1 second | Razorpay |
| Logging cost per transaction | ₹0.09 | ₹0.03 | Razorpay |
| Annual cloud COGS | baseline | −$660K | Acquia |
| Recharge GMV per month | ₹181 Cr | ₹210 Cr | MobiKwik |
| Catalogue ingestion / day | 30K products | 100K | ShopClues |
| Banned-product enforcement | 5 days | < 24 hours | ShopClues |
| Ecosystem-wide PHP 8 upgrade | — | 2 months | Guidepoint Global |
xychart-beta
title "Measurable Efficiency Gains (% improvement)"
x-axis ["Detection latency", "Ingestion throughput", "Enforcement SLA", "Logging cost/txn", "Recharge GMV"]
y-axis "Improvement (%)" 0 --> 250
bar [99, 233, 80, 67, 16]
pie showData
title Where a Manager-of-Managers Week Actually Goes
"People, hiring & coaching" : 30
"Roadmap & stakeholder alignment" : 25
"Architecture & design reviews" : 20
"Reliability, incidents & on-call" : 15
"FinOps & tech-debt strategy" : 10
flowchart LR
B[Business & Compliance Goals] --> O[OKRs & Roadmap]
O --> A[Architecture Guardrails]
O --> T[Team Design & Staffing]
A --> D[Delivery Pods]
T --> D
D --> Q[SLI / SLO / Error Budgets]
Q --> I[Incident Review & RCA]
I --> L[Learnings & Tech-Debt Backlog]
L --> O
D --> F[FinOps: Cost per Transaction]
F --> O
mindmap
root((Bharat Verma))
Leadership
Org design & GCC scaling
Hiring, coaching, performance
OKR planning & execution
Stakeholder management
Payments & Fintech
Cards & recurring / e-mandate
Wallets & PPI regulation
Gateway routing & terminals
Cross-border payments
Architecture
Microservices & event-driven
CQRS & transactional outbox
Circuit breaker & resiliency
Strangler Fig modernization
Platform & SRE
Kubernetes & Terraform
CI/CD & release engineering
Observability & tracing
Incident management
AI-Assisted SDLC
Claude Code & Cursor
AI code review & refactoring
Docs & test generation
n8n workflow automation
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| 👥 People | 🏗️ Architecture | 📈 Delivery | 💸 Efficiency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team Building | Microservices & Events | SLI / SLO / SLA | FinOps & Cost per Txn |
| Hiring & Mentoring | Cloud-Native Platforms | Incident Management | Tech-Debt Roadmaps |
| Performance Management | Reliability & Resiliency | CI/CD Excellence | Vendor & Cloud Spend |
| Org Design & GCC Scale | Payments & Compliance | On-Call Readiness | AI-Assisted SDLC |
quadrantChart
title Engineering Investment Lens
x-axis Low Effort --> High Effort
y-axis Low Business Impact --> High Business Impact
quadrant-1 Strategic Bets
quadrant-2 Quick Wins
quadrant-3 Backlog
quadrant-4 Validate First
Real-time observability: [0.62, 0.88]
Monolith to microservices: [0.85, 0.90]
AI-assisted SDLC: [0.30, 0.72]
Logging cost reduction: [0.28, 0.66]
On-call and incident maturity: [0.35, 0.80]
Legacy framework upgrades: [0.70, 0.45]
B.Tech, Computer Engineering — Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (Jul 2005 – Jun 2009)
I'm currently exploring Director of Engineering / Head of Engineering / Senior Engineering Manager roles in India 🇮🇳 · Singapore 🇸🇬 · Dubai / UAE 🇦🇪, especially in payments, fintech, SaaS, or platform engineering — including GCC build-out and site-leadership mandates.
📧 bindian0509@gmail.com · 🔗 linkedin.com/in/bharatverma
- System Design → Distributed systems, event-driven architecture, high-scale platforms
- Payment Systems → Cards, recurring & e-mandate, routing, wallets, PPI/RBI compliance
- Engineering Leadership → Org design, hiring, coaching, performance, manager-of-managers
- Platform Modernization → Strangler Fig, monolith decomposition, framework upgrades
- SRE & FinOps → SLO design, incident management, observability, cost per transaction
- AI-Assisted SDLC → AI code review, refactoring, docs & test generation at team scale
- GCC & Site Scaling → Standing up India engineering centers for global companies
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Last updated: July 2026 | Pune, Maharashtra, India 🇮🇳