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Aditya Singh

Director of Engineering
Gurgaon

Summary

Led cross-functional teams across various business domains (Supply Chain Management, Logistics) to achieve significant platform scalability and efficiency gains.Architected and built innovative, high-performance applications, expertise in project management, from planning and execution to successful delivery.Cultivated a high-performing team environment through deep mentoring and coaching, fostering the growth of future engineering leaders.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Engineering

Delhivery
05.2023 - Current

[Team Size: 70]

Oversaw technology strategy and execution for four business lines: Warehousing, D2C Business, Client Experience, and Consumer Business. Initiated a comprehensive transformation upon taking the position, focusing on:

  • System Stability and Resilience: Increased system availability from 88.8% to 99.5%, boosting operational efficiency and user confidence.
  • Strategic Migration of Infrastructure to Mumbai Region: Successfully managed the migration of over 632 microservices, including critical P0 services, from Singapore to Mumbai. This initiative was driven by GDPR compliance requirements and cost optimization objectives. Throughout this project, I led the strategic planning and execution efforts, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations. Collaborating closely with departmental stakeholders, I tailored migration plans to align with specific domain needs, contributing to a seamless transition.
  • I am currently collaborating with AWS teams to establish these migration strategies as industry standards for organizations planning similar transitions to Mumbai."

Concurrent Initiatives:

  • D2C Platform Development: Led the development of a D2C platform, contributing to a 30% business expansion.
  • Client Experience Optimization: Streamlined customer support operations with a focus on cost-effectiveness. Implemented a GenAI email auto-response system, boosting productivity by 30%.
  • Consumer Platform:Spearheaded the development of Delhivery's consumer-centric product. Orchestrated the establishment of foundational frameworks for app and web, contributing to the exponential growth of installations to over 10 million and the active user base to 3 million.

Senior Engineering Manager

Delhivery
05.2021 - 05.2024

[Team Size: 25]

Led Transformation of Critical Shipment Lifecycle System:

  • Directed the successful migration of a monolithic shipment lifecycle orchestration system to a microservices architecture, resulting in a 200% increase in overall request processing and a 30% reduction in operational costs.
  • Made strategic decisions on infrastructure upgrades, including transitioning from a self-managed MongoDB to a sharded database solution for improved scalability and performance.
  • Optimized service architecture by isolating high-throughput, non-domain-coupled services, enhancing efficiency.
  • Effectively managed an 25 people team with a high volume of product tasks while prioritizing and consistently addressing technical debt without compromising product delivery goals.

Engineering Manager

Delhivery
05.2019 - 05.2021

[Team Size: 30]

Data-Driven Product Leadership:

  • Led a 10-person team in collaboration with the Data Science team to develop impactful data products tackling critical business challenges. These products addressed issues like:
  • Optimizing routes to minimize misroutes and improve delivery efficiency.
  • Automating address corrections for first-attempt delivery success.
  • Predicting shipment return probabilities to optimize logistics.
  • Enhancing dispatch productivity through geofenced route suggestions.
  • Build both internal solutions for the Delhivery network and SaaS products for external monetization.

Strong Security & Compliance Focus:

  • Championed data security by implementing strategies and services to safeguard PII data.
  • Established access controls, ensuring only authorized personnel have access to sensitive information.
  • Designed scalable solutions to support Delhivery's expanding data needs.

Strategic Leadership in Crisis:

  • Spearheaded a 20-person HQ team responsible for the core shipment orchestrator, managing the entire shipment lifecycle and decision-making.
  • During the COVID-19 lockdowns, led a rapid 2-day transformation of the shipment journey to handle essential vs. non-essential goods across red, yellow, and orange zones.
  • This critical shift ensured Delhivery could continue processing deliveries while complying with government restrictions, mitigating a potential revenue shutdown.

Tech Lead

Delhivery
05.2017 - 05.2019

[Team Size: 7]

Logistics Operations & Scalability Leadership:

  • Led the effort to achieve a 4x application scale while reducing overall latency by more than 60%. This significant improvement was achieved with a lower overall application cost.
  • Owned core logistics constructs like First Mile, Last Mile, and Order Orchestration as Team Lead.
  • Ensure 100% uptime during peak seasons like Diwali. Because 5 minutes of this application down could have cause direct revenue and trust loss
  • Managed and optimized multiple terabytes of data with millions of requests on a self-managed database infrastructure.

Developer and Sr Developer

Delhivery
07.2013 - 05.2017
  • Owned the development and maintenance of core Delhivery financial systems, including remittance and invoicing.
  • Designed and built multiple anomaly detection and reconciliation systems, achieving a zero-discrepancy billing rate.
  • Developed independent client-facing systems as a separate layer from the monolith architecture. This decoupling ensured client requests wouldn't be impacted by regular transactions on the main system, improving performance and scalability.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

UPTU
Ghaziabad, India
04.2001 -

S.V.M Enter College
Unnao, India
05.2007

Skills

Python

Microservice

MongoDB

Elastic Search

Dynamo DB

Postgres

React-Native

App Development

AWS

Timeline

Director of Engineering

Delhivery
05.2023 - Current

Senior Engineering Manager

Delhivery
05.2021 - 05.2024

Engineering Manager

Delhivery
05.2019 - 05.2021

Tech Lead

Delhivery
05.2017 - 05.2019

Developer and Sr Developer

Delhivery
07.2013 - 05.2017

Bachelor of Science -

UPTU
04.2001 -

S.V.M Enter College
Aditya SinghDirector of Engineering