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Chandresh Maithil

Engineering Leadership
Bengaluru

Summary

I am a Hands-On Technology Leader with experience of 15+ years in building and managing High Performance Technology Teams.


I have worked as:

1. A Seasoned Software Developer in Java / SpringBoot / AWS stack for 7.5+ Years in leading Fin-tech MNCs

2. An Entrepreneur in Ed-Tech Space for 5+ Years

3. As an Engineering Leader in Top Indian Fin-tech Unicorns for 2.5+ Years


In the past 2.5 years :

1. I have scaled engineering teams at Zeta, Groww and Simpl 10x

2. I have created, maintained and enhanced Fin-tech products for Million Plus Customers

3. I have been a People Manager for 7+ Direct (Including 3 Engineering Managers) and 40+ Indirect Reports


My domain experience is in building Middle Tier / Back End Systems for Financial Institutions which deal with :


1. Accounting

2. Post-Trade/ Middle Office / Back Office Processing

3. Cash / Card / e-Payment Processing - Gross, Batch, Real-Time and UPI equivalents

4. NEFT / RTGS / IMPS / UPI Payments in India

5. Net Banking Integration with Top Indian Banks by User Volume

6. Integration with Payment Gateways Like RazorPay, PayU ,JusPay etc.

7. Enterprise Application Integration - Connecting Systems Across Companies / Institutions - Private / PGs / Public (Govt) / NPCI etc.

8. Benefits / Virtual Cards / Virtual Wallet / Vouchers / Coupons / Gifts / Rewards / Loyalty Programs.

9. Bill and Recharge Payments - The Bharat BillPay System - NPCI

10. Recurring Payments - Mandates / Subscriptions


In my last Role as Director of Engineering at Simpl I was responsible for:


1. OKR Delivery @ 1000+ JIRAs per Year per team

2.Designing, Building and Enhancing UPI Core, Support Products and Repayments Product Lines at Simpl

3. Building and Managing new Engineering Teams - Growth Hacking Team (10+ Engineers) , UPI Core Team (5+ Engineers) - from Scratch / Ground Up

4. Scaling Up Repayments Team, BillBox Team and Support Products Team to 2-3X the initial size

5. Managing 2 Sr. EM, 1 EM, 4+ Senior Engineers as Direct Reports

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director of Engineering

Simpl - One Sigma Technologies Private Limited
Bangalore
01.2022 - 02.2023
  • Managing Multiple Teams (7+ Direct and 40+ Indirect Reports) having exceptionally talented Developers / Testers
  • Contributing to Over All Business of ~ 1 Billion $ Valuation.
  • End-to-End Ownership of 10+ Microservices.
  • Fast Paced environment having 2-5 X growth in Business Y-O-Y
  • Total User Base of 4 Million Plus End Users / Transaction Loads of 100-1000 TPS.

About Simpl

We are re-imagining the credit card from the ground

up by providing a full-stack, mobile-first platform for credit based

payments that empowers online retailers to build trusted

relationships with their best customers.


[ https://getsimpl.com/ ]


  • 7 Million Total User Base
  • 1.4 Million Monthly Active Users
  • 1-2 Lac Daily Active Users
  • Downloads: 50Lacs + | 4.6 Star Rating By 1.48L users ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simpl.android&hl=en_IN&gl=US )


Major Contributions and Impact

1. Hiring - Scaling Simpl from 40+ Engineers to 200+ Engineers in a years span

2. OKR Planning and Delivery Management for 4 Engineering Teams and Fast Paced Delivery @ 1000+ JIRAs per Year per team

3. Leading 2 Sr. EM, 1 EM, 4+ Senior Engineers as Direct Reports ; 40+ Engineers , 10+ Interns as Indirect Reports

4. Designed and Developed Control Tower App from Scratch to reconcile payments transactions

5. Designed UPI Core Product ready for development in 2 Months

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Director of Engineering

Groww
Bangalore
02.2021 - 01.2022
  • Managing Multiple Pods in Payments Team (Total of 7+ Reports) having exceptionally talented Developers / Testers
  • Contributing to a Business of 3 Billion $ Valuation.
  • End-to-End Ownership of 3+ Microservices.
  • Fast Paced environment having 3-5 X growth in Business Y-O-Y.
  • Total User Base of 10 Million Plus End Users /Transaction Loads of 100-1000 TPS.


About Groww

Join millions of users on Groww and start investing in mutual funds, Indian stocks, IPOs, and, F&O. Not just this, now you can also make fast & secured UPI payments to any UPI ID, phone number, bank account anytime.


Open your free De-Mat account & start trading in the stock market. Check live share prices of NSE Nifty 50 & BSE Sensex along with stock technical charts and Indicators.


[ https://groww.in/about-us ]


  • 40 Million + Customers
  • 1 Million Plus Total User Base
  • 4.3 Star Rating By 22K users

Engineering Manager

Zeta
Bangalore
08.2020 - 02.2021
  • Engineering Management of Sodexo Card Product across 3 Geographies (Brazil, Vietnam and Indonesia)
  • Implementations of Sodexo Card Product with mobile app for iOS & Android and 3+ Front End Portals.
  • Managing 15+ exceptionally talented Developers / Testers across Multiple Teams

About Zeta:

At Zeta, we are rethinking payments from core to the edge. The

algorithms to form factors. The applications to solutions. Led by

the vision to make payments invisible and seamless, Zeta has built

an Omni Stack for financial institutions for credit, DDA, prepaid,

loans, savings, processing, authentication and FRM.


[ https://www.zeta.tech/us/about-us ]

Senior Associate / AVP

JP Morgan Chase & Co
Bangalore
03.2017 - 07.2020
  • Technical Lead for AME Banking and Senior Developer for Payment Processing Product.
  • Post-Trade Processing - Authenticating and Authorizing Payment Transactions.
  • e-Payment Processing - Gross, Batch, Real-Time equivalents in US, EU, South East Asia.

Self Employed

Self Employed
Bangalore
02.2012 - 02.2017
  • NKG Education Private Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka
  • Maverick Edu-tech Private Limited, Hyderabad
  • Short Stint - 6 Months - at IBM as Consultant
  • Short Stint - 3 Months - at Cybrilla Technologies as Product Manager

Consultant

Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets
Bangalore
08.2009 - 05.2010

Senior Backend Developer working Onsite as a software consultant

for Accounting Systems of Goldman Sachs

Programmer Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services - B@ncs - Financial Services Division
Bangalore
08.2006 - 07.2009

Backend Developer building Enterprise Integration Product for

middle office and back office Fin-Tech systems

Education

PGP - MBA - General Management

Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
Ahmedabad
03.2010 - 03.2012

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
Allahabad
08.2002 - 08.2006

Skills

OKR / Data Driven Technology Delivery

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Accomplishments

  • Awarded the prestigious "Economic Times Power of Ideas Award 2012" - A National Level Award for Indian Innovators - for my innovative startup idea
  • Early in my career, I served as the Branch Coordinator for Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives at TCS Bangalore [2006-2009]
  • As Coordinator of the Students Activity Council, managed several cultural events at MNNIT - Allahabad (2002-2006)

Interests

Music & Singing

Reading - Non Fiction

Combat & Adventure Sports

Long Distance Driving

Timeline

Director of Engineering

Simpl - One Sigma Technologies Private Limited
01.2022 - 02.2023

Director of Engineering

Groww
02.2021 - 01.2022

Engineering Manager

Zeta
08.2020 - 02.2021

Senior Associate / AVP

JP Morgan Chase & Co
03.2017 - 07.2020

Self Employed

Self Employed
02.2012 - 02.2017

PGP - MBA - General Management

Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
03.2010 - 03.2012

Consultant

Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets
08.2009 - 05.2010

Programmer Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services - B@ncs - Financial Services Division
08.2006 - 07.2009

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
08.2002 - 08.2006

Tech Skills

  • Java 8
  • Spring 5, Spring Boot 2.0
  • B2B / B2C / Cloud (AWS/ GCP) / SAAS Products
  • Microservices
  • Software Best Practices
  • REST / GRPC
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Event and Message Driven Systems
  • Data Structures , Algorithms, OOPS, System Design
  • JUnit, Mockito, Fitnesse, Cucumber
  • HTML/ CSS / Javascript
  • Git , Bitbucket, Maven
  • Kafka, Rabbit MQ
  • Firebase, Redis
  • Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, Splunk
  • DevOps [Docker , CircleCI, Jenkins, Kubernetes]
  • Asynchronous / Functional / Reactive Programming
  • Lambdas & Streams
  • Lambdas & Streams

Internships

2 Months Paid Internship at Accenture Management Consulting, Gurgaon

 ( Finding Consulting Opportunities for Accenture Management

Consulting in e-Governance Space )


3 Months Paid Internship at BYJUs - Think & Learn Private Limited, Bangalore

 (Built the UPSC App from Scratch at BYJUs with third party vendors)

Tech Skills

  • Java 8
  • Spring 5, Spring Boot 2.0
  • B2B / B2C / Cloud (AWS/ GCP) / SAAS Products
  • mySQL, PostGreSQL, RDS, DynamoDB, RedShift
  • Unix / Linux
  • Microservices
  • REST / GRPC
  • Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPS
  • System Design / LLD / HLD
  • JUnit, Mockito, Fitnesse, Cucumber
  • HTML/ CSS / Javascript
  • Git, Bitbucket, Maven
  • Kafka, Rabbit MQ
  • Firebase, Redis
  • Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, Splunk
  • DevOps [Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes]
  • Object Oriented / Functional Programming
  • Software Development Best Practices
  • Event and Message Driven Systems
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Lambdas & Streams

Extra Curricular

 

CSR Volunteer

CSR Volunteer at TCS B@ncs Bangalore


Kindergarten Teacher

Trained as a Kindergarten Teacher and have taught several students below the age of 7 years 

Trained several Teachers as Students Mentors


Mental Health Counsellor

Provided Basic Mental Health counseling to 10+ Students at IIM Ahmedabad

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