MANISH KUMAR
Gurugram
Summary
Visionary Tech Lead and Core Founding Member with over a decade of expertise in architecting, scaling, and evolving enterprise-grade SaaS ecosystems. At Zimyo, orchestrated the technical transformation of an enterprise SaaS platform serving 2,500+ global organizations and 1M+ active users. Renowned for a strategic approach that balances aggressive product roadmaps with long-term architectural stability, advocating for 'Reliability through Simplicity' via decoupled microservices and event-driven patterns. Proven leader in cross-functional collaboration, bridging the gap between engineering, product management, and executive stakeholders to drive innovation. Dedicated mentor focused on building high-performance engineering cultures through rigorous standards, continuous integration, and a commitment to technical excellence.
Overview
2027
2027
years of professional experience
Work History
Tech Lead
Zimyo Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
08.2017 - Current
- Architectural Leadership: Served as the primary architect for Zimyo's core enterprise SaaS platform, overseeing the transition from a monolithic MVP to a high-availability microservices architecture. Designed a custom API Gateway to centralize authentication, rate-limiting, and request routing, which effectively reduced platform-wide latency by 35%.
- Team Mentorship & Management: Directly managed a cross-functional team of 20+ engineers. Implemented structured code review processes and automated testing frameworks that improved deployment reliability and increased overall sprint velocity by 25%. Mentored junior developers into senior roles, fostering a culture of ownership and documentation.
- Strategic Collaboration: Worked closely with the Product and Sales heads to align technical delivery with market demands. Spearheaded the technical integration of third-party fintech and insurance providers, expanding the ecosystem's value proposition and driving a 30% increase in enterprise customer retention.
- Managed CI/CD pipelines and deployment architecture on AWS, achieving 99.9% reliability and increasing deployment frequency by 50%.
- Technical Delivery: Optimized database performance for high-concurrency modules using advanced sharding strategies and Redis caching. This effort reduced response times by 40% for the high-concurrency data processing modules during peak month-end processing cycles.
- Product Innovation: Engineered an automated, multi-tenant high-performance calculation engine capable of handling 100k+ concurrent calculations. This system transitioned enterprise processing workflows from manual, hour-long tasks to fully automated routines completed in under ten minutes.
Software Engineer
Quail Technologies
- Performance Engineering: Tackled critical latency issues in high-frequency trading platforms by refactoring bottlenecked SQL queries and implementing non-blocking I/O patterns. This ensured absolute data integrity and sub-millisecond processing for millions of daily transactions.
- Scalability & Real-time Systems: Developed robust communication layers using Socket.IO to manage 5,000+ simultaneous connections. Debugged complex race conditions in real-time market data feeds, implementing a sequence-based validation system to prevent data collisions during traffic spikes.
- Implemented Redis caching layers and RESTful APIs, reducing database load by 60% and ensuring sub-100ms response times.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Sikkim Manipal University
Skills
- Microservices
- Distributed Systems
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Scalability
- REST
- GraphQL
- SocketIO
- OAuth2
- System Design
- AWS
- EC2
- S3
- RDS
- Lambda
- Azure
- GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as Code
- Nodejs
- Python
- JavaScript
- Java
- SQL
- NoSQL
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Anthropic Claude Code
- OpenAI Codex / ChatGPT
Custom Section
- Security Hardening: Spearheaded OAuth2 and security protocols for SOC2 compliance readiness.
- Scalability Engineering: Re-engineered core DB architecture to double capacity for new enterprise onboarding.
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
LinkedIn
Timeline
Tech Lead
Zimyo Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
08.2017 - Current
Software Engineer
Quail Technologies
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Sikkim Manipal University