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VARUN MATHUR

Engineering Manager
BENGALURU

Summary

Engineering Manager with 17 years of experience in engineering management, architecture, and cloud-based scalable systems. An IIM Bangalore alumnus, ex-Microsoft and ClearTax, currently at Flipkart, leading high-impact teams. Expertise in distributed systems, stakeholder management, and revenue-driven product innovation. Brings an entrepreneurial mindset, delivering agile, high-growth solutions, and mentoring teams to achieve engineering excellence in fast-paced environments.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Engineering Manager

Flipkart
01.2020 - Current
  • Currently leading 5 teams with 32 engineers; previously led 7 teams with around 50 engineers over 4 years.
  • Delivered products like IPC-PUDO, BYOD Scan and Accept, Seamless 2-Way, WhatsApp and OTP ORC, and others, achieving ₹1000+ crore cost savings, a Conversion goodness of 100bps, a 20bps reduction in supply chain fraud, and ₹120 crore bottom-line growth.
  • Spearheaded the development and implementation of a Workflow Management Platform using Temporal and IWF, resulting in a 10% reduction in KTLO for two teams and improved overall efficiency.
  • Directed initiatives like DB Sharding, K8s Onboarding, Rigel Integration, and Quartz Deprecation, achieving 15QPS scalability and a 30% reduction in MTTR.
  • Delivered OKRs such as Exchange Later, AC Prexo, and GTNL, contributing ₹1500+ crore GMV growth and ₹240 crore bottom-line improvement.
  • Defined quarterly and long-term product and tech roadmaps, managed stakeholders, prioritized initiatives, and conducted resource planning for efficient execution.
  • Implemented Jira-based cross-team plans, risk assessment frameworks, and RACI matrices, streamlining collaboration and accountability to reduce project delivery timelines by 20%.

Head of Engineering

SmartVizX
12.2019 - 09.2020
  • Company Overview: A VR startup focusing on 3D design solutions.
  • Led overall planning, execution, and delivery of products at SmartVizX, leading cross-functional teams across UX, UI, Backend, and QA functions.
  • Delivered features to enhance 3D design content for architects and designers, resulting in a ₹4 Mn revenue increase for the organization.
  • Spearheaded the development of a multi-user VR collaboration platform for architects and designers, reducing mock-up costs by 25% for customers.

Engineering Manager

Apttus (payroll of Altran)
11.2018 - 12.2019
  • Company Overview: A company providing contract lifecycle management solutions.
  • Led the engineering team on architecture and development of a multi-tenant B2B chatbot.
  • Drove IBM Cloud migration, increasing the user base from 100+ to 6500+.

Engineering Manager

ClearTax (payroll of Altran)
12.2016 - 10.2018
  • Company Overview: A leading financial technology startup in India.
  • Led the engineering team to develop ClearTax core products.
  • Architected and developed the Microservices based event-driven distributed architecture for the ClearTax Core website to handle traffic of a million requests per hour.
  • Conceptualize the idea of the product (One-page E-filing) and spearheaded the same from inception to completion, which in turn helped to increase user base by 50% in one fiscal year.

Senior Consultant

British Telecom
09.2013 - 12.2016
  • Company Overview: A multinational telecommunications company.
  • Led the team to migrate the BOSS application over the BT Cloud, saving £3.5 million annually.
  • Delivered the BOSS project 2 months before scheduled time, saving £600K.

Tech Consultant

Microsoft
09.2011 - 09.2013
  • Company Overview: A leading global technology company.
  • Provided technical guidance in technology selection, design, prototyping, and architecture for Fortune 500 clients, including Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and VISA.
  • Worked as an MSDN Blog writer and wrote blogs on .NET. One of the blogs got published in the official asp.net website.

Lead Software Engineer

Mindtree
07.2007 - 10.2011
  • Company Overview: A global technology consulting and services company.
  • Supervised a team of 6 members in developing multiple software features for projects such as Volvo IM, Volvo Faros, and Arcelor Mittal Maintenance.
  • Due to the success of the previous work, Arcelor Mittal has provided a maintenance contract of 17 applications to increase the revenue of the organization by 1 million dollars.

Education

Management -

IIM Bangalore
01.2018 - 01.2019

B Tech - undefined

Cochin University
08.2003 - 04.2007

Skills

Management

Agile Project Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Planning

People Leadership

Product Design and Delivery

Risk Management

Coaching and mentoring

Technical

Cloud (AWS, Azure)

Microservices

Distributed Systems

MySQL

Caching

NoSQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Temporal

TiDB

DevOps

Springboot

Java

C#

NET

Virtual Reality

CI/CD

NodeJS

Certification

University of Buffalo - Blockchain

Awards

  • Flipkart Ace Alliance Award - Four times got Ace Alliance Award for exceptional performance among a team of 160 at Flipkart.
  • Aricent WOW Award - WOW Award for exceptional performance among a team of 50 at Aricent.
  • BT TSO Award - BT TSO Award for exceptional quarterly performance among a team of 60.
  • Microsoft PowerPlayer Award - PowerPlayer Award for exceptional quarterly performance among a team of 40 at Microsoft.

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Flipkart
01.2020 - Current

Head of Engineering

SmartVizX
12.2019 - 09.2020

Engineering Manager

Apttus (payroll of Altran)
11.2018 - 12.2019

Management -

IIM Bangalore
01.2018 - 01.2019

Engineering Manager

ClearTax (payroll of Altran)
12.2016 - 10.2018

Senior Consultant

British Telecom
09.2013 - 12.2016

Tech Consultant

Microsoft
09.2011 - 09.2013

Lead Software Engineer

Mindtree
07.2007 - 10.2011

B Tech - undefined

Cochin University
08.2003 - 04.2007

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