Rijul Zalpuri
Bengaluru
Summary
Engineering leader with 9 years experience, including 3 years in leading high-performing teams. Skilled at blending strong product sense with technical depth to build scalable, high-impact systems. Known for fostering collaborative team culture, mentoring talent, aligning stakeholders, and driving growth through thoughtful leadership and delivery excellence.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager ( Trading charter )
coinDCX
Bengaluru
11.2025 - Current
- Increased throughput by 2x for liquidation components by optimizing scaling and reducing bottlenecks.
- Reduced customer contact ratio by 20% for repeated issues by improving the call process.
- Worked on improving important BAU metrics for the Futures trading charter.
Head of Engineering
Intervue.io
Bengaluru
12.2022 - 10.2025
- Led engineering org from 0 to 12 engineers; built team culture, processes, and architecture from ground up.
- Streamlined engineering processes, resulting in a 30% reduction in project delivery timelines.
- Scaled platform to handle over 1 million concurrent users during Shark Tank India – Season 3, ensuring zero downtime.
- Drove infra modernization (K8s, CI/CD, observability), reducing deployment time and infra costs by over 50%.
- Oversaw launch of 4 B2B SaaS products; significantly expanding the company's product footprint and recurring revenue.
- Leading HR tech interview platform enabling companies to conduct structured,coding assessments and live interviews at scale.
Founding Engineer
Intervue.io
Bengaluru
08.2021 - 12.2022
- Built and scaled the Outsourced Interviews product, which grew to drive 90% of platform revenue.
- Designed and scaled 5 microservices, enhancing reliability and eliminating bottlenecks.
- Optimized multiple critical SQL queries and indexing strategies, cutting execution times by up to 99% (e.g., 16 s → 200 ms) across the platform.
- Successfully migrated major parts of the application to a serverless architecture, reducing costs and enhancing scalability.
- Established end-to-end logging and monitoring, elevating platform observability.
- Leading HR tech interview platform enabling companies to conduct structured,coding assessments and live interviews at scale.
Software Development Engineer 2
Innovaccer
Noida
01.2020 - 08.2021
- Led a team of 4 software engineers by providing hands-on training, code reviews, and project guidance.
- Implemented custom OTA updates for Desktop app, removing need for manual installations.
- Built and deployed a Cordova app within 24 hours for the Govt. of Goa's pandemic press release launch.
- Developed tele video services used in remote medical consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Healthtech platform leveraging data for better clinical outcomes.
Software Development Engineer 1
Innovaccer
Noida
12.2017 - 12.2019
- Successfully helped build Desktop Application from scratch, bringing in 30% of organizational revenue, supporting a key growth driver.
- Improved early adoption rate by 20% by participating in core team decision-making for application rollout.
- Healthtech platform leveraging data for better clinical outcomes.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Manipal University
Jaipur07.2017
Skills
- NodeJs
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- React Js
- DynamoDb
- Kubernetes
- React Native
- AWS
- Docker
- Microservices
- NextJs
- SQS
- Jenkins
- CI/CD
- JavaScript
- Python
- Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Team Building
Professional Highlights
- Handled scale, Engineered Intervue.io to flawlessly handle 1M concurrent users during Shark Tank India Season 3, one of the nation's most-watched events.
- Patent Granted, Patent no: 11106934 - Automatic visual display overlays of contextually related data from multiple applications.
- Launched 4 B2B SaaS products, Led the development and launch of 4 B2B SaaS products, driving product expansion and revenue growth.
Timeline
Engineering Manager ( Trading charter )
coinDCX
11.2025 - Current
Head of Engineering
Intervue.io
12.2022 - 10.2025
Founding Engineer
Intervue.io
08.2021 - 12.2022
Software Development Engineer 2
Innovaccer
01.2020 - 08.2021
Software Development Engineer 1
Innovaccer
12.2017 - 12.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Manipal University