Vikash Rajoriya
Mumbai
Summary
Engineering Manager with 12+ years of experience across Gaming, Fintech, E-commerce, Payments, and Developer Tools, leading platform, SRE, and distributed systems at scale. Deep expertise in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Database-as-a-service (DBaaS), reliability engineering, and DevSecOps, with ownership of platforms supporting 16M+ concurrent users. Proven Engineering manager focused on building high-ownership teams and delivering scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud platforms with predictable delivery and high reliability.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager - Platform
Dream11
09.2020 - Current
- Led and grew a multi-disciplinary engineering team spanning Platform, SRE, and Backend Engineering, owning hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and execution delivery across critical business systems.
- I own an end-to-end platform (developer platform) and reliability outcomes for production systems supporting 16M+ concurrent users and operating at peak event scale, with accountability for availability, latency, data integrity, and incident response.
- Delivered end-to-end ownership (ideation, design, implementation, release) of Optimus, an internal Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform, built and operated as a Dream11 SaaS product, and replaced external vendors, driving over $2.5 million in annual cost savings.
- Built and scaled a 15+ member Internal Developer Platform (IDP) team, delivering standardized build, deploy, and runtime platforms, cutting build and deployment times by 80%, and significantly improving developer productivity and release velocity.
- Migrated the Leaderboard service from a vendor-managed database to an in-house, self-managed database platform, achieving improved SLAs and system reliability, and better performance under peak concurrency.
- Established SRE practices including incident management and on-call readiness, post-incident reviews, and reliability scorecards, observability standards (metrics, alerts, dashboards).
- Re-architected core contest backend systems to improve high availability, fault tolerance, and operational reliability, enabling predictable performance during peak traffic and large-scale tournaments.
- Re-architected Team Service, establishing a robust and highly available architecture with strong consistency at 1M+ TPS (R/W ratio of 12:1), and implementing measures for resilience against potential failures, ensuring durability, and fault tolerance.
- Contributed to the Architecture Review Board (ARB) decisions, influencing long-term platform strategy, infrastructure standards, and engineering governance across the organization.
Lead Software Engineer - SRE
Swiggy
10.2019 - 09.2020
- Led the MySQL to DynamoDB migration, reducing request latency by 20% and cost by 30%.
- Built a Jira-driven workflow for safe infrastructure operation and changes, improving deployment traceability.
- Developed a centralized database ACL and logging system, enhancing audit compliance and governance.
- Implemented CI/CD platforms for microservices deployed on AWS Cloud and Kubernetes, facilitating support for over 100 large-scale services.
Senior Software Engineer - Databases
Paytm Mall
07.2018 - 09.2019
- Designed and operated high availability (HA) MySQL architectures using MySQL Orchestrator, eliminating single points of failure, and enabling automated leader election and failover for production databases.
- Implemented and scaled database traffic routing and load-balancing solutions using ProxySQL, improving read/write distribution, connection management, and failover transparency for application workloads.
- Implemented comprehensive observability and monitoring for database platforms using Zabbix, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), and Datadog, improving the detection of performance regressions and replication issues.
- Led zero-downtime online schema migrations for large production tables using gh-ost, enabling continuous delivery without service interruption (0 seconds downtime).
- Owned database reliability, performance, and automation for large-scale MariaDB systems (24 TB+), including replication, schema migrations, backups, and monitoring.
Software Engineer - SRE / Databases / Devops
Broctagon Fintech Group
12.2016 - 05.2018
- Product solution provider in the Forex trading industry, implementation of the MetaTrader (MT5) platform used for Forex trading, and the use of payment gateways for transactions.
- Developed various Jenkins jobs to operate on datastores and applications to scale up, scale down, and perform a rolling restart.
- Implemented automated Cassandra scale-up/down workflows (Python + Ansible), integrating health checks and graceful bootstrap/remove node, enabling safe, cost-aware autoscaling with zero manual intervention.
- Designed a highly available in-house monitoring stack using Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana for Cassandra, MongoDB, and MySQL datastores.
Software Engineer
Just Dial Limited
01.2014 - 11.2016
- Designed and maintained backend services and APIs to support critical business operations at Just Dial Limited.
- Implemented server-side logic for high-traffic systems, ensuring reliability and scalability.
- Collaborated with the frontend and QA teams to integrate APIs, enhancing the user experience.
- Optimized database latency and resource usage through query tuning, indexing, and monitoring automation, improving response time by 35%.
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Information Technology
04.2001 -
Skills
● Amazon Web Services(AWS)
● Kubernetes, Docker & Helm
● Cloud Network Management
● Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
● Distributed Data Systems
● Cloud Cost Optimization
● Monitoring & Observability
● CI/CD Implementation
● Sql / NoSQL Databases - MySQL , PostgreSQL , MongoDB, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Aerospike & Kafka
● Python
Timeline
Engineering Manager - Platform - Dream11
09.2020 - Current
Lead Software Engineer - SRE - Swiggy
10.2019 - 09.2020
Senior Software Engineer - Databases - Paytm Mall
07.2018 - 09.2019
Software Engineer - SRE / Databases / Devops - Broctagon Fintech Group
12.2016 - 05.2018
Software Engineer - Just Dial Limited
01.2014 - 11.2016
Govt. Engineering College Bikaner - Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology
04.2001 -