Vipul Popli
SDE - III
Bengaluru
Summary
Results-driven Software Developer with 5+ years of experience designing scalable backend systems in fast-paced startup and enterprise environments. Proven expertise in building microservices, real-time data pipelines, and high-performance APIs using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and cloud-native technologies. Passionate about system design, clean code, and delivering business impact through robust engineering solutions.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
SENIOR SDE
First Club Pvt Ltd.
01.2025 - Current
- Cart System: Built a robust and flexible cart service supporting validations like inventory checks, order quantity limits, and real-time pricing updates.
- Checkout System: Developed a modular checkout flow handling address validation, delivery slot selection, payment orchestration, and order confirmation with resilience and traceability.
- Pricing Engine: Designed a rule-based pricing engine enabling dynamic markups and markdowns based on product/category, user tier, and promotional strategies.
- BFF (Backend-for-Frontend): Implemented a BFF service to dynamically render page layouts, widgets, and components based on user context, driving personalized and performant front-end experiences.
- Payments System: Engineered a secure and pluggable payments infrastructure integrating multiple payment gateways, supporting retries, fallbacks, and idempotency.
- Wallet System: Built an internal wallet with support for gift cards, ledger tracking, expiry-based deduction (FCFS), balance reservation for subscriptions, and compliance with spend rules.
SDE - III
Cleartrip Pvt Ltd. (Flipkart Group)
04.2024 - 01.2025
- Supply Core: A complete revamp of the existing Inventory Management System (IMS), integrating a rule engine using OpenL Tablets to handle fare logic. Introduced an intelligent caching mechanism to efficiently manage and retrieve airline fares, improving response times and system scalability.
- Migrated Redis (GCP-hosted) to community edition of Aerospike to significantly reduce infrastructure costs, while ensuring performance parity and maintaining compatibility with existing caching workflows.
SDE - II
Cleartrip Pvt Ltd. (Flipkart Group)
10.2022 - 03.2024
- Distribution Core: Built to handle demand-side processing, including fare markups/markdowns, fare filtering, fare splitting, and stitching logic. This component ensures dynamic pricing and personalization at scale for downstream systems.
SDE - I
Cleartrip Pvt Ltd. (Flipkart Group)
03.2020 - 09.2022
- Inventory Management System: Designed and implemented a dynamic inventory management system to address the challenge of achieving real-time inventory without relying on frequent external supplier calls. Integrated data-driven expiry logic, powered by analytics, to reduce cache misses and improve system responsiveness.
- Tech Stack: Java 11, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis
SDE - INTERN
Cleartrip Pvt Ltd. (Flipkart Group)
02.2019 - 02.2020
- Supplier Management System: Migrated multiple airline supplier integrations (e.g., INDIGO, SPICEJET) to a new microservice architecture, ensuring seamless availability and booking workflows. Additionally, contributed to onboarding and integrating new suppliers to expand the platform's capabilities.
- Tech Stack: Java 8, Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis
Education
B. Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
CHITKARA UNIVERSITY
RAJPURA, PUNJAB 01.2016 - 01.2020
XII (Senior Secondary) - Science
PATEL PUBLIC SCHOOL
RAJPURA, PUNJAB 01.2015 - 01.2016
X (Secondary) - undefined
PATEL PUBLIC SCHOOL
RAJPURA, PUNJAB 01.2013 - 01.2014
Skills
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Kafka
- AWS Setup (SQS - SNS - Dynamo - Aurora)
- Redis
- Aerospike
- Druid
- RESTful API design and integration
- Database management with SQL
- NoSQL
Timeline
SENIOR SDE
First Club Pvt Ltd.
01.2025 - Current
SDE - III
Cleartrip Pvt Ltd. (Flipkart Group)
04.2024 - 01.2025
SDE - II
Cleartrip Pvt Ltd. (Flipkart Group)
10.2022 - 03.2024
SDE - I
Cleartrip Pvt Ltd. (Flipkart Group)
03.2020 - 09.2022
SDE - INTERN
Cleartrip Pvt Ltd. (Flipkart Group)
02.2019 - 02.2020
B. Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
CHITKARA UNIVERSITY
01.2016 - 01.2020
XII (Senior Secondary) - Science
PATEL PUBLIC SCHOOL
01.2015 - 01.2016
X (Secondary) - undefined
PATEL PUBLIC SCHOOL
01.2013 - 01.2014
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