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    DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING — BANGALORE, INDIA

    Arjun Mehta

    Building the Infrastructure
    That Powers the Next Generation of Technology

    18 years building cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and high-performance engineering teams for companies processing 50M+ transactions daily. Currently open to Director and VP Engineering roles at product-first companies in USA and Singapore.

    18 Years

    Experience

    50M+

    Daily Transactions

    34 Engineers

    Team Built

    About Me

    Engineering Leader. Platform Architect. Team Builder.

    I am Arjun Mehta, Director of Engineering specialising in cloud-native platform architecture and high-scale distributed systems. Over 18 years I have led engineering at companies ranging from 50-person startups to publicly listed enterprises, building the infrastructure that keeps millions of users connected, transactions flowing, and products running at 99.97% uptime.

    My work sits at the intersection of technical architecture and people leadership. I have built and scaled engineering teams from 8 to 34 across three time zones, established engineering cultures that reduced attrition from 34% to 11%, and delivered platform migrations that saved companies crores in infrastructure costs annually. I believe the best engineering leaders write great code and develop great people.

    I am currently exploring Director and VP Engineering roles at product-first technology companies in the USA and Singapore where I can apply my experience building global-scale platforms to a new market. If you are building something ambitious in cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, or high-scale consumer platforms, I would love to connect.

    B.Tech Computer Science · NIT Trichy, 2006AWS Solutions Architect Professional

    Currently

    Director of Engineering — CloudScale Technologies

    Location

    Bangalore, India

    Target Markets

    USA · Singapore · Remote

    Availability

    Q3 2026

    Languages

    English · Hindi · Tamil

    Currently Reading

    Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren

    Experience

    18 Years of Building at Scale

    CloudScale Technologies · Bangalore

    Director of Engineering . Platform and Infrastructure

    Series C . 400+ employees

    Jan 2020 to Present . 4 years plus

    99.97%

    Platform Uptime

    34→12%

    Attrition Reduced

    Rs. 4.2Cr

    Cloud Cost Saved

    Led migration from monolith to microservices on AWS while scaling team from 12 to 34 engineers across three cities. Built internal developer platform that reduced feature delivery time by 60% and established engineering culture that halved team attrition.

    AWSKubernetesKafkaTerraformGoPythonPostgreSQLRedis

    Flipkart · Bangalore

    Senior Engineering Manager . Search and Discovery

    Public . 10,000+ employees

    Mar 2016 to Dec 2019 . 3 years 9 months

    34%

    Relevance Improved

    6x

    Latency Reduction

    8M+

    Daily Active Users

    Rebuilt Flipkart's core search and discovery infrastructure serving 8M daily active users. New personalisation engine drove 18% improvement in search-to-purchase conversion. Architecture withstood 3x traffic spikes during Big Billion Days without degradation.

    ElasticsearchSparkKafkaJavaScalaHBaseRedis

    Thoughtworks · Bangalore and London

    Lead Consultant . Technology

    Global Consulting . 12,000+ employees

    Aug 2012 to Feb 2016 . 3 years 6 months

    GBP 2B+

    Transaction Volume

    4

    Countries Worked

    12

    Team Size Led

    Delivered digital transformation programmes for FTSE 100 clients across UK financial services and retail. Designed event-driven payment architecture for a major UK retail bank processing GBP 2B+ annually.

    JavaSpringAWSDockerTDDDDD

    Infosys · Pune and New Jersey USA

    Senior Software Engineer

    Public . 300,000+ employees

    Jul 2006 to Jul 2012 . 6 years

    99.99%

    System Uptime

    2M+

    Daily Transactions

    USD 12M

    Project Value

    Maintained core banking middleware for a top-5 US bank with 99.99% uptime across systems processing 2M daily transactions. Promoted to Senior Engineer within 3 years. Led India-USA team coordination for USD 12M modernisation programme.

    JavaOracleSOAPIBM WebSphere
    Featured Projects

    Work That Speaks for Itself

    platform.cloudscale.io
    Platform Zero . Internal Developer Platform

    Platform Zero . Internal Developer Platform

    CloudScale Technologies . 2022 to 2023

    Built from scratch an internal developer platform that abstracted away infrastructure complexity for 200+ engineers. Included self-service environment provisioning, automated CI/CD pipeline templates, observability dashboards, and on-call runbook automation. Reduced average time to provision new service from 3 weeks to 4 hours.

    200+ Engineers Served60% Faster DeliveryRs. 1.8Cr Cost Saved
    BackstageKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsDatadog
    intelligence.cloudscale.io
    Real-Time Transaction Intelligence Engine

    Real-Time Transaction Intelligence Engine

    CloudScale Technologies . 2021

    Designed and delivered a real-time fraud detection and transaction intelligence engine processing 50M+ daily events. System uses ML-based anomaly detection with sub-50ms decision latency. Reduced fraudulent transactions by 73% in first 6 months of operation, saving the business an estimated Rs. 8 crore annually.

    50M+ Daily Events73% Fraud ReductionSub-50ms Latency
    Apache KafkaApache FlinkPythonTensorFlowDynamoDBAWS Kinesis
    search.flipkart.com
    Next-Gen Search Infrastructure

    Next-Gen Search Infrastructure

    Flipkart . 2017 to 2018

    Rebuilt Flipkart's core product search infrastructure from the ground up. New architecture delivered 6x improvement in query latency, 34% improvement in search relevance measured by NDCG, and supported 3x traffic growth during Big Billion Days sale event without degradation. Served as technical foundation for Flipkart search for 5+ years.

    6x Latency Improvement34% Better Relevance3x Traffic Handled
    ElasticsearchApache SparkJavaScalaHBaseRedis
    Skills and Expertise

    The Tools and Disciplines Behind the Work

    Cloud and Infrastructure

    AWSExpert
    Google CloudAdvanced
    KubernetesExpert
    TerraformExpert
    DockerExpert
    LinuxExpert

    Languages and Frameworks

    GoAdvanced
    PythonExpert
    JavaExpert
    ScalaAdvanced
    TypeScriptIntermediate
    BashAdvanced

    Data and Streaming

    Apache KafkaExpert
    Apache FlinkAdvanced
    SparkAdvanced
    PostgreSQLExpert
    DynamoDBAdvanced
    RedisExpert

    Leadership and Process

    Engineering ManagementExpert
    System DesignExpert
    Technical RoadmappingExpert
    Hiring and Team BuildingExpert
    OKR PlanningAdvanced
    Incident ManagementExpert
    Certifications and Credentials

    Verified Expertise

    ☁️

    AWS Solutions Architect Professional

    Amazon Web Services

    Issued 2022
    ⚙️

    Certified Kubernetes Administrator

    Cloud Native Computing Foundation

    Issued 2021
    🔷

    Google Cloud Professional Architect

    Google Cloud

    Issued 2020
    🔧

    HashiCorp Terraform Associate

    HashiCorp

    Issued 2023
    What Colleagues Say

    Built on Trust, Delivered Through Results

    "Arjun is one of the rare engineering leaders who is equally strong in system design and people leadership. He rebuilt our entire data infrastructure in under 9 months while simultaneously growing the team from 8 to 22. The platform he built is still the foundation we run on today."

    VN

    Vikram Nair

    CTO, CloudScale Technologies

    "Working with Arjun at Flipkart was a masterclass in how to run a high-performance engineering team. He had a rare ability to communicate technical complexity to business stakeholders while keeping his engineers motivated through genuinely difficult delivery timelines. His search infrastructure is still handling the Big Billion Days traffic."

    PK

    Priya Krishnamurthy

    VP Product, Flipkart (current)

    "Arjun was one of our most respected lead consultants during his time at Thoughtworks London. His ability to navigate complex enterprise client relationships while maintaining technical rigour on the delivery side was exceptional. He would be an asset to any engineering organisation."

    JH

    James Holloway

    Managing Director, Thoughtworks UK

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