About

Himanshu Gulati is an accomplished engineering leader with over 14 years of experience in the travel, telecom, and payment domains. He is currently serving as the AVP of Airtel Thanks App, where he is responsible for leading the development of high-performance teams to build highly scalable and robust application systems. With over 8 years of experience in ecommerce/digital platforms building and rewriting large scale applications from scratch at multiple organizations, Himanshu is a fast learner with up-to-date knowledge of new technologies. Himanshu is an expert in performance optimization, architecture & design, scalability, and building high-performance teams. He has cross-domain experience working full stack on leading web and middleware technologies, android, architecture design, NoSql and relational databases, and microservices. He is a certified scrum-master and has a proven track record of establishing high-performing teams that deliver results. In his previous roles, Himanshu has led and managed all technical aspects of MyAirtel app and airtel.in, created backend microservices for the digital layer, and led PCI DSS compliant payment stack processing more than 21 million+ transactions a month. He has also conceptualized high scale and throughput in-house API authentication and API gateway layer for app and web platforms in the digital layer and built pure microservice architecture to scale self-care platforms supported by highly scalable and measurable caching layer and NoSQL datastore. Himanshu holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University. His tech stack includes Java/J2EE, Web Services, Kafka, Couchbase, Redis, Memcache, Aerospike, mongoDB, Elastic Search, Firebase, and Eureka. Overall, with 16.78 years of relevant experience and a strong skill set, Himanshu is a valuable asset to any organization looking to build high-performance teams and scalable application systems.