About

Mukesh Meena is a highly experienced technology leader with over 17 years of experience in full stack software development. He is currently the Vice President of Engineering at Paytm, where he leads the centralised platforms of Promotions, Checkout, Order Management, Storefront, Notifications, Reviews, and central commerce services to support various business verticals across commerce and payment. He also leads the Deals and Gift Vouchers, Lending-Collections tech teams. Mukesh has expertise in building and managing teams of highly passionate engineers, taking an idea from concept to production quality enterprise scale software, and collaborating with cross-functional teams of Technology, Product, UX, and Business with a focus on tweaking systems for maximum throughput and minimum possible latency. He has experience working in both technology start-ups and large setups. Mukesh's specialties include Java Enterprise Edition, Spring, Hibernate, Maven, MySQL, Redis, Aerospike, Kafka, MongoDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Solr, Mahout, Hadoop, micro-services, SEO, CDN, and JVM tuning. He is also experienced in Agile methodologies, team building, and training. In his past roles, Mukesh has worked as the Director of Engineering at gofro, where he managed the buyer side platform and advisor side platform. He has also worked as an Engineering Manager/Principal Engineer at Snapdeal, where he managed the buyer side technology platform and built the mobile site team from scratch. He reduced individual web services loads by up to 1/10th by introducing distributed caching for the aggregation layer and wrote a parallel service execution framework for doing central pool management with fallback mechanisms in case the pool chocks. He also lead web optimizations, improving page load times by up to 60% and architected and developed flash sales that were doing ~5k orders per minute. Mukesh has a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His tech stack includes Web, Senior Software Engineer, Redis, Java, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, Elastic Search, Kafka, Spring, Microservices, Mobile, and Software Engineer.