About

Tarun Chawla is an experienced Engineering Manager with a strong background in mobile, video, and fintech industries. With over a decade of experience in solving problems through technology, Tarun is an enthusiastic post-graduate in Computer Engineering with strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills. He is a generalist and adept at working on various platforms and programming languages due to solid software engineering principles. Currently, Tarun is working as a Software Development Manager at Zeta, leading a mobile team of iOS and Android developers for building solutions for Identity and Access Management (IAM), Authentication (ACS), Fraud and Risk Management & eKYC. He has successfully built a strong team of 15 members from only 1 engineer and scaled it for success. Tarun has demonstrated strong execution skills and delivered outcomes across multiple projects, including Payzapp, Junio, and Fampay. He has helped the team with 3 appraisals over the last 3 semesters, coached 1 folk to be promoted to a leadership role, and 3 team members won annual engineering awards. Tarun has also built a strong rapport for the team in the company for company-wide hackathons and tech discussions. Before Zeta, Tarun worked as an Engineering Manager at Jio Platforms Ltd, a cloud-based video conferencing company. He led the execution and augmentation of new features in Backend, Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows OS and solved software issues from the media framework side. He built a team from the ground up consisting of 30 members, including software developers of different clients, backend engineers, product managers, and QA. Tarun successfully built JioMeet 2.0, where they transitioned to a new media engine in their JioMeet product across platforms. He also ensured technical deliverables meet exacting standards of timeliness and quality while working in fast-paced environments. Tarun mentored team members by holding regular 1:1 meetings with his reports fortnightly or monthly basis as required. Tarun has also worked as an Engineering Manager for a small entrepreneur journey, where he developed new products from scratch for Android. He was a key member of the mobile framework team in designing and implementing key features. Tarun also developed a few backend microservices for mobile applications in Kotlin and designed databases of the whole service. Tarun holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor