About

Vishnu Agarwal is a highly experienced Director of Engineering at Flipkart, with over 17 years of experience in the field. He has also worked with Walmart, Quikr, Yahoo!, and Naukri. Vishnu is currently leading the Flipkart CX (Customer Experience) Engineering Organization, which consists of 45+ high-performing developers and engineering managers. He actively contributes to hiring resources at various levels, scaling applications, and delivering high-impact projects. Vishnu works with various stakeholders such as product, architects, UX design, analytics, operations, and other engineering teams to define OKRs and a long-term roadmap for the CX organization. He has technical and product knowledge of various domains such as eCommerce, education, jobs, and real estate. Vishnu has also worked on payment gateway and 3rd party components integration, which contributed to 60% of online revenues in his earlier organization. Vishnu has hands-on experience in full-stack development using JavaScript, PHP, JQuery, HTML/HTML5, CSS, HighCharts, GoogleMaps, Bootstrap, YUI, HighCharts, React.js/Redux. He is proficient in multiple viewports and cross-browser solutions with responsive design and SPA. Vishnu has also worked on high traffic website front-end performance analysis, optimizations, security attacks, and preventions. Vishnu is well-versed in OKR, organizational roadmap, sprint planning, and Agile methodology. He has experience in competitor, correlation, and historical analysis. Vishnu is a Sun Certified MySQL 5.1 DBA and has little knowledge of Java. In his current role at Flipkart, Vishnu is responsible for tool development, performance and reliability, and R&D. He has worked on key projects such as the ASDA.co.uk responsive site, Samsclub.com performance and design improvements, Walmart.ca & Torbit integration, and Walmart.com Cyber Monday performance readiness. Vishnu has a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Motivational Pathway and completed his 10+2 from Vishnu Inter College in Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics. He has expertise in various technologies such as senior software engineering, integration, JavaScript, research scientist, frontend, web, search, P2P, backend, designer, PHP, MySQL, Redux, ReactJS, Java, and software engineering. Vishnu's relevant experience in the field is 17.79 years.