Deepak Chougule

About Deepak Chougule

Engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and operating mission-critical systems across Product, Platform, and Infrastructure Engineering for large-scale consumer technology. My career has been defined by delivering technical excellence at massive scale, from architecting and implementing the complete end-to-end checkout and payment flow for Pepperfry\'s e-commerce platform to leading the Infrastructure Engineering organization at Dream11. At Dream11, I oversee the vision and strategy for infrastructure supporting 16M+ concurrent users, where I orchestrated a cultural shift toward a decentralized, self-serve model that reduced time-to-production from weeks to minutes. My impact spans scaling core wallet systems from 2K to 30K TPS, building 0-to-1 framework teams for the Dream Sports ecosystem, and driving organization-wide initiatives like 5–7% cost optimization and PCI compliance readiness. Currently, I am building an AI-powered platform designed to eliminate infrastructure friction and move code to production safely and deterministically. I am driven to lead high-performing teams where execution, scale, and engineering leadership directly shape user trust and business growth.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Dream11

   Jul 2023 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Infrastructure Strategy & Leadership: Spearheading the Infrastructure Engineering organization, overseeing the vision, roadmap, and strategy for products capable of provisioning and scaling infrastructure for 16M+ concurrent users.• Cultural Transformation: Orchestrated a fundamental shift from a centralized operations model to a Decentralized/Self-Serve model. Empowered developers to own infrastructure provisioning and Day 2 operations, drastically reducing friction and time-to-production.• Infrastructure as a Product: Acted as the de facto Product Manager for the infrastructure suite, designing the end-to-end product experience to ensure high adoption and developer empathy across the organization.• Deployment Velocity: Transformed delivery timelines from weekly releases to multiple deployments per day by automating environment creation; reduced full-stack environment setup from hours/days to minutes.• Multi-Tenancy & Platform Growth: Architected multi-tenant infrastructure platforms to support the broader Dream Sports ecosystem, enabling seamless onboarding for multiple sister companies.• Governance & Optimization: Led critical PCI Compliance readiness initiatives and drove an organization-wide migration from CentOS to Debian. Optimized infrastructure spend by 5–7% through strategic cost-engineering without compromising reliability.• Future-Proofing: Currently architecting an AI-powered platform designed to eliminate infrastructure friction, ensuring code reaches production safely, deterministically, and with zero-touch automation.

Education

• Sangameshwar College, Solapur

  Associate’s Degree, HSC

• Walchand College of Engineering(A Govt. Aided Autonomous Institute),SANGLI-M.S

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

• Siddheshwar High School

  SSC

Skills

• Algorithm Design
• Bootstrap
• Algorithms
• Agile Methodologies
• Databases
• Aerospike
• Html5
• Sdlc
• Angularjs
• Object Oriented Design
• Unit Testing
• Orm Tools
• Nw.js
• Node.js
• Express.js
• Sql
• Ajax
• Linux
• Microservices
• C
• Programming
• Docker
• Redis
• Postgresql
• C++
• Lenvodb3
• Data Structures
• Css
• Design Patterns
• Operating Systems
• Jquery
• Mongodb
• Git
• Linvodb3
• Core Java
• C#
• .net
• Mvc
• Elasticsearch
• Computer Networking