Gurjot Singh

About Gurjot Singh

Engineering Manager with 10+ years of experience building and scaling high-performance backend systems in gaming, fintech, and e-commerce domains. Proven track record of:Leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver complex, business-critical platforms end-to-end.Designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems that reliably serve millions of users.Removing technical bottlenecks, fostering team ownership, and aligning stakeholders for impactful solutions. Passionate about engineering excellence — I drive processes like milestone-based planning, QA readiness, canary deployments, and observability to ensure on-time delivery with minimal production issues. I balance technical leadership and people management — from mentoring developers and conducting 1:1s, to creating a culture of accountability and continuous learning. Tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, Kubernetes — with a deep focus on system architecture, reliability, and monitoring.Let’s build systems that scale — and teams that own them.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Baazi Games

   Sep 2023 — Present · New Delhi, IN

   Hired and led a high-performing team of 8 developers for the Game Platform Team, delivering mission-critical systems (wallet, ticketing, Backend-for-Frontend(BFF), fraud detection, buyout automation) that scaled to millions of users with high reliability.Scaled Wallet Service for 100% of PokerBaazi users, migrating to HikariCP pooling (cut DB connections from 490+ to 90), improving API P99 latencies to <300ms.Delivered EvChop, Ticketing Service, AIC integration, and Splash projects on-time with minimal QA bugs, using milestone-driven planning and developer-owned timelines.Implemented circuit breakers and optimised retry strategies, reducing game lag, thread pool exhaustion, and production incidents from stuck buyouts.Built Ticketing Service from scratch, including auto-registration, cron-based ticket expiry & refunds, and wallet integration. Ensured Satellite tournaments ran seamlessly on the new system.Enhanced production reliability by introducing DataDog alarms, dashboards, and monitoring for wallet & ticketing services, enabling proactive issue detection.Refactored wallet codebase, introducing a single-module structure and raising JUnit test coverage from 0% to 20%, improving maintainability and onboarding for new developers.Designed fraud detection enhancements (splash fraud logic, invite-only table exemptions, partner-specific green flags) to reduce false positives and improve fairness.Established Learning Fridays (weekly KT/HLD sessions) and conducted biweekly 1:1s with reportee to align growth and performance.Championed customer-first initiatives, such as automating buyouts and ticket refunds, ensuring smooth user experience during outages.Actively collaborated with Payments, Game Engine, Poker shots, and Product teams, resolving ambiguities and diplomatically managing disagreements to closure.

Education

• Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology

  Engineer's Degree, Computer Science

  2011 — 2015

• Christ Church Boys' Senior Secondary School

  High School, Mathematics and Science

  2000 — 2010

Skills

• Asp.net
• C++
• Competitive Programming
• Javascript
• Java
• C
• Programming
• Algorithms
• Junit
• Data Structures
• Html
• Microsoft Office
• Oop