Himanshu Jain

About Himanshu Jain

A Technology Leader, A Product guy, A People Guy, A Problem Solver, An Architect, A Growth hacker, A Data Person, A Rapid-Prototyper, An Optimizer, A Motivator, and A Hands-on Polyglot Engineer delivering on speed! Transforming ideas into reality via technology! Love to explore different areas - have experience working in B2C, B2B, B2B2C domains - Payments, Dating, Ed-tech, Ad-tech, Fintech, E-commerce, Mobile-EDA, Parenting, Referrals/Promotions, Ecom-Search, Food-tech, Travel/Experience, Enterprise-grade SaaS in Benefits space etc. Building, growth hacking & scaling startups/organizations from the ground up with no/minimalistic specs to a massive load handling, real-time highly scalable, microservices driven, low latent, and distributed products, namely - Paytm, Babyonboard, Collegedunia, Frizza, Zoutons, Trulymadly, PayU. Specialize in design/development, data intensive applications, building high performance team, and strengthening collaboration between business/product and tech cross geography.

Experience

1. Engineering Leader

   Zeta

   Jun 2020 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Led two verticals in overall democratizing banking experience: 1/ Built the Core Accounting platform for Banks in India & US:* Powering HDFC PayZapp, HDFC Pixel Credit Card, Sodexo, Sparrow, CardWorks and many others in the US.* Transactions involving Journals and ledgers (double leg accounting with debits/credits), Charges, Reversal - Auto/Manual/Repair, Daybook, Policies and limit management, Balance computation, and summaries.* Scaling of the Platform: Single Read/Write per transaction, Database - Tuning, Partitioning and sharding, Hotspotting of ledgers, End of day processing of more than 200 Million ledgers in just ~30 minutes, Resiliency and Idempotency challenges, Large scale migrations, Transaction verifiers, Services profiling, Command pattern based execution on apache flink, Operational excellence via Customer Success flows & monitoring, Building strong processes around observability and issues/incident management.2/ Built an Enterprise-grade SaaS platform in the Benefits space, powering the Sodexo business.Empowering organizations to help employees with benefits like Meals, Transport, Daycare, Training, Healthcare, etc. in more than 7 countries.Built the Optima as a platform to enable the go-live in any country within just a few days which used to take a year to go live.* Setting up the org and building teams across functions - Devs, QAs, ICs, Managerial including leadership hiring ranging from Software Engineers to Engineering Directors.* Leading a team of Developers, Principal Engineers, and strong leaders.* Product roadmap and strategy planning* Tech Stack: Java, OMS, Springboot, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Apache Flink, Camunda, Microservices, Redshift, S3.

Education

• D.A.V Public School, Thermal Colony, Panipat

  School topper & District rank holder

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  Summer School on Algorithms

  2010 — 2010

• Punjab Engineering College

  B.E. (Hons)

  2007 — 2011

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  Intern

  2010 — 2010