Vikash Rajoriya

About Vikash Rajoriya

Engineering Manager with 12+ years of experience building and scaling platform, infrastructure, and distributed systems powering 16M+ concurrent users and high-throughput applications. I specialize in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, and database infrastructure, with a strong focus on developer experience, reliability, and cost efficiency. Currently leading platform initiatives including DBaaS, disaster recovery, and developer platforms, enabling engineering teams to ship faster with resilient, self-service systems. Over the years, I’ve: Built and scaled self-service infrastructure platforms (DBaaS, Dev Platforms)Led engineering teams across Platform, SRE, and Backend domainsDesigned systems handling tens of thousands of compute nodes and millions of usersDriven cloud-native architectures, micro-services, and infrastructure automationEstablished SLOs, observability, incident management, and reliability practicesDelivered significant cost optimizations and operational efficiency improvements I bring a mix of hands-on systems thinking and strategic leadership, helping organizations build resilient, scalable, and developer-friendly platforms. Open to leadership roles in: Engineering Management | Director of Engineering | Platform Engineering | Infrastructure | DevOps | Databases | SRE

Experience

1. Engineering Manager - Platform

   Dream11

   Jul 2022 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Led and grew a multi-disciplinary engineering team spanning Platform, SRE, and Backend Engineering, owning hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and execution delivery across critical business systems.As an Engineering Manager, I lead end-to-end ownership of the developer platform and reliability outcomes for large-scale production systems serving 16M+ concurrent users. I’m accountable for availability, latency, data integrity, and incident response, ensuring platform resilience during peak-scale events.Delivered end-to-end ownership (ideation → design → implementation → release) of Optimus, an internal Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform, built and operated as a Dream11 SaaS product:Enabled managed offerings for MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Aerospike, Kafka, Redis/Valkey, and Spark.Replaced external vendors, driving $2.5M+ annual cost savingsStandardized database provisioning, scale IN/OUT(Horizontal / Vertical), upgrades, backups, and failover, replace node, replace rack(az) feature to improve MTTR and reliability. Improved developer self-service and reduced operational toil through automationMigrated the Leaderboard service from vendor managed database to an in-house, self-managed database platform, achieving:Improved SLAs and system reliabilityBetter performance under peak concurrencyIncreased operational control and reduced vendor dependencyEstablished SRE practices including:Incident management and on-call readinessPost-incident reviews and reliability scorecardsObservability standards (metrics, alerts, dashboards)Proactive capacity planning and reliability improvementsContributed to Architecture Review Board (ARB) decisions, influencing long-term platform strategy, infrastructure standards, and engineering governance across the organization.

Education

• Government Engineering College Bikaner

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology

  2008 — 2012