Vaibhav

Hey, I'm Vaibhav.

I craft end-to-end fullstack products for myself and startups — from design and development to deployment. Based in Pune, Maharashtra, India .

Full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience shipping products for startups and enterprises. Currently leading engineering at a fintech, building platforms that connect investors with research analysts and brokers.

Currently

Leading engineering at Alphaniti — building a marketplace that connects research analysts and investors through seamless broker and payment integrations.

Experience

  1. 2024 — Now

    Head of Engineering

    Alphanitinow

    Own the full product lifecycle across backend, frontend, mobile and DevOps. Rebuilt the Angular app in React, cut infra cost by 75% migrating from Azure to AceCloud, and led key broker & payment integrations.

  2. 2024 — Now

    Leading Technology

    INDvestmentnow

    Technology lead for a marketplace connecting research analysts and investors — from bank/UPI mandates to one-click investing across six+ brokers.

  3. 2022 — 2024

    Senior Software Engineer

    IDeaS Revenue Solutions

    Shipped revenue-management features used by global hospitality brands. Led feature design, code review and mentoring across the team.

  4. 2019 — 2022

    Software Engineer

    IDeaS Revenue Solutions

    Owned full-stack modules of the pricing platform, scaled backend services and improved client-side performance.

  5. 2018 — 2019

    Associate — Projects

    Cognizant

    Worked across Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch and Hadoop on data-engineering engagements for enterprise clients.

  6. 2016 — 2017

    Engineering Intern

    IDeaS · Siemens

    Two engineering internships — automation at Siemens and an early stint on the pricing platform at IDeaS.

Stack

Backend
JavaSpringNode.jsExpress
Frontend
ReactReact NativeNext.jsTypeScript
Data
PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBKafka
Cloud & DevOps
DockerJenkinsGitCI/CD

Integrations shipped

End-to-end integrations across payments, compliance and brokerage — from contracts and sandbox to going live in production.

Payments & compliance4
  • Razorpay
    Payment gateway
  • Cashfree
    Payment gateway
  • Digio
    Compliance · e-Sign
  • CVL KRA
    Compliance · KYC
Brokers8
  • Zerodha
  • Upstox
  • IIFL Capital
  • Motilal Oswal
  • 5Paisa
  • Nuvama
  • Paytm Money
  • Fyers

Selected projects

Writing & thoughts

All posts

Education

  • 2014 — 2018
    BITS PilaniB.E. (Hons) · Electronics & Instrumentation

    Minor in Finance · Volunteer lead, BITS2STARTUP@GLOBAL

  • 2020
    DesignBoat UI/UX SchoolUI/UX Designer · Professional

Get in touch

If you're building a product, want a technical partner to lead engineering — I'd love to hear from you.