Jenish VaghasiaBackend Engineer & Tech Lead

Experience

Backend leadership across high-throughput platforms

A concise view of roles, systems, and impact across e-commerce, ads, fintech, and public sector platforms.

2024-11 to Present

Myntra

Tech Lead

Backend platform and reliability

  • Led checkout-time warehouse assignment and inventory-blocking improvements for sale-critical order flows.
  • Delivered cross-team backend changes with careful regression control, reducing late-stage fulfillment risk.
  • Designed AI-powered customer-support voicebot architecture covering real-time media flow, STT/TTS, orchestration, backend tool calls, caching, and observability.
  • Delivered a logistics charge model under a tight timeline, contributing to ₹60 Cr annual tax savings with near-zero production issues.
  • Designed a reusable component test suite for Spring Boot services using real Spring wiring, embedded infrastructure, mocks, and JSON DSL.
  • Led refund-delay stabilization across services through sequencing, bounded retries, auto-reconciliation, and stronger failure visibility.

2021-09 to 2024-11

Paytm

Senior Software Engineer

Paytm Ads

  • Contributed to building Paytm Ads Platform from scratch for high-throughput, low-latency ad serving.
  • Led a real-time campaign-selection engine using historical and ML-predicted campaign data for high-throughput, low-latency serving.
  • Built a strategy-pattern-based traffic-splitting framework to route production traffic across campaign-selection algorithms safely.
  • Led cloud and infrastructure cost optimization through open-source and self-managed systems, contributing to ~40% platform cost reduction.
  • Redesigned pacing calculation for fast-serving campaigns, reducing overspending risk.
  • Created a Spring-style annotation for Apache Druid queries and contributed to reusable data-engineering platform work.

2019-06 to 2021-09

Tata Consultancy Services

Software Engineer

Government and fintech platforms

  • Developed Spring Boot microservices and integrations for Invest India / National Single Window System.
  • Built services using REST APIs, Kafka, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS EKS, Zuul Gateway, and Eureka.
  • Developed Java utilities and real-time validation flows for Income Tax Return processing with Java, Hibernate/JPA, and Oracle.