Varun Mathur

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Engineering Manager at Flipkart | Delivering Cost Savings, Scaling ServicesV | Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Cleartax | IIM Bangalure Alumni @ Flipkart
bengaluru, karnataka, india
Varun Mathur's Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, India
About Varun Mathur

As a seasoned Engineering Manager at Flipkart, India's premier e-commerce platform, I lead and manage six highly specialized teams within the City Logistics Supply Chain Group, overseeing both First Mile and Last Mile operations. With 15 years of rich experience in software engineering, product management, and team leadership, I have honed my skills to create a profound impact on the organizations I serve. I hold an Executive MBA from IIM Bangalore, one of the most prestigious business schools in India, which has further refined my strategic thinking and leadership abilities.My core competencies lie in architecting and delivering scalable and highly available products that can handle massive volumes of data and user traffic. I thrive in fast-paced environments, consistently driving initiatives that result in significant cost savings, revenue growth, and enhanced customer satisfaction. Over the years, I have successfully delivered various products and technology-based initiatives that have cumulatively saved the company more than Rs 1000 crore, increased seller NPS by 6 bps, and boosted GMV by over Rs 1500 crore.In recognition of my contributions, I have been honored with the Ace Alliance Award thrice for executing the most impactful initiatives within the organization. This accolade underscores my ability to drive projects from conception to successful execution, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic goals and delivering tangible business benefits.I am deeply passionate about solving complex problems and innovating new solutions. My proficiency spans across backend technologies, cloud computing, distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and organizational behavior. These technical skills, coupled with my strategic acumen, enable me to design and implement robust systems that not only meet current demands but are also scalable for future growth.One of my key strengths is my ability to mentor and guide engineering teams to achieve exceptional results. I believe in fostering a collaborative and inclusive team culture where every member is empowered to contribute their best. This approach has consistently resulted in high-performing teams that are capable of delivering outstanding results under tight deadlines.In summary, my extensive experience, proven track record, and strategic mindset make me highly effective in engineering management. I am committed to driving innovation, leading high-performing teams, and delivering solutions that significantly impact the business's bottom line.

Varun Mathur's Current Company Details
Flipkart

Flipkart

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Engineering Manager at Flipkart | Delivering Cost Savings, Scaling ServicesV | Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Cleartax | IIM Bangalure Alumni
bengaluru, karnataka, india
Website:
flipkart.com
Employees:
27923
Varun Mathur Work Experience Details
  • Flipkart
    Engineering Manager
    Flipkart Oct 2020 - Present
    Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
    - Currently managing 4 different teams with a total of 21 engineers, have managed 7 different teams in the span of 4 years with total of 40-45 engineers.- Delivered products like BYOD Scan and Accept,Seamless 2-Way, Perfect Handshake, WhatsApp andOTP ORC, Trueflex Integration, RFID, etc., resulting in ₹1000+ crore cost savings, 6 bps increase in sellerNPS, 2 bps reduction in supply chain fraud, and ₹40 crore bottom line growth.- Led tech initiatives such as DB Sharding, K8s Onboarding, Rigel Integration, AerospikeIntegration, and Quartz Deprecation, achieving 15k QPS service scalability and 30% reduction in MTTR.- Delivered OKRs like Exchange Later, AC Prexo, and GTNL, contributing to ₹1500+ crore GMV growth and ₹40 crore bottom line improvement.- Working with a team to develop Workflow platform based on Temporal, IWF and Amazon state language- Experienced in defining Product Roadmaps quarterly,stakeholder management, prioritization of roadmap items, and doing resource planning.- Got Ace Alliance Award (Award for Highest impactful initiatives for Organization) thrice.- Brought new cadences in the system like product release cycle, definition of customer support levels, Sprint grooming, Sprint retrospective, Jira management, Sprint burndown, Sprint demo, velocity measurement, bug reporting system, bugbash etc.- Experienced in defining Product Roadmaps quarterly, stakeholder management, prioritization of roadmap items,and doing resource planning.
  • Smartvizx - We Are Vr®
    Head Of Engineering
    Smartvizx - We Are Vr® Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
    Bangalore
    • As a Head of Engineering, responsible for the overall planning, execution, and delivery of the products in SmartVizX. Lead the entire engineering team across UX, UI, BackEnd, QA and DevOps functions. • Transitioned the product into Microservices framework using Springboot,MongoDB, Docker and deployed to Microsoft Azure App services. • Brought new cadences in the system like product release cycle, definition of customer support levels, Sprint grooming, Sprint retrospective, Jira management, Sprint burndown and velocity measurement, bug reporting system, bugbash etc. • Integrated BimObject library (third party content library) and Catalog library (drive for architects) to increase the 3D design content for architects and designers which led to increase of $4 Mn revenue for the organization. • Experienced in taking an idea from a conception phase, through establishing problem hypotheses, validating the hypotheses, providing recommendations, evolving the LEAN canvas, identifying the definition of MVP, transitioning the MVP to Beta and delivering the product into Production. • Solely Ideated, designed, architected and developed the “virtual reality content management system “. This will help the product manufactures to showcase their products in VR to architects and designers. This product helped in the creation of an additional revenue funnel of Rs 50 Mn for the organization • Lead the initiative of building a platform and use it to drive 3rd party integrations, both inward and outward
  • Altran
    Senior Technical Team Lead
    Altran Dec 2016 - Dec 2019
    Bengaluru Area, India
    • Working as an Engineering Manager in Apttus via Aricent. Managing a team on new generation multi-tenant Chat Bot using Microsoft NLU (LUIS) for B2B customers of Apttus. ChatBot is built on Node JS, MongoDB, Typescript deployed over Azure. Spearheading the IBM Cloud migration for the same to increase the user base by 600%.• Working as a consultant for Aricent’s Client ClearTax (start-up in the tax domain). ClearTax is an Indian Income Tax Return e-filing website. ClearTax is one of the most popular tax preparation and e- filing platforms in India.• Worked as an Engineering Manager and managed the team and ClearTax core product using Agile Methodologies.• Managed overall software development cycle of the product using Agile Methodologies. Provides Leadership and ownership of process improvements.• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving startup business environment• Devised strategies for the scalability project to build an infrastructure to handle the traffic of around a million users in an hour.• Worked with almost all the departments like Product Manager, Analytics team, Marketing team, Support team as well as CA team and conceptualized product ideas based on the analysis gathered from them.• Worked with a team to conceptualize the idea of the Referral product and spearheaded the same from inception to completion, which in turn helped in increasing the user-base by 50% in a fiscal year.• Devised strategies to utilize fewer resources over cloud thereby saving $200K for the company.• Helped senior management in formulating strategies to increase the market share and revenue of ClearTax
  • British Telecom Global Services India Limited
    Senior Consultant
    British Telecom Global Services India Limited Oct 2013 - Nov 2016
    Bangalore
    • Got BT TSO award in first 3 months in BT which represents exceptionally well performance for a quarter among a team of 60 people.• Architected the project to migrate it over the cloud thereby saving £3.5million annually, which the company was spending earlier to lease the servers locally.• Delivered a project 2 months before the scheduled time of deployment saving £600K for the company and got appreciation from senior management for the same.• Simultaneously coordinated two projects and lead the team of 20 members and 6 members respectively. • Leading a team of 20 members in the development of BOSS application which supports the book to bill processes in Asia Pacific region. This application handles bills of more than £100 million annually.• Leading a team of 6 members in the development of Customer Experience Dashboard, which will help the Company to understand how customers feel about BT and in turn helps in finding the key problematic areas. This project is also used by the CEO as well as all the presidents of the company for making decisions to enhance the customer experience by focusing on the problematic areas.• Mentored fellow engineers for developing various features in the above product.• Managed periodic project issues and concerns from different vendor teams in India as well as Malaysia and assigned appropriate ownership to them.• Developed design documents and roadmaps for different projects
  • Microsoft
    Engineer
    Microsoft Sep 2011 - Oct 2013
    • Got “Power Player” award twice in a year. The award represents exceptionally well performance among a team of 40 people.• Worked as a MSDN Blog writer and wrote blogs on .NET. One of the blog got published in the official asp.net website • Worked with fortune 500 clients like Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, VISA etc. Worked on understanding the Client requirement and providing them the required technical guidance and consultancy in terms of technology selection and its implementation with proper justification.• Appreciated by the clients for resolving their highly critical issues in due time thereby saving millions of dollar of clients revenue.• While providing technical guidance to the clients also helped them to understand about the new products from Microsoft and got a couple of sales deal done for these new products.• Worked on Microsoft beta products like ASP.NET 4.5 and IIS8 and helped the development team to understand the needs of the clients.• Interacted with the Microsoft Product group to file bugs in the .NET core libraries.• Mentored new team members on different technical aspects.
  • Mindtree
    Module Lead
    Mindtree Jul 2007 - Sep 2011
    • The youngest team member to get International experience; worked with clients as on-site-coordinator.• As recognition of my hard work, assigned the role of “Team Lead” as early as 2nd year of my career. • Worked on software development pertaining to multiple product/software features for projects Volvo IM, Volvo Faros, Arcelor Mittal Maintenance. • In the absence of team lead, proactively took responsibility to lead the team and successfully delivered the project on time, thereby team got awarded as “Team of the Year”.• Led a team of 4 members for Arcelor Mittal Contract Management Project. Due to the diligence of our work Arcelor Mittal has provided a maintenance contract of 17 applications worth a million dollars to the company.• Led a team of 6 members for the maintenance of 10 applications of ArcelorMittal. Spearheaded the entire software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of different features of the project. • Worked closely with client and management to get new products for the company. Created and presented a design proposal for the new product.• Developed POCs and presented technical demos annually to clients and managers; consistently received positive evaluations.

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Varun Mathur's current role is Engineering Manager at Flipkart | Delivering Cost Savings, Scaling ServicesV | Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Cleartax | IIM Bangalure Alumni.

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