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Vikrant Banwal

Vikrant Banwal

Technical Lead | Full Stack Software Engineer

Ambala City, Haryana, India 8+ yrs exp 95 ยท Outstanding

About

Technical Lead with 8+ years of experience building web, backend, and mobile products for job platforms, automotive, real estate, and fintech companies. Owns product verticals end to end, from system architecture through CI/CD and production monitoring. Built data pipelines that ingest 1 million jobs in under 2 hours, search systems on Apache Solr and Elasticsearch serving 100 million users, and payment integrations handling bulk transactions. Manages teams of 5+ engineers while contributing hands-on code in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React.js, and Java Spring Boot.

Skills & Expertise (49)

JavaScript Expert
9.0/10
8
Years Exp
React.js Expert
9.0/10
5
Years Exp
Git Expert
9.0/10
8
Years Exp
Typescript Advanced
8.5/10
5
Years Exp
Next.js Advanced
8.5/10
4
Years Exp
Technical Leadership Advanced
8.5/10
8
Years Exp
RESTful APIs Advanced
8.5/10
6
Years Exp
Node.js Advanced
8.5/10
5
Years Exp
AWS Advanced
8.5/10
5
Years Exp
MongoDb Advanced
8.0/10
5
Years Exp
Cross-Functional Collaboration Advanced
8.0/10
8
Years Exp
Elasticsearch Advanced
8.0/10
5
Years Exp
Release Management Advanced
8.0/10
6
Years Exp
Production Monitoring Advanced
8.0/10
6
Years Exp
Scalable System Design Advanced
8.0/10
5
Years Exp
Design Patterns Advanced
8.0/10
5
Years Exp
Team Management Advanced
8.0/10
8
Years Exp
code reviews Advanced
8.0/10
8
Years Exp
Microservices Architecture Advanced
8.0/10
5
Years Exp
SQL Advanced
8.0/10
6
Years Exp
Server-Side Rendering Advanced
8.0/10
4
Years Exp
Express.js Advanced
8.0/10
5
Years Exp
Java Advanced
7.5/10
6
Years Exp
Micro-frontend Architecture Advanced
7.5/10
3
Years Exp
NestJS Advanced
7.5/10
4
Years Exp
AWS SQS Advanced
7.5/10
4
Years Exp
Razorpay Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Mongoose Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Python Advanced
7.0/10
5
Years Exp
Microsoft SQL Server Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
GraphQL Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Search Optimization Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Apache Solr Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
SEO Optimization Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Secure Authentication Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Two-Factor Authentication Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Payment gateway integration Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Braintree Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Stripe Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Cloudflare Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Redis Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
RabbitMQ Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Java Spring Boot Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Cron Jobs Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
Batch Processing Advanced
7.0/10
4
Years Exp
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Work Experience

Technical Lead

Lepton Maps

Mar 2026 - Present

Drive technology strategy for a complete product vertical spanning 3 platforms: the web frontend, backend services, and mobile app. Define system architecture for new projects and guide the engineering team through delivery. Automate build and release workflows (CI/CD) and monitor production health across all services of the vertical.

Technical Lead

Shine.com (HT Media)

Jul 2025 - Feb 2026

Headed the candidate vertical, which serves 100 million registered users, spanning mobile apps and frontend and backend systems, while contributing hands-on code. Architected an optimized job-scraping and job-management pipeline that ingests and publishes ~1 million jobs within 2 hours. Tuned Apache Solr search covering 10 million jobs, improving relevance and query performance for candidate job searches. Streamlined releases for the vertical by maintaining its CI/CD workflows, cron scheduling, and production alerting.

Technical Lead

Cars24

May 2024 - Jul 2025

Built the complete backend for a vehicle-management system covering cars and bikes. Indexed vehicle data in Elasticsearch and applied a factory pattern so each country's data rules stayed isolated while sharing one codebase. Engineered the data transformation layer and schema for the main CARS24 homepage within a 100ms response-time budget. Automated deployments and production monitoring for both projects, keeping release cycles short and services reliable.

Software Engineer (Full Stack)

PropertyGuru Group

Jun 2022 - Apr 2024

Developed the backend that captures and maintains sales leads connecting agents with customers, with Elasticsearch powering agent lead searches. Created a standalone React.js micro-frontend for agent profile management plus a library of reusable UI components adopted across the product. Designed a generic multi-market data layer that serves country-specific content across 5 Southeast Asian markets from a single codebase.

Senior Associate - Software Engineering (Team Lead)

Daffodil Software Pvt. Ltd.

Jan 2021 - May 2022

Managed a team of 5+ developers, planning and reviewing delivery across multiple concurrent client projects. Built secure RESTful APIs for a production payment gateway, adding two-factor authentication and batch processing for bulk payment links. Led frontend development of an SEO-optimized e-commerce site with Next.js server-side rendering and a custom Razorpay checkout flow. Wrote a worker service that synchronizes campaign data with the LinkedIn API for an ad-recommendation engine, and a Chrome extension that injects recommendation actions into LinkedIn pages.

Associate - Software Engineering

Daffodil Software Pvt. Ltd.

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

Served as lead developer on 2 concurrent projects while guiding a team of 2 developers. Owned all databases and APIs; created the portal's core image-generation service with GraphicsMagick, producing hundreds of thousands of images per batch in 5-10 minutes. Added a third-party synchronization microservice, database queue handlers, and cron jobs.

Junior Associate - Software Engineering

Daffodil Software Pvt. Ltd.

Jan 2018 - Jan 2020

Delivered one client project single-handedly as a full stack developer and owned the backend and database on an 8-member team project. Implemented Stripe checkout, encrypted frontend-to-backend communication, PDF generation, and SendGrid transactional email. Built a MongoDB and GraphQL backend plus reusable React form and table views for a law-firm application featuring Outlook email tracking, notifications, dashboards, and advanced search.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Kurukshetra University

- ยท Afghanistan

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) - Government PG College

- ยท Afghanistan

Certifications

Hero of the Year Award

Daffodil Software ยท 2019

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Profile Score Breakdown

๐Ÿ“ท Photo 10/10
๐Ÿ“„ Resume 10/10
๐Ÿ’ผ Job Title 10/10
โœ๏ธ Bio 10/10
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Skills 20/20
๐ŸŽ“ Education 10/10
โฑ๏ธ Experience 15/15
๐Ÿ’ฐ Rate 0/5
๐Ÿ† Certs 5/5
โœ… Verified 5/5
Total Score 95/100

Profile Overview

Member sinceSep 2026