Anuj Kumar
Summary
Product-oriented Engineering Leader with 12 years of experience driving transitions from startup to scaleup. Led the development of platforms from inception to growth while building engineering teams across fintech, adtech, and edtech. Skilled in aligning architectural roadmaps with evolving business goals to ensure efficient scaling and high product velocity. Cultivates ownership cultures and collaborates with founders to transform early-stage momentum into sustainable growth.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Architecture and Backend Engineering
Amplifi Capital UK Pvt Ltd
London
07.2025 - Current
- Expanded engineering team from 5 to 80 engineers, optimising hiring processes across backend, frontend, DevOps, QA, and other tech roles.
- Led multiple mission-critical projects to achieve business scalability and compliance.
- Implemented multitenancy in overall system architecture, enhancing AI innovation, code quality, and engineering excellence through security and DevOps practices.
- Developed easy access savings and credit cards from scratch, enabling support and scalability for loans and fixed savings.
Principal Engineer
Amplifi Capital UK Pvt Ltd
London
09.2022 - 06.2025
Software Engineer L3
Monzo Bank
London
10.2021 - 08.2022
- Validation Engine for FATCA Tax Compliance: My role was to develop a validation engine to inform whether a customer is FATCA compliant. Overall impacted ~2 million customers.
- Developed a mission-critical scheduling engine to conduct a census of over 5 million customers, ensuring compliance with FCA guidelines through targeted questioning.
- Developed and documented techniques to prevent Google Pay and Apple Pay scams and 3D Secure payment scams, enhancing fraud prevention strategies.
- Relocated from India to the UK. Developed software for tax compliance, fraud prevention, and census requirements.
Engineering Manager
UpGrad
Mumbai
09.2016 - 05.2021
- Led an engineering team of 20+ engineers, continuously focusing on architectural reviews, product delivery, coaching, and developing engineers, taking high accountability for everything.
- Joined in early days of company, built teams from scratch, developed products, and scaled platform to largest online education company in India.
- Delivered end-to-end solutions for technical and non-technical projects, including monolith to microservice splits and internal automation tools for marketing, sales, and finance teams.
- Building in-house products as well as integrating with external systems like payment gateways, Salesforce, Telephony Systems, and ERP(Microsoft Dynamics - NAV) to allow smooth processing of multiple teams.
- Applied SOLID principles, design, and architectural patterns to build software for 5 years at upGrad using Java 11, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Roo, and Hibernate.
- Contributed to planning and architecture reviews, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
Software Engineer 2
Chitika Inc
Hyderabad
07.2015 - 08.2016
- Developed near-real-time advertising bidding engine, enabling large-scale, high-frequency platform delivering 1 billion QPS.
- Managed multiple advertising initiatives at Chitika, including EBid, a large-scale, high-frequency advertising platform.
- Designed R-based process for detecting fraudulent clicks within online advertising click logs.
Software Intern
Chitika Inc
Hyderabad
01.2015 - 05.2015
- Developed Geo-Hash calculation using Apache Storm, reducing application run time from 72 hours to 2 hours for location-based ad retargeting.
- Coordinated quality testing with assurance team and partnered on resolving defects.
- Monitored system performance regularly, implementing improvements to enhance speed and reliability.
- Conducted thorough testing and debugging of new software features, significantly reducing the number of reported issues by users.
Software Engineer
RCS Technologies
Bangalore
07.2012 - 07.2013
- Developed 2 web-based multi-platform systems with PHP5 Kohana Framework, utilising web technologies such as HTML5, JQuery, and JavaScript to enhance user experience.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify system requirements, improving software functionality and user experience.
- Developed and implemented new software applications, enhancing company productivity and client satisfaction.
- Monitored system performance post-deployment, addressing any issues promptly to maintain high levels of operational efficiency.
Education
Master of Engineering - Software Systems
BITS Pilani
Rajasthan, India05-2015
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
ABES Engineering College
Ghaziabad, India05-2012
Skills
- Cloud-Native Architecture
- Microservices architecture
- Distributed Systems
- API Strategy and Governance
- Java 17
- Spring Boot
- Go
- Kafka
- MYSQL
- DynamoDB
- Cassandra
- Redis
- Observability(Datadog)
- Resilience Engineering
- Event-Driven Patterns
- API-First Design
- Software architecture
- Cloud computing
- CI/CD
- DevOps and DevSecOps Strategy
- Agile practices
- Engineering Leadership and Strategy
- Strategic planning
- Talent Acquisition
- Stakeholder Management
- Team leadership
- Technical mentoring
- Team building
Useful Links
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anujpradhaan
- Github - https://github.com/anujpradhaan
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Interests
- Cooking
- Reading
- Cycling
- Blues
Timeline
Head of Architecture and Backend Engineering
Amplifi Capital UK Pvt Ltd
07.2025 - Current
Principal Engineer
Amplifi Capital UK Pvt Ltd
09.2022 - 06.2025
Software Engineer L3
Monzo Bank
10.2021 - 08.2022
Engineering Manager
UpGrad
09.2016 - 05.2021
Software Engineer 2
Chitika Inc
07.2015 - 08.2016
Software Intern
Chitika Inc
01.2015 - 05.2015
Software Engineer
RCS Technologies
07.2012 - 07.2013
Master of Engineering - Software Systems
BITS Pilani
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
ABES Engineering College