Arvind Dhatwalia

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About Arvind Dhatwalia

Seasoned Technology Leader with over 17 years of experience in ideating, designing, and delivering innovative product initiatives. I specialize in architecting highly scalable distributed systems tailored for the payments and web services domains. I pioneered a cutting-edge banking experience from the ground up, evolving it into a seamless payments and money transfer platform. This transformation emphasized innovation, exceptional user experience, advanced technology, agility, cost efficiency, and robust scalability. I played a pivotal role in automating and stabilizing India’s fastest-growing payments bank, ensuring a strong product portfolio, reliable technology stack, and strict adherence to governance and compliance. At Paytm, I was instrumental in building the wallet system from scratch, growing it to serve over 350 million users. As the leader of the Wallet Engineering team, I scaled the system to handle peaks of 3500 requests per second, 400+ transactions per second, and over 9 million transactions daily, managing millions of payment transactions with precision and reliability. I bring a proven track record of managing large-scale projects, meeting tight deadlines, and excelling in application architecture across diverse business domains. Specialties Architecture design and delivery management Business acumen and strategic IT planning Program and project management High-traffic portal development and live site operations BigData technologies (Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, etc.) Team building, development, and mentoring Engineering and Agile SDLCs (Scrum) Tech Stack Backend: Java/J2EE, RabbitMQ, Hibernate, Spring, Web Services, ELK, MySQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, Aerospike DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery) API: REST, JSON