Summary
Apurav Chauhan is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience scaling high-performance, customer-facing platforms and leading teams from startup to unicorn stages. Currently Vice President of Engineering at VendorPM after senior leadership roles at Brevo and Paytm, he has driven measurable improvements in delivery (Sprint Delivery to 98%), system reliability (MTTR down 30%, API P85 under 300ms) and massive scale (processing 500M emails/week and multi‑million merchant growth). He blends hands-on architecture and observability practices with people-first management—building career frameworks, mentoring leaders, and aligning OKRs to hiring and budget strategy. His background spans full-stack systems, microservices, cloud transformation and mobile performance optimization, with a track record of shipping developer-facing initiatives like an open Developer Network. Based in Old Toronto, he combines product-minded engineering with operational rigor and a founder’s curiosity demonstrated by entrepreneurial projects dating back to Matrified.com. Colleagues value him for turning nebulous business goals into quantifiable engineering outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Guru Nanak Dev University