Summary
Vinay Chavan is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years in SaaS who has progressed from solo iOS developer to Director of Engineering, now driving commerce engineering at Tata Digital. He combines hands-on platform architecture—having led a 40+ microservice event-driven rebuild and GitHub-based CI/CD for 200+ repos—with people-first leadership that emphasizes mentoring, process standardization, and cross-functional collaboration. Vinay has a track record of accelerating releases (66%), cutting production errors (35%), and improving performance (API latency down 35%, app startup up 50%) through pragmatic automation and testing-first practices. He blends UX sensibility from his mobile background with enterprise-grade compliance experience (PCI, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2) to deliver secure, usable products. A promoter of the 3Ps—People, Process, Product—he also writes and teaches on Agile leadership and plans to publish a book framing organizations as webs of conversation. Based in Mumbai, he uniquely pairs a maker’s attention to detail with strategic engineering operations at scale.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.E. Computer Science, B.E. Computer Science at University of Mumbai
English, Marathi, Hindi