Summary
Vipul Sodha is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Singapore with around nine years of experience building revenue-critical, large-scale systems. He currently leads three backend teams at Carousell, driving product roadmapping, rearchitecting engineering processes, and delivering a 70% YoY revenue uplift through an ad recommendation platform. Vipul has designed and integrated payment, subscription, and internal wallet systems that unify in-app purchases with major external providers like Stripe and Apple Pay. His background includes building high-throughput distributed systems using Cassandra, Kafka, and Spark, and creating production tooling such as a logging platform running across ~2000 pods. Known for combining hands-on implementation with cross-functional strategy, he also has a track record of automating developer workflows and reducing delivery friction. Outside the obvious impact metrics, he consistently focuses on observability and operational tooling to make large systems maintainable at scale.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
10th, 10th at J.B.Khot High School
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, 3.33/4.00, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, 3.33/4.00 at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, English