Engineering leadership

Vipul Sharma

Head of Engineering · VP Engineering · Consumer Platforms, Engineering Excellence & AI-Enabled Delivery

I build engineering organisations that ship faster every quarter — and prove it in the numbers.

AVP Technology at tiket.com Noida, India

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Vipul Sharma, Head of Engineering, standing against a brick wall in a black jacket
years in engineering
14+
engineers led today
80+
languages shipped
16
monthly travellers served
Millions

Executive summary

Fourteen years turning engineering quality into commercial outcomes.

Engineering leader with 14+ years building and scaling engineering organisations across India and Southeast Asia. Currently AVP Technology at tiket.com, leading 80+ engineers across consumer web and native apps serving millions of travellers in 16 languages.

Track record of doubling delivery throughput, embedding AI-assisted engineering across an entire org, and converting platform quality into measurable customer and commercial outcomes. Equally comfortable owning architecture, org design, hiring, and executive stakeholder management.

Impact

What changed on my watch.

Selected outcomes from tiket.com — one of Southeast Asia's largest online travel platforms.

Doubled delivery throughput

Consolidated fragmented codebases onto a shared platform and automated the delivery pipeline, cutting the engineering footprint required per release from ~80 to 25–30 engineers. The released capacity funded new product bets rather than headcount reduction.

  • 2×delivery throughput
  • ~80 → 25–30engineers per release

AI-assisted engineering, org-wide

Drove adoption of Cursor, MCP servers, autonomous bug agents and AI code review across the whole organisation — and authored the engineering standards governing AI usage, review and code security.

  • %of pull requests AI-assisted
  • → daysmedian cycle time

Web performance, rebuilt end-to-end

Took revenue-critical pages from failing to fast: sub-1 second P50 and sub-2 second P95 real-user load times, with Core Web Vitals passing on the majority of them.

  • 28 → 80+Lighthouse score
  • +%mobile booking conversion
  • −%bounce rate

Sub-1MB Progressive Web Apps

Shipped PWAs under 1 MB with complete offline functionality, enabling lightweight distribution to partner channels and bandwidth-constrained markets.

  • <1 MBapp payload
  • 100%offline capable

Localisation & payments platform

Delivered a localisation and payments platform supporting multi-currency checkout across Southeast Asian markets, from a single shared codebase.

  • 16languages
  • markets supported

Built the organisation

Established the interview loop, career ladder and performance calibration process now used across the engineering function — and hired the managers who run it.

  • engineers hired
  • engineering managers hired
  • % → %voluntary attrition

Executive partnership

Own quarterly roadmap negotiation and annual capacity planning with Product, Design, Data and Business leadership, reporting technology strategy and delivery health to .

Leadership scope

What I own today.

Organisation

Engineers
80+
Squads
Engineering managers
Tech leads

Geography

Distributed, cross-border teams across Jakarta, Indonesia and Noida, India.

Ownership

  • Consumer web and native app platform
  • Engineering governance and standards
  • Developer productivity
  • Hiring and career frameworks
  • Annual engineering budget of

Reach

  • Millions of monthly users
  • 16 languages
  • Multi-currency checkout across Southeast Asia

Experience

Fourteen years, four companies, two countries.

  1. tiket.com

    – Present

    Jakarta, Indonesia / Noida, India

    • AVP TechnologyMar 2026 – Present
    • Head of Engineering — Consumer WebSep 2021 – Feb 2026

    Scope Own engineering for the consumer web and app surfaces that carry the primary revenue channel of one of Southeast Asia's largest online travel platforms.

    • Doubled delivery throughput while reducing the engineering footprint per release from ~80 to 25–30 engineers, by consolidating fragmented codebases onto a shared platform and automating the delivery pipeline.
    • Drove org-wide adoption of AI-assisted engineering (Cursor, MCP servers, autonomous bug agents, AI code review), reaching % of pull requests AI-assisted and cutting median cycle time from to days; authored the engineering standards governing AI usage, review and code security.
    • Rebuilt web performance end-to-end: Lighthouse 28 → 80+, sub-1s P50 and sub-2s P95 real-user load times, and Core Web Vitals passing on the majority of revenue-critical pages — contributing to a % improvement in mobile booking conversion and a % reduction in bounce rate.
    • Shipped sub-1MB Progressive Web Apps with complete offline functionality, enabling lightweight distribution to partner channels and bandwidth-constrained markets.
    • Delivered a localisation and payments platform supporting 16 languages with multi-currency checkout, supporting expansion into markets.
    • Built the org: established the interview loop, career ladder and performance calibration process now used across the engineering function, hiring engineers including engineering managers, and reducing voluntary attrition from % to %.
    • Executive partnership: own quarterly roadmap negotiation and annual capacity planning with Product, Design, Data and Business leadership; report technology strategy and delivery health to .

  2. Paytm

    –

    Noida, India

    • Senior Technical Lead — Frontend CoreNov 2020 – Sep 2021
    • Technical LeadApr 2018 – Nov 2020

    Scope Led the Frontend Core group — platform architecture, engineering governance and shared capability delivery for product teams serving 100M+ users.

    • Set platform architecture and engineering standards adopted across product teams, replacing duplicated implementations with reusable web, Android and iOS capabilities.
    • Improved FCP, LCP, TTFB, TTI and FID through caching strategy, PWA re-architecture and bundle optimisation; reduced mobile homepage load time by 400–500 ms.
    • Delivered peak-load engagement platforms for IPL, Diwali, Holi and Wishlist campaigns, sustaining × normal traffic without degradation.
    • Led hiring, onboarding and mentoring for the group; grew engineers into lead and architect roles.

  3. Tokopedia

    –

    Jakarta, Indonesia

    • Technical Lead
    • Modernised the mobile-lite platform and delivered AMP pages, improving organic search reach and load performance for bandwidth-constrained users; returned to Paytm to lead the Frontend Core group.

  4. Paytm

    –

    Noida, India

    • Tech Lead, O2O · Senior Software Engineer · Software Engineer
    • Progressed from Software Engineer to Tech Lead, ultimately owning end-to-end frontend delivery for the O2O business.
    • Led migration to a React–Redux isomorphic architecture with Webpack, establishing the frontend foundation used across Paytm's consumer surfaces.
    • Built and shipped Movies, Events, Theme Parks, Nearby, Gift Cards, Bus and Hotel verticals on AngularJS and Node.js.

  5. Manusis Technologies

    –

    Noida, India

    • Web Developer
    • Built the StoreHippo e-commerce platform from scratch — Node.js backend APIs and AngularJS frontend.

Leadership competencies

How I lead.

  • Engineering Organisation Design
  • Managing Managers
  • Hiring & Talent Development
  • Technical Strategy & Roadmapping
  • Platform Engineering
  • Developer Productivity
  • AI-Enabled Software Delivery
  • Engineering Excellence & Governance
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Web Performance
  • Budget & Vendor Management
  • Executive Stakeholder Management
  • Cross-Border Team Leadership

Languages & frameworks

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Redux
  • Angular
  • Node.js

Platform & performance

  • PWA
  • Core Web Vitals
  • SSR / isomorphic rendering
  • Webpack
  • Caching & CDN strategy
  • Offline-first architecture

AI engineering

  • Cursor
  • MCP servers
  • Autonomous bug agents
  • AI code review
  • AI-assisted delivery workflows

Systems

  • Cloud architecture
  • Localisation & multi-currency platforms

    Education

    B.Tech, Computer Science — Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) –

    Questions

    Frequently asked.

    Who is Vipul Sharma?

    Vipul Sharma is an engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building and scaling engineering organisations across India and Southeast Asia. He is currently AVP Technology at tiket.com, where he leads 80+ engineers across consumer web and native apps serving millions of travellers in 16 languages.

    What does Vipul Sharma do at tiket.com?

    As AVP Technology at tiket.com, Vipul Sharma owns engineering for the consumer web and native app surfaces that carry the primary revenue channel of one of Southeast Asia's largest online travel platforms. His remit covers platform architecture, engineering governance, developer productivity, hiring and career frameworks, and the annual engineering budget.

    What is Vipul Sharma's biggest engineering achievement?

    He doubled delivery throughput at tiket.com while reducing the engineering footprint required per release from around 80 engineers to 25–30, by consolidating fragmented codebases onto a shared platform and automating the delivery pipeline. The released capacity was redeployed to new product bets rather than used to cut headcount.

    How does Vipul Sharma use AI in engineering?

    He drove org-wide adoption of AI-assisted engineering at tiket.com — Cursor, MCP servers, autonomous bug agents and AI code review — and authored the engineering standards that govern AI usage, code review and code security across the organisation.

    What is Vipul Sharma's track record on web performance?

    He rebuilt tiket.com's web performance end-to-end, taking Lighthouse scores from 28 to 80+, achieving sub-1-second P50 and sub-2-second P95 real-user load times, and passing Core Web Vitals on the majority of revenue-critical pages. He also shipped sub-1MB Progressive Web Apps with complete offline functionality.

    Where is Vipul Sharma based?

    Vipul Sharma is based in Noida, India, and leads distributed, cross-border teams across Jakarta, Indonesia and Noida, India.

    What technologies does Vipul Sharma work with?

    His core stack is JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Angular and Node.js, with deep specialisation in Progressive Web Apps, Core Web Vitals, server-side and isomorphic rendering, caching and CDN strategy, and offline-first architecture.

    How can I contact Vipul Sharma?

    You can reach Vipul Sharma by email at vipulkrsharma1991@gmail.com or through LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/vipul-sharma-77489433.

    Contact

    Let's talk.

    Open to conversations about engineering leadership roles, advisory work, and scaling consumer platforms.

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