Varun Aggarwal - Founder, Know Your Dosh Limited

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Network Power3000+ people

Roles

🔥75%

Startup Founder

✨50%

Business Owner

🧨50%

Consulting

Geos

🇮🇳50%

India

🇬🇧25%

United Kingdom

🇿🇦25%

South Africa

Work Background

Electric MilesAngel Investor

Aug. 2020

NILACo-Founder / CTO

Jul. 2020 - Dec. 2020Leading development of core product modules and managing technical aspects of product innovation.

Encore Tickets LimitedSolutions Architect / Lead (contract)

Mar. 2018 - May. 2020London, United KingdomI was engaged by EncoreTickets as Lead Solutions Architect to manage the design and build of an API integration framework to integrate with multiple different vendor platforms to enable more rapid engagement with different ticket vendors. I was also tasked with investigating and debugging critical issues across the business using PHP, Docker, MySQL, Jenkins, CI / CD, Wireshark, TCPView and SSL / TLS, and I led the end to end implementation of a robust CI / CD pipeline to support project delivery. As a part of engagement, I also identified single point of failures and implemented load balanced web architecture resulting in more stable service.

Private InvestmentAngel Investor

Jan. 2017As a Private Angel Investor, I look for opportunities to invest not only money but also my experience, knowledge and network in innovative business in startup phase, in different areas such as information technologies, education, finance and internet.

DunelmSolutions Architect / Lead (contract)

Jan. 2016 - Feb. 2018London, United KingdomDuring this period, I was engaged with Achica.com part of the business as Lead Solutions Architect to oversee the end to end migration of the company infrastructure from a 3rd party hosting provider to Azure within a stringent 2-month timeline. I led the implementation of Azure / application security, CDN, source control, CI and OneClick deployment, migrated DNS providers, built pre-production environments and reverse-engineered live code. In addition, I consolidated SQL DBs and .Net code base to eliminate legacy code, implemented robust alerting solutions to drive timely mitigating of issues, implemented automated queuing systems to reduce dependency on fragile cross-server SQL jobs and reduced monthly infrastructure costs by 40%.

Premium Credit LtdTechnical Team Lead (contract)

Dec. 2015 - Dec. 2015Epsom, SurreyI was engaged as Technical Team Lead to build and develop a new technical team. In addition, I led the implementation of CI and source control, defined solution requirements and managed daily scrums and sprint planning sessions with team members.

Reed ExhibitionsSenior Developer / Application performance specialist (contract)

Jul. 2010 - Aug. 2015Richmond, SurreyDuring this period, I was engaged as Senior Developer to debug performance issues with the ReedExpo Nova platform hosting 500 websites handling 45 million requests a day. This involved investigating and mitigating complex problems through debugging .Net framework and 3rd party libraries. I developed POCs on AWS, designed, coded and reviewed complex modules, led performance engineering activities and managed the migration, installation and configuration of the search system to Solr.

SVV LtdDirector

Jul. 2010London, United Kingdom

Reed Business InformationDeveloper

Nov. 2009 - Jun. 2010Sutton, United KingdomWorked as .Net developer and performance consultant investigating/fixing production performance problems using advanced .Net debugging. Moreover, analyzed memory footprints for memory leaks, thread locking, contentions, resource utilization using various tools like Windbg, ANTS profiler, HP Loadrunner, TinyGet, etc.