Vishal Jindal
Founding Tech Lead with 7+ years building and scaling distributed systems in consumer tech and health-tech. Previously at Zomato and Temple - shipping GenAI features, logistics platforms, and health-tech infrastructure from 0 to 1. Expertise in Golang, cloud-native architectures, and aligning engineering decisions with business outcomes.
Journey
Founding Tech Lead - Temple
• Architected end-to-end platform from 0 to 1 - scalable, low-latency backend powering mobile apps, dashboards, firmware integrations, and internal tooling with full device-to-analytics interoperability. • Built near-real-time ingestion pipelines for multi-device wearable health data, standardizing ingestion across devices and ensuring reliable storage at scale. • Integrated online/offline health-tech tools and built internal experiment analytics tooling to accelerate data collection, benchmarking, and product iteration. • Engineered real-time Leaderboard, Insight triggers, and Sleep computation systems for richer, more responsive user experiences. • Reduced infrastructure and cloud spend by ~80% through architectural redesign, workload optimization, and observability improvements. • Led integrations with Shiprocket, Easyship, ShipBob, Stripe, and PayPal to enable international fulfillment and cross-border transactions. • Defined architecture and led rollout of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), established an in-house Manufacturing unit, accelerating hardware prototype cycles. • Scaled engineering team from 2 to 14, built hiring pipeline, defined engineering standards, and cultivated a high-ownership, product-driven culture. • Partnered with vendors across observability, security, and compliance to ensure reliability and global scalability readiness.
SDE I → III - Zomato
Almost six years across Logistics, HyperPure (B2B), Discounting, and GenAI. • Spearheaded an LLM-powered "Personal Waiter" - translating natural language into curated carts by orchestrating catalog, pricing, and availability in near real time. • Architected the restaurant-partner discounting engine with a team of 8, delivering multi-crore monthly burn savings. Reduced delivery burn by ~₹1 Cr/month with a team of 4. • Led end-to-end tech stack for HyperPure's last-mile logistics - warehouse fulfillment to kitchen delivery. Built automated incentive and accounting systems for delivery partners. • Optimized multi-point delivery routing and built a dedicated Driver Support system, reducing fraud cases and improving timelines. • Co-owned Rider Accounting, rate card, and bonus systems overseeing weekly payouts of ~₹30 Cr. Contributed to the Rider-Shifts (Gigs) platform, improving fleet utilization. • Built real-time order tracking and delay notification systems for customer communication and operational visibility.
BookOfTrips - Travel Discovery Platform
• Designed and launched a travel discovery platform attracting 30K+ monthly organic visitors. • Built and deployed full-stack application with payment gateway integration, enabling online bookings. • Generated ₹1L+/month in direct website revenue. • Optimized infrastructure to operate at ~₹500/month through lean cloud architecture and cost-efficient hosting strategies.
Service Finder - Founder
• Conceptualized and validated a hyperlocal services marketplace for household needs - maids, cooks, car cleaners. • Onboarded early service providers and conducted market validation through direct customer and vendor engagement. • Evaluated go-to-market strategy, unit economics, and operational feasibility before deciding not to proceed with full-scale launch.
SDE - Amazon, Bangalore
Started my career on the Ads Bot team, building fraud-detection mechanisms that protected data integrity across millions of ad impressions.
B.Tech - Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh
Electronics and Communication Engineering. Awarded College Honour for outstanding contribution to the Training & Placement Cell.