Vipan Kumar
Independent Technology Consultant | Fractional CTO | Engineering Advisor
I partner with startups and growing businesses to architect reliable platforms, solve complex engineering challenges, reduce infrastructure costs, and turn technology into a competitive advantage.
Team size and system figures come from full-time roles at Dresma and OnGrid.
Fractional CTO advisory, software and cloud architecture consulting, engineering leadership, AWS cloud optimization and SaaS technology advice. You work directly with me, not with an agency.
Senior technology judgment for founders and leadership teams, without a full-time executive hire.
What you get
System design that fits your load, your team and your budget, from service boundaries and APIs to AWS and GCP infrastructure.
What you get
Stronger execution from the team you already have, through clearer ownership, standards and release practices.
What you get
Find out where infrastructure spend and performance are going, then fix what matters first.
What you get
Start a new product on sound foundations, or move an ageing platform forward in planned stages.
What you get
Practical LLM features and automation, applied where they solve a real workflow problem.
What you get
Real work, labelled by how it was done. Client engagements are marked as independent consulting. Work done as a full-time employee is marked as an employee role.
Current engagements, as Principal Software Architect (Consultant).
Maruti Suzuki
Independent consulting4 plantslive, deployed March 2026
DroneCraft Rides
Independent consultingLivein production
ZodiacBee.com
Independent consulting15 Oct 2026launched
These companies were my employers, not consulting clients. Results are from my own tenure.
OnGrid
Employee role10xKafka throughput, no added infrastructure
Dresma
Employee role12 to 5GPU servers, same output
Lenskart
Employee role8,000+orders a day, up from 300–500
SignCatch
Employee role700+retail locations
Also as an employee: Gigforce, where I was the first engineer and grew the team from 1 to about 15. Dates and every other role are on the Experience page.
Tell me what you are dealing with, and we can work out which of these fits.
Architecture reviews, technology decisions, assessments and strategic guidance.
Ongoing part-time technology leadership for companies not yet ready for a full-time CTO.
Clearly scoped modernization, performance optimization, system design or technical transformation work.
Temporary or ongoing leadership to strengthen engineering execution and team practices.
I'm a technology architect and engineering leader with over 15 years of experience designing, scaling and improving software platforms. My work spans startups, consumer technology, SaaS and enterprise systems.
I bring together hands-on architecture, operational experience and engineering leadership to help businesses make practical technology decisions and execute them effectively.
I stay close to the code, even when I am leading. At OnGrid I fixed a JVM concurrency bottleneck myself instead of adding servers, and Kafka throughput went up 10x. I like owning a problem end to end: design, build, run, and measure the result.
I hold a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Thapar University and completed the Leadership with AI executive programme at ISB. The full record is on the Experience page.
From people who managed me or worked beside me. These are public recommendations on LinkedIn.
I had the pleasure of managing Vipan for a year. During that time, he consistently impressed me with his technical skills and problem-solving abilities. Vipan is also a highly skilled communicator and team player, able to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders to achieve common goals. He is a valuable asset to any team and I highly recommend him for any technical leadership role.
one of the best tech leaders, I have ever worked with. We worked together for almost 3 years.
Whether you're scaling a product, modernizing infrastructure, facing engineering bottlenecks, or looking for experienced technology leadership, let's discuss how I can help.