Vipan Kumar, Founder of Anvira Labs
FOUNDER · FRACTIONAL CTO
HI, I'M VIPAN

I help founders and scaling companies build engineering that ships.

Engineering Leader — Platform, Cloud & Product Delivery · Founder, Anvira Labs

15 years building software products, cloud platforms, and engineering teams. Most recently led a 21-person technology organisation at OnGrid; before that, managed 25 engineers at Dresma and built engineering functions from zero at Gigforce and SignCatch. Hands-on in AWS, distributed systems, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, DevOps, and applied AI.

Brampton, ON, Canada · Gurgaon, India · contact@anviralabs.com · linkedin.com/in/vipankverma
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WHO I WORK WITH

If one of these sounds like you, we should talk

01

Non-technical founders

You can't tell if your dev team's estimates, architecture, or hires are right. I can — and I'll sit on your side of the table.

02

Startups going 0 → launch

You need a team, an architecture, and a shipping cadence — fast. I've built this four times, including 0→15 engineers and launch in 4 months.

03

Scale-ups where things are breaking

Cloud bill climbing, incidents rising, releases slowing. I've cut AWS 22% at 99.95% uptime and moved teams to weekly releases.

04

Companies stuck at the AI pilot stage

You've run demos; nothing's in production. I've shipped generative-AI workflows for 50,000+ brands and 9M+ images.

HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER

Three ways to engage

Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit — even if the answer is "not me".

FRACTIONAL CTO

Embedded engineering leadership

Architecture, hiring, delivery, and investor-facing tech credibility — without the full-time cost or equity.

  • 1–2 days / week retainer
  • Owns roadmap, team, and production
  • Scales up during launches or diligence
PLATFORM & COST AUDIT

Fixed-scope engineering audit

A deep look at your cloud, architecture, CI/CD, and team — ending in a 30/60/90-day plan you can act on.

  • 2–4 weeks, fixed fee
  • Cloud cost, reliability, velocity
  • Due-diligence ready report
AI ENABLEMENT SPRINT

Pilot → production

Take one AI use-case from demo to a shipped, measured workflow — with guardrails and cost controls built in.

  • 4–6 week sprint
  • LLM / RAG integration
  • AI-assisted engineering rollout
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PROFILE

Fifteen years of shipping, not slides.

15 years building software products, cloud platforms, and engineering teams. Most recently led a 21-person technology organisation at OnGrid. Previously managed a 25-person team at Dresma and built engineering functions from the ground up at Gigforce and SignCatch.

Background combines people leadership with hands-on experience in AWS, distributed systems, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, DevOps, and applied AI — the rare mix of someone who can run the org and still read the stack trace.

Leadership & Technical Scope

Team BuildingMulti-Team DeliveryHiring & PerformancePlatform EngineeringCloud ArchitectureDevOps/SREDistributed SystemsApplied AI
EXPERIENCE

Where this track record was built

Associate Director of Engineering
MAR 2025 – JUL 2026
OnGrid — background-verification SaaS for regulated banking & financial-services clients
  • Led a 21-person technology organisation with 10 direct reports across backend, frontend, QA, DevOps, and application engineering.
  • +40% release velocity, −35% incidents — weekly releases, stronger CI/CD controls, clarified production ownership.
  • 10x Kafka throughput across 13 topics without adding infrastructure — resolved a JVM concurrency bottleneck.
  • −22% AWS cloud costs, 99.95% uptime — RDS rightsizing, CloudWatch observability, FinOps discipline.
Technical Architect & Lead Engineering Manager
FEB 2022 – MAR 2025
Dresma Inc. — AI-powered product-content SaaS for 50,000+ e-commerce brands
  • Managed 25 engineers over three years — platform architecture, product delivery, infrastructure, team development.
  • 99.9% uptime, 3x release acceleration — multi-tenant AWS platform for 50,000+ brands, 9M+ product images.
  • CAD 200,000/yr cloud spend reduction without cutting capacity — reserved/spot optimisation, rightsizing.
  • Delivered production generative-AI workflows for product attributes, listings, and batch image editing.
Senior Software Architect
MAY 2021 – FEB 2022
Gigforce — early-stage gig-workforce marketplace across 30+ cities
  • 0→15 engineers, 4-month launch — built the team and shipped matching, e-KYC, rostering, and payouts.
  • −60% deployment failures, −50% MTTR — CI/CD automation and a formal on-call model.
Technology Head
SEP 2019 – MAY 2021
SignCatch Inc. — B2B omnichannel retail-commerce platform
  • Built and led a 25-engineer function from scratch during company restructuring.
  • 100,000+ organic app downloads in six months — replaced a legacy monolith with a modular POS platform.
  • First ISO 27001 certification for the company — VAPT, OWASP-aligned security.
Lead Software Scientist
AUG 2018 – SEP 2019
Jubilant FoodWorks (Domino's India) — national ordering platform
  • 20-minute delivery SLA across 4,000+ outlets — integrated order management with aggregators, five payment gateways, demand forecasting.
Technical Lead
NOV 2016 – AUG 2018
Koovs — e-commerce supply chain & inventory
  • 2,000→6,000 orders/day — tripled order-processing capacity without adding warehouse headcount.
Technical Team Lead
MAR 2016 – NOV 2016
V5 Global Services / Infield Infotech — retail ERP & kiosk platforms
  • Led architecture, client delivery, development, QA, and deployment; company later acquired by FirstMeridian.
Technical Lead
JUN 2013 – FEB 2016
Lenskart — online, offline, B2B & B2C commerce platforms
  • Built systems supporting 10,000 concurrent orders, home eye-check routing, and virtual try-on.

Earlier: Software Scientist at Samsung R&D (Tizen OS browser engine & 3D graphics drivers) · Software Engineer at Aricent (telecom backend systems) · Founding intern at SchoolPad.

TECHNICAL RANGE

Full-stack, not just leadership

Cloud & Platform

AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, SRE, FinOps, observability, disaster recovery.

Architecture

Cloud-native SaaS, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, REST, gRPC, GraphQL.

Engineering

Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript.

Data & AI

Kafka, Debezium CDC, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, generative AI, LLM integration, RAG.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

Foundations

B.E., Computer Science & Engineering

Thapar University, 2011

Diploma, Computer Science Engineering

Thapar Polytechnic, 2008

Leadership with AI

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"I don't give advice I haven't been on-call for. Every architecture I recommend, I've already debugged at 2am."

— VIPAN KUMAR

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