NowCTO at Foodi · Dhaka, Bangladesh
I've spent 21+ years building, evolving and scaling consumer internet platforms across food delivery, travel & ticketing, mobility, fintech and e-commerce verticals. I work across the stack, from code and architecture to product strategy and business outcomes.
I'm a product engineering executive based out of Dhaka, Bangladesh, working as a Chief Technology Officer. I've been in CTO roles for more than a decade, leading technology for consumer internet businesses across web, mobile, distributed systems, microservices and cloud platforms.
At Shohoz, I architected and built the Shohoz Super App from seed to scale: bus, launch, movie, event and air ticketing, plus the Bangladesh Railway Integrated Ticketing System. Today, as CTO of Foodi, I lead technology, product engineering, architecture, AI and digital transformation for Bangladesh's everyday delivery platform.
I started as a software engineer and moved through technical leadership, architecture, product and technology management before taking on CTO work. I also co-founded a startup, Badhai.in. That's how I understand technology from the code and architecture layer up through product decisions, engineering leadership and business operations.
Building or scaling a consumer technology platform and need a CTO-level conversation? Message me with the problem you're solving.
Two decades across multiple technology stacks, monoliths to microservices, product startups, fintech and Bangladesh's biggest consumer platforms.
Foodi · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Leading technology, product engineering, architecture, AI and digital transformation at Foodi, Bangladesh's everyday delivery platform for food, groceries, medicines, flowers, beauty & personal care, lifestyle shopping and food pickup.
Shohoz (Shohoj Limited) · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Architected and scaled the web and mobile Shohoz Super App across 6 consumer services (bus, launch, movie, event and air ticketing, plus the Bangladesh Railway Integrated Ticketing System), supporting 10M+ registered users and 5M+ transactions a month.
SSL Wireless · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Defined and prioritised 10+ product initiatives across business verticals, turning customer needs into specifications and finding new revenue streams, target user groups and conversion improvements.
Badhai.in (eInsignia Infosoft) · Mumbai, India
Co-founded and launched Badhai, a digital gifting platform connected to 72 retail and online brands including Titan, Tanishq, Croma, Lifestyle, Snapdeal, Jabong and Flipkart. It reached 3,000+ orders a month and 27% annualised transaction growth.
Nexvisionix Inc · Mumbai
Built an API connecting two web applications across networks for runtime web-service integration through MOSS 2007, saving 2 months of development. It was rolled out to 30+ modules and improved performance by 11%.
Mastiff Tech Pvt. Ltd. · Mumbai
Promoted three times in 3.5 years. Designed system and database architecture, led 10+ engineers, halved production defects and delivered 90%+ of projects on time on the Microsoft technology stack.
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. · Honeywell Automation India
Built employee leave management modules at BPCL and a process automation data component at Honeywell. This is where it started: databases, UI and unit testing.
One of Bangladesh's leading consumer super apps, bringing bus, launch, movie, event and air tickets into one web and mobile experience. Built for peak-season surges, real-time seat inventory and high-volume payments.
National-scale online railway e-ticketing built for extreme concurrency during festival rushes, with secure payments and high availability.
Food, groceries, medicines, flowers, beauty and lifestyle delivery on 60+ microservices, now getting an AI-first upgrade.
Personalisation, demand intelligence, operations automation and smarter customer experience, all tied to measurable business results.
AWS, GCP and Azure setup with 13% lower infrastructure cost, 11% lower latency and under 4 minutes of downtime a month.
A gift-an-amount platform where recipients shop across 72 brands. It had social occasion discovery and grew to 3,000+ monthly orders across Tier A and B cities in India.
Hiring, team topology, career ladders and culture for 100+ engineer teams.
Tying technology bets to business strategy, board goals and competitive advantage.
Working with CEOs, operations, finance and commercial teams as one leadership group.
Predictable releases, OKRs, engineering metrics and a culture of ownership.
High-concurrency, fault-tolerant systems for ticketing surges and real-time delivery.
Service boundaries, event-driven design, API gateways and domain-driven design.
Shared identity, payments, wallet and a multi-vertical service architecture.
Future-ready foundations for payments, logistics, inventory and integrations.
Turning customer needs and market opportunities into products that scale.
Simple customer journeys across web and mobile apps.
Acquisition, activation, retention and conversion through experimentation.
Founder experience taking products from idea to revenue.
Finding high-ROI AI and GenAI use cases across the business.
Better discovery, basket size and repeat orders for consumer apps.
Forecasting, dispatch optimisation and operations automation.
Analytics, observability and data foundations that make AI work in production.
Cost-optimised, resilient infrastructure with FinOps discipline.
99.99% availability targets, incident management and SLOs.
Higher deploy frequency, automated quality gates and platform engineering.
Secure-by-default engineering, monitoring, logging and tracing.
Every system choice should serve growth, margin or customer trust. Otherwise it's just decoration.
When millions book a ticket home for the holidays, uptime is the product. Build for the peak, not the average.
Autonomous teams with clear service ownership move faster and break less.
Ship AI where it measurably moves conversion, cost or experience, and measure it.
Notes on CTO leadership, platform architecture and AI in consumer tech.
The lesson for anyone building platforms: find the one product the local market needs every day, make it your cash cow, then cross-sell. Launching everything, everywhere, all at once rarely works.
Ten ways to scale a database, put in the order you should actually use them. Most teams grab the hardest fix first, when the real problem sits on the bottom rung.
Some companies build their way into a new market. Uber just paid $2.3 billion, all cash, to skip that step.
Sandeep Debnath is the Chief Technology Officer of Foodi, Bangladesh's everyday delivery platform. He was previously CTO of Shohoz for over twelve years, where he architected the Shohoz Super App and the Bangladesh Railway Integrated Ticketing System.
Product engineering, distributed systems, microservices, multi-cloud architecture on AWS, GCP and Azure, AI strategy, and building and scaling high-performance engineering organisations for consumer internet businesses.
At Shohoz he led platforms serving 10M+ registered users and 5M+ transactions a month with four nines (99.99%) availability. At Foodi he leads a 150+ member engineering team and 110+ microservices.
He's open to conversations about CTO leadership, scaling engineering teams, platform architecture, super-app ecosystems and building technology businesses across markets. Please reach out with context.
Use the contact form on this site, email sandeepdebnath@gmail.com, or message him on LinkedIn with a short note on the problem you're solving.
Whether it's a platform re-architecture, an AI roadmap, scaling an engineering team or a super-app strategy, tell me the problem and I'll tell you how I'd approach it.