Sahil Kapoor

CEO and Founder in Gurugram

Sahil Kapoor

CEO and Founder in Gurugram

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Sahil Kapoor is a Product & Engineering leader specializing in High-Scale Architecture and Distributed Systems. He has built platforms scaling from zero to millions of users with lean teams and zero external funding.

CURRENT: CEO, HAWK MARTECH
Sahil currently leads Hawk MarTech, a venture studio deploying high-frequency products across sports, travel, and real-time opinion trading. He oversees the architecture for:

- Viacation & OneTurf News: B2C platforms optimized for deep-linking and SEO.

- YesNo (Opinion Trading) & SG11 (Fantasy Sports): Handling high-concurrency spikes during live events.

FOUNDER, CARINFO(EXITED)

Sahil founded and architected CarInfo, India’s definitive auto-tech platform. He built the aggregation engine that normalized fragmented government data into a sub-second query interface, scaling to 80 Million+ installs.

ENGINEERING ROOTS
Before founding his own ventures, Sahil architected core systems at two Asian unicorns:
- Gojek (GoTo Group): Optimized food delivery flows and payment reliability for the Super App.
- ixigo: Scaled the Trains app to 30M MAUs, building PNR prediction and offline-mode capabilities.

TECH STACK
Sahil is a hands-on leader, moving between system design and code.
- Core: Node.js, Python, Go, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture.
- Data: MongoDB (Sharding), Redis, Kafka, PostgreSQL.
- Infra: Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Terraform, AWS/GCP, Cloudflare.
- Mobile: Flutter, Native Android/iOS.

WRITING
Sahil writes the "Engineering Playbook" at sahilkapoor.com, documenting the realities of scaling teams, recovering from cluster failures, and building resilient software.

  • Work
    • Hawk MarTech