Engineering Executive · Formerly SVP @ Checkmate · Ex-WeWork · Rails Veteran

Building engineering organizations — and the platforms that carried WeWork through hyper-growth and, at Checkmate, put thousands of restaurants on every leading delivery app.

Two decades from Rails pioneer at Vinsol — India's first and premier Ruby on Rails company — to SVP of Engineering at Checkmate: WeWork's hyper-growth infrastructure, 200+ API integrations, 30,000+ restaurant locations live, and teams grown from a handful of developers into high-performing organizations. Now ready for the next build.

20
Years building software and teams
30+
Products & platforms shipped
200+
API integrations delivered
30,000+
Restaurant locations live on his integrations

About

Amit Solanki

Amit is an engineering executive who spent the last 8 years at Checkmate — rising from Head of Integrations to Senior Vice President of Engineering — building the technical backbone connecting major restaurant chains to third-party delivery platforms, and growing the engineering team from a handful of developers into a high-performing organization.

Before Checkmate, he spent six years as Lead Software Architect at WeWork, architecting the microservices and integrations that carried the company through its hyper-growth phase. His career began at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur — one of the country's leading engineering institutes — before joining Vinsol, India's first and premier Ruby on Rails company, on Rails 1.0 as one of the first few developers working with Rails in India.

He's ready for his next build — as VP/SVP of Engineering, CTO, fractional CTO, or co-founder at a company where scale, integrations, and team-building count.

0→1 Products

First versions built and shipped: WeWork's room-booking product and member platform, an autonomous robot delivery pilot with no playbook, and Checkmate's first Google Food Ordering channel.

Enterprise Scale

Systems that survive real scale: 30,000+ restaurant locations live, 200+ API integrations across 30+ POS systems and 30+ delivery platforms, and 1,400 locations launched in a single day.

Team Building

Engineering organizations grown from a handful of developers — offshore teams pioneered and brought on-site, dozens of engineers mentored, and quality cultures that hold under scale.

Selected Work · Checkmate

Ten+ national brands, launched end-to-end.

SVP of Engineering · 2018 — 2026

30,000+locations live — up from a few hundred
120+API integrations
1,400locations launched in a single day — company record

Global Burger Chain

2019–2026
POS
NCR Aloha → next-gen cloud POS
Scale
6,700+ live locations

Built the foundational DSP integration via NCR Aloha order injection for one of the world's largest burger chains — among the company's earliest enterprise-scale builds — plus the brand's Canada (Skip the Dishes) and UK launches. Holds the company's single-day record — 1,400 locations brought live at once. Later supported the POS platform RFP and rebuilt the integration from the ground up for the winning next-gen platform.

EnterpriseInternationalPlatform Migration

Premium Burger Franchise

2019–2026
POS
Brink (PAR) · Lightspeed (Classic & Series K)
Scale
1,500+ locations

Built the Lightspeed integration from scratch for a cult-favorite burgers-and-fries franchise — a POS the company had never integrated before — then expanded it across UberEats, Postmates, DoorDash, Grubhub, and Deliveroo while maintaining parallel Classic and Series K integrations. The brand runs on both Brink and Lightspeed today.

Greenfield POS5 DSPsInternational

Multi-Brand Restaurant Group

2021–2026
POS
Brink · Oracle Simphony · NCR Aloha · custom digital layer
Scale
5 brands · 6,000+ live locations

Co-built the enterprise pipeline that onboards the portfolio of one of America's largest restaurant groups — five national brands, four different POS platforms, one architecture. Delivered the largest launch in company history — a 3,000+ location sandwich chain on Brink — plus a 1,000-store conversion for a drive-in classic on its custom digital layer, then brought a coffee-and-donuts giant (Oracle Simphony) and its wings-and-sports-bar sister brand (NCR Aloha) live. The same architecture powers the group's first-party delivery (1PD) channels alongside the third-party marketplaces.

Largest LaunchPipelineMulti-Brand

Iconic Slider Chain

2020–2023
POS
Proprietary custom POS
Scale
300+ locations

A century-old burger institution running a fully proprietary POS with triple-nested modifier complexity — one of the hardest integrations on the platform. Built custom parsing logic, ran a store-by-store metro-market rollout, expanded to ghost kitchens, and led a three-way autonomous robot delivery pilot with Uber AV.

Custom ParsingRobot Delivery

Global Fried Chicken Chain

2024–2026
POS
Oracle Simphony · NCR Aloha · Xenial Omni · Panasonic BPOS
Scale
3,000+ live locations

A global fried chicken brand under one of the world's largest QSR holding companies, with a fleet spanning four POS platforms. Mapped all 964 Simphony locations for integration planning, then ran a continuous rollout: multiple store go-lives every week, built on stable, repeatable processes rather than a single launch event.

Global QSR ParentContinuous RolloutMulti-POS

Fast-Casual Soup & Salad Brand

2021–2023
POS
Brink (PAR Technology)
Scale
168+ locations · First Google partner

An 8–12 month Brink integration with double-nested modifier complexity, gated safely behind a custom Flipper feature flag. Became the company's first Google Food Ordering integration partner, opening an entirely new ordering channel.

Google Food OrderingFeature Flags

Regional Pizza Franchise

2022–2024
POS
Speedline
Scale
1,000+ locations

Discovered Speedline's API was cloud-accessible, eliminating the local Windows connector — a decision that became the architecture pattern for every future Speedline brand. Added a loyalty platform integration on top; the client publicly called the results "off the charts."

Architecture CallLoyalty

Signature Contributions

Infrastructure that outlived the launches.

01

Multi-Brand Enterprise Menu Pipeline

The architecture behind the multi-brand launches above: bulk menu ingestion, brand-specific POS mapping, batch imports, and coordinated limited-time-offer (LTO) runs across thousands of locations in a single pass.

02

RDS / Database Infrastructure Scaling

Identified the database bottleneck exposed by 9-hour brand-wide LTO runs and drove the RDS upgrade that enabled multi-brand concurrent runs with significantly reduced processing times.

03

Bulk Scheduler

Spearheaded the internal tool powering brand-wide menu change runs — used daily by the operations team, and coordinating LTO runs of up to 2,200+ locations at a time across three national brands.

04

Feature Flag Architecture

Used Flipper feature flags to gate new integration behaviors at location or brand level — incremental, risk-managed rollouts that never destabilized unrelated production brands.

05

Partner Developer Platform & Open API Suite

Spearheaded the self-serve developer platform where delivery partners build and certify their integrations before ever touching production. Built key pieces of the Open API suite that unlocked smaller, long-tail partners — turning partner onboarding from a manual project into a repeatable pipeline.

06

On-Prem POS Connectors

Developed the company's first Windows on-premise solution, built to bring Maitre'D POS locations onto the platform, and the on-prem digital menu board (DMB) connector for NCR Aloha — opening an entire class of on-prem POS systems to integration.

“Off the charts.”

A national franchise client, publicly, on their delivery integration results

Selected Work · WeWork

A product suite shipped through hyper-growth.

Lead Software Architect · 2012 — 2018

5 → 12+international locations supported
12products & platforms owned
8+offshore engineers led

Rooms

Role
Co-built v1
Integrations
Kisi smart locks

Co-developed the first version of WeWork's conference-room booking product — the system members used to reserve rooms across every location — including the admin frontend and the Kisi smart-lock integration that unlocked the door your booking entitled you to.

0→1 ProductIoT Access

WeConnect

Role
Led offshore team of 8+
Integrations
First platform build

The first version of WeWork's member application, built while managing an 8+ developer offshore team — the engineering seed that grew into the company's full platform organization.

0→1 ProductTeam Leadership

Spaceman

Role
Core platform
Integrations
QuickBooks · S2 · Qtrak

The space operations and billing backbone: QuickBooks invoicing, S2 keycard partition management per location, package management, print overage and usage billing, occupancy reconciliation reporting, and API endpoints consumed by the rest of the internal ecosystem.

BillingPlatform APIs

ID

Role
Identity platform
Integrations
PaperCut · Qtrak · Welkio

WeWork's member identity service. Built the automation around company activation — print profiles provisioned on PaperCut the moment a company went live — plus member-list export to Qtrak and the APIs consumed by Welkio guest registration.

IdentityAuto-Provisioning

CM Dashboard

Role
Ops hub
Integrations
ID · S2 · Qtrak · WeGuest

The community managers' daily operations hub: keycard assignment via S2, package tracking via Qtrak, and hooks into guest registration and identity. Shipped a dedicated read-only edition for front desks.

Internal ToolsOperations

Member-Facing Apps

Role
Five products
Integrations
Splash · Zendesk · PaperCut

The suite members touched every day: guest registration with bulk upload (WeGuest), printing (PrinterApp), move-out payments and phone porting (SpaceMoney), location walkthrough checklists with Zendesk integration (WeChecklist), and Splash-powered events & RSVPs in the member portal.

Member ExperienceFull Ownership

Selected Work · Vinsol

Where it began: Rails 1.0, at India's first Rails company.

Software Engineer → Team Leader · 2007 — 2013

Rails 1.0among India's first Rails developers
12+client applications shipped
8+engineers led & mentored

Dopetracks

Domain
Music · Social
Built with
Rails, in-browser audio studio

An online music collaboration platform for hip-hop artists: producers upload beats, emcees record vocals over them through an in-browser recording studio, and tracks get shared, commented on, and battled over. Built the Facebook-style personal messaging system connecting the community.

0→1 ProductCommunity

MemeBox

Domain
Publishing · Search
Built with
Rails, Solr, custom crawler

A network of futurist publications (Future Scanner, Future Blogger, the Future 500) with hosted domain blogs — customized versions of the main site served on separate URLs via heavy custom routing, with per-domain caching. Built a crawler that scanned user-submitted URLs for microformats and video.

SearchMulti-Domain

Hospital Records Platform

Domain
Healthcare
Built with
Rails, multi-tenant architecture

A multi-tenant electronic medical records system: every hospital got its own subdomain and local administrator, with role-based authorization throughout and reusable report templates shareable across hospital users. Plus a separate obstetrics record system for tracking patient pregnancy histories.

Multi-TenantRBAC

Principals Market

Domain
Real Estate · Marketplace
Built with
Rails, saved-search engine

A commercial real-estate marketplace connecting principals, capital providers, and industry professionals. Built the extensive search system with saved criteria and scheduled email updates, and member targeting by geography, specialty, and services.

MarketplaceB2B

PropertyVideos.tv

Domain
Real Estate · Video
Built with
Rails, Geokit, video APIs

A video-first property listing site: agents linked property videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and other platforms, with every listing pinned on a map. Search worked by dropping a pin and choosing a radius — geo search built on Geokit before it was standard.

Geo SearchIntegrations

Career

Two decades, from Rails pioneer to SVP.

2013 — Present
Agra, India

Founding Director

Prayantr Technologies
2018 — 2026
New York, United States (Remote)

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Checkmate
Head of Integrations → Director of Engineering → VP of Engineering → SVP of Engineering
  • ·Oversaw the platform's growth from a few hundred locations to over 30,000 live locations.
  • ·Grew engineering from a single developer into a full, high-performing organization.
  • ·Expanded the integration footprint from 4 systems to 30+ POS platforms and 30+ delivery platforms — 120+ API integrations in all.
  • ·Instrumental in securing multiple national "superbrand" deals as the technical lead in enterprise sales cycles.
  • ·Streamlined the launch process to a capacity of 1,000+ locations per day — continuous go-lives for thousands of stores across a dozen brands.
  • ·Set the bar for code quality and system stability — zero-downtime releases and deployments across the platform.
2012 — 2018
New York, United States (Remote)

Lead Software Architect

WeWork
  • ·Pioneered the company's first offshore engineering team — managing 8+ developers building the first version of the platform — and grew it into a full on-site engineering organization.
  • ·Built the technical infrastructure that supported hyper-growth from 5 to over a dozen international locations.
  • ·Shipped and owned the product suite detailed above: identity, space operations & billing, room booking, community-manager tooling, and five member-facing apps.
  • ·Led integrations across a dozen external services — QuickBooks, S2, Kisi, PaperCut, Qtrak, Splash, Zendesk, Welkio — and authored the cross-service integration test suites (qa-automation).
2007 — 2013
New Delhi, India

Software Engineer → Team Leader

Vinsol — India's first & premier Ruby on Rails company
  • ·One of the first few Ruby on Rails developers in India, starting on Rails 1.0 — shipped a dozen+ Rails applications, including white-labeled products.
  • ·Led a team of 8+ developers and mentored a dozen+ junior engineers.
  • ·Owned deployments and production monitoring across Linux distros (Capistrano, God, Monit) and testing practice (RSpec, Cucumber, Selenium, JMeter) within Agile/Scrum/XP teams.
  • ·Community voice of the early Rails scene: presented JMeter performance testing at Barcamp Delhi and Monit/God/JRuby at Ruby meetups.
BlocksGlobalMemeBoxDopetracksPrincipals MarketPropertyVideos.tvAffilion EMRObWebArcane Legions
2006 — 2007
Kanpur, India

Project Associate

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  • ·Researched advanced audio compression algorithms in MATLAB, targeting formats superior to MP3.

Education

2006

PG Diploma, Embedded Systems & VLSI Design

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Noida

2004–2006

M.S. Physics (Electronics)

Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra

2001–2004

B.S. Physics (Hons.)

Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra — Director's Medal, highest marks

Tech Stack & Systems

Key Skills

Engineering Leadership & Org DesignSoftware & Platform ArchitectureAPI / Integration ArchitectureRuby on Rails (since 1.0)Enterprise Rollouts at ScaleFeature-Flagged, Risk-Managed ReleasesTeam MentorshipClient & Vendor ManagementAgile · Scrum · XPProduction Operations & Monitoring

POS Systems (30+)

Proprietary Brand POS (×5)Brink (PAR)NCR AlohaOracle Micros Simphony Gen 2Xenial OmniToastSpotOnSpeedlineNorth KeyPanasonic BPOSRevelMaitre'DFoodTecHeartland / MobileBytesRevention / HungerRushCloverSquareMicroWorksCAKELightspeed Series K4SoftUpserveFocusUnionRezkuOnePOSSuperMenuPixelPointSalidoOVVITalechTray POS

Delivery Platforms (30+)

DoorDashUber EatsGrubhubSkipTheDishesChowNowSliceDelivery DudesDeliverooDeliverLogicBentoBoxEatStreetNinefoldMixBowlMenulogFood DudesUpMenuTakeaway.comSharebiteSevenRoomsSesameRitualZupplerGoogle Food OrderingLieferandoSmood

Integrations

QuickBooksZendeskKisi Smart LocksS2 SecurityPaperCutQtrakSplash EventsWelkioConverseNow Voice AIAutonomous Robot Delivery (Uber AV)Solr Search

Infrastructure

AWS RDSFlipper Feature FlagsBulk SchedulerEnterprise Menu Pipeline

Contact

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