Pranav Khambayatkar

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in developing scalable SaaS cloud products.
  • Proven leadership in fintech and blockchain sectors.
  • Strong advocate for engineering best practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with a strong focus on engineering leadership.

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About

Seasoned Executive Engineering Leader with extensive experience in the software engineering industry, specializing in SaaS cloud products. Expertise in developing highly scalable, performant, and resilient software platforms for B2B and B2C markets across various sectors, including: - Mobile Device Management - US Capital Infrastructure - Stock Broking - Fintech - Blockchain Key Strengths: - Full stack hands-on engineering and software architecture - Technical leadership focused on continuous learning and scaling the teams/products - Advocate for best engineering practices and high-quality standards - Customer-centric approach with strong empathy Leadership Philosophy: - Foster productive environments that maximize team potential - Prioritize quality over quantity - Align team efforts with common vision to positively impact customers "Leadership is about taking people along to achieve the common vision and creating a real value for our customers."

Experience

Fyers

3 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

  • As a CTO, I set up the company's technological framework, architecture, and overall engineering delivery strategy.
  • I am also responsible for ensuring that the company’s tech stack is not only efficient and innovative but also aligns with broader business objectives and regulatory requirements. This role requires a mix of tech & engineering expertise, leadership skills, and strategic vision with the "AI First" culture keeping the customers at the centre of stage!

Chief Engineering Officer

Promoted

Jan 2024Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • As a Chief Engineering Officer (CNO) at Fyers; I lead the entire tech and engineering teams across our product suite. I oversee technology-related aspects, focusing on engineering strategy, innovation, and technical leadership. Much excited to balance the stability and innovations for the cutting-edge tech-enabled products & platforms curated for our customers.
  • My role also includes building a top-notch engineering team that believes in the quote: 'Develop it today but build it for tomorrow'!!

Senior Vice President (SVP) of Engineering

Mar 2023Feb 2024 · 11 mos

  • Fyers is a bootstrapped and profitable fintech startup offering a stable and reliable platform to trade efficiently in the Indian stock markets. Our products provide a secured gateway to Investing - Invest/trade in stocks, F&O, ETFs, MFs, Currencies & Commodities across NSE, BSE, MCX.
  • We are building tech products ranging from FYERS Web, Mobile App, Desktop, and many more in the fin-tech domain. FYERS is a perfect collaboration of state-of-the-art technology, dynamic professionals, and best-in-class services to meet the client's expectations.

Repute network

VP & Head of Engineering

Apr 2022Mar 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Repute is a deep tech organisation working on Trust based Open Digital Ecosystem. We build trust and reputation management platform and products using Blockchain on the cloud.
  • Our ecosystem helps businesses and individuals exchange data , perform transactions , and share data and insights directly with each other, in a secure manner, and without any 3rd party intervention.
  • We use 'Hyperledger Fabric', an open source Blockchain platform to build decentralised data network that provides 'data-as-a-service' capabilities with app building protocols. Applications are developed using the platform that leverages the power of blockchain to cater both B2B and B2C market segments as the marketplace.

Matchmove

VP of Engineering

Jun 2021Apr 2022 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • MatchMove is a Singapore Headquartered Global Digital Payments SaaS start-up that's changing how money moves for Spend, Send, Lend, Defend & Ascend financial ecosystem.
  • We are building a world-class fintech platform using advanced cloud and mobile technologies to enable fast, secure, and regulated money-moving experiences for the end-users of our clients and partners.
  • Our Technology and Engineering team is focused on building the next generation of embedded Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) & Fintech-as-a-Service (FaaS), for all types of organizations, from every segment of the economy.
  • The product offerings include multi-tenanted APIs, SDKs, and white-labeled web & mobile applications for both B2B and B2C customer segments.

Aurigo software technologies

Senior Director & Head of Engineering

Jan 2019Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • I head the entire product engineering business unit, team of developers, architects, senior tech managers, program managers, quality & automation engineers at Aurigo’s global development center, Bangalore. My team works on the core Masterworks SAAS platform, APIs layer, Infrastructure on AWS, and mobile application products of Aurigo. I am responsible for ensuring the platform and the products are built in the right way and delivered to customers with the topmost quality.
  • Leading the core product innovations, delivery, mission-critical integrated products, and setting up the best in class high-quality engineering culture.
  • Hiring and nurturing the talent. Responsible for the product business unit budgeting and setting up the technology & product vision.

Kickdrum

Director of Engineering

Jan 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Key areas of influence:
  • Set up the best in class engineering team from the scratch
  • Hands on engineering and architect to deliver the best quality products
  • Estimates in the form of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) for the technical delivery of engineering work
  • Technical design documents depicting the technical architecture and/or direction to be taken for the software engineering on a project, product or POC (Proof of Concept)
  • Leading and representing the Kickdrum technical team that interfaces with the client project team members including project sponsors, working team members, subject matter experts, and others
  • Interfacing and communicating client requirements with Kickdrum internal and/or software development partners so that the software can be designed and developed per requirements
  • Creating a Hiring Plan for the India Team as per the highest quality bar
  • Recruiting top-notch team members according to the Hiring Plan. Interviewing and vetting candidates
  • Mentoring and providing growth paths and opportunities for technical team members
  • Engineering culture building and best practices automation/enforcement.
  • Engineering business growth opportunities in India

Fiberlink communications (acquired by ibm)

5 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

May 2014Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Designed and developed a Cloud-based "Online Trials" experience for MDM products from the scratch. Became the fastest SaaS-based user experience for the outbound sales strategy of the business.
  • Hands-on coding with various frontend and backend technologies with performance, scalability, and reliability optimizations.
  • Online Payment gateways integration using credit/debit cards for services.
  • Localization/Internationalization of products.
  • Integration with third-party vendors like SFDC (SalesForce Dot Com) and Eloqua (Lead generation tool used by marketing)
  • Performance and Scalability of web applications via horizontal scaling and modern open source technologies like Apache Solr, JMS like ActiveMQ, Kafka, Load Balancers, Memcached, Apache ignite, etc.
  • Strengthened developmental methodologies by introducing code quality concepts, continuous deployments, and speedy product releases with "Daily Dose" (Daily production deployment for)
  • Imbibe SOA within the current system to have modular and parallel frontend/backend development
  • Working with a PSR (Performance, Scalability, and Reliability) team for decisions on architectural components. Closely working with DevOps team for “Infrastructure as a code” process improvements.
  • Managing multiple engineering teams to deliver quality products and led major product releases across all the instances in the globe.
  • Effective people management including appraisals, hiring and promotions.

Engineering Manager

May 2014Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Technical Lead

Promoted

Jun 2013Apr 2014 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2010May 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Working on design and development of online services platform softwares.

Software Engineer

Dec 2006Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Working on design and implementation of MDM products and management platform core functionality.
  • Comprehensive web applications design and development using rich web technologies.

Lsi logic

Associate Software Engineer

Apr 2006Nov 2006 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked as an intern at LSI logic, Bangalore in Firmware programming. Designed and implemented DVB (Digital Video Broadcast) EPG (Electronic Program Guide) using C, C++ for Japanese electronic market-space.

Mahindra and mahindra limited [automotive, farm equipment and agri business]

Associate Software Developer

May 2004Jul 2004 · 2 mos · Nagpur Area, India

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Masters in Physics — Computer Science

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