Pritam Gembali

Director of Engineering

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India10 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led automation reducing manual effort in cryptocurrency accounting.
  • Drove latency improvements achieving sub-second response times.
  • Managed cross-functional teams for secure digital asset custody.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with strong expertise in cryptocurrency and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

CryptocurrencyEngineering ManagementStakeholder Management

Other Skills

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Angular 2Apache SparkEclipseEngineering LeadershipGWTGitGo (Programming Language)HTMLJavaJavaScriptMicrosoft AzureMongoDBMySQL

Experience

Go

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos · On-site

  • Working at a leading cryptocurrency firm listed on NYSE which specialises in asset custody and other services. The name of the company has been hidden to keep it confidential
  • Led automation of balance reconciliation for client accounting assets — reducing manual effort and improving accuracy in identifying discrepancies.
  • Drove platform-wide latency improvements, bringing P99 response times below 1 second, through focused performance optimization initiatives.
  • Reduced wallet confirmation times after signing from 30 minutes to under 1 minute by identifying system bottlenecks and coordinating cross-team fixes.
  • Led enhancements to wallet infrastructure across EVM, Solana, Tron, and Aptos, cutting gas fees, improving smart contract functionality, and boosting reliability.
  • Directed development of a self-serve recovery system for misrouted assets, enabling users to recover over $2M in assets without manual intervention.
  • Improved transaction concurrency across 50+ blockchain protocols, significantly increasing throughput and platform scalability.
  • Reduced Support tickets by addressing various core problems, Improving customer satisfaction
CryptocurrencySmart ContractsEngineering ManagementEngineering Leadership

Engineering Manager

Sep 2024Jul 2025 · 10 mos · On-site

  • I currently lead engineering initiatives focused on building secure and scalable infrastructure for digital asset custody and wallet management.
  • My work involves designing and maintaining high-assurance systems that support multi-chain transactions, improving MPC-based wallet services, and ensuring seamless client integrations.
  • I collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across product, compliance, and security to enhance reliability, regulatory compliance, and performance in handling large-scale institutional crypto operations
  • Promoted to Senior Engineering Manager within 9 months of joining
CryptocurrencySmart Contracts

Hyperverge

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Led a full-stack engineering team through the complete lifecycle of designing, building, and scaling complex distributed systems. I was responsible for the team's roadmap, execution, and collaboration with cross-functional partners, while fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
  • My team's key achievements included:
  • Building and scaling Orion, our primary face-based fraud detection platform. I guided the architecture and launch into new markets (India, ASEAN, Africa) and new use cases, including identity verification for clients like Rapido and Swiggy.
  • Creating Thomas, a resilient API orchestrator that served as the backbone for managing external vendors. I championed this project to improve uptime and provide a no-code workflow engine for internal teams, enhancing operational efficiency.
  • Transforming a custom project into a core product. I managed the team responsible for the MasterDB face recognition stack for a key client, and then led the strategic initiative to spin it off into Orion, our reusable, general-purpose recognition service.
Stakeholder Management

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Apr 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Orion.
  • A distributed system to identify fraud based on face deduplication. We're helping partners by identifying intent to fraud which is very prevalent in Vietnam and south east asian markets. Come join us in building the next gen fintech products
  • Digital kyc products: SEA.
  • Presence in multiple countries(Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia) and different modules: OCR and face-id verification.

Fourkites, inc.

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2020Apr 2020 · 2 mos

  • Air tracking:
  • Designed and developed a service to track commercial air tracking shipments across different stages as part of multimodal offering by fourkites(factory to doorstep tracking). Was involved in designing this leg of the tracking service from scratch
  • Developed/Managed a lot of core platform functionalities to enable multi modal tracking including air.

Software Developer

Mar 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Lane Connect:
  • Designed and developed a scalable solution for optimising supply chains by identifying backhaul
  • opportunities across other companies in United states and Europe.
  • Designed a self healing route maps matrix for evaluating supply chain networks.
  • Designed and developed a data pipeline orchestrator which handles data from a data warehouse
  • and multiple micro-services.
  • Developed a monitoring and alerting mechanism for the data pipeline to increase visibility.
  • Marketplace:
  • Implemented a same day/ hour based matching of trucks and loads to bring more flexibility in
  • matching.
  • Implemented a scalable IFTTT like feature in matching algorithm where users can mix and match
  • and create workflows on their own.
  • Recommendation engine using neo4j (graph db) to identify potential collaboration opportunities.
  • which later matured and was developed as lane connect.
  • did a POC to optimise matches between loads and trucks for minimum deadhead cost and maximise
  • potential savings in a shipper network using Hungarian algorithm.

Unmetric

Software Developer

Jun 2015Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Unmetric Discover:
  • Responsible for creation of end to end modules which enabled users to share and comment on content with users within and outside the app using Google Web Toolkit framework
  • Developed a logic to find and show engaging content on the home feed to users based on their preferences from millions of pieces of content by making use of Apache Solr
  • Unmetric Analyse:
  • Developed an automated reporting tool which would generate a report on demand
  • Decreased latency in various modules by query optimisation in the backend and better memory
  • management
  • Unmetric Brand Index:
  • Developed an application which showcases statistics in the form of graphs and charts about world’s
  • top 100 brands usage of different social media platforms

Mahindra & mahindra

Research Internship

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu.

  • Developed a mathematical model simulation of a fuel tank using MATLAB Simulink which replaced a CFD simulation software and reduced the runtime of 5 days to 3 minutes.
  • Flow network analysis of back pressure of automotive mufflers with temperature gradient using Matlab which a CFD simulation software and a reduced runtime of 5 days to 2 minutes.
  • Developed a new algorithm to calculate the backpressure considering a temperature gradient
  • Was offered a Pre­Placement offer based on my performance in the internship.

Visakhapatnam steel plant

Summer Internship

May 2013Jun 2013 · 1 mo · Vishakhapatnam Area, India

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Visakha Valley School - India

Jan 2005Jan 2009

Little Angels School

Jan 1998Jan 2005

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