Pankaj Gadia

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a team to double revenue through impactful features.
Achieved significant performance boosts in data ingestion.
Designed India's first comprehensive income tax case repository.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused engineer with strong leadership in Fintech and SaaS environments.

Contact

pankaj.gadia@dpworld.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Team LeadershipJavaDesign And ArchitectQuality And Delivery

Other Skills

AlgorithmsBack-end DevelopmentCross-functional CollaborationsCustomer ServiceData StructuresEngineeringFile SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentHTMLHire and MentorKeystoneLeadershipLinux KernelLogical ApproachManagement

About

Managing tech with 9+ years of experience, currently functioning in a leadership role under the title of Group SDE 2. I lead a team of 8 backend engineers, overseeing mentoring, system architecture, and cross-functional collaboration with QA and PM teams. I still write code ~20% of the time, mostly focusing on complex modules or design-critical features. I have end-to-end tech ownership of "Trade Order Portal (TOP)".

Experience

Dp world

Group SDE II (functioning as EM)

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading a team of 8 engineers for the Trade Order Portal (TOP) – fully owned and scaled the system end-to-end from the tech side.
Delivered multiple high-impact features that led to doubling of revenue (from 11% to 21%) within months.
Led a critical cross-team initiative to resolve payload generation issues for a partner system, enabling timely go-live.
Re-architect data ingestion flow from multiple ERP systems – achieved 85% DB memory reduction, 30% performance boost.
Continuously engaged with QAs, PMs, and business stakeholders to align on delivery, quality, and business impact.

Team LeadershipDesign and ArchitectQuality and deliveryJavakafkaredis+4

Pharmeasy

3 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Worked on Market Place model and Ads on Search

Team LeadershipDesign and ArchitectQuality and deliveryHire and MentorJavakafka+4

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Worked on Search Semantics. Imporved search results considering Availability of the products.

Design and ArchitectQuality and deliveryJavakafkaredissql+2

Software Engineer

May 2019 – Apr 2020 · 11 mos

Developed and optimised search relevance for typeahead search queries.
Designed the system to cater 9K rpm throughput with 20ms average search response time.
Improved null searches by 35%.

Quality and deliveryJavakafkaredissqlnoSql+1

Logicwind

Javascript Developer

Feb 2018 – Dec 2018 · 10 mos · Surat Area, India

Designed and developed https://www.itatorders.in, the only website in India with repository of over 3.25L income tax cases with free subscription for professional CAs.

Quality and deliveryJavakafkaredissqlnoSql+1

Samsung research india -noida

Engineer

Jul 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida

Changed the workflow of CFQ IO request scheduler from nested RB- tree to Queue based implementation and obtained 5% improvement. Submitted in Samsung Best paper award.
Improved 30% android performance by bypassing system JOURNAL.

Quality and delivery