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Pawan Saran

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led engineering at ParkStash, impacting 50+ partners.
  • Revamped features for 100k+ daily drivers at Motive.
  • Expert in mobile architecture and backend development.
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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentMobile ArchitectureIos DevelopmentData EngineeringUi DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentMobile Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAndroidAndroid DevelopmentApache DruidApache SparkApache SupersetArtificial Intelligence (AI)CC++CI/CDCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Competitive ProgrammingComputational PhysicsComputer Networking

About

As a software engineer with over 7 years of hands-on experience, I've had the privilege of building and scaling impactful software across startups and large-scale enterprises. My journey has spanned the full stack—from backend infrastructure and mobile apps to CI/CD pipelines and system observability. Currently, I lead engineering at ParkStash as Chief Software Architect, where I architect end-to-end systems, build products used by 50+ enforcement partners, and oversee engineering operations to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance. Notable milestones include integrating real-time License Plate Recognition (LPR), building a custom camera monitoring service, and implementing infrastructure automation that reduced downtime by 90%. Prior to this, I contributed significantly to the Motive Fleet App and Driver App, revamping mission-critical features used by 100K+ drivers daily. I led initiatives such as implementing Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM), redesigning inspection flows with zero rollout bugs, and boosting feature parity between Android and iOS. I’ve also worked at Flipkart and Samsung R&D, gaining foundational experience in big data pipelines, distributed systems, and performance-critical embedded UI frameworks. 🔧 Technical Strengths: iOS (Swift, MVVM, MVVM-C), Flutter, Backend (Node.js, Python), Infra (CI/CD, Docker, GCP), Mobile Architecture, System Design, KMM, DevOps practices 🚀 What drives me: Building robust products that scale with impact, mentoring engineering teams, and finding elegant solutions to complex technical challenges. 📬 I’m always open to connecting with fellow engineers, founders, and teams building the next generation of software. Feel free to reach out!

Experience

Motive

Senior iOS Developer

Nov 2021Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · India · Remote

  • Completely revamped the Driver Inspection Report flow which is used daily by 100k+ drivers daily. The revamp lead to a much simpler UI and resulting in significant increase in customer retention. No bugs were reported in the rollout of this huge change which was seen as a milestone in the company's development efforts.
  • Led the development of Third Signature Feature on the Driver App which was a urgently need compliance requirement for 100+ Canadian Customers.
  • Lead the effort to support Local Caching of Notifications on the Motive Fleet App which led to significant increase in the usage of the fleet app thereby increasing the upselling of company's products via Fleet App.
  • Adapted Kotiln Multiplatform Mobile(KMM) in order to speed up the development cycle and enable business logic sharing with the Android App. This resulted in a steep increase in the development speed for iOS and android apps.
  • Transitioned the Motive Fleet App from Legacy UI to TabBar.
  • Implemented Deeplinking for various flows in the Fleet App.
  • Created a generic WebView component which is being reused across the App for multiple flows.
Kotlin Multiplatform MobileUI DesignLocal CachingDeeplinkingMobile ArchitectureiOS Development

Parkstash

Co-Founder and Chief Software Architect

Jun 2020Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Remote · Remote

  • I have been working at ParkStash since the past 5 years. Over this time, I have contributed to various aspects of the product as well as led a team of Developers working on the different products. Here are few of my contributions -
  • Developed the ParkStash Enforcer App which is used by 50+ customers for Parking Enforcement at their sites.
  • Added License Plate Recognition on the ParkStash Enforcer App which was a huge game changer for our customers as it led to a significant increase in the productivity of Enforcers at the sites.
  • Setup the ParkStash Cloud Infrastructure and monitoring for Downtimes. Added scheduled maintenance which led to 95% reduction in downtime of services.
  • Developed a backend service that monitors the live status of various cameras, services as well as health of Virtual Machines.
  • Created CI/CD pipelines for all the ParkStash Codebases leading to reduction in time to production release.
  • Made the ParkStash Code Contribution rules, thereby increasing the uniformity and quality of code.
  • Redesigned and added new features to the ParkStash iOS App.
  • Refactored substantial parts of the App from MVC to MVVM.
  • Removed a large number of dependencies and replaced them with custom solutions.
  • Found and fixed a number of potential security issues.
  • Wrote unit tests for important business logic as required.
License Plate RecognitionCI/CDBackend DevelopmentInfrastructure AutomationMobile App DevelopmentMobile Architecture

Flipkart

SDE-1

Sep 2019Jun 2020 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Flipkart Search Team
  • Sole owner of User Feedback Data Project. This involved writing spark jobs to get cleaned data from HDFS, enriching the data, ingesting it into Apache Druid and data visualization on Apache Superset.
  • Worked on the backend for Flipkart’s in-house Search Quality Analysis tool.
SparkApache DruidData VisualizationData Engineering

Samsung r&d delhi

Software Engineer

Jul 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Samsung Research Institute- Delhi develops emerging solutions for high-end televisions and digital media products.
  • I worked as part of EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) team in Graphics Division. EFL are a set of open source graphics libraries which provide the UI-Toolkit for applications on Samsung's Tizen Platform.
  • I was responsible for-
  • Developing new UI Widgets for Flexible Layout
  • Integration of new requirements in Debugging and Graphics Performance Monitoring Tools
EFLUI Development

Goodera

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2018Jun 2018 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Goodera offers innovative solutions to companies for managing their CSR activities.
  • I worked as a part of the dashboarding team. Goodera provides its clients with websites where they can monitor their CSR Activities . Our team was in charge of making Dashboards where the Data on the CSR activities was shown.
  • JS, HTML and CSS along with other JS based libraries like C3JS were used to design the frontend of the websites to make them interactive and easy to use for the client .
  • I developed multiple dashboards for various clients like IGL,Paypal,RB etc.
JavaScriptHTMLCSSFrontend Development

Samsung r&d institute delhi

Software Engineer Intern

May 2017Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Samsung Research Institute- Delhi develops emerging solutions for high-end televisions and digital media products.
  • I worked as a part of Smart-View SDK development team.
  • I developed an android sender app which connects to and displays the phone information on Samsung smart TV.
  • I also developed the frontend for android app which connects to a Samsung Smart TV and shows all the requests and messages sent to the TV.
Android DevelopmentMobile Development

Csir-ceeri

Summer Intern

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Pilani

  • Worked on a summer project in Gyrotron Lab, CSIR-CEERI Pilani.
  • The project was on the thermal and electrical design and simulation of 0.5 Tesla electromagnet to be used in Gyrotron-MIG (Magnetron Injection Gun).
  • Did the electrical and thermal simulation and design on FEMM (Finite Element Method Magnetics) and COMSOL-Multiphysics respectively.
  • Behavior of the electromagnet with regard to flow rate, initial temperature , current density, etc. was simulated and studied.

Bose institute

Participant

Dec 2015Jan 2016 · 1 mo · Darjiling Area, India

  • Was selected as one of the participants in WAPP-2015 (Winter School on Astro-particle physics) organised jointly by Bose institute and TIFR (Tata Institute of fundamental research). It was a 10 Day training programme with lectures in the morning and experiments in the evening. Experiments were mainly on astronomical instrumentation like detector design and software interfacing, signal processing, error estimation.etc. while the lectures were on a wide variety of topics ranging from particle physics to cosmology.

Iucaa, pune, india

Summer Intern

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Worked on a project entitled "A review of the theory of evolution of protoplanetary discs". The project was mainly theoretical and involved the application of fluid mechanics and accretion theory to understand and explain the known information we have about protoplanetary discs.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2018

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Science (M.Sc.) — Physics

Jan 2013Jan 2018

SICA Senior Secondary School No.2

High School

Jan 2011Jan 2013

St.Paul H.S. School

High School

Jan 1998Jan 2011

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