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Mohan Kumar Pandian

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 21+ years of experience in tech leadership.
  • Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
  • Proven track record in eCommerce and cloud-native applications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce architect with extensive experience in distributed systems and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Tech Strategy/roadmapData EngineeringDistributed SystemsWeb Applications

Other Skills

AJAXAgile MethodologiesAntCSSCassandraCloud cost optimisationE2E systems architectureHTMLJSONJavaJavaScriptMobile ApplicationsMonolith to MicroservicesMultithreadingPHP

About

A tech leader with 21+ years of experience on various distributed platforms & technologies with startups and product companies including POP, Databricks, DealShare, Flipkart, WhistleTalk (Social media based recruiting Startup - co founding team member), Citrix (NetScaler) & Lucent. • > 10 years of eCommerce experience in B2C & B2B segments on entire shopping and fulfilment systems with scale and innovation • ~12 years of rich experience in distributed online consumer facing applications/services • Built 4-5 full fledged products entirely from scratch with very lean teams in different companies • Built multiDC, hybrid, cloud native applications with first principles • Broke monoliths into micro services quite a few times • Providing technology roadmap/strategy to leadership/CXOs • Strong experience in solving and maintaining NFRs around availability, resiliency, scalability, performance, latency, security, maintainability, agility etc • Solved for a very high scale of a few million requests per second (QPS/RPS) at ultra low latency of sub 100 ms at P90th. • Good experience in leading team through full product cycle (requirements, design, development, deployment) using agile methodology as well as in end-to-end product development (client to DB) • Proven record of being a good team player, setting up stage for juniors, mentoring and growing them in their career ladder. • OSS Contributor! Specialties: Architecting, Designing distributed systems, Product Development (Java), converting fuzzy business/product problems into tech blueprint of distributed systems, platformisation, solving for HLD, LLD and executing with the team. Owning production at 4 9s uptime, total cost optimisation etc. Scale expert. Immense experience in NFRs including availability, resiliency, performance for FK scale. Distributed multi DC applications specialist. Databases (Relation & NoSQL) and other technologies: HBase, Elastic Search, Redis, MongoDB, Aerospike, MySQL, Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark, Storm, Kubernetes, Cloud Native, CI/CD, AWS, GCP, Spring Boot, Vertx, Micronaut, Dropwizard, Fibers/Quasar, Mage.AI, Redshift, Superset, Redash etc Web Application (Java, Node JS, Perl, PHP, JS, HTTP, REST, JSON, HTML, CSS) Web Application Security Expertise Mobile Application (Android, IOS apps using Titanium) Networking domain GUI Design & Development

Experience

Pop

Tech Leader

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Databricks

Senior Staff Software Engineer

May 2025Oct 2025 · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Part of Core Experiences team leading the growth, retention, engagement, platform scalability charters in Databricks

Dealshare

Senior Principal Architect

May 2022Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • DealShare focuses on enabling lower and middle income segments of India to access curated selection at best prices focussing mainly on grocery category with an unique and cost efficient business model that's omni channel (with strong online and offline presence)
  • Building the tech strategy for DealShare to achieve its vision as well as executing along with a very lean team of 30+ developers, owning the E2E architecture of DealShare.
  • Modernising and modularising the supply chain platform (OMS, IMS, WMS, Logistics/FirstMile/LastMile etc)
  • Modernising the entire data engineering platform using standard OSS technologies
  • Building a CI/CD pipeline with environment and test automation to improve dev productivity.
  • Building new platforms on merchandising, discounting, pricing, catalog etc to enable higher business agility.
  • Solved availability, resiliency and reliability issues of DealShare B2C/B2B apps and various other internal apps/panels etc.
  • Optimised cloud costs to be lower than industry standards (a fraction of GMV). Improved the security posture.
  • Fast tracked the migration from monolith to micro services architecture. Owns all NFRs of all channels. Manages 70+ micro services with a lean team of 30+ developers.
Data EngineeringCloud cost optimisationMonolith to MicroservicesTech strategy/roadmapSupply Chain ManagementSystems Reliability/Availability/Performance+1

Flipkart

3 roles

Senior Architect

Jan 2020May 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • • 7+ years of experience in Flipkart on various teams (API layer, Core Platform's Distributed Services, Marketing Tech, Catalog, Shopsy/ACE). Designed, implemented and scaled high-throughput, low-latency user path systems, reliable offline batch processing system, solved for catalog of > 400 million products. Built Shopsy grounds-up with Alternate Commerce Experience (ACE) team with a single goal of taking eCommerce to next 500 million Indians via partner commerce, group buying, influencer commerce, social commerce, video commerce, recommerce etc via Shopsy. OSS Contributor!

Architect

Promoted

Jul 2017Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • ­ Solving the catalog for > 100 million products ensuring correctness, completeness.

Software Development Engineer IV

Sep 2014Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Scaled distributed services in user path to million requests per second (to handle top of the funnel in e-commerce conversion funnel).
  • ­ Owned the public facing API layer which aggregates data from 100s of distributed services. Handled billions of user sessions with a few millisecond latency.
  • ­ Re-architected a 5 years old marketing technology to publish inventory changes to partners like Facebook,
  • Google etc. Highly reliable and horizontally scalable system to handle > 100 million products and > 40 million updates every day.
  • ­ Took part in various org wide initiatives like DC migration, Hackathon, Architecture Review Boards.
  • ­ Active Interview panelist in machine coding, problem solving, design and architecture rounds for SDE III and Architect roles.
  • ­ Mentored and grew a bunch of team members from SDE I to SDE II to SDE III.

Whistletalk

Architect

Jun 2012Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Ideating, Designing, Implementing, Maintaining WhistleTalk - which is a collaborative crowd sourcing web application that enables friends to share current openings in their respective companies and make intelligent career moves.WhistleTalk amplifies the power of referral hiring by leveraging the wisdom of many. WhistleTalk’s matching and virality engine ensures that right opportunities reach the best candidates fast.
  • Architected a distributed cloud-based web application targeting enterprise & high volume consumers. Designed & implemented a highly scalable architecture using server side JAVA, thin client side single-page JavaScript, light-weight Android, IOS apps using Titanium & clustered storage Cassandra DB with a team of very few developers (WhistleTalk).

Citrix systems

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2007Jun 2012 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Part of manageability team in NetScaler product group.
  • Strong experience in developing management stacks to configure and monitor different network management systems & application delivery systems.

Alcatel-lucent

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2004Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Worked for Optical Network Management System group in Lucent Technologies.

Hcl technologies

Software Engineer

Jul 2004Dec 2004 · 5 mos

Education

College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai

B.E — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2004

St.John Bosco Matric Hr. Sec. School

H.S.C

Jan 1986Jan 2000

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