Swapnil Gupta — Engineering Manager
"To be able to lead with mindfullness and feeling of oneness is the greatest gift for a leader" and I am on a journey towards realising this. Swapnil is an engineering leader with an overall experience of 12+ years. He is currently based out of Bangalore(Bengaluru). He is focused on building happy and high-performing teams that focus on quality, scalability, and observability for payment products. He takes pride in enabling his team to continuously learn and challenge the status quo. Currently, Swapnil is managing the payments team for PayZapp (UPI + payments gateway). PayZapp is a payment app from HDFC Bank with over 15M+ downloads combined on Android and iOS. PayZapp processes over 5000+cr INR of transactions per month, ensuring security, convenience, and customer delight. Swapnil has experience in managing small to medium-sized teams for over 2 years now. During his stint at Zeta, he has transformed from an individual contributor in the mobile platform team to managing a small team of engineers. While managing the mobile platform team, he has contributed to building, shipping, and maintaining platform products for SDK authentication, analytics, theming, and many more. With the current stint, Swapnil has worked with his team to improve the funnel success rate, improve the performance, improve observability, and improve the software design to ensure the scalability of the payments module. Overall, Swapnil is an engineering leader with strong fundamentals in computer science and software development. His motto is to build teams and enable them to grow by cultivating an environment of continuous learning and challenging the status quo. Topmate - https://topmate.io/swapnil_gupta89 Featured posts: Leading with mindfulness: https://medium.com/@swapnilgupta.iiith/leading-with-mindfulness-a-journey-of-oneness-and-service-587d1ddd43bb Handling exceptions with Coroutines like a pro: https://medium.com/@swapnilgupta.iiith/handle-exceptions-like-a-pro-with-coroutines-6143064fdb16 Side Kicks * Built a personalised voice notification app for an NGO using voice cloning technology (GenAI).
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Engineering Leader with expertise in SDK development and team management.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 13 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Engineering Management
- Technical Leadership
- Software Management
- Android Development
- Sdk Development
Career Highlights
- Led a team to improve payments performance by 50%
- Transformed from individual contributor to engineering manager
- Built SDKs used by 15+ clients in the fintech space
Work Experience
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Software Engineering Manager (6 mos)
Zeta
Software Engineering Manager (2 yrs 2 mos)
Lead Software Engineer (2 yrs 5 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)
Musicmuni Labs Private Limited
Architect and Android Lead (2 yrs 5 mos)
Music Technology Group
Mobile Developer (1 yr 2 mos)
Research Assistant (7 mos)
Ivy Comptech
Software Engineer (1 yr 8 mos)
Trainee Engineer (5 mos)
IIIT Hyderabad
Research Assistant (1 yr)
Education
BTech. at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Master's Degree at Universitat Pompeu Fabra