Swapnil Gupta

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key 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
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Engineering Leader with expertise in SDK development and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipSoftware ManagementAndroid DevelopmentSdk Development

Other Skills

Agile Application DevelopmentAndroid SDKAndroid StudioBackbone.jsCCoachingCoaching & MentoringComputer ScienceCore JavaData AnalyticsDigital Signal ProcessingHTMLJSPJavaKotlin

About

"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).

Experience

Toast

Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · बेंगालुरू, कर्नाटक, भारत · On-site

  • Leading the away Android team for the Enterprise Business at Toast.
Engineering ManagementSoftware DesignSoftware ArchitectureProject ManagementTechnical LeadershipTeam Leadership+1

Zeta

3 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2023Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Grew the team from 6 engineers to 10 engineers.
  • Worked closely with devs and setup process to improve the quality of deliverables ( PR quality, unit testing, SOLID principles)
  • Reduced the cost of Bigquery by 80%+.
  • Improved the payments funnel success rate by 3%.
  • Led team to build solution for Autopay.
  • Built Delegate payments for PayZapp.
  • Improved payments P90 performance by 50%.
Software ManagementSoftware Product ManagementOverseeing ProjectsSystems DesignCoachingcareer growth+4

Lead Software Engineer

Jan 2021Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Analytics SDK:
  • As a lead I mentored engineers to fix the current vulnerabilities in the analytics SDK to achieve a higher SLA. Use Firebase as a reference to measure the efficacy of the fixes.
  • Observability of SDKs:
  • Worked with a team of engineers to create a product to enable observability of different SDKs owned by various teams across the org.
  • Performance enhancements:
  • Worked to improve the thread-pool strategy in our modules to get better throughput.
  • Mentored engineers to improve the startup time and resolve UI thread blocking issues at various places in the codebase.
  • Mentoring:
  • a) Continuously mentoring the new hires in the team. Helping them ramp up with the necessary domain knowledge. I also have three engineers directly reporting to me. My responsibility is to keep them engaged in meaningful work ensuring that they are excited about what they do and execute with great ownership.
  • b) Promoting using Kotlin as the default language to be used for Android. Helping team with the correct material to scale up.
JavaAndroid DevelopmentSDK developmentKotlin CoroutinesKotlinMultithreading

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • User Authentication Manager:
  • The mobile solutions built at Zeta involves multiple user login scenarios because of the Financial Institutions coming into the picture. Worked on architecting and writing the user authentication module that can help manage authentication for multiple users in the same application.
  • Cards SDK:
  • Wrote and shipped the first-ever SDK to external clients. Cards SDK helps developers to enable their users to securely fetch, store and display card details in a mobile application. Currently, there are 15+ clients who are using this SDK and we have clients like PostPe, Junio and Fampay.
  • Sim Binding User Session:
  • Architected and implemented the sim binding during the SSO step.
  • Hiring:
  • Involved in hiring mobile engineering resources at various levels for teams across the organisation.
JavaAndroid DevelopmentSDK developmentAndroid StudioAndroid SDKKotlin Coroutines+1

Musicmuni labs private limited

Architect and Android Lead

Dec 2016May 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • As a founding partner in the company, took the responsibility to build and maintain the entire Android application. Wrote the core audio engine, custom views showing real-time feedback triggered with different audio features computed in real-time. Working closely with the product manager, worked on steering the product week on week with release cycles as short as 1 week. Designed and deployed A/B experiments with inputs from the product team. Spoke to customers on a regular basis to mine the problems faced by them and contributing to the next steps for the product.

Music technology group

2 roles

Mobile Developer

Promoted

Sep 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Developing product for music education leveraging technology.

Research Assistant

Jan 2015Aug 2015 · 7 mos

Ivy comptech

2 roles

Software Engineer

Dec 2012Aug 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Javascript, Java, SQL developer

Trainee Engineer

Jun 2012Nov 2012 · 5 mos

Iiit hyderabad

Research Assistant

Dec 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked as research assistant for Center for IT in Education

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

BTech. — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Master's Degree — Sound and Music Computing

Jan 2014Jan 2015

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