Pankaj Dhingra

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Gurgaon, Haryana, India22 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led transformation of Expedia's Loyalty Platform for 100+ million users.
Designed advanced Fraud Detection and Threat Detection platforms.
Expert in building high-performance teams across global organizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology leader in E-Commerce and Cyber Security with extensive experience in scalable platform architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

E-commerceCloud SolutionsCyber SecurityBig Data AnalyticsData GovernanceSoftware DevelopmentCrmFinancial ServicesRisk Management

Other Skills

API DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence and Machine LearningAsset SecurityBig DataCloud ComputingCloud SecurityCloud TechnologiesData PipelinesDesign PatternsDistributed CachingEncryptionFraud DetectionGrid ComputingHigh Performance ComputingIT Risk Management

About

Technology Leader with extensive experience in leading global cross-functional teams to architect and deliver world-class digital platforms that ensure scalability, resiliency, sustainability, and flexibility. Proven track record of innovating and solving real-world business problems in E-Commerce, Cyber Security, Enterprise Risk, Investment Banking, and CRM domains. Recognized for building and leading high-performance teams that consistently deliver exceptional results. Expertise in effectively collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to solve current issues and set future direction.

Experience

Expedia

3 roles

Principal Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 9 mos

E2E Architecture Lead for E-Commerce domain services which includes Checkout, Ordering, Risk, Payments, Loyalty, and Coupons.
Transformed the Expedia Group Loyalty Platform to allow Travellers to Earn & Burn Rewards across EG brands (Expedia, HCOM, VRBO)and any line of business (air, lodging, car, package), supporting around 100+ million users.
Designed and Delivered a world-class Fraud Detection Platform by architecting highly available services, high-scale storage solutions, data pipelines to process petabytes of data, computing 3K+ complex features in milli-seconds, training and executing hundreds of models, thousands of rules to make split-second risk decisions.
Delivered multi-tenant, highly available and scalable Multi-Item Shopping capabilities allowing travellers to purchase the ability to compare, refine, & save travel offers in one place. Integrated with other services like Supply(Air, Hotel, Car, etc.), Pricing, Recommendation, Cross Sell, Incentive, Loyalty, etc.
Developed the Corporate Information Protection Strategy for Expedia Group, to detect and protect sensitive data leaving EG environments by defining and implementing various controls to handle petabytes of data.
Delivered Threat Detection Platform to detect security threats to Expedia’s environments using Big Data, Machine Learning, AWS, NoSQL databases, and Services. Platform collected billions of security and infrastructure events/logs (5+TB/Day), processed, and applied models and rules to detect the threats. It helped reduce the mean time to detect (MTTD) from days to a couple of hours.
Migrated various platforms to the cloud to improve upon the cost and speed of delivery using cloud-native technologies, and governance policies.
Built and lead high-performance teams for Risk, MultiItem shopping, and Security Tech organisations in India.

E-CommerceFraud DetectionBig DataMachine LearningCloud TechnologiesData Pipelines+3

Software Architect

Feb 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Senior Software Development Engineer

Mar 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, india

Build scalable, highly available Global Order Repository to improve upon the performance of the Order Retrieval Service.
Migration of Legacy Coupon System to the new platform
Performance enhancements for the Coupons Service.

Microsoft india

Senior SDE

Dec 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

Technical Lead for a team of 30+ engineers to build responsive, interactive, device-independent, fully customizable, scalable, secure platform for Microsoft CRM platform (Microsoft Dynamics) using ReactJS, TypeScript, and CRM Platform.
Build a configurable, extensible UI framework using build once and deploy everywhere philosophy.

ReactJSTypeScriptCRMSoftware Development

Royal bank of scotland

3 roles

Principal Architect

Promoted

Apr 2012 – Mar 2013 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

E2E Architecture for the Market Risk Platform
Built Stress Test Framework to simulate extreme market conditions and evaluate the impact on the RBS Exposure.
Compute EAD (Exposure at Default) using MTM, Value at Risk, and Montecarlo simulations for Basel II and Basel III reporting.
Technologies – Java, Grid Computing, Distributed Computing, Coherence Cache, Sybase

Market RiskStress TestingJavaFinancial ServicesRisk Management

Tech. Lead

Oct 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Designing and Developing high performance distributed application for Credit Risk domain (Basel II) using Java/J2EE
Leading and Mentoring the teams based on different geographies.

Senior Developer

Sep 2006 – Oct 2010 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Designing and Developing high performance distributed application for Credit Risk domain (Basel II) using Java/J2EE
Leading and Mentoring the teams based on different geographies.