Dheeraj Panangat — Software Engineer

Highly accomplished Principal Software & Data Engineer / Software Architect / Engineering Manager with 13+ years of experience driving large-scale software development in the Banking, Travel, and high-throughput Messaging/Marketing domains. I specialise in designing, implementing, and optimising backend and data engineering solutions, with over 5 years of significant contributions to architectural and design decisions, DevOps transformation, and strategic technical roadmaps. I am adept at building scalable, high-throughput, and resilient distributed systems with a zero-tolerance for errors. My focus is leading technical excellence and driving impactful innovation in an international corporate environment. Core Expertise Data & Streaming: Architecting Customer Data Platforms (CDP), Real-Time Segmentation Engines , Apache Flink and Kafka data pipelines, and implementing Data Lakehouses (Apache Hudi). Architecture & Cloud: Strategic Microservice Migration, Cloud-Agnostic strategies (AWS/Azure) , Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) , and establishing resilient common frameworks. DevOps & Standardisation: Developed and championed common Helm charts and GitLab CI/CD pipelines. Proficient in Python and Java , with frameworks like Spring Webflux and Quarkus. Here are the results I've delivered: Infrastructure Cost Reduction: Achieved significant infrastructure cost reductions (20-30% in specific areas) , including saving over $50K annually by replacing expensive managed services with self-hosted Kafka, Minio, and Redis in non-production environments. Performance at Scale: Engineered real-time Flink jobs to evaluate customer events against millions of filters, sending trigger messages with sub-second latency (avg. 200ms). Developed high-volume applications to send marketing campaigns to up to 50M users/day. Developer Efficiency: Drove architectural standardization by creating reusable parent/common libraries that enforced coding standards across 8+ engineering teams, accelerating deployment frequency by 35%. Migration Success: Drove the strategic Microservice Migration for a critical middleware application at JPMorgan. Also, reduced vendor lock-in risk by 90% by pioneering cloud-agnostic strategies and developing generic multi-cloud access libraries.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Fintech and MarTech.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 13 yrs

Skills

Architecture
Data & Streaming

Career Highlights

Achieved 20-30% infrastructure cost reductions.
Engineered real-time Flink jobs with sub-second latency.
Drove architectural standardization across 8+ teams.

Work Experience

Gupshup

Principal Software Engineer (1 yr 9 mos)

Lead Software Engineer (1 yr 11 mos)

Priceline

Development Manager (2 mos)

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 8 mos)

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Associate (1 yr 10 mos)

Application Developer (1 yr)

ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE LIMITED

Staff Consultant (1 yr 11 mos)

Associate Consultant (1 yr 11 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at St. Francis Institute Of Technology

Higher Secondary Education at Thakur College of Science & Commerce

SSC at Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Vidyalaya

Dheeraj Panangat

Software Engineer

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India13 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Achieved 20-30% infrastructure cost reductions.
Engineered real-time Flink jobs with sub-second latency.
Drove architectural standardization across 8+ teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Fintech and MarTech.

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Skills

Core Skills

ArchitectureData & Streaming

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache FlinkApache SparkArchitectural StandardsBehavior-Driven Development (BDD)Cloud FoundryCommunicationCore Banking ApplicationsData EngineeringDistributed SystemsGitHelmInfrastructure OptimizationJIRA

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Experience

Gupshup

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

Spearheaded LLD and HLD for strategic modules including the Customer Data Platform (CDP), Real-time Segmentation of Customers, and Real-time Automated Campaigns.
Directed Infrastructure Optimisations and Development Standardisation across multiple engineering teams.
Received the PathFinder award by the CTO for optimizing applications & infrastructure, and achieving required scale (2024).

Distributed SystemsKafkaInfrastructure OptimizationTechnical LeadershipArchitectureData & Streaming

Lead Software Engineer

Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Remote

Engineered real-time Flink jobs for a Marketing Engine to evaluate customer events against millions of filters, achieving sub-second latency (avg. 200ms).
Drove architectural standardization by creating reusable parent/common libraries and championing Helm charts, accelerating deployment frequency by 35%.
Optimized and scaled jobs for CDP event aggregations, managing terabytes of data and reducing processing time by 15% and resource cost by 20%.
Pioneered Kubernetes migration and cloud-agnostic strategies on AWS/Azure, developing generic libraries that reduced vendor lock-in risk by 90%.

Apache FlinkKubernetesHelmData EngineeringData & StreamingArchitecture

Priceline

2 roles

Development Manager

May 2022 – Jul 2022 · 2 mos

Managed and provided technical direction for the team responsible for Messaging Applications.

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Designed and implemented robust data streaming applications to reliably write over 100 million Kafka events daily to GCS and BigQuery.
Developed a real-time data flattening algorithm for complex AVRO and JSON data structures, enabling 30% faster consumption and analysis by downstream systems.
Designed and built an internal Kafka Topic/Schema Management self-service tool, which significantly improved developer productivity by reducing manual setup time by 60%.
Developed a comprehensive Kafka Monitoring Tool to capture and analyze consumer lag across 5+ diverse clusters, improving operational visibility and reducing MTTR by 20%.
Led the complete revamp of the DC Console UI using React with Redux for managing Kafka topics, enhancing user experience for 200+ internal users.

KafkaReactData EngineeringData & Streaming

Jpmorgan chase & co.

2 roles

Associate

Promoted

Nov 2017 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

Drove the strategic Microservice Migration for GATOR, establishing foundational common frameworks and architectural standards for the entire project.
Developed core parent and common projects and a skeleton project to accelerate team development velocity by 30% and ensure consistency across microservices.
Implemented Hystrix for fault tolerance and circuit breaking in microservices, significantly improving system stability under load and reducing cascading failures by 60%.
Received appreciation for building a caching framework for a complex service, reducing production issues due to downstream errors to zero (2019).

MicroservicesArchitectural StandardsJavaArchitecture

Application Developer

Oct 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr

Developed resilient Spring Boot microservices with Spring AOP for logging and authentication, ensuring secure and scalable API endpoints with 99.9% uptime.
Made changes to the critical middleware application supporting all Chase Online UI screens, including implementing a feature to calculate Projections for investments based on Risk Profiles.

Spring BootMicroservicesJavaArchitecture

Oracle financial services software limited

2 roles

Staff Consultant

Promoted

Oct 2014 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

Led onsite implementation of Welcome Kit Enhancement for KVB, managing requirements and a team of 3, resulting in a 20% faster customer onboarding process.
Enhanced Online Banking application by adding critical features such as NEFT, RTGS, and IMPS changes, and Bulk Transaction Feature.
Customised core banking applications for YESBANK, adapting solutions to client-specific requirements and improving user experience by 15%.

Core Banking ApplicationsProject ManagementArchitecture

Associate Consultant

Nov 2012 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

Executed onsite new product installation for FCDB (Online Banking) at UCBL, Bangladesh, overseeing complete setup and UI customization, ensuring successful go-live.
Customized the core Banking Application based on client requirements.

Core Banking ApplicationsProject ManagementArchitecture