Prateek Sharma — Director of Engineering

I am an accomplished technology leader with a proven track record of driving business growth and delivering impactful solutions. Currently, I lead the collections team (excluding PG) and manage a team of 20 backend engineers, including 1 EM and 12 direct reportees, at Cashfree. One of my major accomplishments has been spearheading the growth of the Xborder Payments product, which handles inward and outward remittances for foreign currencies. I played a pivotal role in scaling the business from 12 Lakh in May to an impressive 15 Cr in September for outward remittance, and from 62 Lakh to 11 Cr for inward remittance. Additionally, I led the development of Router, an aggregator for multiple payment aggregators, resulting in a thriving business generating 400 Cr and onboarding 11 merchants. I am also driving a new tech initiative for Cloud Native support within Router, a project that is breaking new ground in the Payments industry. At Cashfree, I am also overseeing the BBPS product, facilitating bill payments for utilities, schools, insurance, and more. This product, which acts as an aggregator between banks and billers, is poised to revolutionize the bill payment landscape. In my previous role at Meesho, I orchestrated the largest sale in the company's history, with 8.76 million orders in a single day, without any downtime. I'm passionate about optimizing systems for performance and efficiency, as demonstrated by my efforts in reducing server costs by 26%, improving processes, and implementing critical features. Throughout my career, I've excelled in setting up and leading high-performing teams, driving technology roadmaps, and implementing architectural transformations. I am adept at identifying areas for improvement and implementing innovative solutions. I thrive in dynamic environments and am committed to driving success through strategic leadership, technical expertise, and a hands-on approach to problem-solving. Let's connect and explore how we can collaborate to achieve your business objectives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong backend and product management skills.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 17 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Leadership
Management
Software Development
Microservices
Logistics Management
Product Management
Database Management

Career Highlights

Spearheaded growth of Xborder Payments product.
Orchestrated largest sale in Meesho's history.
Implemented architectural transformations for high scalability.

Work Experience

Cashfree Payments

Senior Engineering Manager (2 yrs 11 mos)

Meesho

Senior Engineering Manager (2 yrs 2 mos)

Paytm Mall

Engineering Manager (8 mos)

Paytm

Engineering Manager (2 yrs)

Zephyr

Senior Technical Lead (1 yr 2 mos)

Technical Team Lead (4 yrs 6 mos)

Manhattan Associates

Software Engineer (2 yrs 3 mos)

Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd

Software Engineer(Java Developer) (1 yr 7 mos)

Education

Machine learning at Coursera

Bachelor’s Degree at Govt. engineering college Ajmer

Prateek Sharma

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Spearheaded growth of Xborder Payments product.
Orchestrated largest sale in Meesho's history.
Implemented architectural transformations for high scalability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong backend and product management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipManagementSoftware DevelopmentMicroservicesLogistics ManagementProduct ManagementDatabase Management

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSApache KafkaCloud NativeCore JavaElasticSearchGradleJDBCJUnitJavaJavaScriptMavenMySQLOraclePerformance Appraisal

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Experience

Cashfree payments

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Skill DevelopmentLeadershipManagement

Meesho

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

RESTMicroservicesMySQLSpring MVCElasticSearchPerformance Management+18

Paytm mall

Engineering Manager

Jun 2020 – Feb 2021 · 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Leading and Managing Logistics team in Paytm Mall.
Responsible for handling the Courier and Serviceability systems. These teams are newly setup and the tech is handed over to us. So working on setting up the process of release, on-call, sprint etc.
Working on a new product to providing logistics support to external teams/entities.
Currently changing the system to support social commerce product.
Delivered a hyperlocal courier integration.
Working on enhancing the system performance by identifying the loopholes and areas of improvements like 8 hour batch job, reducing non serviceability etc.

RESTMicroservicesMySQLSpring MVCPerformance ManagementSoftware Development+18

Paytm

Engineering Manager

Jun 2018 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading team in ideate, design, build and execute product and technical features. Responsible for managing, executing the complete flights core bookings system.
My key responsibilities in this role is to
Mentor the development team in design and best coding practices.
Setting the long and short-term technology roadmap and deliverables.
Executing sprints and successfully delivering releases.
Setting up individual goals for team members and getting them executed.
Code reviews.
Moving the monolith core system to microservice based architecture and saving devops cost by reducing the number of servers required for caching.
Removing single point of failures and moving system to more distributed technologies to provide high availability and scalability.
Along with these I have worked on few key features which have directly impacted customer experience and saved financial loss.
Modified auto-suggest functionality to include phonetic and linguistic capability. This helped in reducing the zero search results by 70%.
Moved search service out of monolith application and reduced the cache serve time from 1 sec to 300 milliseconds.
Introduced single cache model to reduce the data discrepancy and saving devops cost by reducing servers required by half for caching.
Multiple features in booking and cancellation flow to reduce the losses(reduced ~5-7 lakhs loss every month)
Implemented Corporate booking flow.