Rajdeep Lahkar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

23+ years of software engineering experience
Expert in leading large engineering teams
Strong background in Fintech and Payments

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in engineering management and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct DevelopmentPaymentsTeam ManagementProduct ArchitectureArchitecture DesignProject Management

Other Skills

API DevelopmentCustomer ExperienceDatabase DesignDelivery StrategyHibernateJ2EE Application DevelopmentJavaJava Enterprise EditionJava Persistence API ImplementationMicroservicesProject PlanningRESTful WebServicesRed Hat LinuxRequirements GatheringSolution Roadmap Creation

About

Technology professional with around 23+ years’ experience in architecture, design and development of software solutions. Extremely passionate about technology and producing high quality output. Experienced in leading fast-paced engineering teams to build internet / enterprise class, multi-tenant, scalable products and business solutions. In-depth experience in all software engineering stages including architecture, design, development, QA and solution deployment. Currently leading Merchant Experience engineering Group in Razorpay. Specialties: Domain Knowledge: AWS Cloud, Payments & Security, Fintech Technical Knowledge: Java/J2ee/Java EE, Spring boot, SOA, Microservices, RESTful webservices, Linux, Oracle Database Design, SQL & PL/Sql, CI/CD, Docker Management: Hiring Top Talent, People Management, Project Management, Vendor Management, Partner Management Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile Scrum

Experience

Razorpay

2 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Leading the Merchant Experience engineering teams within Razorpay with 50+ engineers. Together, we own the engineering products and platforms which enable our customers to have a delightful experience while using Razorpay products. This includes dashboards, reporting, GenAI enabled support etc. Thinking customer backwards and Developer friendly APIs, stability, scale, security, compliance are some of the key aspects we are obsessed with.

Engineering ManagementProduct DevelopmentTeam LeadershipAPI DevelopmentCustomer Experience

Associate Director Engineering

May 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Amazon

Software Development Manager 3

Aug 2019 – May 2020 · 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Leading the development team for UPI core solution in Amazon Payments
Solution roadmap creation with Product Management
Define and implement delivery strategy
Scoping, planning, architecture & design
Technical guidance & mentoring, code review, test plan review, troubleshooting
Team management and hiring, performance management and continuous feedback
Partner management

UPI Core Solution DevelopmentTeam ManagementTechnical GuidanceDelivery StrategyPayments

Ca technologies

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Solution roadmap creation with Product Management and validation with customers
Active collaboration with payments industry consortium on 3D Secure domain
Define and implement delivery strategy
Scoping, planning, architecture & design
Reference implementations
Technical guidance & mentoring, code review, test plan review, troubleshooting
Team management and hiring, performance management and continuous feedback
Vendor management
Peak team size of 35 engineers

Solution Roadmap CreationTeam ManagementVendor ManagementTechnical GuidancePayments

Manager Software Engineering

Jul 2015 – Jun 2016 · 11 mos

Techno Managerial role including technical designs, end-to-end product development & delivery and engineering team management.

Technical DesignProduct DevelopmentTeam Management

Principal Engineer

Jul 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

Product Architecture
Technical mentoring, review of code and test plans
Code development and reference implementations

Product ArchitectureTechnical Mentoring

Symphony teleca

Architect - Product Development

Dec 2010 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

Architecture and detailed level designing
Review of code, test plans and System testing
POC, reference implementation, hands-on coding of features
Continuous Technical guidance to the team
Peak team size of 8 engineers

Architecture DesignTechnical Guidance

Infosys

Development Manager, prior roles of Technical Lead and Software Engineer

Jun 2002 – Dec 2010 · 8 yrs 6 mos · Primarily Bangalore with onsite trips to US, Japan, Hong Kong & Denmark

Detailed requirements gathering and analysis
Estimation for the project
Architecture and detailed level designing
Review of code, test plans and System testing
Hands-on coding of features
Performance tuning and improvement
Continuous Technical guidance to the team
Project planning including Quality goals, identification of risks and mitigation plans, tools etc.
Resource planning and management
Capturing and monitoring project quality parameters, CMM Level 5 compliance
Peak team size of 11 engineers