Pankaj Khandelwal

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led backend for Guinness World Record tournament.
  • Reduced hotel search latency to ~200ms.
  • Delivered RBI-compliant workflows for digital payments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Engineering Leader in Gaming and Fintech.

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Skills

Core Skills

High-concurrency ArchitectureCamera Algorithms

Other Skills

AlgorithmsBackend InfrastructureGo (Programming Language)LinuxMySQLProgrammingPythonTelepresence Systems

About

Pankaj is a seasoned technology leader with over 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed backend systems across gaming (Gameskraft), fintech (Razorpay), and travel (Goibibo).As Director of Engineering at Gameskraft, he led the backend infrastructure for a Guinness World Record–setting tournament, supporting 2.15 lakh concurrent players with unmatched reliability. Previously, at Goibibo, he re-engineered the hotel search stack to reduce latency to ~200ms and at Razorpay, he delivered critical RBI-compliant financial workflows for India’s digital payments ecosystem.Pankaj combines deep expertise in high-concurrency architecture with operational excellence, having consistently built mission-critical systems that deliver low-latency performance at an extreme scale

Experience

Stealth ai startup

Building in stealth

Dec 2025Present · 3 mos · Bengaluru

Gameskraft

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2025Nov 2025 · 7 mos

Engineering Manager

Aug 2022Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Razorpay

Lead Software Engineer

Nov 2021Aug 2022 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Goibibo

3 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2021Nov 2021 · 7 mos

Technical Lead

Promoted

Apr 2019Apr 2021 · 2 yrs

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2016Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Cisco

Software Engineer

Aug 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Developed Camera algorithms for desktop telepresence systems.

Education

IIT Jodhpur

B.tech — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

M.H.S. Jaipur

Class XII — Science and Maths

Jan 2008Jan 2009