Mahesh Pai — Software Engineer
Passionate Software Engineer with 12 years of experience in developing cloud based web applications and backend systems. Skilled at writing clear, concise code that is easy to maintain and troubleshoot. Experienced in working with both small and large teams across multiple projects and companies. Able to work independently of remote locations or in office environments as needed by the company. Dream11 Architected revenue-critical fantasy gaming platforms at 200M+ user scale, directly influencing monetization, liquidity, and fairness during IPL-scale traffic. Led launch of Guaranteed+ mega contests, reducing overlays by 70%, reversing a 50% join-rate drop, and unlocking $36M in revenue through data-backed architectural changes. Designed early winnings infrastructure under strict legal constraints, unlocking $7.7M incremental IPL revenue without increasing deposits or GST exposure. Reduced end-to-end contest processing latency by 25%, directly improving join-through rates and NGR during peak traffic events. Built a contest-primitive platform that cut new product time-to-market by 50%, enabling rapid expansion into new gaming verticals. Founded and led an org-wide architecture governance group across 5 teams, standardizing primitives and accelerating cross-team execution. Drove a 40% reduction in Sev-1/2 incidents by shifting teams from reactive firefighting to preventive, design-led engineering. Mentored 10+ engineers, with multiple promotions, focusing on ownership, system design, and staff-level thinking. Led development of enterprise-grade open-source libraries, establishing governance, modular APIs, and public contribution readiness. Architected a self-hosted AWS annotation platform for Visual LLM training, saving ~$310K annually compared to SaaS solutions. InMobi Projects: Postserve DSP Platform. Analysis, Design and Development of Product Business features for the Reporting aspects of Postserve DSP Platform. Tech Migration and integration from Snowflake to Databricks for DSP Platform. Data Interact, Client Management Dashboard Analysis, Design and Development of Client Management Dashboard. Analysis, Design and Development of Data Interact. Application based on Reactive programming and Server Sent Events. Work Experience @ Morgan Stanley, India : Analysis, Design and development of Activiti BPM workflows with configurable approvals for People Tracker. Analysis, Design and development for migration of legacy .Net and SharePoint based application to Java & Angular Web Stack. (Involves legacy data migration)
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Gaming and Financial Services.
Location: Maharashtra, India
Experience: 11 yrs 11 mos
Skills
- Microservices
- System Design
- Core Java
- Data Analysis
- Java
Career Highlights
- Architected platforms for 200M+ users.
- Reduced processing latency by 25% during peak traffic.
- Mentored engineers leading to multiple promotions.
Work Experience
AlphaSense
Staff Engineer (1 mo)
Dream11
Staff Software Engineer (6 mos)
Software Development Engineer III (2 yrs 5 mos)
InMobi
Software Development Engineer III (1 yr)
Morgan Stanley
Senior Manager (9 mos)
Manager (6 mos)
Senior Associate (1 yr 9 mos)
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Senior Software Developer (1 yr 10 mos)
Manhattan Associates
Software Engineer (3 yrs 1 mo)
Education
Academy Aug21 at Scaler
PGDAC at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at University of Mumbai