Swapnil Banga

Software Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana, India8 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

8+ years of experience in software engineering.
Proven track record in high-growth product development.
Expertise in AWS and full-stack development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with strong backend and full-stack capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

AwsPythonReact

Other Skills

PostgresLaravelPHPNode.jsReact.jsJavaScriptMySQLC++GitReact NativeNestJSPostgreSQLGraphQLNext.jsExpress.js

About

Software engineer with 8+ years of total experience working with high-growth products. I have been praised for my sense of ownership and proactive contribution to all aspects of projects I am involved in. Last tech stack: Python, Postgres, and AWS. Prior experience in full stack Typescript.

Experience

8 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff

Dec 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr · Remote

Part of the file platform team that introduced file app connectors (Google Drive, OneDrive, etc), among other enterprise features.
Implemented an improved asynchronous attachment upload, parsing, and search pipeline with much better UX.
Significantly improved parsing capabilities and reliability for files and attachments (~95% -> ~99%).
Added direct API search (without ingestion) for file app connectors.

PythonPostgresAWS

Carbon

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr · India · Remote

We built a RAG pipeline as a team of four - connect your data to LLMs, no matter where it lives. Got acquired by Perplexity.

Italic

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · India - Remote

Software Engineer

Feb 2022 – Sep 2022 · 7 mos · India - Remote

Italic is a store that is democratising luxury. Same quality as top brands for a fraction of prices. Worked as a product engineer (full stack).

Heeko

Software Engineer

Jul 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Delhi, India

Worked with engineering and growth teams at Italic (a US-based e-commerce store)
Moved their checkout from Shopify to a custom implementation, which made membership purchases seamless and added a lot of headroom for experimentation.
Wrote and contributed to some of their key features, such as subscriptions, wishlists, referrals, limited-time sale events, gifting, pre-orders, etc.
Helped them move to serverless deployments, add better error logging, improve release process, etc, which significantly reduced crashes and improved up-time.
Past projects
Balance bunny, an app that notifies you on slack whenever there is a transaction in your bank account. Configurable alerts and subscription plans.
Swopr, a vehicle leasing platform that connects two parties for lease transfers. Integration with vehicle databases, searching and filtering, chat features.
Others
Interviewing candidates for junior to mid-senior backend/full-stack positions.

Squareboat

Software Engineer

May 2017 – Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

Worked as the lead developer for their home-grown project Hackr.io (now acquired). Wrote (and rewrote) the majority of their web as well as API backend, react native apps, and migrated their WordPress blog to a custom implementation with a long list of features.
Wrote their in-house assessments platform and contributed to other client projects as a backend/full-stack developer.
Mentoring and onboarding junior devs.
Recognised for exceptional contribution two years in a row.
Tech stack - Laravel (PHP), jQuery, React, Nest.js (Node.js based), Redis, AWS (EC2, SQS, RDS), Docker.

LaravelPHPReactNode.jsAWS