Pawan Kumar

Software Engineer

Delhi, India13 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 16 years of experience in high-performance systems.
  • Expert in architecting low-latency trading platforms.
  • Proven track record in driving engineering culture.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce architect with a focus on scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Solution Architecture

Other Skills

ScalaRedisReactive Programming

About

Senior Technology Leader with over 16 years of experience architecting and scaling high-performance, low-latency systems across fintech, e-commerce, and enterprise platforms. Currently leading engineering operations at Gemini, driving platform excellence in a real-time trading environment. I specialize in: • Designing resilient, scalable distributed architectures using tools like kafka, caching, cloud native services. • Driving engineering culture through clean code practices, automated testing, and observability. • Leading cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and driving tech hiring strategy. I thrive in high-impact roles where technology meets business scalability - and where technical depth, systems thinking, and leadership converge.

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Atlassian

Principal Engineer

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos · Delhi, India · Remote

Career Break

Sep 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr · Delhi, India

Gemini

Principal Engineer

Nov 2023Aug 2024 · 9 mos · Hybrid

  • Leading engineering for low-latency trading systems with aggressive performance SLAs.
  • Architected centralized and local caching strategies for optimal response times.
  • Drove architectural decisions (ADRs) across unit, integration, E2E, and smoke testing strategies.
  • Tuned Kafka producer/consumer layers for efficient CPU utilization and sub-millisecond throughput.
  • Spearheaded initiatives to improve codebase cleanliness, test coverage, and operational excellence.
Solution ArchitectureScalaRedisReactive Programming

Paytm

AVP Technology

Sep 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Leading the lending cards vertical. Built a tech platform to scale with high number of integrations.
  • Architected to bring fault tolerance in the application to handle peak loads. Brought changes in the applications to move to smaller infra.
  • Built data pipeline between services for asynchronous communication.
  • Architected observability and monitoring model in the platform for real time monitoring and alerting of errors.
  • Setup clean coding practices within the team with high emphasis on unit tests and code coverage.
  • Implemented multiple cost optimisation practices in the platform at application and infra level.
  • Responsible to tech hiring within the larger vertical.
Solution Architecture

Thoughtworks

Lead Consultant

May 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Solutions architect for an e-commerce platform. Responsible for migration to a microservice architecture, cost optimisation of applications involved for moving to a smaller infra. Migration of data from legacy DB2 and built data ingestion pipeline for downstream systems.
  • Architecture buildup: Created the architecture for migration of a SQL datastore to NoSQL and data ingestion pipeline to migrate the data at large scale.
  • Introduced disk based caching along with in-memory to be able to cache data at large scale with <10ms latency for ~1K+ TPS.
  • Team extension: Responsible for tech hiring and internal profiling of team. Built a team of Devs and automation QAs and led clean coding practices.
  • Developer productivity: Helped the team optimise the code quality and being able to run the java application on a lesser infra and educate the team on reactive framework using spring webflux.
Solution Architecture

Publicis sapient

Specialist Platform

Aug 2019May 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Xebia

2 roles

Xebia Labs (Senior Consultant)

Promoted

Jul 2017Feb 2018 · 7 mos

  • Moved onto XebiaLabs which is a product division of Xebia.
  • Senior developer on Gartner recognised DevOps product.
  • Plan, develop, test, build of enterprise grade software.
  • Follower and admirer of clean coding practices.

Senior Consultant

Jul 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr

  • Architect of a Web and Mobile monolith platform.
  • Provide strategic, development and best practices direction to a team of 10 people.
  • Manage multiple stakeholders.
  • Carry product from development to deployment on different customer platforms.

Royal bank of scotland

Software Designer

Nov 2013Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Publicis sapient

Senior Associate Technology L1

Jul 2010Jul 2013 · 3 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Education

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Information Technology

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