Pankaj Dwivedi

Senior Software Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India17 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in cloud platform engineering and deployment.
  • Strong background in data quality and profiling systems.
  • Proven ability to enhance security and compliance in regulated environments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cybersecurity expert with a focus on cloud infrastructure and data engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesPlatform EngineeringMicroservices ArchitectureCloud ComputingData Quality ManagementData EngineeringData ProfilingDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentMobile SecurityGeocodingApi Development

Other Skills

Go (Programming Language)gRPCPostgreSQLSpringJavaCore JavaStrutsJava Enterprise EditionHibernateJSPServletsEJBSun Certified Java ProgrammerTomcatSubversion

About

I work on cloud platform and infrastructure systems supporting large-scale, regulated deployments, with earlier experience building on-prem data platforms focused on data quality, profiling, and integration. My focus has been on taking ownership of unclear or fragile areas — improving deployment reliability, strengthening security and compliance, and making platforms easier to operate at scale. The work often sits at the intersection of distributed systems, platform engineering, and developer productivity. Earlier in my career, I worked extensively on data-intensive systems, including data quality and profiling platforms and large-scale geocoding engines. This involved building distributed orchestration, profiling pipelines, and performance-critical systems operating on large datasets, both on-prem and in cloud-adjacent environments. I typically work on complex, long-lived codebases, focusing on system design, incremental improvement, and cross-team coordination. In recent years, I’ve worked on Kubernetes-based deployment platforms responsible for provisioning and operating services across large fleets of clusters, including regulated environments. I regularly work with product, security, and platform teams to translate requirements into system designs that hold up under operational and regulatory constraints. During periods of organisational change, I’ve worked in areas with unclear ownership, helping maintain technical continuity and improving reliability and production readiness.

Experience

17 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Software Engineer II

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • Platform Engineering — Deployment Platform
  • Work on core components of Confluent’s Deployment Platform, supporting secure provisioning and lifecycle management of multi-service deployments across ~5,000 Kubernetes clusters.
  • Conceived and drove early adoption of Drydock, an internal multi-cluster, multi-service pre-production simulation and assertion platform that enables production-like regression testing for a ring-0 deployment platform, making large-scale validation across thousands of clusters feasible within cost constraints.
  • Worked on FedRAMP enablement for the deployment platform, collaborating with security and compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements and support regulated deployments.
  • Designed and implemented deployment-platform-driven automation for SPIFFE-based workload identity registration, collaborating with the identity team to remove manual onboarding steps and enable scalable, secure service-to-service authentication.
  • Collaborated with a central AI tooling team to introduce agent-based workflows for on-call operations, automating cross-system data collection, correlation, and initial analysis to reduce on-call toil and cognitive load.
  • Contributed to shared AI tooling by integrating Atlassian agents into the central platform, enabling multiple teams to build and adopt agent-based operational workflows more easily.
Go (Programming Language)gRPCKubernetesPostgreSQLPlatform Engineering

Precisely | trust in data

Technology Architect

May 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Architected microservices for a cloud-native Profiling SaaS app, enabling users to profile data directly in Snowflake and Databricks.
  • Built a RabbitMQ-based orchestration engine to convert profiling requests into Snowflake jobs; drove deep runtime optimisations and memory tuning in Spring Boot services.
Microservices ArchitectureCloud Computing

Pitney bowes software

4 roles

Technical Architect

May 2018May 2020 · 2 yrs

  • Designed and delivered a Data Scorecard module with a rule-builder UI, enabling business users to define and monitor data quality rules.
  • Leveraged Neo4j to relate data sources, columns, rules, and suggestions; built a framework to analyze profiling results and auto-suggest data cleanup actions.
Data Quality ManagementData Engineering

Senior Advisory Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2017Apr 2018 · 1 yr

  • Designed and built a distributed data profiling app on the Spectrum platform, using Hazelcast to manage session state across nodes.
  • Stored results in Elasticsearch to enable fast, fuzzy-match searches over profiling data; exposed full CRUD and orchestration via REST APIs.
Data ProfilingDistributed Systems

Advisory Software Engineer

Aug 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Software Engineer

May 2012Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Led development of features in Mapmarker geocoding API and integrated it with Pitney Bowes’ Spectrum technology data platform.
  • Key contributor to building one of the most complex components — the Indian geocoder — from the ground up.
  • Also built a logging framework to trace address lifecycles, accelerating root cause analysis for devs and QA.
GeocodingAPI Development

Symantec

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2014Aug 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Owned Lifecycle and LiveUpdate engines in Norton Mobile Security; contributed to engine redesign for improved reliability.
  • Built a Java agent to stabilize JUnit execution by intercepting async thread behavior.
Software DevelopmentMobile Security

Headstrong

2 roles

Consultant

Promoted

Jan 2012May 2012 · 4 mos

  • Improved application design and cut server startup time from 40 to 15 minutes.
  • Resolved critical production issues and built a utility to extract manual permissions from firmwide entitlement service.

Senior Associate

Dec 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr

  • - Built feed ingestion and reconciliation systems for Morgan Stanley's Tech Risk program using Spring, Sybase, and messaging queues.

Infosys technologies ltd

System Engineer

Jul 2008Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mysore, Mangalore

  • Web App Development:
  • Built backend modules for Allstate Insurance (US) using Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, and Struts.
  • Automation Tool:
  • Created a deployment tool that removed daily manual builds across environments.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master's Degree — Software Systems

Army Institute of technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Engineering

Kendriya Vidyalaya

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