Prashant Panchal

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building end-to-end microservices architecture.
Led engineering teams to deliver high-impact software solutions.
Proven track record in fraud detection and payment systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Fintech solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentMicro ServicesTech LeadershipAwsBusiness AnalysisEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

AWS LambdaMQTTSpring BootCollaboration with product managersCRM DevelopmentFraud DetectionPayments Service DevelopmentJavaObjective-CShell ScriptingData AnalysisApp DevelopmentBack-End Web DevelopmentNoSQLEngineering Management

About

► Result oriented Software Engineering professional possessing in depth knowledge of software development principles & hands on experience of building end to end systems based on micro service architecture. Leading teams into shipping high impact builds. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Key Skills ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ • Software Development • Algorithms • Data Structures • Kafka • MongoDB • S3 •Micro Services • Spring Boot • AWS • Lambda • Node Js • Typescript • Tech Leadership ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ You can get in touch by writing to me at: ✉ prashant.panchal.ubs@gmail.com.

Experience

11 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Urban company

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · On-site

Third Party Request Fulfillment
Architected and developed a lat / long – based matchmaking engine to accurately pair customer requests with the relevant service providers and automated the complete fulfillment funnel on WhatsApp — including job assignment, OTP verification, and reminders. This enabled us to take Product demand from even non - UC serviceable areas.
Product Business
Currently leading a team of engineers into building the inventory platform for providing the best fulfillment experience for customers.

Software DevelopmentMicro ServicesAWSTech Leadership

Technical Lead

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · On-site

UC Native Locks
Designed the architecture for building the UC Native smart locks to give the user a first in class true remote unlock experience.
This involved architecting the entire backend to send the communication to the user about the lock bell ring activity, processing videos using AWS lambdas and making them available for rendering. Using AWS S3 and CDN to improve availability. Processing MQTT events to actually trigger the remote unlock of the physical lock.
Also mentored and led a team of engineers to build various flows on the App to interact with the Native Lock.
Native locks currently hold a ~70% market share.
UC Gifts
I worked on designing the backend architecture for giving out gifts to FTP and RTP users based on their historic usage of Urban Company services. Worked extensively with products managers and designers to land a great experience for the users on the platform.

Micro ServicesAWS LambdaMQTTSpring BootAWS

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2021 – Dec 2021 · 10 mos · On-site

Designed and built an in house CRM platform for Urban Company.
This enabled us to move a lot of marketing campaigns in - house. The platform was processing around 10 million events every day to send out notifications to users based on their behavior on the App.
This helped us cut down our marketing budget by ~40% and move away from third party dependencies for sending out communications to the users.

Software DevelopmentCRM Development

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Associate

Jan 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

As part of transactions team, worked on developing an ecosystem of distributed micro-services
that will detect fraudulent Credit Card transactions in real time and replace the current vendor functionality costing around $10 million annually

Micro ServicesFraud Detection

Technology Analyst

Apr 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

Working on Apple Card (Project Cookie) - First ever credit card issued by Goldman Sachs with partner as Apple
As part of payments Team :-
=> Worked on building payments service that will be used by an Apple Card user to schedule payments against his outstanding credit card amount.
=>Developed the functionality of sending out reminders to people who had outstanding balances against their Credit Card before the statement generation happened
=>Worked on breaking down the monolithic system to domain specific micro services which are easy to develop deploy and maintain

Payments Service DevelopmentMicro Services

Kony, inc.

2 roles

Software Developement Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

✪ Programming Languages: Java, Objective-C, Shell Scripting
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➡ Client Side Libraries’ Development
● Engaged on developing client side libraries to implement a feature enabling off-line syncing for both android & iOS devices
● Employing Core Java (OOP'S), multithreading & Objective-C to create the Android & iOS libraries respectively
● Estimated the potential reduction in sync time by ~23 times because of the development & implementation of the libraries

JavaObjective-CShell ScriptingSoftware Development

Assosiate Engineer

Apr 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

✪ Programming Languages: Java
★ Conferred the ‘Team Excellence Award’ for shipping a good, stable product
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➡ Internal Tool – Improving RestCall Automation
● Developed an internal tool for converting ‘.har’ files into HTTP Requests using Java to speed up RestCall based automation
● Employed an open source tool, "http-snippet", to convert ‘.har’ file for generating the relevant REST call structures

JavaSoftware Development

Midnight munching

Co Founder

Nov 2014 – Feb 2015 · 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Midnight Mucnhing was a Night food delivery service in Hyderabad.
We prepared home made food and delivered in a radius of 7 km. On the technical front we made a website on weebly, and maintained it. Also worked on an App for midnight Munching. The App would let the user know about the additions in Menu and the discounts offered each week. We could not launch the app because it was still in the development phase.
We got tremendous response because of the quality of the food delivered, got better reviews than the existing few restaurants which already provided this service.
Overall I got to learn about the various aspects of a start-up and how to overcome any difficulties faced.

EntrepreneurshipApp Development

Verity knowledge solutions

Business Analyst

Jul 2014 – Mar 2015 · 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Assisted on-shore IB Team of UBS in EMEA, US & UK regions to develop presentations & spreadsheets as a member of FIG
➡ Automation & Data Wrangling
● Developed automated templates in MS Excel to update & analyze massive amount of data linked to various Data Sources
● Data Sources: Factset, Bloomberg, SLN & which provided real time data on share prices, P/E ratios, etc.
➡ Business Analysis
● Analyzed data to conduct company valuation, competitive benchmarking, estimation of outlook of a company, etc.
● Coded the spreadsheet to smoothly drive data & properly refresh the numbers/figures

Business AnalysisData Analysis