Dhanesh Arole

CTO

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India10 yrs 11 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led AI team to develop innovative trading products.
  • Expert in building scalable software systems.
  • Proven track record in engineering leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong software architecture and engineering leadership skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringEngineering LeadershipSoftware ArchitectureSystem DesignData StreamingPayment IntegrationFull Stack Development

Other Skills

Machine LearningTeam LeadershipObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Apache KafkaApache FlinkKafkaEvent Driven ArchitectureContinuous Delivery (CD)Data ScienceAzure DatabricksAI AgentsDeep LearningNeural networkTechnical LeadershipLarge Language Models (LLM)

About

I am an experienced software engineer with a proven track record of building internet scale software systems at high-growth tech startups as well as at big tech companies. My core expertise is in software architecture, system design and engineering leadership of complex projects that require cross-team collaboration.

Experience

10 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
6 mos
Current Experience

Equiti group

Head of Data & AI

Nov 2025Present · 6 mos · Dubai and Bangalore · Hybrid

  • Leading the establishment of a new AI team focused on developing state-of-the-art AI-enabled trading, risk management and multiple investment products.
  • Leading Data Engineering and Analytics teams to enhance existing data infrastructure, improving data accessibility and insights.
Data EngineeringEngineering Leadership

Meta

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr · On-site

  • I am currently working as a Software Engineer in Meta’s Integrity and Security org. I am primarily responsible for leading the design and development of scalable systems and algorithms that can handle large volumes of data to detect and mitigate threats to Meta platforms at scale. Some examples of threats that we tackle are: Political misinformation, Child safety, Financial fraud, Scam etc.
  • In this role, I work closely with our cross-functional teams to identify and solve complex problems. I also spend considerable amount of time mentoring and guiding other engineers on the team.
Software ArchitectureSystem Design

Software Engineer

Oct 2022Aug 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · On-site

Software ArchitectureMachine Learning

Transferwise

Senior Software Engineer, Data Streaming

Sep 2020Sep 2022 · 2 yrs · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Worked as a part of Data streaming team which built an internal data streaming platform for real-time data analysis and event driven backend services. My role in team was to contribute towards overall architecture of platform as well as improve the stability and scalability of it by leveraging my expertise in Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.
Team LeadershipObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Data StreamingSoftware Architecture

Go-jek tech

Product Engineer

Jan 2018Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked as tech lead on integrating credit card payment options in the core payment platform called “GoPay”. The feature is live for 35mn MAU.
  • Conceptualized and built “360° spend view” feature for end users. It increased GoPay brand’s trust score by 9% MoM calculated via social media engagements and user feedback forms.
  • Contributed in design of Kafka based event driven architecture while rewriting the next generation of GoPay platform for scalability and reliability.
  • Design and implementation of generic Flink based streaming engine for product engineers / managers to iterate faster on real time streaming pipelines. Reduced time to build end to end streaming pipeline from avg of 1 week to few hours.
  • Saved ~ 50K USD AWS bill per month by building elastic Kafka consumers which scale on demand and downscale when there’s no demand.
  • Adoption and migration to k8s from VM based deployments, Optimizations in building client side load-balancing algorithms, service monitoring, service discovery etc core features for grpc stack.
  • Always participated in debugging critical engineering issues with underlying infra / kafka / k8s etc. And carried out a required change management process to fix the issue across the entire infrastructure or cluster.
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)Software ArchitecturePayment Integration

Thoughtworks

Application Developer

Jun 2014Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo · India

  • Worked as an Application Developer on a variety of projects in multiple tech stacks such as Scala, Java, Ruby on Rails.
  • Learned the art of Full stack Development with best engineering practices such as OOP, TDD, CI / CD, DevOps, Agile, XP etc.
  • Got exposure and opportunity to implement complex software systems in Microservices based architecture
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)Continuous Delivery (CD)Full Stack Development

Education

COEP Technological University

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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