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Deepak Pathania

Software Engineer

Delhi, India10 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led a DevOps transformation reducing deployment time by 60%.
  • Increased client retention by 40% through SaaS platform delivery.
  • Improved team velocity by 30% via Agile coaching.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech engineering leader with a strong focus on team empowerment and innovative solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementPeople ManagementDistributed SystemsProject Management

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAPI TestingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Application DevelopmentApplication Programming Interfaces (API)ArchitectureBack-End Web DevelopmentBudgetingCC++CSSCloud ComputingCloud InfrastructureCode ReviewCommunication

About

As a results-driven Engineering Manager with over 8 years of experience leading cross-functional software development teams, I specialize in transforming business challenges into scalable technical solutions. My passion lies in empowering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, and delivering high-quality products that drive business growth. I've successfully led distributed teams through the entire SDLC, managing product roadmaps, architectural design, and timely delivery while ensuring alignment with business objectives. My approach combines strong technical acumen with empathetic leadership, enabling teams to exceed performance benchmarks consistently. 📌 Core Competencies: - Engineering Leadership & People Management - Microservices & Scalable System Design - Agile & Scrum Methodologies - DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines - Cross-functional team Collaboration - Budget & Resource Optimization - Product Lifecycle Management - Mentoring & Talent Development - Stakeholder Engagement 💡 Key Achievements: - Spearheaded a DevOps transformation initiative that reduced deployment time by 60% and improved release stability. - Led a 7-member global engineering team to deliver a mission-critical SaaS platform, increasing client retention by 40%. - Improved team velocity by 30% through Agile coaching, continuous feedback loops, and engineering process refinement. - Scaled backend architecture to support 4x user growth with zero downtime. I thrive in fast-paced environments where innovation, ownership, and growth are at the forefront. I'm always open to connecting with like-minded professionals passionate about building the future of technology through people-first leadership. Let’s connect and collaborate on solving complex problems with elegant engineering!

Experience

10 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Duckduckgo

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Remote

Automattic

3 roles

Engineering Manager - Payments

Feb 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • 1. Led the core Payments team which was responsible for building foundational domains like Payment Processing and Billing.
  • 2. Introduced a self-serve billing tool for internal teams to create and modify fees for transactions, eliminating dependency on developers and enabling a quicker turnaround for payment operations.
  • 3. Led the team in building an internal event system to move towards an async-first architecture.
  • 4. Oversaw the initiative to introduce another payment processor to make our system processor agnostic while ensuring minimal hindrance to end customers.
Engineering ManagementPeople ManagementDistributed Systems

Engineering Manager - DevEx

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • 1. Led the DevEx team, working on high-impact projects crucial for WooPayments developers.
  • 2. Overhauled our on-call systems, monitoring setups, and release procedures, slashing developer time by almost ~60%.
  • 3. Orchestrated automation for engineering metrics collection, surfacing key insights to make data-driven decisions.
  • 4. Led the migration of internal dashboards to React and TypeScript from jQuery, building reusable components that reduced time for adding new tools.
Engineering ManagementTeam ManagementProject Management

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • 1. Core member of the payments platform team working on improving developer productivity.
  • 2. Optimised the shopper checkout flow for sites using WooCommerce Payments to reduce the overall time by ~38%.
  • 3. Built an error monitoring and observability stack to unlock aggregated insights across customers.
  • 4. Optimised the CI pipeline to reduce the overall running time by ~60%.

Goto group

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • 1. Early engineer in the GoAds team which was responsible for building the digital ad-tech platform for GoFood merchants - Partner Jempolan, from scratch.
  • 2. Built the end-to-end flow from enabling ad campaign creation via internal CMS to serving ads for multiple ad inventories available on the platform.
  • 3. Integrated an ML ranking model for ads to improve ad performance for merchants.
  • 4. Integrated Clickstream - an internal event tracking system to allow accurate exhaustion of campaigns based on units bought by merchants.
Distributed Systems

Indmoney.com

2 roles

Tech lead

Mar 2020 – Jul 2020 · 4 mos

  • 1. Lead several projects end to end for improving customer engagement, retention, and monetization including the IND Gold subscription program.
  • 2. Built and managed a cross-functional team from scratch to oversee the growth initiatives of the organization.

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos

  • 1. Built a business rules engine to enable internal teams to provide personalized advisory to users at scale, increasing DAU/MAU by ~4x.
  • 2. Designed and built an independent money-saving app for millennials - responsible for end to end ideation and execution as the solo backend developer.
  • 3. Built multiple microservices like authorization, subscription, notification, etc. to break the core monolith backend.
  • 4. Built an idempotent scheduling system to create and monitor multiple crons responsible for chained recurring tasks.

Postman (api tools)

Product Engineer

Oct 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • 1. Built an interactive learning service and a rule engine for the native desktop app to enable personalized, guided walk-through within the app.
  • 2. Worked on the user-facing Postman API which allows users to programmatically access data stored in their Postman account.
  • 3. Built a backend service to publish collections to Postman's API network, integrated the same with the user dashboard for the publishing flow.
  • 4. Designed and implemented the algorithm for synchronizing multiple offline changes collectively using a diff based collation mechanism.
  • 5. Improved the distribution control mechanism for native apps to allow more fine-grained control over app updates.
  • 6. Built a npm like registry for controlling the distribution of Postman plugins.

Adpushup inc

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Delhi

  • 1. Worked as a Javascript developer for building multiple scalable modules for the core product.
  • 2. Built stand-alone node modules for automated AMP conversion and browser automation for data collection behind authenticated dashboards.
  • 3. Built a 'script progress' tracking REST API, monitored and documented results in different scenarios to estimate faulty steps in script execution.

Hacksociety

Co-Founder

Aug 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Delhi Area

  • 1. Started India’s first hackathon league to standardise developer experience across events.
  • 2. Worked with more than 30 organizations for different hackathons and helped them achieve a positive ROI for their DevRel and hiring initiatives.
  • 3. Built and scaled an online portal for organizing and managing hackathons, with more than 10k developers registered and 50+ events live on the platform.

Letreach

Research and Development Intern

Jun 2016 – Aug 2016 · 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • 1. Research and development for the existing portal and adding new modules.
  • 2. Worked on developing an in-house chat system for customer support and an affiliate system while contributing to the core dashboard and website.

Rs matrimonial

Web Development Intern

Dec 2015 – Feb 2016 · 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • Front-end web developer and UI/UX designer. Redesigned the existing website to be mobile-ready and responsive, fixed UI glitches in the existing one.

Ieee

Technical Coordinator

Sep 2015 – Mar 2016 · 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • IEEE Technical Co ordinator for IEEE MSIT.

91springboard

Intern

Apr 2015 – Jul 2015 · 3 mos · India

  • Worked as an alphapreneur to promote student entrepreneurs and organize sessions like start up open house at the hub. Learnt efficient management and professional outlook towards the work in hand.

Education

Maharaja Surajmal Institute Of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

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