Dhruv Mahajan

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led teams of 35+ engineers at Swiggy.
Drove cost-saving initiatives saving $4000 quarterly.
Developed AI-native engineering culture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with expertise in B2C SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

ManagementSoftware DevelopmentApi Development

Other Skills

Team LeadershipGenAI EnablementGo (Programming Language)gRPCDynamoDBCost SavingMySQLJavaRedisDockerPayment SystemsFraud PreventionComputer VisionImage ProcessingOpenCV

Experience

10 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

7 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Swiggy

5 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Leading Food:
Revenue & Growth (RnG)
Ads & Monetization
Pricing and Promotions (Discounting / Offers)
Salesforce Automation & Tooling
Leading 4 teams of (35+) engineers including EM, Devs, QAs.
Current Strategic Focus: GenAI Enablement
Driving the shift toward an AI-native engineering culture by embedding GenAI into products and workflows

ManagementTeam LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentGenAI Enablement

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Leading Food
1. Revenue and Growth
2. Pricing and Promotions / Discounting
3. Ads and monetization

ManagementSoftware Development

Software Development Engineer 3

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

Lead Food Ads and Monetization charter in swiggy.
Lead and drove the monthly cost saving of $4000 in a quarter.
Delivered highest priority org projects leading org to profitability. Projects like Keyword based Ads,
Contextual banner Ads, Cost per view Ads.
Lead Intelligence Platform which is used in personalized user search, dynamic collections, recommendation
and many more applications.
Built high throughput, low latency and highly scalable API’s in GoLang, gRPC, DynamoDB/DAX.

Go (Programming Language)gRPCDynamoDBCost SavingAPI DevelopmentSoftware Development

Software Development Engineer 2

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Domains: CMS (Catalog), Intelligence Platform, Merch Storefront Systems
Skills Used: Golang, gRPC, DynamoDB/DAX, MySQL, Java, Redis, Docker

Go (Programming Language)gRPCDynamoDBMySQLJavaRedis+2

Software Development Engineer

Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 · 11 mos

CMS (Catalog), Catalog intelligence, price parity

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked in Payment Platform that supports different countries and different payment methods.
Designing and implementing the logic to authorise money from customer before and in-ride to reduce the fraud in different payment methods.
Independently designing the code and test major features with unit tests, as well as working jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.

Vehant technologies formerly kritikal securescan

Software Development Engineer

Feb 2017 – Jun 2017 · 4 mos · Noida Area, India

Software Development and System Design using computer vision and image processing for
security surveillance and traffic monitoring
Skills Used – Computer Vision, Image Processing, OpenCV, Gtkmm, C++, Makefile, SVN,
Glade, Multithreading, GDB

Payment SystemsFraud PreventionSoftware Development