Lakshay Girdhar

Director of Engineering

Gurgaon, Haryana, India12 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led development of Paytm's merchant ecosystem.
Enhanced payment gateway analytics for merchants.
Revamped mutual funds platform using microservices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong engineering leadership in payment systems.

Contact

lakshay@insurancedekho.com +918586969802 LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipFintechSystems DesignData AnalyticsTechnical Design

Other Skills

AJAXAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentApache SparkC (Programming Language)C++Capacity PlanningCode ReviewCore JavaData StructuresDesign PatternsInformation TechnologyJSPJavaScript

About

At the forefront of Paytm's merchant ecosystem, I orchestrate the development and management of business-critical interfaces, empowering merchants with robust tools for tracking payments, managing subscriptions, and more. My role as Senior Engineering Manager capitalizes on my expertise in engineering leadership and capacity planning, honed over multiple years in the tech industry. The Paytm payment gateway, under my leadership, has seen enhanced analytical capabilities, offering merchants insightful customer analysis and success rate diagnostics. This strategic enhancement has been made possible through my proficiency in engineering large-scale systems and an unwavering commitment to innovation and continuous improvement. My team and I are dedicated to creating seamless experiences for our vast network of users.

Experience

12 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Insurancedekho

Director of Engineering

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Kotak mahindra bank

Software Development Manager

Aug 2024 – Jun 2025 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

KubernetesAmazon Web Services (AWS)People ManagementSystems DesignEngineering LeadershipFinTech+1

Paytm

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

Working in a techno managerial role, as an owner of the paytm for business product, providing interface to merchants for various services like tracking payments and settlements, ordering photoQR , soundbox, cards machine, managing their subscriptions.

Systems DesignProduct Road MappingTechnical DesignCapacity PlanningEngineering LeadershipCode Review+5

Engineering Manager

Aug 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

Providing the paytm payment gateway users , analysis of the transactions happening at their platforms. Providing them customer analysis - new , repeat , churn customers . Success rate analysis - failure reasons, payment sources.

Apache SparkData AnalyticsProduct Road MappingTechnical DesignCapacity PlanningEngineering Leadership+6

Policybazaar.com

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Apr 2020 – Sep 2020 · 5 mos

Worked on the project of revamp of mutual funds which is a microservices based platform using mongodb and cassandra as NOSQL datastores, revamp includes changing the tech stack of backend and frontend. At frontend this includes react applications for web and mobile platforms. At backend it is express based services written in nodejs

Technical DesignEngineering LeadershipCode ReviewInformation TechnologyREST APIsTechnical Leadership+1

Technical Lead

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Technical DesignCode ReviewInformation TechnologyREST APIsTechnical Leadership

Cardekho group

2 roles

Technical Lead

Apr 2017 – Mar 2018 · 11 mos

Worked as a lead software engineer at cardekho acquired gaadi.com. Worked on B2B and B2C Gaadi products which provide users features like surfing for new and used cars,getting used car dealers details, comparing new cars, exploring various features in the variety of models.
LMS - Worked in development of lead management system and REST apis consumed in by CRM applications of gaadi.com, Consumed these APIs in react native based frontend applications

Technical DesignCode ReviewInformation TechnologyREST APIs

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2015 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

REST APIs

Info edge india ltd

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2014 – Oct 2014 · 6 mos

Jeevansathi , 99Acres - Working with jeevansathi.com exposed me to a very dynamic working and learning experience and has helped me in tackling situations where one has to take full responsibility of the work while managing client expectations. Developed frontend and backend code for applications for jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com and allcheckdeals.com
Jeevansathi CRM - Being a part of CRM team moved the system running on the procedural code to object oriented and framework oriented system