Pankaj Thakur

Senior Software Engineer

Berlin, Berlin, Germany13 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable payment systems.
Led backend development for high-traffic music streaming platform.
Proficient in AWS and microservices architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer in Fintech and Media & Entertainment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)ArchitectureJava

Other Skills

AkkaAlgorithmsAmazon DynamodbApache KafkaApache StormBusiness RequirementsCC++CassandraCode ReviewCreative Problem SolvingData StructuresDatabasesDesign PatternsDistributed Systems

About

• Programming Languages: Scala, Java and Python. • NoSQL: Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra and ElasticSearch. • Queuing Systems: RabbitMQ and Kafka. • Distributed Computing: Akka framework and Storm. • Big Data Technologies: Hadoop, HBase and Hive. • Cloud Platform: AWS Cloud Computing Services. • Java Build Tools: Maven, Ant and SBT. • Software Tools: Xcode, IntelliJ IDEA, Jenkins and Git. • Operating Systems: Mac OS X and Linux (Ubuntu). • Text Type Setting: Latex and Markdown.

Experience

13 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Zalando se

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Berlin, Germany

Building a scalable and resilient risk management platform for offering most suitable payment methods to Zalando customers and capable of handling over 9k requests per minute.
Integrated with multiple dependencies to fetch customer features to enhance the payment method offerings.
Building and maintaining an event driven system for fraud check analysis and automatic cancellation of fraudulent orders.

Code ReviewGradleAmazon Web Services (AWS)MultithreadingSoft SkillsKotlin+11

Agoda

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand

Building the next generation payment system for Agoda known as Agoda Pay.
Involved in robust, scalable and secure payment platform which already serves end to end payment for Booking.com internal clients such as Rocketmiles.com.

Code ReviewSBTMultithreadingSoft SkillsScalaArchitecture+6

Wynk limited

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Sep 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Worked as a lead developer for the core backend team of 4 engineers for wynk music platform.
Involved in building and extending a scalable and robust platform capable of streaming more than 50M songs per day across the country.
Involved in building recommendation feature also known as autoplay based upon past user activity using the concepts of similarity scores and collaborative filtering.
Worked on design and implementation of follow feature to integrate social networking with the wynk platform using a graphical database.

Code ReviewGradleApache KafkaApache StormAmazon Web Services (AWS)Multithreading+14

Limeroad.com

Senior Software Development Engineer

Dec 2016 – Aug 2017 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Worked as part of supply chain team.
Involved in building and extending platform to integrate with various transporter, track the statuses and report the metrics.

Code ReviewGradleMultithreadingSoft SkillsArchitectureCreative Problem Solving+5

Flipkart

Software Development Engineer II

Mar 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Worked on customer engagement platform which is responsible for generating traffic for the product website through email, push and sms campaigns.
Involved in building and extending a scalable and robust platform which is capable of pushing communications across all prominent channels such as email, push notifications, in app notifications and sms.
Responsible for generating recommendations and creating flows to send out communications to the target customers.
Responsible for building core functionalities such as notify me and big data consumption to create customer group to be targeted for campaigns.

Code ReviewGradleMultithreadingSoft SkillsArchitectureCreative Problem Solving+4

Oracle india pvt. ltd

Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

Worked in server technology group at Indian Development Centre, Bangalore.
Was responsible for developing and maintaining RMAN client for various releases of Oracle databases.
Worked for the development of upcoming features such Oracle Availability Machine.

Soft Skills

Ericsson research and development india.

Intern

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

Calculated similarity between on-net and off-net subscribers.
Predicted the probability for a churn in the network.
Built a graphical database representing interactions among subscribers over a period of time using Neo4J.

Soft Skills