Pavan V

VP of Engineering

United Arab Emirates17 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

17+ years of software engineering experience.
Led engineering teams for large scale fintech products.
Expertise in building products from seed to IPO.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Logistics engineering leader with extensive experience in product development and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct DevelopmentLogistics EngineeringApi ManagementPayments EngineeringBackend Engineering

Other Skills

AI toolsAPI DevelopmentAPI developmentAPIsAWSAgile MethodologiesCC++Code reviewsCore JavaCustomer serviceData StructuresData engineeringElasticSearchEquity product development

About

Building the next billion dollar products of Moniepoint. - Leading technology for 50+ product engineers of cross-functional teams. Actively mentoring EMs and Directors of Engg - Responsible for arch, technical strategy and direction on tech decisions - Working with executive stakeholders and leaders to improve the engg processes and raise the bar on software quality across the org - Improving visibility on Engg metrics to aid execution optimisation of my teams Key roles in Past: Head of Engg at Gojek, building large scale logistics 1p, 3p and 4p 7+ years as Engineering Manager & Platform arch at Moneytap, Ezetap CTO of Basis, Fintech for Women. Exp Summary: - 17+ years of software engineering experience, 7+ years of building large scale teams - Experience building products from ground up and scaling them. Startup lifecycle from Seed stage to series E, including IPO, M&A - Strong expertise in fintech - payments and lending, marketplace, network security - People-first technology leader, leading by example

Experience

17 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Moniepoint group

Vice President of Engineering

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Remote

Heading engineering for two strategic Products of Moniepoint - Moniebook & Moniedesk.
Tinkering with AI tools to enhance productivity and quality of code and engineering prowess of my teams.
Moniebook is a suite of business management tools that would cater to the needs of SME and retail business owners. Building product and team from scratch.
Init - May 2024
Beta - Mar 2025
Out of Beta Aug 2025
Currently serving 50k merchants, 10k active subscriptions.
Moniedesk -AI assisted and seamless customer service and support for all the fintech products of Moniepoint across Nigeria and UK via offline, online, branch and kiosk channels.

AI toolsEngineering managementProduct development

Gojek

Head of Engineering

Nov 2021 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Joined Gojek as an Senior EM to lead the on-demand logistics engineering team that manages APIs and platforms to provide <4h and Sameday premium delivery experience to integrating e-commerce partners (tokopedia, shopee, bukalapak) and tech enabled businesses (halodoc, air-asia food, Kopi K).
At my last role as Head of Engineering for GoTo Logistics, I was responsible for building a suite of transport management applications that solve end-to-end logistics with hubs, SoCs and warehouses and provide low-cost, highly reliable, integrated delivery experience. Managed a team of >25 engineers across backend (Java, Golang, Postgresql, Rabbitmq, Redis) , mobile apps, cloud platform (GCP) and data engineering (debezium CDC). Developed expertise on efficient batching, clustering and route (VRP) generation for on-demand delivery.

APIsLogistics engineeringJavaGolangPostgreSQLAPI management

Moneytap

Engineering Manager

Apr 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Led a 15+ engineering team @ MoneyTap Vietnam. Code reviews, team/developer productivity, solution designing, sprint planning and execution, managing AWS & other infrastructure, building monitoring pipelines are my day-to-day activities. Responsible for the architecture and delivery of our VN products.

AWSCode reviewsSprint planningEngineering management

Ezetap mobile solutions pvt. ltd

3 roles

Senior Technical Architect - Payments Platform and Data engineering

Jan 2019 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Architecting Ezetap CNP 2.0 (SmsPay). Built POCs for integrations with various CNP products, such as Stripe, CyberSource - VISA.
Designed Subscription model to enable billing for POS Hardware-As-A-Service.
Managed delivery of critical projects for AMAZON, AIRTEL & HDFC merchants, with focus on sprint plans, design and code reviews.
Logic Based Routing of card transactions for saving on MDR and higher card processing success rate.
Data Pipeline to move data from MySQL and Mongo to CrateDB and Redshift for multiple use-cases.
Monitoring - API Success rates, Error thresholds
Business offers - SKU Cashback and instant discounts framework
Performance engineering - Focused on mainly testing our systems for expected TPS and production configuration of various components.
Elastic stack, Kafka, AWS S3, Redshift, Elastalert

Payments platformData engineeringAWSKafkaPayments engineering

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

Responsible for scalability implementation of the Ezetap core platform.
Built Circuit breaking support for External APIs and Payment gateways for seamless merchant UX.
Built serveral microservices for our core payment platform using Spring Cloud Netflix.
Built observability with Log analysis using ELK and diagnostics

MicroservicesSpring CloudLog analysisBackend engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2014 – Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

Built 'Mobile wallet SDK', using which developers can add new wallet integrations on Ezetap payment platform.
Built 'Mobile Wallet Acceptance' at Ezetap. - Designed a plugin-like system to integrate with m-wallet providers out in the market. And successfully integrated ezetap payment platform with m-wallet providers: PayTM, Mobikwik, Novopay and Freecharge.
Lead developer for 'Ezetap - Experiments team' - Worked on merchant insights.
Built EMI platform for our mPOS.
Developed APIs in our platform independent library (EPIC).
Developed a protocol buffer message-driven SDK for windows and linux platform.
Integrated our CNP payment server with AMEX Ezeclick, Citrus Pay.

Mobile wallet SDKAPI developmentPayments engineering

Basis

Chief Technology Officer

Jun 2018 – Dec 2018 · 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Built a Engineering Team and worked on an Equity product for Emerging Investors with focus on equity markets education and trusty investing experience.

Equity product developmentTeam buildingProduct development

Redseal, inc.

Member of Technical Staff

Mar 2013 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Worked on building web-apps for network vulnerability discovery and remediation for large networks

Web-app developmentNetwork vulnerability

Centina systems, inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2010 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

ACQUIRED by CIENA
Product: NetOmnia , a carrier-grade NMS.
Project#1 Scalable cable modem performance grading and passive equipment modeling for a massive 1,000,000 Modem network.
Project#2 Dynamic network performance consolidation and charting enhancements using High-charts. Worked on the script generation engine.
Project#3 Asynchronous SNMP enhancements for scaling for huge networks.
Technologies: J2EE, JBoss, SEAM Framework, EJB, Hibernate, JMS, JSF, XML, MYSQL, Scripting (shell, perl, python), SNMP, TL1, ASCII protocols.

Network managementPerformance engineering