Pranay Borkar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led design of PhonePe's Dispute Management System.
Improved data discovery performance by 2x at Oracle.
Mentored junior developers and interns across multiple roles.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer in the Fintech and SaaS industries.

Contact

pranay.borkar@phonepe.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Api DesignDistributed SystemsData SecuritySensitive Data DiscoveryData Masking

Other Skills

AerospikeAlgorithm DesignAnalytical SkillsBack-End Web DevelopmentCC++CSSCloud-Native ApplicationsCombinatoricsCommunicationComputer ScienceData ScienceData Structures and AlgorithmsDatabase Management System (DBMS)Database Modeling

About

Senior Software Engineer with around 7 years of experience building scalable systems and platforms, currently leading PhonePe’s Dispute Management System. My work focuses on system architecture, API design with a strong foundation in Java, SQL, and distributed systems. Previously at Oracle, I worked on Oracle Data Safe and optimized core components enhancing data discovery and masking performance at scale. I’m especially interested in designing resilient backend architectures and exploring the intersection of systems and machine learning.

Experience

8 yrs

Total Experience

5 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Phonepe

Software Engineer

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Working as part of common platform team with primary ownership of
Dispute Management System
Contributed in some of the major onboardings on dispute platform.
Proposed, designed and developed API layer for the dispute platform to be used by
PhonePe merchants.
Integrated with different fraud detection services to detect frauds in chargeback flows.
Implemented transaction-level proactive hold functionality for chargebacks with maker
checker support to minimize PhonePe’s loss.
Contributed in stabilization of product by improving monitoring for service. Currently
working on improving visibility of disputes and response collection flow.
Leads team of 4 engineers and mentors them and is actively involved in hiring process

AerospikeGitAPI DesignDistributed Systems

Oracle

2 roles

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs

1. For OCI Native migration of service, was responsible for design, development and delivery of Discovery and Masking features and developed unit test framework using SPOCK.
2. Made significant improvements in core algorithm of Sensitive Data Discovery improving performance by around 2x on bigger targets. Also, optimized CRUD operations of different resources to reduce execution time in high latency environment.
3. Improved Sensitive Data Discovery accuracy by iteratively getting Product Managers/Customer feedback. Solved some difficult problems in Masking like generating random strings with constraints.
4. Proposed enhancement in Sensitive Data Discovery to support relational databases like MSSQL/MySQL and created POC for it. Currently working on proposal for confidence score computation for matched being done.
5. Mentors junior developers and summer interns and is active member of interview panel for campus hiring across different colleges.

MultithreadingGitData SecuritySensitive Data Discovery

Member of the Technical Staff

Jun 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Works on Data Safe SaaS product, which is next generation Data Security solution deployed in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Contributed in building backend features like Sensitive Data Discovery and Data Masking for the service.

MultithreadingGitData SecurityData Masking

Edelweiss financial services limited

Software Engineer Internship

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked with technology team to get an idea of software development at production environment.
1. Built a real time tool to create monitoring dashboard for service using ELK stack.
2. Developed an interactive chatbot for FAQs using rasa.ai.