Pranjal Patil

CTO

Dubai, United Arab Emirates13 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams for high-growth fintech products.
Expert in architecting scalable systems for millions of users.
Proven track record in mentoring and developing high-performing teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and B2C SaaS expert with extensive experience in scalable systems and team leadership.

Contact

pranjalpatil88@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Payment SystemsHands-on Technical LeadershipDistributed SystemsCross-functional Team LeadershipJavaApache KafkaMachine LearningData ScienceApache Spark Streaming

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSApache SparkBig Data AnalyticsBudget ManagementC#C++CassandraCloud-Native ArchitectureConcurrent ProgrammingData StructuresDatabasesElasticSearch

About

Seasoned hands-on software engineer with a passion for building, coaching, and mentoring high-performing teams that generate deep business value. In my professional journey, I've navigated through the complexities of software development, mastering the art of crafting intricate software architecture and algorithms, writing scalable, highly maintainable code to accommodate vast user bases, orchestrating cross-functional teams, refining operational processes, and engaging closely with product leaders to align with customer demands, among other key responsibilities.

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs

Current Experience

Moniepoint group

Head of Software Engineering

Jun 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Remote

Tech IC ownership of the core banking services responsible for the payment ledger & accounts, Identity & Access Management (IAM), and the notifications platform serving over 20M+ personal and business banking customers.
Designing and operating the mission-critical financial ledger that processes ~1B+ transactions daily, orchestrating ~$25B in monthly money movement while supporting ~100% YoY growth.
Architecting multi-currency, polyglot persistence capabilities in payments ledger to support moniepoint's worldwide expansion and hyper-growth scale.

JavaSQLPayment SystemsHands-on Technical LeadershipApache KafkaScalable Architecture+1

Kingmakers

2 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Hands-on leading customer acquisition and compliance engineering squads at Kingmakers, supporting 8M+ monthly active users.
Developing and scaling the zero-trust Identity & Access Management platform to facilitate global expansion into multiple markets (South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia).
Setting up and executing a multi-year roadmap to build a responsible gaming platform, solidifying Kingmakers’ position as the most trusted platform for responsible gaming across Africa.

Hands-on Technical LeadershipJavaGoReact.jsPostgreSQL

Principal Software Engineer

Feb 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Bootstrapped the tech for Kingmakers’ new fantasy sports product, SuperPicks, responsible for scaling it from 0 to 2M+ monthly active users across multiple countries (Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt).
Accountable for architecting, designing, and developing pivotal features of the products like scaling the real-time leaderboards to 1M+ concurrent users .
Collaborated with cross-functional leaders (Product & Engineering) to prioritize, refine and execute on critical business initiatives.

Distributed SystemsJavaReact.jsGoCross-functional Team Leadership

Careem

2 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Apr 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Transitioning into an engineering leadership role to further pursue my passion for software architecture, team development, and process optimization. Complete ownership and technical leadership for Careem’s Search, Catalog, and Taxonomy platform, which supports the company’s E-commerce and Q-commerce (food, grocery, pharmacy, etc.) business verticals, scaling it to handle over 50K+ daily orders.

Apache KafkaCassandraJavaGoPostgreSQL

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Apr 2020 · 10 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Led the supply domain engineering team for Careem’s newly launched food delivery service. Served as a people manager and tech lead, combining hands-on technical expertise with the responsibility of leading a team of six engineers to deliver technical solutions.

Distributed SystemsMySQLGoReact.jsJava

Booking.com

Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands · On-site

Part of the Sessions-Quality (SQ) Data Science/ ML team, where we focus on enhancing customer experience by predicting booking conversions for all users (approximately 20M+ DAU) on the booking.com platform.

Large-scale Data ProcessingMachine LearningData SciencePython (Programming Language)

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

At Ola Innovation Labs, I oversaw the real-time streaming analytics platform for the Ola Play platform. Prior to this , I was a member of the driver engagement platform team, which was responsible for the online training and engagement of over 1M drivers.

Apache Spark StreamingApache KafkaJava

Commerceiq

Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

I was a member of the Competitor Intelligence Product team that developed distributed crawlers to collect competitor SKU data from more than 50M+ product pages of competitor e-commerce sites such as amazon.com and walmart.com.

Tejas networks

R&D Engineer

Jul 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

I was building the TJ5500 Enterprise Network Management System for end-to-end network management with thousands of network elements and/or components.