Prateek Gupta

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led large-scale architectural transformations.
  • Improved merchant data accuracy by ~90%.
  • Scaled engineering teams from 4 to 30 engineers.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Ecommerce engineering leader with expertise in cloud-native applications and microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementCloud-native ApplicationsEngineering LeadershipMicroservicesApache KafkaStreaming ServicesCloud ServicesDatabase ManagementWeb Crawling

Other Skills

Stakeholder ManagementSkill DevelopmentTeam ManagementCommunicationLeadershipTeam Buildingengineering excellenceLeadership DevelopmentHazelcastPostgreSQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)PerlRedisGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)pubsub

About

Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience building, scaling, and leading high-performing engineering organizations across fintech, ecommerce, digital media, telecom, and healthcare domains. Proven track record of leading multiple teams, delivering cloud-native, high-availability platforms, and driving large-scale architectural and organizational transformations. Strong people-first leader experienced in hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers and managers, while partnering closely with product, business, and compliance leaders to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Experience

14 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Moniepoint group

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Lead three cross-functional engineering teams owning core revenue and compliance-critical platforms within the Monnify business unit, including merchant onboarding, disbursements, bill payments, and value-added services
  • Own delivery and execution for merchant KYC, compliance screening, and address verification charters, improving merchant data accuracy by ~90% and strengthening regulatory posture
  • Led the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale bill payments platform, contributing to ~25% revenue growth for the Monnify business unit
  • Drive quarterly and annual engineering roadmaps in close collaboration with product, compliance, and business leaders
  • Own hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, feedback cycles, and career development for engineers; actively mentor senior ICs into technical and people leadership roles
  • Ensure platform scalability, availability, and operational excellence for high-volume financial transactions
Stakeholder ManagementSkill DevelopmentEngineering ManagementTeam ManagementCommunicationLeadership+40

Wasoko

2 roles

Senior Principal Engineer and engineering leader

Promoted

Apr 2023Apr 2024 · 1 yr · Remote

  • Played a dual role as engineering manager and technical leader, building and scaling the India engineering organization from 4 to 30 engineers across multiple product teams
  • Built and led teams responsible for order management, pricing, logistics, warehouse integrations, and security platforms supporting multi-country operations
  • Led the strategic migration from a monolithic Ruby application to domain-driven microservices (Java/Spring Boot), significantly improving scalability, reliability, and development velocity
  • Architected hub-and-spoke operational models and location-based pricing and offer systems to support regional business expansion
  • Designed and delivered a centralized authentication and authorization platform supporting multiple applications and fine-grained role-based access control
  • Led the full cloud migration from DigitalOcean to Google Cloud Platform, improving operational maturity, observability, and system reliability
  • Defined hiring strategy, interview processes, onboarding, and performance frameworks for a rapidly scaling engineering org
JavaSkill Developmentengineering excellencepubsubEngineering LeadershipLeadership Development+9

Principal Engineer

May 2021Apr 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Remote

  • As a founding engineer in India team, grasped the knowledge base of existing product developed. First task was to reduce product listing response time on mobile app. Devised strategy and developed API which could deliver product listing within < 300ms compare to >2 sec earlier.
  • Lead the migration from monolith to microservices (Ruby to java/springboot)
  • Developed central security system which would enable users/customers/agents to login from respective apps and allowed them access based on roles assigned them. Application was developed with so much flexibility that every feature and access to it could be controlled by permissions and roles
  • Lead the migration of entire project from Digital Ocean cloud to GCP cloud
  • Increased team size in India from 4 to 30 while playing role of Architect as well as EM
  • Developed a notification service which supports SMS/EMAIL/Push notification over single API and could send notification in bulk asynchoronously
Skill Developmentmulti-tenant architectureMicroservicesCommunicationStakeholder ManagementEngineering Management+4

Tivo

2 roles

Staff Engineer

Jul 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

  • Lead development of Start over/catch up feature
  • Designed high level and low level of Pubstream 2.0 system which would be more scalable and faster compare to old service. This helped in faster processing of packages and contents lined up
  • On demand deployment of services on AWS
  • Migration of legacy pubmind system to latest stack and mongo DB as database
kafka streamsMongoDBApache KafkaMicroservicesCommunicationCore Java+1

Sr. Engineer, software development

May 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · On-site

  • Enhancement and development of legacy content streaming system which processes a million datapoints of live TV metadata content
  • Increased UT coverage of services under VOD ecosystem from <50% to >85%
  • Service migration from legacy perforce to Github
kafka streamsMongoDBApache KafkaAmazon Web Services (AWS)Core JavaSpring Boot+2

Target

Sr. Engineer (Asso. technical architect)

Jul 2016May 2017 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • As a senior engineer in team, my work was to maintain existing system and resolve bugs in them
  • Design and developed low level solution to store and process weekly capacity of warehouses and stores
  • Removed dependency over hazelcast for intra instance communication and replaced that with Kafka
  • Started covering all services in team with unit tests which were missing earlier
CassandraApache KafkaCore JavaOracleSpring BootPostgreSQL+3

Rakuten india

SDE3

Jun 2015Jul 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Working as a team lead as well as developer for crawler engine. Currently I am managing already developed services by running and publishing the results of various crawlers which are crawling data of Amazon, Ebay like e-commerce web sites in different countries which are helpful in looking of competitions for Rakuten BU’s.
  • Along with managing operations we are creating a crawler engine using Nutch and solr technologies majorly for crawling data of all items across multiple e-commerce website. For now concentrating on a single web site with a vision to extend it to other web sites also.
Apache KafkaMySQLHibernateCore JavajsoupWeb Crawling+1

Bt

Analyst

May 2013Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Development and design of solutions for Autofix knowledge base for a number of different issues and monitoring the work done by vendor (Virtusa).
  • Using technologies like getaFix framework, Core java, Oracle 10g, GWT.

Tech mahindra

Technical Associate

Dec 2010May 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • 3 months extensive training program on UNIX, core java, J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL and software lifecycle management.
  • Projects with AT&T and MCD(Municipality corporation of delhi) with web technologies Struts 1.2 and Struts 2.0, Core java, JSP, Servlets, Hibernate, MYSQL and DB2 Database.
  • Involvement in end-to-end development with front end design, class diagrams, code design and development, database schema and table design.

Education

Amity University

B.Tech — Computer Science

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