Sandeep Pandey

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 3 mos experience
AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Scaled RummyCircle revenue from $180M to $360M/year.
  • Built high-performance engineering teams across India & SEA.
  • Drove enterprise-wide AI adoption, improving incident resolution speed.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned engineering leader in Gaming and Fintech, specializing in scalable systems and AI integration.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipGenaiArchitectureJavaOperational EfficiencyHands-on Technical Leadership

Other Skills

Agentic AIAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkApache Spark StreamingAuroraBig DataBuilding Leadership TeamsBusiness GrowthContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Core JavaData MonitoringData StructuresDatabases

About

Hands-on engineering leader with decade of experience scaling high-performance platforms and building high-growth teams across Gaming, Fintech, Payments, and Marketplaces. At Games24x7, I led the $360M/year RummyCircle business, driving 22% CAGR growth with full P&L ownership. I scaled the engineering org from 4 → 30+ engineers, built 2nd-line leadership (EMs, Senior Engineers), and modernized platforms to stateless, DB-less architectures serving 3M+ games/day. I’m passionate about building resilient, scalable systems and driving measurable business outcomes through technology. Key Highlights Org Scaling → Built 50+ member teams across India & SEA, coaching EMs, Architects, and senior ICs. Business Impact → Scaled revenue from $180M → $360M/year at Games24x7. AI/GenAI Adoption → Drove enterprise-wide adoption of AI workflows → 30%+ velocity uplift, 90% faster incident resolution. Execution at Scale → Delivered 150+ cross-org initiatives, enabled 120+ concurrent experiments across 10M+ players, drove 40% infra savings. Thought Leadership → Published blogs (10K+ readership) on scalability, distributed systems, and experimentation culture. Previously, I built and scaled products at Traveloka (PayLater BU across SEA), OVO/Grab (OrderManagement System & Bill Payment business), Paytm (Movie Booking business,Paytm Bank Business), Amazon(Amazon Money Business),Snapdeal (Data Platform). 💡 What excites me: partnering with leadership teams to scale organizations, modernize platforms, and adopt Agentic AI/GenAI to unlock developer productivity and business growth.

Experience

13 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Keka hr

Director of Engineering

Jan 2026Present · 5 mos · Bangalore · Hybrid

  • Building AI first People OS!
Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipOperational Efficiency

Games24x7

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2024Nov 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

  • →Business Growth: Scaled RummyCircle from $250M → $450M in 2.5 years by leading critical features, end-to-end business operations, and aligning 100+ members & 50+ stakeholders across 20+ teams.
  • →Personalization: Built a server-side personalized lobby, boosting LTP by 13% and revenue by 3%.
  • →Stateless Rummy Engine: Designed a stateless game engine powering 5M games/day, 20K concurrent tables, and 100K concurrent players, reducing deployment time from 6 hrs → 20 mins. This architecture became a benchmark for other businesses (Ludo, Tournament variants).
  • →Database Segregation & Migration: Orchestrated an org-wide initiative spanning 20+ teams, 4+ businesses, 100+ dependencies to migrate from a monolithic DB (MySQL 5.6) to Aurora 8.0, enabling zero-downtime switchover, seamless TB-scale data migration, and long-term scalability.
  • →DB-less Rummy Engine Architecture: Pioneered the vision of a database-immune rummy engine, delivering ₹10 Cr+ extra revenue, 40% faster gameplay, and $1M+ cost savings over 5 years by trimming DB dependencies.
  • →Central system like ID generation: Designed a fault-tolerant, cost-efficient ID service, eliminating single points of failure and extending its use across Poker & Ludo businesses.
  • →Controlled Deployment Frameworks: Introduced a custom Blue-Green framework for asynchronous systems, transforming rummy rollouts and reducing blast radius from 100K players → just a few. This has made rollback 180X faster and saved numerous outages.
  • →GenAI Transformation: Led org-wide GenAI initiatives including Issue Responder24x7 (cut TAT from weeks → days), Spec-driven Test Case Generator (reduced QA effort from 3 days → 1 hr), and Rummy Simulation Utility (enabled device-free testing, boosting QA velocity).
  • →Process Excellence: Drove initiatives like standardized PR framework with templates, on-call & deployment journals, and API contract as a process. Established metrics tracking & feedback loops, embedding quality.
Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipGenAIAgentic AIArchitectureAurora+1

Engineering Manager

Oct 2020Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos · On-site

  • →Built & Scaled Experimentation Platform: Designed and led the development of an in-house experimentation engine, now the de-facto platform for all businesses (RummyCircle, My11Circle, PokerCircle), serving 10M+ users and empowering product & business stakeholders with rapid decision-making.
  • →New Currency Ecosystem: Spearheaded the design and rollout of the Money Multiplier system for RummyCircle, scaled to 100M+ users with 10K+ RPS concurrency, enabling seamless gameplay and monetization.
  • →Cross-Geo Leadership: Managed and grew high-performing engineering teams across India & Ukraine, driving collaboration and delivery across time zones.
  • →Team Growth & Mentorship: Scaled team from 3 to 11 engineers in just 1.5 years, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and technical excellence.
Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipJavaRedisAmazon Web Services (AWS)Spring Framework

Traveloka

Senior Technical Lead

Nov 2019Aug 2020 · 9 mos · Singapore · On-site

  • →Built PayLater business unit across SEA (Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand).
  • →Scaled team of 12 engineers across multi-country setup.
  • →Launched offline & split-pay features, impacting millions of transactions annually.

Grab

Engineering Lead

Jun 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Jakarta, Indonesia · On-site

  • →Built centralized Order Management Platform handling 5K TPS.
  • →Scaled Martech services (Campaign/Promo/Comm Manager) to 15K requests/sec across SEA.
  • →Managed distributed teams across Singapore, Bangalore, Jakarta.
Operational Efficiency

Paytm

Technical Lead

Sep 2016May 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

  • →Built & led a Movie Booking Business from scratch (millions of transactions) → 10K booking / second
  • →Designed Integration Framework → accelerated partner onboarding. →🔝80% faster onboarding
Hands-on Technical LeadershipJavaOperational Efficiency

Amazon

SDE-II

Jun 2016Sep 2016 · 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • → Contrinuted in Amazon transport team

Snapdeal

Senior SDE

Jun 2014Mar 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

  • Communication Engine Platform
  • →Implemented and Designed Data Handler to collect data of users activity going on various interfaces and then save these activities into an Advance Storage Database like HBase.
  • →Implemented & Designed Save Device Data Handler to fetch and store email & endpoint entries for users.
  • →Implemented Spark Streaming from Kafka to handle very fast consumption in Data-Handler
  • →Tech Stack : Java,Kafka,Mysql,Cassandra,HBase,Spark

Royal bank of scotland

Software Engineer

Jun 2012May 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Conflict Management System
  • →Developing Task Management Modules for the same.
  • →Writing server side code for client requirements.

Education

RKGIT

Bachelor of Technology — Computer Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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