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Sandesh Damkondwar

CEO

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India12 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 12+ years of expertise in web app development.
  • Reduced CI pipeline time from 50 to 10 minutes.
  • Mentored engineers across the organization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Frontend-focused engineer with extensive experience in Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavascriptReactGraphql

Other Skills

Node.jsParcelSpinnakerJavaPlaywrightBitbucketRelayCI/CDPerformance OptimizationMonitoringAlertingWebpackBabel.jsTypeScriptGithub action

About

Enthusiasm: Engineer specializing in front-end development What I’m completely into: I have 12+ years of expertise in building web apps from scratch to provide the base foundation for building highly scalable web applications for end consumers, clients, and internal employees. Day-to-day tech: Webpack, React, Redux, TypeScript, GraphQL, NodeJS, Express, Cypress, Vue, Babel, Kubernetes, Docker Back-end & Frameworks: NodeJS, Express, Java, Go Day-to-day/responsibilities work: - Provide mentorship to enthusiast engineers for free who are still studying in engineering college - https://bit.ly/3xAKYbD - Run the cross pod operational excellence program - Set the template/guidelines for writing tech specs - Set the resume screening guidelines for TA & tech panels - Set the format for FE engineering interview rounds - Setup the Bootcamp programs for freshers & monitor onboarding - Mentor engineers across organisation - Setup the common PR review guidelines - Setup the custom dashboards for monitoring the performance of the applications The frontend world is fast-moving, how do I keep myself up to date? - Read articles on Medium, - Follow dev advocates/OS contributors/interesting dev profiles on Twitter - Subscribed to newsletters like JSK daily, DailyJS, EchoJS More about me: https://bit.ly/3xwI3An

Experience

12 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 10 mos
Current Experience

Atlassian

Principal Engineer

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Development & Technical Leadership
  • Cut CI pipeline time from 50 → 10 minutes by resolving memory bottlenecks, migrating to PNPM, and enabling parallel builds.
  • Reviewed BRDs/PRDs and design specs to align engineering with business outcomes, and owned end-to-end execution to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.
  • Built a comprehensive monitoring and alerting stack across frontend & backend, reducing MTTA from 1 hour -> less than 5 minutes.
  • Org Building & Mentorship
  • Defined the frontend vision, set OKRs, and drove org-wide alignment to scale execution and raise engineering standards.
  • Mentored engineers across levels, enabling them to deliver features with strong ownership across functional and non-functional areas.
JavaScriptNode.jsReactParcelSpinnakerJava+4

Razorpay

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

  • Development & Technical Contributions:
  • Rearchitect the PHP based monolith app into Progressive Web App, improving merchant experience and boosting product key metrics by 1.5x.
  • Reduced errors from 7000/hr → ~15/hr and improved crash-free sessions from ~50% → 99.9% via real-time alerting and
  • monitoring system.
  • Introduced canary analysis, cutting production incidents by 3x.
  • Created CI/CD pipelines, added multiple hygiene checks on build and deploy pipeline.
  • Reduced bundle size from ~5MB to 500KB, significantly optimizing performance.
  • Re-architected Card Transaction OTP service, eliminating third-party dependencies, saving ₹65L+/month, and boosting card
  • transactions coverage from 13% → 45% and transactions success rate from 80% → 90%
  • Organizational Impact & Leadership:
  • Worked closely with CTO and senior ICs on org-level technical strategy.
  • Set frontend vision and OKRs for ~50 engineers across squads.
  • Authored tech spec templates, interview formats, resume screening guidelines, and designed campus hiring programs.
  • Built and automated fresher bootcamps to streamline onboarding.
  • Mentored leads/senior engineers on growth, delivery, and team leadership.
  • Awards & Recognition:
  • Rookie MVP – For leading FE OKRs and sunsetting monolith architecture in the first month.
  • Ace In The Race – For increasing card coverage from 13% to 45%.
  • Tesla Award – For reviving an orphaned project into a full-fledged product team.
  • Annual Award – For improving load time by 40% and crash-free sessions to 99.9%.
GraphQLWebpackReactBabel.jsTypeScriptGithub action+3

Lead Software Engineer

Sep 2020Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

Swiggy

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2017Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Rebuilt UI for Menu, Cart, and Checkout for high scale and performance; also integrated as WebViews within mobile apps.
  • Defined project scopes, created work schedules, and coordinated cross-functional teams for timely delivery.
  • Built architectural foundations for internal dashboards and Zone/Sub-zone definition systems
  • Contributed to Internal UI design system components
  • Developed custom data visualizations and tooling to showcase business metrics on map and identify gaps with competitors.
  • Maintained production build hygiene and CI stability across web platforms.

Zeta

Frontend Developer

Aug 2016Apr 2017 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Built lightweight Android and iOS webviews (~10KB bundle) to optimize mobile performance and load times.
  • Developed KYC onboarding flows using Aadhaar authentication, improving compliance and user experience.
  • Created a CLI tool to scaffold boilerplate code, accelerating webview-based app development and improving dev productivity.

Coupondunia

Front End Developer

Apr 2015Jan 2016 · 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Revamped the entire coupondunia.in website, leading to a 3.5x increase in organic traffic and improved SEO performance.
  • Migrated the platform from a Django-based monolith to a modern Single Page Application (SPA) architecture using React.

Mquotient

Software Engineer

Jun 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune, India

  • Built web app for converting captured/scanned images into digitally structured data with the
  • help of OCR engine.
  • Worked closely with CEO & CTO for designing app, estimations, planning & implementation.
  • Built web, android, iOS apps and took critical decisions to decide the tech stack for all these platforms.

Martjack

2 roles

Software Engineer

Aug 2012Jun 2013 · 10 mos

  • Built a product for generating static website for e-commerce clients
  • Built generalized customisable templates
  • Built performance stats dashboard

Frontend Intern

Sep 2011Aug 2012 · 11 mos

Education

Savitribai Phule Pune University

BE — Computer Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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