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 2024 – Present · 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.

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Razorpay

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Feb 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%.

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Lead Software Engineer

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

Swiggy

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2017 – Sep 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 2016 – Apr 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 2015 – Jan 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 2013 – Apr 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.