Deepak Panwar
Senior Software Engineer
Bengaluru
Summary
Software Engineering professional with 12+ years of experience in developing robust, scalable applications across Fintech, payments, and media platforms. Strong expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Clean Architecture, MVVM, and MVI, AI development with a focus on building maintainable and high-performance mobile systems. Currently contributing to the consumer mobile platform at PayPal, delivering secure and compliant experiences for (P2P) payments used by millions globally. Experienced in developing mobile platforms integrated with REST and GraphQL services, server-driven UI, and analytics instrumentation for data-driven product development. Proven ability to collaborate with backend, platform, risk, compliance, and product teams to deliver complex Fintech features aligned with regulatory requirements. Passionate about technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and driving architecture decisions to build reliable, scalable mobile platforms.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
PayPal
06.2021 - Current
- Implemented regulatory and compliance workflows including Customer Identification Program (CIP) and country-specific requirements, ensuring adherence to global Fintech security and regulatory standards.
- Led the design and development of a scalable provisioning SDK enabling country-specific product and feature activation, ensuring regulatory compliance and accelerating global feature launches.
- Established end-to-end analytics instrumentation (FPTI funnels) to track user journeys, conversions, and drop-offs across P2P and Crypto provisioning flows, enabling data-driven product decisions.
- Provided technical leadership and mentorship by driving design reviews, sprint planning, and code quality practices while collaborating with backend, risk, compliance, product, and analytics teams to deliver reliable, high-quality releases.
- Built native mobile features integrated with REST and GraphQL services and enabled Server-Driven UI architecture, accelerating feature rollout and enabling dynamic product experimentation without frequent app releases.
- Translated country-specific regulatory requirements (URS) into scalable mobile solutions supporting multi-region deployments within the **PayPal consumer platform.
- Strengthened mobile security, performance, and release quality by mitigating vulnerabilities and implementing robust testing strategies including unit and UI automation.
Senior Android Developer
Airtel Payments Bank
03.2018 - 05.2021
- Lead UPI feature team and building features on Airtel Thanks: UPI payments, Master Card Integration, Payments Option, Mandate ,UPI Onboarding (Seamless Flow For Airtel Customer), Thanks Page For Transaction etc.
- Collaborated with engineering team member, system analysts, and product owners regarding product capabilities and limitations to deliver optimal functionality.
- Designed and Developed Single UPI QR Scanner for all payments and it was loved by customer while using it.
- Worked on Airtel SafePay feature right from beginning R&D phase.
- Keeping track of performance, scalability, and security issues in application development and provided solution for those.
- Managed and coordinated with internal/external teams for variety of technical or non-technical needs like specifications, concepts, designs, APIs, SDKs etc.
- Worked closely with master-card team for end-to-end encryption decryption of show card/ set pin feature.
- Communicated technical risks and benefits to management and key stakeholders.
- Participated in design and planning exercises for future software rollouts.
- Played major role in UI modifications, architectural decisions, feature grooming relatively to mobile application to improve product quality.
- Managed tasks within JIRA workflows by closely collaborating with scrum master and make sure to deliver and track all task timely.
- Worked closely with tools like Source-Tree, Git, Jira, Jenkins.
- In Depth knowledge of Architecting Application Design using proper architecture components (MVVM, MVP, MVC), Hands on experience with developing in Kotlin/JAVA.
- Gathered experience with optimizing application runtime using Heap Analyzing, Memory monitor, Layout hierarchy viewer, Developer Option Check GPU Utilization.
- Designed and developed UPI Onboarding feature to boost up fresh registration count. After this 80% of fresh registration happened from this journey.
Senior Software Engineer
A-1 Technology Inc (Lead Android Consultant At Reliance Jio Infocomm)
03.2015 - 03.2018
- Lead team of three members and build multiple features on JioCinema now JioHotstar.
- Collaborated with JioTv team on building EPG grid and ExoPlayer integration.
- Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential system solutions based on evolving product requirements.
- Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs.
- Evaluated project requirements and specifications and developed software applications that surpassed product expectations.
- Handled multiple assignments concurrently in cross-functional teams and perform code reviews among android development team.
- Worked on ExoPlayer enhancement and customization to meet product requirement.
- Gathered experience in Troubleshooting and Debugging Skills, problem solving using effective approach.
- Built, tested and deployed scalable, highly available and modular software products, which has 20+ million active users.
- Developed various modules and handled small team of technical members to deliver features on projected timeline.
Software Engineer
Live Deftsoft Informatics Pvt Ltd
11.2013 - 03.2015
- Worked closely with product and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
- Interacted with clients for requirement analysis, proposal development and incrementally suggested changes to product.
- Worked on 4 project from scratch and delivered successfully as per client requirement.
- Worked closely with clients, gathering documents and preparing solutions for features and also published app's on Google Play for company.
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering
Lovely Professional University
Punjab06.2012
Skills
Mobile app architecture
Kotlin, Java expertise
Adaptive layouts
Dependency injection
Performance optimization
Design patterns
Cross-platform development (KMM)
Offline storage
Code refactoring
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
PayPal
06.2021 - Current
Senior Android Developer
Airtel Payments Bank
03.2018 - 05.2021
Senior Software Engineer
A-1 Technology Inc (Lead Android Consultant At Reliance Jio Infocomm)
03.2015 - 03.2018
Software Engineer
Live Deftsoft Informatics Pvt Ltd
11.2013 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering
Lovely Professional University