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Dhaval Bhanderi

Dhaval Bhanderi

Engineering Manager
Mumbai

Summary

Results-oriented engineering leader with 12+ years of experience in developing large-scale distributed systems in Agile environments.

Well recognized for strategic planning, technical vision and roadmap, and end-to-end project execution.

Managed and mentored a 20-member high-performing engineering team, driving collaboration, accountability, and career growth.

Passionate about solving complex problems, optimizing for scale, and building high-impact teams.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Dream11
03.2023 - Current
  • Owned and developed multiple org-wide critical multi-tenant platforms (Gateway, Auth & User, Communications) powering 750M+ RPM peak traffic, and serving approximately ~280M users.
  • Led a 20-member team; hiring, firing, performance appraisals, 1:1, and coaching senior ICs and emerging managers
  • Defined and executed long-term technical vision and roadmap for platforms owned, aligned with the company's growth goals.
  • Defined and rolled out org-wide Software MIS, enabling leadership to track execution health, review risks early, and make data-driven prioritization decisions.
  • Established cost- and quality-focused processes, reducing waste and increasing stability.
  • Drove adoption of platforms to 11 tenants, collaborating with tenants, product managers, and designers across BU's

Engineering Manager

Netcore Cloud
05.2019 - 03.2023
  • Hired and managed DevOps team from scratch (8 engineers), and established strong foundation of CI/CD, and release practices.
  • Reduced environmental stability and consistency issues by 30% through containerization, automation, and the adoption of configuration management tools.
  • Pioneered the migration of approximately 150 microservices to AWS, significantly improving scalability, deployment velocity, and operational consistency.
  • Led re-architecture of multiple services to handle a scale of over 1B+ events/day, improving throughput, and reducing campaign processing time by 2.5x.
  • COE for AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and EFK, influencing org-wide platform architecture, and engineering best practices.

Technical Lead

Pepperfry.com
04.2018 - 05.2019
  • Architected an end-to-end AWS Data Lake to support company-wide BI and analytics initiatives
  • Managed development of multiple Microservices like Product Listing, E-Wallet, Gift Registry etc
  • Managed and mentored a 7-member engineering team , owning delivery, performance management, and career development

Module Lead

ZEDO
05.2013 - 04.2018
  • Developed and maintained high-throughput, unit-testable AdServer, RTB, and data-processing modules in Java, handling over 300M daily requests and over 1TB of data per day.
  • Managed 80+ EC2 instances and Kubernetes clusters. Optimized for storage and compute costs.
  • Designed and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines (Git/Jenkins), enabling reliable, automated releases.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications

K.J Somaiya Institute of Engineering And IT
Mumbai, India
04.2001 -

Skills

Java, MySQL, Redis, Kafka

Software

Java(Spring Boot)

AWS, Devops

MySQL, Redis

Kafka

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Dream11
03.2023 - Current

Engineering Manager

Netcore Cloud
05.2019 - 03.2023

Technical Lead

Pepperfry.com
04.2018 - 05.2019

Module Lead

ZEDO
05.2013 - 04.2018

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications

K.J Somaiya Institute of Engineering And IT
04.2001 -
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