GYANESHWAR PARDHI
Bangalore
Summary
Hands-on Engineering Manager with 14+ years coding & architecting high-throughput fintech and mobility platforms in Golang, serving millions of users and processing millions of daily transactions. Personally built instant cashback, lending-risk, and ride-hailing systems while leading teams — expert in microservices, Kafka, and large-scale distributed systems.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager II
Grab (GXS Bank)
02.2022 - Current
- Designed and built scalable APIs for rewards platform, enabling instant cashback for 1M+ customers, improving user transactions by 10%.
- Built lending risk engine using regulatory reports to detect repayment risks; enabled instant drawdown blocking for serious legal/credit issues — prevented SGD 1M+ in potential losses.
- Built and scaled CRM, Operations Portal, and real-time Chat systems supporting 1M+ user base with 1K+ concurrent active customers.
- Led design of reusable banking platform (rewards, lending, CRM) now live in 2 banks and deployable to any new bank with minimal changes; proactively optimized resources, saving 25% in annual AWS costs.
SDE II
SIXT R & D India
04.2019 - 02.2022
- Designed and built core ride-hailing APIs and microservices powering SIXT’s mobility platform across 100+ countries serving millions of customers annually.
- Owned on-demand and pre-booked ride fulfillment workflows; implemented proactive resolution logic that reduced ride cancellations by 20%.
- Implemented real-time flight & private-jet tracking for airport rides, improving ETA accuracy by 35% and boosting airport ride satisfaction.
Senior Software Engineer
Landmark Group
04.2017 - 04.2019
- Built and scaled Shukran loyalty platform APIs serving 14M+ active members across 50+ retail brands (Lifestyle, Max, SPAR, HomeCentre, etc).
- Integrated Siebel CRM with real-time loyalty services via high-throughput batch processing – enabled instant points/offer visibility for millions of daily transactions.
- Designed a digital content production system that reduced asset creation cycle from 1 week to
Senior Development Engineer
Lenskart
08.2015 - 03.2017
- Built franchise POS dashboards and optimized order placement pipeline – reduced end-to-end order processing time from 8 sec to
- Developed real-time inventory tracking & GRN system for manufacturers – eliminated 98% of barcode/product mapping errors and cut dispatch delays by 40%.
- Designed an intelligent warehouse picking algorithm that reduced average order dispatch time by 55% across 3 warehouses.
Senior Software Engineer
HolidayIQ.com
07.2011 - 08.2015
- Built core REST APIs and multi-modal How to Reach routing engine powering web/mobile apps for 10M+ annual travelers.
- Developed Apache Solr-based content moderation tool that reduced duplicate user-generated content by 85%.
Education
B.E. - Computer Science
Jabalpur Engineering College
06.2010
Skills
Golang, PHP, Java, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, DynamoDB, Go-micro, Spring-boot, Kafka messaging system, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Datadog, Terraform, Git, Redis, Cursor, Github Copilot
Timeline
Engineering Manager II
Grab (GXS Bank)
02.2022 - Current
SDE II
SIXT R & D India
04.2019 - 02.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Landmark Group
04.2017 - 04.2019
Senior Development Engineer
Lenskart
08.2015 - 03.2017
Senior Software Engineer
HolidayIQ.com
07.2011 - 08.2015
B.E. - Computer Science
Jabalpur Engineering College