SACHIN TALEKAR
Summary
Engineering Leader with 10+ years of experience designing and scaling software solutions across Real Estate, E-commerce, Finance, and Media Streaming. Expertise in backend architecture, team leadership, and delivering secure, cost-efficient systems. Proven track record in optimizing cloud costs, accelerating developer productivity, and aligning technology with business objectives. Currently exploring GenAI integration in backend systems to drive use-case discovery and architecture readiness. Passionate about mentoring, system design, and building high-performing, innovation-driven engineering teams.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Lead Software Engineer - Backend
Lodha Group
04.2022 - Current
- A leading real estate developer focused on creating premium residential spaces.
- Spearheaded the development of a real estate tech platform used by over 10,000 residents across premium townships.
- Leading the strategic migration of all backend microservices to TypeScript, enhancing code maintainability, and type safety across the project.
- Led development of a real estate tech platform adopted by 10,000+ residents across premium townships.
- Scaled the engineering team from 2 to 25, boosting sprint throughput by 40%, and achieving over 90% unit test coverage.
- Optimized AWS infrastructure, reducing cloud costs by 35% without impacting performance.
- Enhanced MongoDB query efficiency, cutting database response time by 37%, and improving system throughput.
- Delivered over 100 major features, increasing the Net Promoter Score (NPS) by 18 points through cross-team collaboration.
- Mentored engineers, driving collaboration, ownership, and innovation within the team.
- Introduced data-driven decision-making, boosting engagement, and retention.
Software Development Engineer Level 2
Fitternity
02.2020 - 04.2022
- A health and fitness platform connecting users with wellness options
- Engineered backend systems powering over 21,000 fitness partners, 75+ corporates, and 11 million users.
- Refactored Elasticsearch and caching, improving query performance by 42% and reducing page load latency.
- Designed scalable services to handle 30% year-over-year traffic growth with robust retry and fallback mechanisms.
- Built subscription, PayPerSession, and real-time booking features to drive revenue growth.
Software Engineer
HDFC Life
04.2018 - 02.2020
- A leading life insurance company providing various financial services
- Developed a dynamic partner journey onboarding engine for 15+ integration partners.
- Developed a dynamic partner onboarding engine, enabling integration with 15+ external partners.
- Built a React + Node.js platform adopted by 250K+ users through the HDFC Securities portal.
- Enhanced system scalability and user experience through modular backend design.
Associate Software Engineer
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
06.2016 - 03.2018
- A major telecommunications company providing high-speed internet and mobile services
- Built core APIs for Jio Cinema, a content platform with 40M+ users and 100K+ assets.
- Delivered high-availability services for streaming, metadata sorting, and personalized recommendations.
- Optimized streaming APIs, improving speed, stability, and engagement for millions of users.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Ramrao Adik College of Engineering
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra06.2016
Diploma - Information Technology
Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Technology
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra06.2013
Skills
Agile
Proficient in TypeScript
AWS
Elasticsearch
Code review proficiency
API development
Software architecture design
Performance optimization
Advanced debugging
Technical leadership
JavaScript
MongoDB
Nginx
NoSQL
React with Redux
Redis
Skilled in building applications using Nodejs
Microservices architecture
Certification
Certificate in AI Agents and Agenetic AI — Vanderbilt University, July 2025
Accomplishments
- Circle of Excellence, Lodha Group
- This initiative drove BelleVie’s growth by integrating Lodha Group, showcasing exceptional coordination and technology in customer-facing functions. Grateful for the support from my incredible team, colleagues, and mentors at Lodha Group.
- Student President for Technical Committee
- Served as Student President for the Technical Committee (ISTE-RAIT), leading technical initiatives and enhancing student engagement
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer - Backend
Lodha Group
04.2022 - Current
Software Development Engineer Level 2
Fitternity
02.2020 - 04.2022
Software Engineer
HDFC Life
04.2018 - 02.2020
Associate Software Engineer
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
06.2016 - 03.2018
Diploma - Information Technology
Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Ramrao Adik College of Engineering