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
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