SATENDRA PRATAP
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Summary
Experienced Lead Software Engineer with 7 years in backend development, specializing in scalable microservices architecture, system optimization, and team leadership. Proven track record of driving significant performance improvements and leading complex projects from concept to delivery in high-demand environments. Adept at mentoring junior engineers and enhancing team productivity, with a strong focus on delivering high-quality, scalable solutions.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
Goibibo-MakeMyTrip Group
Bangalore
02.2025 - Current
- Led the Spotlight project, enhancing hotel rankings in the funnel, increasing sellability, and securing additional commission from hotels. This initiative contributed to a $40 million increase in GMV per month.
- Making architectural decisions and mentoring senior engineers.
Senior Software Engineer - II
Goibibo-MakeMyTrip Group
Bangalore
01.2023 - 01.2025
- Implemented InstaOnboard using GPT-4o and the gpt-4-vision-preview model, pre-filling all required data for faster hotel onboarding. This reduced host onboarding time from an average of 50 hours to just 10 minutes, decreased the dropout rate from 45% to 15%, and increased 2k+ room nights per day.
- Led hotelier voucher unification, adding price breakdowns and voucher management features, boosting transparency and engagement to drive over 10k+ daily room nights for MakeMyTrip.
- Led a project to secure customer PII by implementing the AES-CBC algorithm for data encryption and integrating AWS KMS for key management, enhancing data security and compliance.
- Implemented smart pricing and dynamic coupon strategy, optimizing pricing based on real-time demand, market trends, and customer behavior, resulting in a $0.5 million increase in GMV per month.
- Migrated rates and inventory service to an asynchronous Kafka-based workflow, boosting system scalability to handle up to 50K requests per minute, effectively decoupling the service from large request bursts.
- Optimized hotel search response size by implementing deduplication logic, achieving a 35-40% reduction in response size, leading to a 30% decrease in search latency, and lowered network costs.
- Implemented a special cancellation policy feature, designed to provide additional benefits for MyBiz customers. This initiative resulted in a 10% increase in bookings per day.
- Orchestrated the archival process for data in major tables, with approximately 1.2 billion records, ensuring minimal downtime and comprehensive monitoring.
- Investigated production issues reported by users and provided timely resolutions.
- Mentored junior team members through code reviews, walkthroughs, and tech sessions, providing guidance on coding techniques and problem-solving for quicker project onboarding.
Senior Software Engineer - I
Goibibo-MakeMyTrip Group
Bangalore
06.2019 - 12.2022
- Drove request to book feature, enabling hostapp properties onboarding, leading to a significant increase in bookings.
- Implemented the group bookings feature, enabling bulk room reservations and driving a 20% increase in bookings for 6+ rooms.
- Optimized SQL queries for multiple APIs, improving query execution speed, and reducing average response time from 3 seconds to 100 milliseconds.
- Led tech projects including Kafka migration, DB segregation, asynchronous task alerting, and dashboarding, ensuring transaction system reliability and improved SLA performance.
- Created Scalyr dashboards and alerts tailored to hotel booking transactions, enhancing the monitoring and management of the booking flow.
Software Developer
Gain Credit India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
06.2018 - 05.2019
- Resolved production issues through root cause analysis, improving system reliability.
- Wrote automation scripts used to fetch data tables for daily reporting via email.
Education
B.Tech (CSE) -
NIT Bhopal (2014-2018)
Senior Secondary School -
JNV Ayodhya
Secondary School -
JNV Ayodhya
Skills
- Languages and Frameworks: Python, Django, Golang, Gin, Java, C/C
- Technologies: Kafka, MySQL, Redis, Aerospike, MongoDB, Cassandra, Docker, Jenkins, Celery, Apache Airflow, OpenAI, LLM, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot
- Architecture & Systems: Microservices, RESTful API, gRPC, GraphQL, Protobuf, AWS, Grafana, Scalyr, SumoLogic, New Relic, Distributed systems
- Other Skills: DSA, OOPs, System Design, LLD, HLD, System Optimisation, Mentorship, Code Review
Accomplishments
- Successfully participated in the Hackathon 2024 at MakeMyTrip. The project was shortlisted for its innovative idea and exceptional implementation.
- Awarded with Go Tripper of the Month for January at MakeMyTrip, 2024.
- Awarded with Go Tripper of the Quarter at MakeMyTrip in 2023.
- Awarded with Go Tripper of the Month at MakeMyTrip (2022/2021).
- Awarded with Super Starter of the Year at MakeMyTrip (2019-2020).
- Awarded with Dream Team of the Year at MakeMyTrip for the successful development and implementation of the group booking project.
- Participated in Techfest 2015 at IIT Bombay, and was certified for successfully designing a manual bot.
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Goibibo-MakeMyTrip Group
02.2025 - Current
Senior Software Engineer - II
Goibibo-MakeMyTrip Group
01.2023 - 01.2025
Senior Software Engineer - I
Goibibo-MakeMyTrip Group
06.2019 - 12.2022
Software Developer
Gain Credit India Pvt Ltd
06.2018 - 05.2019
B.Tech (CSE) -
NIT Bhopal (2014-2018)
Senior Secondary School -
JNV Ayodhya
Secondary School -
JNV Ayodhya
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