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Founding engineer, Engineering leadership @Refyne India

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Engineering leader and intrapreneur with 6+ years of experience driving innovation in fintech while scaling high-impact products and teams. Currently serving as an Engineering Manager at Refyne India, where I've progressed from being a founding engineer through multiple technical leadership roles, consistently identifying and seizing opportunities for business growth through technology. My entrepreneurial approach has led to the successful launch of multiple new business verticals, including conceptualizing and delivering Salary Care (generating a $13M loan book) and spearheading the HR Vendor division from idea to MVP. Throughout my journey, I've combined technical excellence with business acumen, architecting mission-critical financial systems while building and mentoring engineering teams that serve 6M+ users. Core strengths include: * Innovation Leadership: Track record of identifying market opportunities and transforming them into successful business verticals through technology * People Leadership: Building and managing engineering teams, mentoring talent, and fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence * Strategic Planning: Direct collaboration with C-suite on technical roadmaps and OKRs, translating business vision into engineering initiatives * System Architecture: Expertise in scaling backend systems, optimizing API performance, and transforming monolithic systems to microservices architecture * Cloud Infrastructure: Deep experience with AWS, particularly in serverless architectures, having implemented solutions using Lambda, SQS, Fargate, and Cloud Watch Passionate about pushing boundaries and driving innovation within organizations while building and leading teams that create impactful fintech solutions. Always seeking opportunities to transform ideas into reality and mentor the next generation of technical entrepreneurs.

Location

Bengaluru

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Work experience

Engineering Manager at Refyne India, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, * Managing and scaling engineering teams while fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation * Collaborating with C-suite on technical roadmaps and OKRs to align engineering initiatives with business goals

Associate Staff Engineer at Refyne India, Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, * Reported directly to CTO, devised quarterly technical roadmap in alignment with the company roadmap(OKRs) with measurable engineering/product metrics * Pitched a new business division called Salary Care, which led to an additional loan book size of $13 Million. * Pitched and executed an MVP for a new business division called HR Vendor, currently working with the product team to launch with a wider audience.

Software Development Engineer 3 at Refyne India, Aug 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, * Leading the B2C engineering team, mentoring junior developers, and hiring rockstar engineers. * Tech owner for everything user-facing from API latency, uptime, handling scale of 6 million+ user base, etc. * Heavily contributed to customer onboarding journey optimisation, leading to a 2x increase in conversions.

Software Developer at MyShubhLife, Sep 2018 - Aug 2020 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru Area, India, * Spearheading the Core Platform Engineering team, delivering projects with high standards. * Ownership of AWS infrastructure, stability, and scalability of the Backend systems. * Migrating Monolithic system to Serverless Microservices architecture. * Tech owner for multiple products like - Insurance, Chota Loan, and e-Tax-Filing. * Architected and implemented automated customer communication platform leading to better conversions. * Implemented an Authentication system with AWS Gateway and Custom AWS lambda authorizer. * Redesigned a critical credit report end system to increase scalability by 200x. * Architected and implemented an automated reporting system end to end with AWS Lambdas, AWS SQS, and AWS Cloud Watch Events. * Implemented core business MIS reports, which were used by business leaders to take critical decisions. * Contributed to designing an ETL system to migrate data from MongoDB to AWS Redshift. * Introduced serverless systems like AWS Fargate and AWS Batch allowing the system to auto-scale on demand. * Worked on internal AWS Lambdas developer tooling systems. * Worked with CRM tools API like Zendesk to automate customer support emails based on rules, reducing the turn around time for customer support response. * Worked on API Integration with lenders, automating the loan application flow. * Worked on Payment Gateway and eNach API integrations.

Intern at IBM - ISL (India Software Labs), Jan 2018 - Jul 2018 · 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Joined IBM-ISL (IBM India Software Labs) as a part of its Xlence program. • Contributed on developing the entire Front-end using Angular 6 and Angular material design for the "BPN Alerts Application", which used the technology stack of Angular, Django REST Framework, and MongoDB. • Successfully Integrated Angular 6 Application with the Backend, and performed minor changes in the Django App. • Developed Python Scripts to Automate Processes for updating of the app. • Completed "Must Gather" Project, which was a Full Stack application for the IBM B2B Sterling Integrator. • Used Technologies such as JavaEE, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Bash Scripts, Bootstrap4. • The application reduces customer support interaction time for IBM B2B Sterling Integrator. Allowing the support team to help the customers resolve the issue much faster.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, RNS Institute of Technology - India

Pre University, Computer Science, Bunts sanga RNSPU college

Public links

github: https://github.com/AbhishekGangadhar