Prashant Pandey
Backend + AI Engineering @Razorpay || Ex-Simfoni || Building Scalable Fintech Products || Expertise (Python, GoLang, PHP, Django), Agentic AI Engineer
Bangalore Urban
6+ years of work experience
Feb 20251 yr 5 mosPresent
Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
• Owned international payment onboarding platform enabling expansion across US, MY, and SG markets,
supporting multi-region merchant activation flows.
• Built onboarding validation systems, reducing invalid merchant submissions and significantly lowering ops ticket
volume by filtering non-compliant entries at source.
• Integrated backend ML prediction systems into onboarding, auto-populating merchant classification for
high-confidence cases and eliminating an 8% drop-off in the flow.
• Identified zero alert coverage across critical services and led the design of a monitoring framework, shipping
100+ Prometheus alerts across multiple services and geographies (US, MY, SG, India).
• Built internal tooling to automate alert generation, reducing setup time from 30 minutes to 2 minutes (93%
reduction) and saving 4.5 hours per month in engineering effort.
• Led onboarding and compliance workflow improvements, increasing activation conversion from 40% to 45% and unblocking 40% of merchants stuck in onboarding.
Aug 20247 mosFeb 2025
- Led efforts to upgrade and modernize a legacy codebase, significantly improving system performance, security, and scalability. - Presented key technical accomplishments at industry meetups, highlighting innovative solutions and system improvements to peers and stakeholders.
Jul 20222 yrs 2 mosAug 2024
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Architected robust backend infrastructures with Django framework, delivering a 25% performance boost and ensuring top-tier security measures for handling sensitive user data across multiple web applications.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams, implemented best practices, and reduced page load time by 40%, ultimately driving higher user engagement and satisfaction.
- Led the transition of our analytics product frontend to React, enhancing performance and user experience while demonstrating ownership by taking full responsibility for the project’s successful delivery.
- Engineered an efficient GitHub CI/CD pipeline that significantly slashed deployment time from 10+min to 1-2minutes, propelling a remarkable 17% acceleration in feature roll-out pace.
- Spearheaded the development and implementation of a comprehensive audit logging system to ensure data integrity and traceability. This initiative resulted in a 50% increase in the detection of anomalies and reduction in incident resolution time.
Jun 202111 mosApr 2022
Remote
- Developed the Phurti ordering system from scratch using Django REST APIs and React.js, enabling 10-minute grocery deliveries with an in-house wallet system.
- Implemented automated invoice generation using Django, enhancing accuracy by 22% and improving customer satisfaction.
- Utilized multithreading to reduce generation time and optimize CPU utilization. Configured and managed servers, websites, and databases to ensure seamless performance and scalability of the platform.
- Integrated Razorpay and Paytm payment gateways into the platform, expanding payment options and resulting in a 33% surge in successful transactions.
Jul 20201 yrJun 2021
May 20203 mosJul 2020
Education
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician
Bipin Tripathi Kumaon Institute Of Technology
20184 yrs2022
High School Diploma
RGNV
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