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# Srirang Ranjalkar on Tal

## Headline

Engineering @Zype \| IIIT\-Hyd

## About

Experienced software professional with a demonstrated history of building Mobile apps, Enterprise SaaS products, and AI Solutions besides managing cross\-product teams\. Offer the ability to understand and balance business and technology tradeoffs, delving into the details of a product while maintaining a big\-picture perspective\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Chief Technology Officer at Zype, Sep 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs, Greater Bengaluru Area

Sr\. Director of Engineering & CIO at slice, May 2023 \- Oct 2023 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As Senior Director of Engineering, I led engineering across key verticals — onboarding, discovery, retention, CX, and UPI — during a period of rapid growth and regulatory pivoting\. Directly managed a cross\-functional team of 90\+ \(40\+ backend, 50\+ mobile\) engineers and drove platform\-wide transformation\. Highlights: \- Oversaw several cross\-team projects as we transitioned from card to digital borrow product to align with RBI’s Digital Lending Guidelines\. \- Led the development of UPI Lite, AEPS, UPI International, UPI S2S, UPI rewards — improving onboarding and transaction success rates\. \- Architected the system to break down the monolith into 23 polyglot microservices using BFF, circuit breaker, and CQRS design patterns\. \- Created and coached a leadership layer: 1 Director of Engineering, 2 EMs, 1 AD Mobile, 1 AD Compliance, 2 Architects\. \- Set up SLAs for performance \(p95 <100ms, p99<200ms\), uptime \(99\.99%\), coverage \(\~60%\), operational efficiency \(MTTA < 5min, MTTR < 30 min\), AWS cost \(50 paise/transaction, 15 Rupees/onboarding etc\), and security across environments\. As CIO of an RBI\-regulated, Systemically Important NBFC, I led 10 person cross\-functional GRC and security teams ensuring regulatory compliance and cyber resilience\. Highlights: \- Spearheaded RBI compliance programs besides managing ISO 27001, PCI\-DSS, SOC 2, ITGC, VRM, BCP/DR, and DPDP readiness\. \- Set up an in\-house Security Operations Center \(SOC\), defined SLAs for alert response, and created actionable run books\. \- Regularly presented audit updates, regulatory risks, and IT strategy to the Board of Directors as a member of the IT Strategy Committee\.

Director Of Technology & CIO at slice, Jun 2021 \- Apr 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, As the Director of Technology, I handled the experience, repayments, and fraud teams\. Highlights: \- Led delivery of several key projects as the GTV was growing 35% MoM\. \- Prepared a 28 point checklist and program managed it across all the teams to make sure that we built resilient systems that could handle 10\-15x of regular traffic during IPL ads or Flash sales\. \- Built the Fraud Control Unit in\-house \(identity, transaction, brand, and referral fraud\)\. \- Set up SLAs for performance \(p95 <100ms, p99 <200ms\), uptime \(99\.99%\), operational efficiency \(MTTA < 5min, MTTR < 30 min\), and security across environments\. \- Led hiring \(50 → 300 engineers\), campus hiring programs, engineering OKRs, playbooks, and L&D\. As the first CIO of slice, I formulated the cybersecurity strategy and led the execution of the same under strict budgets\. Highlights: \- Built a team from scratch comprising 6 engineers covering application, cloud, perimeter, and enterprise security domains while also leading a team of 4 handling GRC initiatives\. \- Implemented ISO 27001, PCI DSS, VRM, BCP/DR\. \- Conducted internal & external audits, phishing simulations, CTFs; led training on secure coding and OWASP top 10; managed the bug bounty program\.

Senior Engineering Manager at Goodera, Dec 2019 \- Jun 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, As the Senior Engineering Manager at Goodera, I led the Engineering org for three B2B SaaS platforms impacting CSR governance, sustainability reporting, and NGO project management\. Highlights: \- Managed a 17\-member team including architects, full stack engineers, and QA \(13 devs from IITs/BITS\)\. \- Delivered 20\+ features across 6 product initiatives while maintaining release quality and compliance\. \- Introduced SonarQube, respectful code reviews, instrumentation and enforced unit, integration, e2e, load, and security testing to reduce the bugs and increase the platform uptime to 99\.995%\. \- Drove mobile optimization and WCAG 2\.1 accessibility improvements, increasing NPS from \+18 → \+49\. \- Ensured full compliance with ISO 27001:2013 by conducting regular VAPTs \(both internal and external\), Threat Modeling using STRIDE, and set the right SLA expectations around security/privacy with clients\. \- Evaluated competitor features using strategy canvas and ERRC grid to formulate the GTM strategy for US markets\.

Lead Platform Engineer at Paysafe Group, Nov 2018 \- Dec 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, \- Led a team of 4 to build Golo’s in\-house analytics platform on top of a data lake that would provide capabilities to analyze delivery times, forecast demand, and measure the effectiveness of sales\. \- Automated account statements of Golo’s 300\+ merchants, reducing the effort from 7 days to 5 mins\. \- Developed a microservice to integrate multiple POS aggregators into the platform that scaled the number of Golo merchants by 300%\.

CTO & Co\-Founder at BitDrills Technology LTD, 2018 \- 2018 · Less than a year, Bengaluru, As the Co\-founder of BitDrills, I created a bot that manoeuvred conversations to create a seamless chatting experience to help answer queries of Well Engineers using DialogFlow\.

## Education

2009 B\-Tech, Computer Science Engineering, IIIT Hyderabad

SSC, Kakatiya High School, Nizamabad

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