Pranjal Patil

Software engineer building reliable systems at internet scale.

Head of Engineering (Principal IC) based in Dubai, currently leading core banking services platform at MoniePoint.

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Pranjal Patil

## Scale @ Moniepoint Core Banking Platform

1B+ — Daily payment transactions volume
$25B — Monthly money movement
99.99% — Ledger platform availability
20M+ — Customers served

## Professional Experience

Built and operated high-throughput systems across fintech, mobility, and e-commerce.

Head of Engineering (Principal IC)

MoniePoint

Dubai, UAE | June 2024 - Present

  • Designed a distributed multi-datastore payments ledger handling 1B+ daily transactions with sub-XX ms latency.
  • Built core banking platforms across payments ledger, accounts, notifications and IAM for 20M+ users.
  • Drove event-driven transaction architecture adopted by 10+ teams, raising uptime to 99.99%.

Principal Software Engineer, Senior Engineering Manager

KingMakers (SuperPicks)

Dubai, UAE | February 2022 - June 2024

  • Launched and scaled fantasy sports products to 4M+ MAU with 30K+ RPS peak traffic.
  • Rebuilt IAM into a stateless zero-trust platform, improving P99 latencies by 70%.
  • Delivered cloud-cost reductions above 60% while completing zero-downtime migrations.

Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Manager

Careem (an Uber company)

Dubai, UAE | June 2019 - February 2022

  • Led food delivery supply engineering and integrated ETA ML models to reduce delivery time by 20%.
  • Scaled e-commerce search and catalog systems for 50K merchants across MENA.
  • Executed Uber Eats data migration (30K merchants) to Careem in three weeks.

Software Engineer

Booking.com

Amsterdam, Netherlands | June 2018 - June 2019

  • Built large-scale session quality pipelines for 80M+ monthly active users.
  • Generated 150M+ ML scoring outputs per day on petabyte-scale data systems.

--- Earlier Experience ---

  • Senior Software Engineer, OLA (2016 - 2017)
  • Senior Software Engineer, Hem (2015 - 2016)
  • Software Engineer, Boomerang Commerce (2014 - 2015)
  • R&D Engineer, Tejas Networks (2012 - 2014)

## Core Skills

Platforms & Architecture:

Distributed Systems / Payments Infrastructure / Event-Driven Systems / Microservices

Languages:

Java / Golang / TypeScript / Python

Data & Messaging:

Kafka / Redis / MySQL / PostgreSQL / Spanner DB / ClickHouse / Spark

Cloud & Ops:

GCP / AWS / Kubernetes / Big Data Pipelines / Reliability Engineering

## Education

National Institute of Technology, Karnataka (NITK)

Master of Technology in Computer Science

Surathkal, Karnataka | 2010 - 2012

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

Mumbai, Maharashtra | 2006 - 2010

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