Dee Lalwani
Director Of Engineering at Xplor Pay
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDee Lalwani is a Director of Engineering based in Auckland with six years of hands-on experience building full-stack, cloud-native platforms and leading high-performing teams. He progressed from individual contributor roles—shipping microservices, React micro-frontends, and big data platforms—to senior engineering leadership where he mentors engineers and runs hiring processes. Notable impacts include reducing AWS costs by 55%, cutting daily DB writes by ~1M records with a Kafka/Redis metrics service, and scaling automatic student enrollments from 79k to 250k annually. Dee blends technical depth (Node.js/TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenAPI) with product-focused delivery, often tackling messy production issues and data migrations directly. He prefers pragmatic architecture and measurable outcomes, and brings an early-career curiosity rooted in building graphics with Python that still shapes his creative problem-solving. Currently steering engineering at Xplor Pay, he balances hands-on engineering with strategic team development and operational excellence.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences Computational Intelligence, Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences Computational Intelligence at Auckland University of Technology
Github Skills (35)
zero-configuration10
javascript10
user-interface10
declarative10
build-tools10
frontend10
create-react-app10
developer-tools10
react10
typescript9
fastest9
surface9
gatsby9
graphql9
compiler8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LordLalwani/react-portfolio
Jul 2019 - Apr 2021
A Portfolio website built with React & Gatsby, deployed onto AWS with a TravisCI CI/CD pipeline
Contributions:36 PRs, 40 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year 9 months
gatsbyreactbuilt-with-reactcd-pipelinepipeline
LordLalwani/clank
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Clank, a gamified investing platform for millennials.
Contributions:3 reviews, 28 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 month
clankinvestinggamified
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