Summary
Dhawal Patel is a pragmatic technology leader and full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience building embedded-systems software and web applications, now serving as CTO of FinStack where he drives the company’s API integration platform and a no-code credit underwriting rule engine. His background spans SME lending and fintech product delivery at Funding Societies and Walnut App, plus leadership stints as CTO at earlier startups, giving him a blend of hands-on coding and strategic product ownership. Comfortable across stacks and life cycles, he has a track record of shipping pragmatic solutions that bridge low-level embedded concerns and cloud-native web services. Based in Bengaluru with a Computer Engineering degree from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, he combines startup grit with systematic engineering discipline. Notably, he gravitated from customizing Ruby on Rails during an early internship to architecting fintech integrations, reflecting a consistent trajectory from implementation to platform-level thinking.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 67.89%, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 67.89% at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
HSC(CBSE), Science, 90.6%, HSC(CBSE), Science, 90.6% at Bhavan's B.P Vidya Mandir, Civil Lines, Nagpur