Manish Pandit is a performance-driven, hands-on software engineering leader with 14 years of experience scaling teams and systems across high-growth fintech and platform companies. He has built and led engineering organizations of 60–80+ engineers to deliver cloud-native payment platforms, developer ecosystems, and identity/security solutions that drove rapid TPV and customer adoption. At Marqeta he helped grow issuing and processing to hundreds of millions in TPV and at Capital One and Netflix he delivered OAuth-based API security and global streaming APIs respectively, demonstrating deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and secure APIs. Now leading engineering at GoFundMe while coaching senior engineering leaders and conducting 200+ mock interviews, he blends executive strategy with hands-on mentorship. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation (Terraform/Packer/IaC) that dramatically reduces incidents and deployment time, and for guiding technical hiring and org design during hypergrowth. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs enterprise-grade delivery with a passion for giving back to the tech community.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Shri G S Institute of Technology & Science
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Manish Pandit - Senior Director, Software Engineering at GoFundMe