Pankaj Basnal
Staff Software Engineer at Coda
Bangkok, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolPankaj Basnal is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building backend systems that power scalable products across Big Tech and hyper-growth startups. He has a proven track record reducing operational overhead and release times—at Microsoft he cut release duration from ~2 hours to 10 minutes and slashed incidents from 200+ to ~5 monthly through telemetry and automation. Comfortable with distributed systems, cloud services, and infrastructure automation, he has shipped data-centric services, secure deployment tooling, and image production pipelines that saved thousands of hours annually. Recently based in Bangkok, he transitioned from senior engineering roles at Swiggy and Agoda to a staff role at Coda, bringing both startup velocity and enterprise rigor. Known for pragmatic engineering that balances shipping speed with security, he often surfaces hidden efficiencies in release and monitoring workflows.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Army Institute Of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
55reputation
4kreached
2answers
6questions
Github Skills (35)
azure8
user-experience8
rhel8
jboss8
linux8
newsletter7
ansible7
python7
azure-service-bus6
client-certificate6
retrofit6
ssh6
entity-framework6
android6
azure-queue6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
joshsoftware/lightair
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Newsletter Management
Contributions:155 commits in 1 month
newsletter-managementnewsletter
Pbasnal/InkWiseNote
Feb 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:1 release, 189 PRs, 256 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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