Summary
Swapnil Gaikwad is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade backend systems, currently helping power payment instruments at PhonePe. He has a strong track record at high-scale consumer platforms—designing microservices, enabling near real-time reporting at Flipkart, and driving DB migrations and reliability improvements that reduced cost and downtime. Early roles at PubMatic and ThoughtWorks show a discipline for TDD, clean code, contract testing, and containerized deployments that sped developer feedback loops. Based in Pune, he blends hands-on engineering with system design expertise and a practical focus on observability and operational resilience. An understated strength is his consistent emphasis on developer productivity—automating environment setup and pipelines to let teams move faster without sacrificing quality.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Walchand college of Engineering ,Sangli