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PAVAN KUMAR
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12 years building scalable systems, leading high-performance teams, and delivering impactful products.

>Leadership>Java & Spring>Node.js>React & Native>System Design

Engineering Leadership | Shaping Systems & Teams

PAVAN KUMAR
PATRUNI

12 Years of building scalable systems, leading high-performance teams, and delivering impactful products at Onsurity, BharatPe, and more.

>Leadership>Java & Spring>Node.js>React & Native>System Design

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Years Excellence

FinTech & HealthTech Scale

20+

Engineers Led

High-Performance Squads

80%

Incident Reduction

Observability Frameworks

30K+

RPM p95 Latency

<200ms SLA Governance

About

Building durable systems and fostering a culture of ownership.

Strategy & Leadership

Translating business OKRs into engineering roadmaps. Managing squads, designing org structures, and growing engineers into senior practitioners.

Architecture & Scale

Designing high-throughput distributed systems — Java, Python, Node.js — in FinTech and HealthTech with strict SLA governance and observability.

Full-Stack & AI

Deep across the stack: backend APIs, React/React Native frontends, and integrating modern AI — LLMs, Gemini API, agentic workflows — into production systems.

Currently leading engineering at Onsurity — managing three cross-functional backend, frontend, quality and platform squads (20+ engineers) across mission-critical HealthTech, Wellness, and Payment/Billing systems. Previously at BharatPe, I led backend and mobile engineering, aligning engineering objectives with product leadership to convert business OKRs into strategic technical roadmaps.

I specialize in defining technical roadmaps and Engineering Excellence frameworks. I've introduced rigorous Design Docs & Code Reviews, elevated multiple engineers to senior roles, and reduced production anomalies by 80%. By integrating cloud-native orchestration and AI-driven workflows, I've driven a 4x acceleration in software development velocity and cut onboarding time by 40%. Passionate about engineering culture, operational excellence, and building teams that outlast the sprint.

Tech Radar

EXPERTPROFICIENTLEARNING

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✓ 24 skills indexed — 13 Expert / 9 Proficient / 2 Learning

Milestones & Impact

Engineering leadership and technical execution across hyper-growth startups and enterprise platforms.

Senior Engineering Manager

Onsurity • Bengaluru

Aug 2025 - Present

Led 3 cross-functional backend, frontend, quality and platform squads (20+ engineers), cut onboarding time 40% via standardized hiring rubrics and assessment frameworks, owning performance reviews, promotions, and senior hiring panels.
Embedded GenAI tools and automated code-gen pipelines, driving 4x acceleration in dev velocity.
Architected 15+ core domains (Payments, Billing, Cart, Order) and a centralized SKU catalog into one unified commerce experience, eliminating checkout fragmentation and data silos.
Instituted enterprise-wide observability, incident-response and SSDLC governance standards across the business units, cutting production anomalies 80% and time-to-market 50% while enforcing under 400ms p99 SLAs at 5K+ RPM.
Deployed distributed rate-limiting, circuit-breaking, and standardized API contracts, guaranteeing 99.99% availability under high-concurrency traffic.
Designed a high-throughput Wallet system with an event-sourced ledger, ensuring zero-drift balance consistency.
Led migration from Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes to enable independent service scaling and eliminate deployment bottlenecks, achieving zero-downtime cutover across MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB clusters.
Migrated high-throughput workloads from SQS to Kafka to support multi-consumer event replay and reduce per-message cost at scale, cutting infrastructure costs 20%+.
Operated within a regulated HealthTech/Insurtech environment, partnering directly with Product, Design, and Executive Leadership to align compliance-driven delivery with quarterly OKRs.

Engineering Manager

BharatPe • Gurgaon

May 2020 - Aug 2025

Joined as Tech Lead and promoted to Engineering Manager within the tenure, transitioning from technical ownership to full people-management of a multi-squad org.
Scaled multi-squad backend and mobile orgs from 6 to 14+ engineers during a hyper-growth phase, maintaining predictable execution velocity.
Architected high-throughput microservices with rigid API boundaries sustaining 30K+ RPM at less than 200ms SLA.
Cut loan processing time 30% by optimizing complex domain workflows and decoupling legacy monolithic dependencies.
Owned performance reviews and career development for direct reports, mentoring mid-level engineers into senior roles.
Boosted platform reliability and security via proactive distributed monitoring and runtime performance tuning.
Managed full-lifecycle delivery of distributed systems, from architecture through high-volume prod deployments.
Operated within a regulated RBI & NBFC environment, partnering directly with Product, Risk, and Compliance leadership to align engineering delivery with business-critical timelines.

Associate Technology Level 2

Publicis Sapient • Gurgaon

Oct 2019 - Apr 2020

Contributed to enterprise-scale frontend architecture for Heathrow Airport Holdings using ReactJS and Redux to build responsive, mission-critical UIs.
Engineered high-visibility features including a global elastic search component and real-time flight management functionality handling high-concurrency operational data.
Championed clean code architecture and modular frontend practices, establishing design patterns and automated test coverage that improved long-term maintainability.
Maintained high-velocity execution, shipping complex production-ready features under tight deadlines while adhering to strict performance benchmarks.

Senior Software Engineer

MiSport Manufacturing/PitchVision • Gurgaon

May 2017 - Sep 2019

Architected a high-availability, real-time match-search engine, delivering dynamic cricket scorecards, low-latency ball-by-ball stats, and live-streaming feeds.
Enhanced the core video ecosystem (PVM+), engineering player modules, automated highlight-generation workflows, and time-stamped metadata tagging.
Contributed to enterprise-scale multimedia platforms, developing core engines for live video players, newsfeeds, and podcast services with cross-platform compatibility.
Collaborated with backend and streaming teams to minimize video buffering latency and design high-throughput integration contracts.

Software Engineer

MagikMinds • Hyderabad

Apr 2015 - Apr 2017

Engineered hybrid and native Android applications using Ionic and Angular, building highly responsive cross-platform architectures for real-time mobile performance.
Architected real-time transactional and scheduling engines, delivering core modules including Book a Service and COPSZ for seamless appointment coordination.
Developed mission-critical, high-availability safety applications integrating low-latency panic alerts and automated emergency notification protocols.
Designed and deployed GPS navigation and GIS-based mobile solutions enabling field operations with precise location tracking and optimized routing algorithms.

Co-Founder

Heartynote • Hyderabad

Apr 2014 - Apr 2015

Architected a high-security, private social networking platform with encrypted communication and rigid data-isolation protocols.
Designed responsive UX modules including personalized activity feeds and analytics dashboards.
Engineered low-latency group-sharing (ROOM) and real-time engagement engines for synchronized data distribution across secure cohorts.
Implemented push-notification engine and immutable activity tracking ledger for audit and compliance.
Wound down the venture in 2015 after the funding environment tightened.