
Engineering Leadership | Shaping Systems & Teams
PAVAN KUMAR
PATRUNI
12 years building scalable systems, leading high-performance teams, and delivering impactful products.
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.

12
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
- Team Building & HiringEXPERT██████████
- Strategy & OKRsEXPERT██████████
- Agile & DeliveryEXPERT██████████
- Mentoring & CoachingEXPERT██████████
- Distributed SystemsEXPERT██████████
- System DesignEXPERT██████████
- API DesignEXPERT██████████
- Resiliency & Cloud StrategyPROFICIENT███████░░░
- Java & Spring BootEXPERT██████████
- Node.js & TypeScriptEXPERT██████████
- SQL & NoSQLEXPERT██████████
- Kafka / Redis / ElasticSearchEXPERT██████████
- React & Next.jsEXPERT██████████
- Frontend ArchitecturePROFICIENT███████░░░
- React NativePROFICIENT███████░░░
- Web PerformancePROFICIENT███████░░░
- CI/CD & AutomationEXPERT██████████
- Observability & PerformancePROFICIENT███████░░░
- Docker & KubernetesPROFICIENT███████░░░
- Infrastructure as CodeLEARNING████░░░░░░
- AI-driven workflowsPROFICIENT███████░░░
- AI AgentsPROFICIENT███████░░░
- Prompt EngineeringPROFICIENT███████░░░
- RAG ArchitecturesLEARNING████░░░░░░
Milestones & Impact
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Senior Engineering Manager at Onsurity
- Led 3 cross-functional backend, frontend, qa 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) into one unified commerce experience, eliminating checkout fragmentation.
- Instituted enterprise-wide observability and incident-response standards across 3 business units, cutting production anomalies 80% 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.
- Built a centralized catalog system unifying SKU data enterprise-wide, eliminating silos and speeding time-to-market.
- Orchestrated zero-downtime migration from Elastic Beanstalk to K8s and enterprise MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB clusters.
- Cut infrastructure costs more than 20% by migrating SQS workloads to Kafka and optimizing cloud OpEx.
- Overhauled SSDLC and product-collaboration frameworks, cutting time-to-market 50% via cross-org governance.
- Operated within a regulated HealthTech/Insurtech environment, ensuring data-privacy compliance alongside high velocity feature delivery.
- Partnered directly with Product, Design, and Executive Leadership to translate business OKRs into quarterly technical roadmaps.
Engineering Manager at BharatPe
- 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 at Publicis Sapient
- 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 at MiSport
- 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 at MagikMinds
- 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 at Heartynote
- 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.
- Discontinued in 2015 due to funding constraints.
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I'm always open to discussing engineering leadership, strategic consulting, technical advisory, or exploring high-impact roles.