About

Pankaj Meena is a seasoned VP of Engineering with over 13 years of experience in software design and development of complex projects across various domains such as Travel, Hotels, Education, and Social Gaming. He is currently working as AVP Technology at Paytm Payments Bank, where he has complete ownership of the Browsing (Traveller pre-lead journey) module and Blog. Pankaj is a skilled engineering manager with expertise in FE & BE Software Architecture, Stack selection, Roadmap/Planning, Product & Tech delivery, Debt Management, Product & Tech Metrics, and Stakeholder Management. He is proficient in different project management methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, and SCRUM and has strong knowledge of software design, architecture, frameworks, and technology standards. Pankaj is also a tech mentor for early-stage startups. He has successfully motivated and aligned people around a strong tech vision and roadmap to deliver the best-in-class product. He has a track record of delivering on business-critical metrics quarter after quarter. During his tenure at TravelTriangle as an Associate Director of Technology, Pankaj had complete ownership of the demand-side (Entire traveller journey pre & post lead) business, including iOS/Android Apps & Travel Triangle blog. He proposed and drove the initiative to migrate from existing legacy code to microservice architecture to make the traveller side of business fault-tolerant and highly available (100% uptime). He also proposed and drove the migration of Native Apps to React native and aligned the team to build a/b experiment-friendly frontend architecture. Pankaj has experience in leading engineering teams, with complete ownership of technology, architecture, and delivery. He has successfully retained 25+ people for 2 years (with only 1 resignation and 1 termination in between) by keeping them motivated and by giving them good and challenging tech work. Pankaj is proficient in various technologies such as Python, ReactJS, ReactNative, MySQL, InfluxDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redshift, Varnish, Nginx, Kafka, ELK, Microservices, Distributed systems architecture, and Mobile applications. He is a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Microservices, React Native, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kafka, Redux, Mobile, iOS, Frontend, Backend, Python, and ReactJS. Pankaj holds a Btech degree in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology.