About

Sandesh Damkondwar is a highly experienced Staff Engineer at Razorpay, with over 10 years of expertise in building web applications from scratch. He specializes in front-end development and is proficient in a range of technologies, including Webpack, React, Redux, TypeScript, GraphQL, NodeJS, Express, Cypress, Vue, Babel, Kubernetes, and Docker. Sandesh is passionate about mentoring and providing guidance to aspiring engineers, and he offers mentorship to engineering students for free. At Razorpay, Sandesh has implemented several critical projects, including an alerting, monitoring, and issue detection system, which reduced errors from 7000/hour to ~15/- hour, and increased crash-free sessions from ~50% to 99.9x%. He also built a CI/CD pipeline to improve build and deployment hygiene and reduced the initial application bundle size from ~5MB to 500KB. Sandesh revamped the Native OTP architecture to improve payment transactions, which helped increase card transactions coverage from 13% to 45%, increased card transactions success rate by 10%, and saved 65 lakhs/day by building an in-house service instead of relying on a third-party service. He also reduced the load time by 40% and built a PWA app for better merchant experience. Apart from his technical expertise, Sandesh is also involved in several other activities at Razorpay, including leading the FE Tech OKR annual strategy plan and initiatives, running the cross pod operational excellence program, setting the template for writing tech specs, and mentoring engineers from multiple different business units. He has won several awards and recognition, including Rookie MVP, Ace In The Race, Tesla Award, and Annual Award. Sandesh holds a BE degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune. He has worked as a Lead Software Engineer at Razorpay and Senior Software Engineer at Swiggy, where he worked on several teams and projects, including Data Platform, RnG, SnD, and Portal. Sandesh has a diverse tech stack, including NodeJS, TypeScript, Redux, Jenkins, Consul, iOS, Search, Java, dotNET, ASP.NET, PHP, and Integration. With 11.62 years of relevant experience, Sandesh is a highly skilled and accomplished engineer, with a passion for mentoring and driving innovation.