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ENGINEERING · LEADERSHIP · CURIOSITYBENGALURU, IN ↗

Hello, I’m

Pavan KumarPatruni.

Engineering leader. Hands-on builder.

I build distributed systems and grow the teams behind them. Over the past 12+ years, my work has taken me from co-founding a startup to leading engineering across FinTech and HealthTech.

Portrait of Pavan Kumar Patruni
Open to the next chapterBengaluru, India
A LITTLE MOTION, IN THE BACKGROUND
RECENT CHAPTERSOnsurity / BharatPe
12+YEARS BUILDING
20+ENGINEERS LED
A LITTLE FURTHER DOWN
SOME OF MY
BUILDING BLOCKS

Curious by default.
Builder by instinct.

I care about what happens when good engineering meets a team that believes in what it’s building.

My journey started with co-founding Heartynote in 2014. Since then, I’ve built across mobile, enterprise, FinTech, and HealthTech — growing from hands-on engineer to leading multi-squad organizations.

Today, I bring the same builder’s curiosity to architecture, people leadership, and applied AI. The best part is still the moment a hard problem starts to make sense.

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01

Clarity before complexity

A system is only as good as our ability to reason about it.

02

People are the multiplier

Better teams build better systems. Invest in both.

03

Own the outcome

From the first architecture sketch to the production incident.

HOW I THINK. HOW I BUILD.

Make the complex feel inevitable.

Strong domain boundaries. Clear contracts. Systems that can evolve without taking everything around them along for the ride.

Distributed systemsEvent-driven architectureJava & Spring BootKafkaSQL & NoSQL

Hard problems.
Considered solutions.

A few chapters from building
systems that people depend on.

BHARATPE / 2020 — 2025

Scale without the fragility.

High-throughput microservices, explicit API contracts, and failure isolation. Built for the realities of regulated financial services.

30K+requests / minute<200msservice SLA6 → 14+engineers
Behind the impact

At BharatPe, I progressed from Tech Lead to Engineering Manager, grew backend and mobile teams, and redesigned lending workflows to cut loan processing time by 30%. Failure isolation ensured a downstream partner outage could not cascade across the platform.

ONSURITY / ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE

Good systems. Better habits.

Incident response, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and secure delivery practices that make reliability a team habit.

80%fewer anomalies99.99%availability50%faster to market
Behind the impact

I instituted SSDLC and ADLC governance alongside incident-response and resilience standards. These practices reduced production anomalies by 80% and time-to-market by 50%, while sustaining 99.99% availability at under 400ms p99.

Different chapters.
The same curiosity.

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2025 – 2026OnsuritySenior Engineering ManagerBengaluru
Aug 2025 - Oct 2026

Own technical and people leadership for 3 squads (20+ engineers), cutting onboarding time 40% via hiring rubrics and assessment frameworks I designed.

Own performance reviews, promotions, and senior hiring panels.

Architected 15+ core domains and a centralized SKU catalog into a unified commerce platform, eliminating checkout fragmentation and data silos.

Designed a Wallet on an event-sourced ledger with zero-drift balance consistency, personally owning the domain boundaries and core data model.

Architected LLM-powered claim adjudication and onboarding platforms, automating medical bill extraction, policy-rule matching, and employer census validation with human-in-the-loop review.

Embedded GenAI tools and automated code-gen pipelines across the org, driving 4x acceleration in dev velocity.

Instituted SSDLC and ADLC governance (eval gates, PII and hallucination guardrails, LLM observability) alongside incident-response, rate-limiting, and circuit-breaking standards, cutting production anomalies 80% and time-to-market 50% while sustaining 99.99% availability at under 400ms p99.

Led the technical design and migration from Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes, achieving near-zero downtime cutover across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB clusters.

Migrated high-throughput workloads from SQS to Kafka to support multi-consumer event replay, cutting infrastructure costs 50%+.

Operate within a regulated HealthTech/Insurtech environment, partnering with Product, Design, and Executive Leadership to align delivery and technical strategy with quarterly OKRs.

2020 – 2025BharatPeEngineering ManagerGurgaon
May 2020 - Aug 2025

Joined as Tech Lead and promoted to Engineering Manager within tenure, moving from individual technical ownership to full people-management of a multi-squad org.

Scaled backend and mobile orgs from 6 to 14+ engineers during hyper-growth, maintaining predictable execution velocity.

Architected high-throughput microservices with rigid API boundaries, sustaining 30K+ RPM at under 200ms SLA.

Designed the service-to-service contract and failure-isolation strategy underpinning that layer, so a single downstream lending partner outage couldn't cascade into platform-wide degradation.

Cut loan processing time 30% by redesigning domain workflows and decoupling legacy monolithic dependencies.

Owned performance reviews and career development for direct reports, mentoring mid-level engineers into senior roles.

Managed full-lifecycle delivery of distributed systems, from architecture through high-volume production deployments.

Partnered with Product, Risk, and Compliance leadership within a regulated RBI and NBFC environment to align delivery with business-critical timelines.

2019 – 2020Publicis SapientAssociate Technology Level 2Gurgaon
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 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 and security benchmarks.

2017 – 2019MiSportSenior Software EngineerGurgaon
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.

2015 – 2017MagikMindsSoftware EngineerHyderabad
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.

2014 – 2015HeartynoteCo-FounderHyderabad
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.

Notes from
the workbench.

All writing on Medium
GOOD CONVERSATIONS LEAD TO GOOD THINGS

Something in mind?
Let’s make it real.

A team to grow. A system to rethink. An ambitious idea.
I’m always up for a conversation about what comes next.

pavanpathro@gmail.com