Dhanendra Verma
Lead engineer - Backend
About me
I am Dhanendra Verma, a Lead Software Engineer skilled in Python, C++, and cloud platforms like AWS. I excel in leading teams to deliver scalable solutions, with experience at Zoomcar, Wipro Digital, and Karza Technologies.
Known for my collaborative spirit, mentorship, and problem-solving abilities, I align technical solutions with business goals to achieve high-quality results.
Professional timeline
Lead Software engineer
Zoomcar India Pvt Ltd
2023 - Present
- Leading a team of 8 engineers in designing, developing, and deploying scalable data-driven solutions.
- Performed comprehensive code reviews and led weekly coding standards sessions, establishing best practices that increased team code quality by 20% and provided mentorship to team members.
- Collaborated with product managers and cross-functional teams to refine user stories and requirements, aligning technical solutions with business strategies and user needs, resulting in a 15% increase in development velocity and successful sprints.
- Presented technical proposals and progress reports to stakeholders, facilitating informed decision- making at all levels of the organization.
Senior Software Engineer
Zoomcar Pvt Ltd
2022 - 2023
- Design, architected & implemented host price recommendation product attaining 80% adoption of recommended price, while preserving seller pricing autonomy. Deployed a new model using Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) to enhance Host Platform Rating, resulting in a 12% reduction in disputes and an 18% improvement in car quality
- Replaced upfront deposits with dynamic insurance through choice modeling, driving pattern analysis, and risky cohort identification
- Achieved and maintained a 99.9% availability rate
- Orchestrated a real-time personalized car recommendation engine on the search page using RESTful APIs, improving average booking rank by 20%.
Software Engineer
Zoomcar Pvt Ltd
2021 - 2022
- Successfully migrated services from EC2 to EKS cluster using Docker, Lambda, and serverless architecture in AWS, significantly enhancing scalability and operational efficiency
- Implemented an IoT-driven drive score product with event-driven architecture, reducing accidents by 20% and maintenance costs by 23%
- Ensured high throughput and real-time score updates via app notifications, efficiently handling high-frequency IoT data
- Engineered MVP features and optimized the driver-score architecture using microservices, creating a usage-based automotive insurance product for partners.
Software Engineer
Karza Technologies Pvt Ltd
2020 - 2021
- Engineered FinTech products enabling financial institutions to track stock exchange data, monitor application status across portals, detect fraud, process digital identities, and perform custom onboarding, address, and employment verification.
- Developed optimised, low-latency code for efficient data extraction, storage, processing, and exposure through scalable APIs.
- Contributed in internal frameworks to speed up the development and lower the operational costs.
Software Engineer
Wipro Digital
2018 - 2020
- Worked onshore at Uber Hyderabad, supporting various teams by creating tools and automating processes to enhance efficiency and accelerate operations
- Designed and coded application components in an Agile-driven environment using Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology
- Developed integration solutions with internal and external services for prototyping and performance measurement.
Skills
Projects
Movie cloud
A website to give you better insights on latest movies
Text circle
A collaborative text editor which allows the users to simultaneously edit and see the docs and codes.
Albums share
A web app to share the photos with the backend complex functionalities implemented using meteor.js framework
SongShore
A web application to store all of your favorite songs on Cloud and play from there.