Prathamesh Gaikwad
Curiosity-driven engineering. Startup mindset. Grounded in reason.
I'm an inherently curious builder who asks questions without fear, deconstructs how things work, and explores how to make them better. Driven by science, reason, and an entrepreneurial mindset, I care deeply about where technical innovation meets real business impact. Currently building and shipping products as a software engineer.
I picked up code because it was what I liked—building things, seeing how they work, making them better. I believe in high agency, truth over comfort, and momentum over perfection. Ship it, learn from it, improve it. Outside of engineering, I led the graphic design team at COEP's Entrepreneurship Club—building brand systems and visual identities that outlasted my time there. I'm drawn to entrepreneurship, product thinking, and doing work that keeps compounding after you've moved on.
Associate Software Engineer
Finzly · Pune, India- Engineered 8 production-grade SDK adapters powering Finzly’s payments platform that processes USD 1T+ in annual transaction volume across ACH, FedWire, FedNow, RTP, and SWIFT rails for US banking institutions.
- Architected fault-tolerant distributed system integrations for 10+ external systems – FIS, Fiserv, Finxact, Verafin, Actimize, LexisNexis, OFAC – applying design patterns with idempotency keys, retry/backoff, and Kafka/SQS-based event-driven flows.
- Owned 2 major client go-lives end-to-end – from design discussions through deployment, on-call support, and post-launch hardening – serving as the primary engineer during stabilization windows.
- Built AWS Lambda + Node.js serverless data migration pipelines, processing thousands of records per run for automated tenant onboarding and configuration rollout workflows.
- Drove cross-functional design reviews with product, QA, and DevOps in agile cycles; authored reusable internal modules that lifted code consistency and developer velocity across adapter teams.
B.Tech — Metallurgical Engineering
COEP Technological University · PuneCGPA: 7.67
A high-performance real-time payments dashboard with live updates and advanced search. Kafka-based event streaming and Debezium CDC pipelines propagate database changes in real time, while Elasticsearch powers millisecond-level full-text and semantic search.
Automated release pages, changelogs, and deployment instructions using n8n workflows—reducing manual effort by 90%. A single-command CLI generates complete tenant migration instructions covering databases, AWS infrastructure, configuration, and secrets.
A smart mock service that simulates external integration providers using vector cosine similarity to find the best matching response for any incoming request—dramatically improving QA reliability and cutting flaky tests.
A cricket tournament discovery and management platform. Browse and follow tournaments, manage teams, track live scores, and handle fixtures—built end-to-end from UI to backend to caching layer.
Ideas in the Wild
Landing pages for ideas I'm testing before building.
LogicLoom
Traces any business event across your entire distributed system — from API call to database write — automatically.
Collecting interestSpecBridge
Turns implementation specs into a live layer — with completeness scoring, auto-generated tests, and an approval chain that holds.
Collecting interestBuilding production banking systems at Finzly—real-time payments, event streaming pipelines, and internal tools that make other engineers faster. Outside of work, exploring where software meets the physical world, and preparing for what's next.
Updated March 2026