Prathamesh Gaikwad
Building things that matter. Seeking truth in the noise.
I'm a software engineer who builds with urgency, thinks from first principles, and chases the work that matters. I care about craft, clarity, and momentum—the rest is noise.
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- Contributed to cloud-ready, microservice-based product modules deployed in production financial systems with high availability requirements.
- Owned multiple client-facing features end-to-end—from design discussions through deployment and monitoring.
- Built internal engineering tools and reusable modules that improved development velocity and consistency across teams.
- Developed AWS Lambda data migration pipelines using Node.js for scalable serverless workloads.
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.
Building 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