Dhaval Pawar

Staff Backend Engineer at Arbor Studio | ex-Bajaj Finserv

Arbor Studio

Ahmedabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

7+ years experience

St. Xavier's College, Mumbai

English, Hindi, Gujarati

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Overview

I work on API platforms at Arbor Studio in Ahmedabad. Reduced cloud spend on public API by 26% in two quarters. Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Bajaj Finserv and Persistent Systems. I teach a weekend class on Django.

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PostgreSQLRedisPythonRESTDjangoOpenAPIrate limiting

Experience

Staff Backend Engineer
Dec 2023 - Present
Arbor Studio · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
- Brought on-call pages for public API down from 12 a week to 4.
- Grew the public API team from 4 to 35 engineers.
- Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 414ms to 80ms.
Backend Engineer
Jul 2021 - Oct 2023
Bajaj Finserv · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
- Reduced cloud spend on public API by 30% in two quarters.
Backend Engineer
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
Persistent Systems · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
- Moved 91% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Write-up: API platforms in practice

2023

A long-form guide to API platforms for people starting out.

Side project: a recipe search engine

2023

Built with REST and OpenAPI. 361 people used it last year.

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Education

St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
B.A., Electrical Engineering
2014 - 2018

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