Dhwani Apte

Overview

Founder of Basil Cloud, working on consumer finance. Signed 106 paying customers, 12 of them enterprises. Most at home with growth and consumer fintech. I read too many books about cities.

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Experience

1. Founder

   Aug 2025 - Present
   Basil Cloud · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
   • Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company.
   • Took Basil Cloud from zero to $3 million ARR.
2. Director of Engineering

   Mar 2023 - Aug 2025
   Amazon · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
   • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 4.
3. Software Engineer

   Feb 2020 - Mar 2023
   Mphasis · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 509ms to 76ms.
   • Moved 86% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Director of Engineering

   Jul 2016 - Feb 2020
   Qualcomm · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
   • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 33 a week to 3.
   • Wrote the compliance service that now handles 32 million requests a day.
5. Director of Engineering

   Oct 2014 - Jul 2016
   Infosys · 1 yr 9 mo · Contract · Ahmedabad, India
   • Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 14 a week to 2.
   • Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 19% in two quarters.

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Education

1. Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

   MBA, Business Administration
   2014 - 2016
2. IIT Delhi

   B.Tech, Computer Science
   2009 - 2013