Pranav Trivedi

Overview

Currently at Samsung R&D, where I work on payments infrastructure. Wrote the gRPC service that now handles 45 million requests a day. Before that: Dream11 and Morgan Stanley. Most at home with idempotency and distributed systems. I mentor students through university programmes.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Jul 2025 - Present
   Samsung R&D · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Sit on 6 boards.
   • Backed 20 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. Senior Backend Engineer

   Jun 2023 - Jul 2025
   Dream11 · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 9 million transactions a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 762ms to 97ms.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Mar 2021 - Jun 2023
   Morgan Stanley · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 40 a week to 2.
4. Backend Engineer

   Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
   Mahindra Group · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Moved 70% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Engineering Manager

   Nov 2015 - Nov 2017
   Bajaj Finserv · 2 yr · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

1. NIT Trichy

   B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
   2002 - 2006