Abhishek Pandey

About Abhishek Pandey

Engineering leader with deep hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and high-throughput platforms.I specialize in taking systems from idea to production at scale—owning architecture, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. My work focuses heavily on event-driven systems, real-time pipelines, and resilient service design, with a strong bias toward simplicity, observability, and long-term maintainability.I’ve led cross-functional teams across product, platform, and infrastructure—driving execution in fast-paced environments while maintaining high engineering standards. I’m comfortable going deep when needed, whether it’s debugging production issues, optimizing system bottlenecks, or making critical architectural trade-offs.Beyond delivery, I invest in building strong teams—mentoring engineers, raising the bar on design thinking, and fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Angel One

   Sep 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   As an Engineering Manager, I led the Communications & Growth Systems at Angel One- Led and scaled the Company-wide Communications (CNS) platform from ~1M to 20M+ emails per day, ensuring high reliability and delivery across multiple channels — Email, SMS, Push, WhatsApp, Telegram, and RCS- Owned end-to-end execution of a multi-channel messaging ecosystem, enabling consistent, compliant, and timely communication across business and product use cases- Designed and drove real-time analytics and monitoring dashboards to track delivery, latency, failures, and campaign performance, improving observability and decision-making for marketing and product teams- Partnered closely with product, growth, and business stakeholders to support large-scale campaigns with predictable performance and system stability- Managed and evolved Offers & Rewards and Refer & Earn platforms, supporting user acquisition, referrals, and incentive workflows at scale- Built strong ownership within the team, focusing on scalability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence for critical customer-facing systems.

Education

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

  2007 — 2011

• St Paul's School Gorakhpur

  12th ISC Board, PCM

  2005 — 2006

• St Paul's School Gorakhpur

  High School, ICSE Board, Science

  2003 — 2004

Skills

• Core Java
• Mysql
• Java
• Data Structures
• Css
• Python
• Servlets
• Eclipse
• Sql
• Php
• C++
• Magento
• C
• Ruby on Rails
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Javascript
• Jsp
• Django
• Html