Sandeep Lakdawala
Senior Backend Engineer | Distributed Systems | Microservices Architecture | Java, Go, AWS, Kafka | High-Scale & Fault-Tolerant Systems
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer at Deliveroo
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sandeep Lakdawala
Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience designing and scaling backend and distributed systems across fintech, ed-tech, and food-tech domains. Currently at Deliveroo, building resilient systems that power restaurant and rider platforms at scale.Skilled in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Golang, Ruby, Kafka, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, AWS (Lambda, Step Functions) and Terraform, with deep experience in microservices and distributed architectures. Experienced in writing and reviewing technical design documents, leading architecture discussions, and driving design reviews across teams.I place a strong emphasis on metrics and measurable impact — raising operational excellence scores, improving reliability, and accelerating delivery timelines. Known for building systems and processes that directly improve engineering efficiency and business outcomes.Passionate about mentoring engineers, enabling teams to grow, and leading cross-team collaboration. I believe true engineering impact comes from solving complex challenges while ensuring the impact is measurable, scalable, and sustainable across teams and systems.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 2022 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
I design and build backend and distributed systems that power Deliveroo’s restaurant and rider platforms. My daily responsibilities include writing and reviewing code in Golang, Ruby, authoring technical design documents, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.I also mentor junior engineers, contribute to architecture reviews, and drive improvements in service health and delivery timelines through automation, cloud-native solutions (AWS Lambda, Step Functions,Dynamo db) and continuous performance optimization.
Education
Mithibai College
High School
2002 — 2004
D.J.Sanghvi College of Engineering
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology
2004 — 2008
Skills
- Spring Framework
- Spring Boot
- Unix
- Sql
- Java
- Spring Batch
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