Principal Full-Stack Engineer (SaaS)

Rohit Pandita

Pune, India +91-889******* *********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohit3nov

Summary

Principal Full Stack Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and delivering SaaS platforms, enterprise applications, APIs, and distributed backend systems across HR Tech, Fintech, Marketing Automation, and Enterprise Software. Proven track record of driving technical initiatives, modernizing legacy systems, improving application performance and reliability, and delivering scalable solutions from design through production. Experienced in collaborating with architects and cross- functional teams, mentoring engineers, and building high-quality systems using PHP, JavaScript, Symfony, Laravel, Vue.js, Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Docker.

Technical Skills

• Backend: PHP, Golang, Symfony, Laravel, Yii, Node.js

• Frontend: Vue.js, JavaScript

• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

• Infrastructure & DevOps: Docker

• Architecture & Engineering: RESTful API Development, System Design, SaaS, Design Patterns, Microservices, Framework Upgrades, Performance Optimization, Payment Gateway Integration, AWS, CI/CD, Agile Methodologies Work History

WORKSTARS GLOBAL

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Symfony + Vue.js)

Manchester, UK (Remote) Jan 2023 – Aug 2026

• Designed and delivered features for a global employee recognition and rewards SaaS platform serving ~10 major enterprise customers, including organizations with 5k–10k+ employees, across recognition, rewards, employee engagement, and social recognition workflows.

• Leveraged Claude Code for AI-assisted development, doubling average sprint delivery from approximately 5 to 10 story points per week across feature development, debugging, refactoring, testing, and documentation.

• Expanded Symfony functional test coverage across core application workflows to nearly 95%, significantly reducing regression risk and improving confidence in releases, refactoring, and ongoing feature development. ENTRATA

Principal Engineer-II (Property Management)

Pune, Maharashtra Aug 2021 - Jan 2023

• Partnered with senior architects to modernize monolithic backend services by identifying service boundaries, reducing tight coupling, and applying design patterns to support gradual decomposition into independently maintainable microservices.

• Mentored 10 junior engineers across two development teams, providing technical guidance, code reviews, architectural direction, and support on complex engineering problems. GLOBALLOGIC – HITACHI

Software Consultant (Marketing Automation)

Bangalore, Karnataka Dec 2020 – Jul 2021

• Contributed to a large-scale PHP-based integration between Adobe Marketo and Salesforce CRM, supporting bidirectional synchronization of business-critical marketing and customer data for global teams.

• Investigated and resolved critical production issues across the integration, including synchronization failures, API timeouts, data inconsistencies, and integration errors, helping maintain reliable data flows between Marketo and Salesforce.

• Used production monitoring and observability tools including New Relic and Splunk to analyze application behavior, trace failures, investigate logs, and support root-cause analysis of production incidents. Acquia

Software Engineer (Marketing Automation)

Pune, Maharashtra Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

Contributed to Mautic, an open-source marketing automation platform, developing backend functionality using Laravel and Lumen and supporting core marketing automation workflows. TEK SYSTEMS

Senior PHP Developer (Networking)

Mumbai, Maharashtra July 2020 - Oct 2020

Contributed to automation of network deployment and management for Jio's large-scale broadband infrastructure, developing solutions using Python and Yii2 to support Cisco network hardware and streamline infrastructure operations. Worked with PostgreSQL for database operations and data management supporting network automation flows. MINDSARRAY NETWORK PVT. LTD.(Pay1)

Senior Software Engineer (Fintech)

Mumbai, Maharashtra Oct 2016 - Jun 2020

Led development of Pay1Digi’s AEPS and mPOS payment products during the rapid adoption of cashless and Aadhaar- based payments in India, working with banking partners and cross-functional teams to deliver revenue-critical digital payment capabilities.

Migrated the flash-sale transaction and webhook pipeline from PHP to Go, replacing a fleet of heavy PHP CLI workers with a single service managing 500+ concurrent goroutines and HTTP connection pooling to handle slow banking and operator API latencies.

Reduced worker memory footprint from ~20 GB to under 200 MB, eliminating queue backlogs and timeout failures during peak traffic while ensuring predictable, sub-second dispatch for retailers. Led backend development of GullyPro, a fantasy-cricket platform, partnering with a frontend engineer to build Node.js/Express APIs and Python-based data ingestion pipelines that scraped and processed live cricket statistics to power real-time match experiences in the React application. Mentored and guided 8+ interns, providing technical direction, code reviews, debugging support and hands-on development guidance across fintech projects.

OSP LABS PVT. LTD

Software Engineer (Healthcare)

Mumbai, Maharashtra Mar 2016 - Oct 2016

Developed Laravel and Lumen APIs for multiple client applications across healthcare and enterprise domains. Contributed to large-scale projects including Ekinetix, delivering backend services and third-party integrations. EXA WEB SOLUTIONS

PHP Developer

Mumbai, Maharashtra Jul 2013 - Mar 2016

Transitioned into a backend-focused PHP role, building enterprise applications using CodeIgniter and MySQL. Served as module lead for key areas of the Exa Projects (EP) CRM platform, including checklist management, task workflows, and reusable UI components.

Participated in application design, database development, and delivery of enterprise CRM functionality. Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering)

St. Francis Institute of Technology, Mumbai University 2009 – 2013 Languages

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