Senior software engineer · Mastercard · Pune, India

I build the systems behind great digital products.

Pradnesh Mhatre designs dependable transaction services and scalable backend systems with Java, Spring Boot, and microservices.

  • 8+ years of experience
  • Payments & platforms
  • High-performance systems
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01 — About

Making complex systems feel composed.

I’m a backend engineer with 8+ years of experience building transaction and customer-facing systems that need to perform when it matters.

My work spans payment flows, hospitality platforms, and financial services. I enjoy shaping the technical path from an ambiguous requirement through architecture, implementation, performance engineering, and production support—with an emphasis on clarity, resilient APIs, and meaningful impact.

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02 — Experience

Building and evolving enterprise software.

  1. Jan 2025 — Present

    Mastercard

    Senior Software Engineer

    Pune District, Maharashtra · Hybrid

    Working on Mastercard Send within Commercial New Payment Flows, handling API-based payment, disbursement, and funding ISO8583 transactions across Mastercard and cross-network rails. Contributing to transaction-service evolution and infrastructure refinement initiatives.

  2. Mar 2022 — Dec 2024

    Publicis Sapient

    Senior Associate Technology

    Pune District, Maharashtra · Hybrid

    Led channel-side backend delivery for Marriott’s hotel booking journey, making services 250% more product-interactive and 60–80% more performance-efficient. Built distributed applications with reactive programming, Couchbase, Nginx, AWS EKS, OpenShift, and microservices patterns.

  3. Apr 2021 — Mar 2022

    HCL Technologies

    Software Engineer

    Pune Division, Maharashtra · Remote

    Modernised backend modules for Western Union Canada, spanning transaction management, customer profiles, and authentication. Implemented GraphQL with Netflix DGS and helped optimise content APIs through Akamai, improving page performance by 75%.

  4. Jun 2018 — Mar 2021

    Tata Consultancy Services

    System Engineer

    Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

    Started my career supporting Priceline.com, designing Java back-office applications for finance and contributing to the maintenance, support, and reporting services used by analytics teams.

03 — Expertise

A practical toolkit for backend delivery.

Core engineering

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Microservices
  • REST & GraphQL APIs

Systems

  • Payment transactions
  • Apache Kafka
  • Reactive programming
  • Performance engineering

Delivery

  • AWS & Kubernetes
  • Nginx & OpenShift
  • Splunk & Dynatrace
  • Testing & CI/CD

04 — Elsewhere

A considered engineering practice, on and off the clock.

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