# Pankaj Malhotra

> Engineering Leader @ Dexcom | 16+ Years | AI/ML | Mobile | Web | Backend | Quality | Automation

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pankajmalhotra

My Professional Experience: 
- Over 16+ years of experience in software development, AI/ML, team leadership, developer productivity, automation & testing in diverse technical environments, specializing in Agile methodologies.
- Expertise in generative AI and experienced in promoting the adoption of AI/ML & infrastructure tools to enhance team's productivity and efficiency.
- Experienced in vendor/offshore team management for various Engineering teams.

Development & Testing Tools Experience:
- AI/ML: OpenAI, Gemini, Github Copilot, VertexAI, xAI Grok, Claude, LangChain, RAG, embeddings, vector DBs
- Android: Square Squid (X2a/b, T2a/b, X3, T3), Lyft Glow, Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, Gradle, Bazel, RXJava 3, Dagger 2, Coroutines, Retrofit, Jetpack Compose, Room, Glide, LeakCanary, OkHttp, Protocol Buffers, Mortar, Android Profiler, SDK, Mockito, Vysor, Test Farm, Keynote Device Anywhere, React Native, Flutter, SourceTree, GitHub
- iOS: Xcode, Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, UIKit, Core Data, Core Animation, AVFoundation, XCTest/XCUITest, KIF, Firebase, Perfecto Mobile, SeeTest Cloud
- Web/Full Stack: Node.js, React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Express, Django, Spring Boot, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, BigQuery
- API/Backend: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Microservices, Kubernetes, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, PyCharm, Mimic, Bubble, TSYS, Charles Proxy, Postman, Terraform, Ansible, Hive, Spark, Elastic, Solr, Hadoop
- Patterns, Paradigms & Design: MVP, MVVM, MVC, Dependency Injection, Reactive Programming, OOP, Test Mocks/Fakes, Server-Driven UI, Design Patterns
- Observability Tools: Datadog, Crashlytics, Snowflake Looker, Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, Bugsnag, Jenkins, Buildkite, New Relic, JIRA, Notion, Figma, TestRail, XRay, Codecov
- Automation: Google Espresso, UIAutomator, Snapshot, XCTest/XCUITest/KIF, Pytest, Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Jest, Puppeteer, SeeTest, HP QTP/UFT/ALM, Ant, Maven
- Languages: Java, Kotlin, Swift, Javascript, Typescript, Python, Go, Ruby, Vbscript, HTML, CSS, XML, JSON
- Mobile Cloud: Firebase, Perfecto Mobile, Keynote Device Anywhere, Test Farm, SeeTest Cloud
- Web Services: SOAPUI, Rest API
- Backend/Performance Testing: Attachmate EXTRA, FIS/Host/Tsys, Oracle, SQL, Apache JMeter
- Test Management: TestRail, Xray, Zephyr
- Mobile/Hardware Devices: Android, iOS, Squid (Square), Lyft Glow

## Work Experience
### Software Development Manager @ Dexcom
Jan 2024 – Present | California, United States
Leading teams to drive the design, development, and testing of medical applications/systems at Dexcom using generative AI workflows, LLM integration and ML-driven analysis - supporting millions of users managing diabetes in real-time.

### Software Eng Manager @ Square
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led cross-functional teams across multiple locations (US, Canada, Mexico, India, Europe, Japan, Remote) to deliver features for the Square Point of Sale (POS) ecosystem.
- Scaled the engineering team from 3 to 10 within six months (in the first half of 2022), while fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Delivered 20+ key features to production, reducing critical defects to zero by promoting a culture of quality and ownership.
- Created quarterly roadmaps, defined OKRs/KPIs and executed plans to deliver value to customers.
- Improved app performance by creating robust architecture, optimizing network requests & caching strategies and helping reducing data load times. 
- Refactored monolithic services into domain-based microservices, improving developer velocity by 20%, and reducing CI/CD build times by 15%.
- Enhanced app stability and user satisfaction by integrating Crashlytics, Crash Owl and Datadog for real-time crash monitoring and helping reducing crash rates.
- Spearheaded an automation strategy (Shift-Left) for mobile, backend and web applications, which resulted in significant savings and increase in engineering productivity.
- Introduced observability tools and metrics, promoted AI/ML advancements, reducing build and deployment times & improving overall app performance.

### Tech Lead / ICM @ Lyft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Worked in a hybrid Individual Contributor/Manager (ICM) role to design, build, and test features for Lyft’s applications and systems.
- Developed scalable, secure, and reliable architectures supporting high-traffic production environments.
- Led technical strategy and execution for multiple product feature suites and cross-functional group initiatives.
- Served as a trusted code reviewer, providing guidance and ensuring code quality across teams.
- Collaborated closely with Engineering Managers, Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Development teams to align on business objectives and deliver high-quality products on time.
- Partnered in the hiring of 10+ exceptional engineers, helping to build a high-performing team culture focused on technical excellence and continuous learning.

### Principal Associate @ Capital One
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Leadership, Mentorship & Project Delivery:

- Worked as an Individual Contributor (IC) and delivered 20+ high impact features under the “Banking for Good” mission – increasing digital engagement by 30%.

Event Management & Public Speaking:

- Organized events like Google IO Extended, AndroidSubmit, Project Mercury, Hackathon, Asian BRG

### Technical Lead @ Wipro
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greenville, South Carolina Area
Served as a Senior/Lead Engineer for TD Bank client, contributing to the design and development of several key features in the banking and financial services domain.

### Technical Associate @ Tech Mahindra
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Los Angeles, CA
Served as a Senior/Lead Engineer for clients including AT&T, Verizon, and Apple, primarily contributing to the design and development of the AT&T U-verse Field Operations (UFO - Customer support troubleshooting application system) and the Muve Music app for Cricket Wireless (AT&T).

### IND SCS @ Aon Hewitt
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Gurgaon, India
Served as an IND SCS for Disney client, contributing to the design and development of Your Benefit Resources (YBR) Payroll functionalities.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
Maharshi Dayanand University

### 10 in 10+2, Science
Central Board of Secondary Education


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pankaj-malhotra

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Last updated: 2026-04-19