Davinder Dhaliwal

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Directed global engineering (frontend, backend, data, infrastructure), including managers and senior ICs, driving technical vision and execution aligned with company goals.
Partnered with product and business leaders to define OKRs and roadmap, ensuring engineering efforts translated into measurable business outcomes.
Scaled and mentored high-performing teams, improving retention and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and growth.
Improved engineering velocity and decision-making, enabling faster delivery of customer-facing innovation, accountability, and growth.
Optimized budgets and resource allocation, balancing innovation with cost efficiency while supporting long-term business scalability.
Strengthened system reliability and modernized infrastructure, ensuring enterprise-grade performance for fintech and payments products.

VP Engineering (Global)

XTMINC/QRails

11.2024 | 08.2025

Partnered with product and business leadership to define a roadmap and align engineering initiatives with business strategy, accelerating feature delivery and customer adoption.
Drove a 600% increase in release frequency (7 months to 1 month), enabling rapid production iterations, faster customer feedback loops, and improved market responsiveness.
Championed modernization initiatives, reducing tech debt, eliminating unsupported libraries, and advancing native Android/iOS tech stack for long term sustainability.
Mentored engineers, holding bi-weekly 1:1s to support career development, improve performance, and build leadership pipeline.
Embedded engineering excellence by enforcing secure coding standards, architectural best practices, and scalable design principles across all projects and CI/CD best practices.
Collaborated cross-functionally to ensure feature scope, delivery timelines, and business outcomes align with customer priorities.
Removed delivery bottlenecks through daily standups and cross-development collaboration, ensuring on-time releases that aligned with customer and product priorities.
Introduced new tools and industry standards to improve developer experience, scalability, and deployment, creating a culture of continuous experimentation and innovation.

Software Engineering Manager

Workmarket - An ADP Company

06.2022 | 06.2024

Led technical strategy for the Buy Now, Pay Later integration platform, influencing product direction and enabling seamless adoption by merchants and partners.
Partnered with product managers to define requirements and delivery priorities, aligning engineering execution with customer needs and company growth objectives.
Drove architecture and platform improvements that scaled transaction processing, reduced system latency, and improved reliability for millions of users
Mentored engineers across teams, guided them on technical design, problem-solving, and best practices while raising the overall engineering bar.
Improved engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the organization, resulting in faster delivery cycles and higher product quality.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams (product, data, design) to launch features in the product, expanding customer reach and increasing platform adoption.
Delivered complex features end-to-end while ensuring long-term system health, balancing rapid iteration with maintainability and scalability.

Staff Software Engineer

Affirm/Paybright

06.2020 | 06.2022

Gain recognition and respect while introducing best practices, conduct research and actively contribute new ideas, tools and methodologies to the design and development process.
Manages all aspects of application & web services operations, development, designs, development and implementation.
Act as an effective information channel between the teams and the broader organization.
Advocate for and execute development initiatives, best practices and coding standards.
Ensure that the team follows standards for development tools/platforms/methodology/controls to ensure efficiency, quality and consistency in application development.

Senior .Net Developer

360 Insights

02.2020 | 05.2020

Led a mobile engineering team for 7 developers, delivering enterprise mobile solutions aligned with product and business properties.
Hired, coached, and mentored engineers, building a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
Introduced Azure-cloud native solutions, improving scalability and reliability of enterprise mobile applications.

Team Lead | Mobile, Core

Angus Systems

11.2018 | 02.2020

Led development of APIs and services, improving integration and scalability of customer facing applications.
Introduced Azure serverless solutions, enhancing reliability and reducing operation overhead.

Technical Lead Developer

SpecOps

04.2018 | 08-2018

Partnered with product leadership to deliver solutions addressing complex business requirements.
Modernized legacy systems using .NET Core, Azure cloud services, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
Mentored junior developers and established best practices for architecture, coding and delivery.

Senior Software Developer

ComsenseInc.

09.2016 | 03-2018 .

Early Career Highlights

2001-2006

TELUS, Scotiabank, DiscloureNet, Angus Systems, Avery Dennison - Held progressive roles from Programmer Analyst to Senior Developer.
Delivered enterprise .NET applications mobile apps, and middleware, enabling operational efficiency and scalability.
Introduced engineering best practices (CI/CD, secure coding, design standards) and mentored junior developers.
Partnered with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing customer experience