Siddhant Zawar

Hey — I'm Siddhant

I currently work as a Senior Engineering Manager at GoTo Financial.

Current Portfolio:

  • OneFRS — Risk Platform

    • Built a resilient, high-performance Fraud Rules Platform (peak throughput ~100K RPM; p99 ≈ 60ms).
    • Implemented an HMAC Kong plugin to harden backend services against scripted attacks.
    • Developing an Anti-Fraud Mobile SDK to capture device signals and detect tampering.

  • Unified Identity

    • Designing a unified identity system across GoTo verticals (Driver, Consumer, Merchant) using KTP as a primary identifier.
    • Focus on cross-product identity resolution to improve personalization and cross-sell.

  • Search Platform

    • Building a unified search platform and standardizing search architecture for GoFood and related products.

Previous roles:

  • Founding Engineer — Seekho (seekho.ai)

    • Learned how startups are built, witnessing the journey from Zero to One.
    • Built multiple platforms for over 100k+ learners to improve their skills and connect with jobs matching their skillset.
    • Helped build the engineering and product team from the ground up, leading to faster business experimentation and high-quality products.

  • Senior Software Engineer — Wynk Music (wynk.in)

    • Music Search 2.0: Worked on making user music search actionable and meaningful.
    • Scaled up in-house Notification service to 10X, used for sending transactional/promotional SMS.
    • Personalized Playlist: Built an end-to-end pipeline for suggesting music according to consumers’ tastes and listening history using machine learning models.

  • Software Engineer — Freecharge (freecharge.in)

    • Joined fresh out of college, got exposed to the world of fintech.
    • Building Single Identity System:
      • Post Snapdeal and Freecharge merger, we were responsible for merging the identity of the user across both companies.
      • Built the Authorization System for Single Sign-On (SSO) across all platforms.