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Otgondavaa Dashnyam (Oggi)

Staff Software Engineer

GoFundMeBurlingame, California, USA
Open to US opportunities

Full-stack software engineer with 16+ years of experience building payments, banking, and consumer platforms. Currently Staff Engineer at GoFundMe in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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From Ulaanbaatar to the Bay Area

  1. 🇲🇳2010
    Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
    B.S. Computer Science
  2. 🎓2017
    Fairfield, Iowa · USA
    M.S. Computer Science
  3. 🌉Today
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Staff Engineer · GoFundMe

Quick facts

16+

Years of experience

Staff

Current level at GoFundMe

Bay Area

Based in California, USA

Experience

GoFundMe

Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2025 – Present

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2024 – Jul 2025 · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Building and scaling features on a global crowdfunding platform used by millions.
Belong

Staff Software Engineer

Mar 2021 – Mar 2024 · San Mateo, CA

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2019 – Mar 2021 · San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer

Sep 2018 – Nov 2019 · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led a team of eight engineers; delivered projects on schedule.
  • Built the payment module from the ground up and owned it through scale.
  • Designed backend platform on C# .NET Core and AWS (Beanstalk, EC2, SQS, Lambda).
Z24 LLC

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2014 – Aug 2017 · Mongolia

  • Led development of online flight and hotel booking systems.
  • Created ZPay payment system for travel products.
  • Implemented SSO across all Z24 products.
GrapeCity Mongolia

Software Engineer

Jan 2012 – Apr 2014 · Mongolia

  • Built Grapebank core banking applications across the full stack.
  • Designed international money transfer module integrated with SWIFTNet.
  • Delivered internet banking web and mobile apps integrated with core banking.
International University of Ulaanbaatar

Assistant, Computer Science Department

Sep 2010 – Jan 2012 · Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  • Managed computer labs and taught introductory computer science courses.

Skills

Languages & frameworks
TypeScriptJavaScriptC#.NET CoreReactGraphQL
Cloud & infrastructure
AWSLambdaSQSEC2Beanstalk
Domains
PaymentsFundraisingCore bankingProperty managementTravel booking
Leadership
Team managementSystem architectureProject deliveryFull-stack development

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science
Maharishi International University · 2017 – 2020
Fairfield, Iowa, USA · GPA 3.84
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
International University of Ulaanbaatar · 2006 – 2010
Mongolia · GPA 3.7
Languages
English — full professional proficiency
Mongolian — native

Open to discussing senior and staff-level engineering roles in the United States. The fastest way to reach me is on LinkedIn.

linkedin.com/in/oggi