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title: "Akshay Gupta - SDE-II in New Delhi | Tal"
description: "Meet Akshay Gupta, SDE-II Backend Engineer @ PeepalCo | Lemonn / CoinSwitch | Go, Java, Distributed Systems | Trading Platforms based in New Delhi. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex. Explore public work links including github.com and leetcode."
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# Akshay Gupta on Tal

## Headline

SDE\-II Backend Engineer @ PeepalCo \| Lemonn / CoinSwitch \| Go, Java, Distributed Systems \| Trading Platforms

## About

Backend Software Engineer \(SDE\-II\) specializing in scalable, low\-latency trading infrastructure\. Currently at CoinSwitch/PeepalCo, I architected a greenfield Order Management System \(OMS\) from scratch for Indian equities—owning the entire order lifecycle, portfolio management, order book execution, and event\-driven processing workflows\. Core Expertise: Languages & Frameworks: Go, Java, Microservices, gRPC Infrastructure & Data: NATS, Redis, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS System Design: Concurrency control, distributed systems, idempotency, high availability, and observability\. Recognized for rapid impact, advancing to SDE\-II within one year\. Passionate about engineering excellence, leading technical design discussions, and mentoring junior engineers to build production\-reliable systems\.

## Location

New Delhi

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

## Work experience

SDE\-II at PeepalCo, Oct 2025 \- Present · 11 mo, On\-site, – Designed and shipped Historical P&L end\-to\-end, including the order\-P&L ledger, aggregation tables, BOD processing and 3 frontend APIs \(summary, history and cursor\-paginated exit orders\); added daily, weekly and monthly aggregation with rerun\-safe backfills\. – Delivered PnL Protect from design to production in about 3 weeks, owning the risk engine, NOS consumer, arm API, state machine, schema and infrastructure; validated the live flow against strategy rules before rollout\. – Reduced peak NOS pod memory from 1\.88 GiB to 1\.15 GiB \(39% reduction\) and equalized usage across 3 production pods by moving to headless gRPC with round\-robin load balancing\. – Root\-caused a Kambala SDK memory leak that grew adapter RSS from about 50 MB to 1 GB; profiled the native heap with jemalloc/jeprof and isolated 87\.7% of the growth to the Noren SDK before raising a reproducible vendor defect\. – Eliminated 30s\+ NATS consumer gaps during deployments and fixed stale trading\-state races using m\-sequence guards and monotonic DB writes; also built AI\-assisted P0/P1 alert triage across 8\+ services\.

SDE\-I at PeepalCo, Jul 2024 \- Sep 2025 · 1 y 2 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, – Built and rolled out Lemonn’s in\-house Order Management System \(OMS\) for positions, holdings, orderbook and order history, replacing broker APIs as the primary source of truth and reaching 100% rollout to about 5,300 users\. – Designed the OMS rollout with validation, broker fallback and Redis\-controlled staged rollout \(0/10/20/100%\), plus runtime kill switches and exclusion lists for users with data mismatches\. – Improved OMS correctness through history tables, FIFO cost\-basis fixes, modify\-order state handling and m\-sequence\-number protection against out\-of\-order socket/sync updates; also ran a 90\-minute OMS KT for the wider engineering team\. – Took ownership of the ODIN\-to\-Kambala broker migration across order management, portfolio and the Go/CGO vendor adapter, covering BOD validation, order/trade socket correctness and post\-go\-live RCA actions\.

SDE Intern at PeepalCo, Apr 2024 \- Jun 2024 · 3 mos, On\-site

Trainee Software Engineer at Recruit CRM, Mar 2024 \- Mar 2024 · 1 mo, Norwood, New Jersey, United States

Software Engineer Intern at Recruit CRM, Oct 2023 \- Feb 2024 · 5 mos

Summer Intern at Bharat Electronics Limited, May 2023 \- Jul 2023 · 3 mos, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

SWE Intern at ByteLearn\.com, Dec 2022 \- Mar 2023 · 4 mos, Remote, • Working with the solver team to power the AI\-based Math solver\. • Handled different chapters and enabled the chatbot to solve different types of mathematical problems handling different cases and scenarios\. • Contributed over 10,000 lines of code which are being used by thousands of students daily\. • Contributed to the overall planning and discussion on design and implementation\.

Placement Coordinator at NSIT Training and Placements, Jun 2022 \- Sep 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

PCM, St\. MARKS SR\. SEC PUBLIC SCHOOl JANAKPURI

## Public links

- github\.com: https://github\.com/https://github\.com/akshaygupta1407
- leetcode: https://leetcode\.com/akshaygupta1407

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