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title: "Ayush Mukhopadhyay - Founding Backend Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ayush Mukhopadhyay, Engineering | Interact AI based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude and cursor."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-mukhopadhyay/share-image"
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# Ayush Mukhopadhyay on Tal

## Headline

Engineering \| Interact AI

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

cursor

## Work experience

Founding Backend Engineer at Interact AI, May 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Remote, • Everything in Devops from 0 to 1 with peak scale reaching 1K RPS • Everything in Backend from 0 to 1 from scratch to scale to help the company reach 200K USD in 2 months; scale and speed

Founding Backend Engineer at The 1% Club, Mar 2024 \- Apr 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, •Spearheaded full\-stack development for the 1% Club web app, shaping architecture with microservices, RESTful APIs, and scalable state management\. Implemented CI/CD and performance optimizations, resulting in growth of 150k\+ subscribers and 25k DAUs\. •Led the development and deployment of secure end\-to\-end payment flows using Razorpay’s embedded UI and webhooks, AWS SQS for asynchronous processing, achieving <0\.01% error rate and scaling to 30k MAUs with sustained 1k users/min throughput\. •Designed a notification service for 100k DAUs, supporting multi\-format payloads\. Optimized delivery pipeline to reduce payload drop\-off from 60% to 30%\. Automated deployments via GitHub Actions and containerized workloads on AWS ECS\. •Engineered a high\-concurrency feed system with support for posts, likes, and deeply threaded replies\. Integrated GetStream for real\-time delivery and optimized the backend to handle 5K daily active users and 5K reqs/min at peak with an uptime of 99%\. •Designed and deployed money service on AWS ECS with CI/CD and built a Backend\-for\-Frontend \(BFF\) layer to handle UI logic server\-side, implemented resumable onboarding, boosting retention by 15%\. Scaled to support 10k DAUs across 100k users\.

Associate Software Engineer at Swym, Jul 2023 \- Feb 2024 · 8 mos, • Revamped the entire End\-To\-End UI and API for the SBISA team and migrated it to the Shopify\-admin\-embed with a fresh design which is used by \~7K\+ active merchants using SBSIA having an LCP score of around \~3\.0s and CLS score of 0\.011 ms, having generating an revenue of approx $70k\+ in ARR\. • Worked with the Gift\-Registry team, and further developed the address masking feature which is used by \~5% of the total user base was the lead developer for the entire process merchant pay \~$250\+/month for the feature which attributed to swym\-revenue also improved app\-proxy API response time by 100ms, also induced End to End deployment, also wrote unit and component testing using PactumJS and UI texting using PlayWright\. • Worked on a new project named Platforms which will help SWYM apps to integrate themselves with other platforms such as Salesforce, BigCommerce, Woo\-commerce etc\. with ease, was one of the developing architecture for the PLATFORMS having contributed to the HLD and schema design\.

Associate Software Engineer Intern at Swym, Dec 2022 \- Jun 2023 · 7 mos, • Working with the Gift\-Registry team, improved app\-proxy API response time by 1000ms • Build both frontend as well as the API for the freshdesk API using React\.js, Node\.js • Build both frontend as well as the API for the archival of registries using React\.js, Node\.js and postgresql • Build both API for the version control of liquid pages using Node\.js and postgresql • Building an Address Masking feature which helps the user with the Gift registries to hide their address so that the gifts are sent anonymously deployed the feature using Azure integrated with Shopify API and Stripe API • Helped the team in building the onboarding flow on app installation using React\.js • End to End deployment, also wrote unit and component testing using PactumJS and UI texting using PlayWright • Building a Support dashboard tool for the Gift Registry team using React\.js, which the support team can use to integrate custom fixes as well as monitor/change any requested features through the dashboard\.

Fullstack Web Developer at Freelance, Jul 2022 \- Dec 2022 · 6 mos, I offer web development services\. I am new to this field, I have worked on a project for an international client \( Chile \) The areas of my expertise include: \- Frontend: JavaScript, React\.js with Redux, React Native, \- Backend: Node\.js, Express\.js, Serverless: Firebase Cloud Functions \- Database: MongoDB, Firebase \- Devtools: Docker, GitHub, Postman, Swagger, Heroku, Netlify, Vercel, etc\.

SDE Intern at Xpert Finance, Nov 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 6 mos, • Developed Legal Factory website using React\.js and Redux\-Thunk\. • Created multiple pages using MUI\-v5 and integrated using Firebase\-v9 • Set up Firebase Cloud Function for Email services\. • Payment integration using Paytm API

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, SRM University \(Sri Ramaswamy Memorial University\)

Higher Secondary, Air Force Bal Bharati School

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