Headline

Leading Backend & Devops @ Kiwi · Building fintech & consumer-scale platforms · ex-PayU, Embibe · IIT KGP

About

Three domains have shaped most of the last six years of my career: fintech rails, consumer-scale backend systems, and internal AI/platform infrastructure. Joined Kiwi as a founding engineer in late 2022 and currently lead a team of ~10 engineers across backend and DevOps. Since then, the product has scaled from zero to adding roughly a million new users every two months, and the engineering systems have had to evolve just as aggressively alongside it. My day-to-day spans backend architecture, infrastructure reliability, system-design reviews, and debugging across services, along with helping the team grow into stronger owners across architecture, security, and cost governance. Stack: Java, Go, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka/SQS, Kubernetes on EKS. A pattern across my career: take an ambiguous problem in an unfamiliar domain, ship a measurable first version, then automate and scale it until it becomes operationally boring. Before Kiwi: • At PayU, worked on the GIMAC dispute-management system for partner banks across Africa and was the sole developer on the ONDC seller-services pilot. • At Embibe, built exam-readiness automation systems and Kubernetes-native distributed performance-testing infrastructure.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Lead Backend Engineer at Kiwi, Mar 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Founding engineer at Kiwi; now lead a team of ~10 across backend and DevOps, owning architecture, reliability, and rollout safety. • Set the bar for system design, code quality, data security, and cost governance across the org. • Stack: Java, Go, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka/SQS, Kubernetes on EKS.

Senior Software Engineer at Kiwi, Dec 2022 - May 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos, On-site, • Built and scaled core backend systems at Kiwi from the company’s early-stage launch through rapid consumer growth and high-volume fintech workloads. • Led production-readiness and scaling efforts for IPL-driven traffic surges, improving platform reliability during extreme spikes in onboarding and user activity. • Architected distributed-system improvements across async processing, caching, QoS controls, and performance optimization initiatives on EKS.

Software Engineer at PayU, Apr 2022 - Dec 2022 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Part of Wibmo's (A PayU company) Platform Engineering team, built shared services and primitives reused across multiple LoBs to accelerate their delivery velocity. • Led the GIMAC (Central Bank of Africa) integration for PayU's Dispute Management System, built the lifecycle APIs powering inter-bank dispute resolution across partner banks. • Sole developer on PayU's ONDC seller-services (OSAS) pilot, designed and shipped seller onboarding and order flows end-to-end for the pilot launch.

Software Development Engineer at Embibe, Jul 2020 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Built the Exam Maturity Framework, 200+ functional, content, and algorithmic checks (Apache Airflow, 30+ DAGs) that flagged data-hygiene issues pre-prod and gated exam-readiness. • Built a Locust-on-Kubernetes distributed perf-testing framework, auto-generates load scripts from cURLs; cut perf-test setup from days to minutes for the platform team. • Shipped QA OnDemand (FastAPI), self-serve reporting + flow-automation tool used by 1,500+ faculty for content hygiene, data-gap analysis, and running automated test/practice flows.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

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