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title: "Bestine Payyappilly - Senior Software Engineer 2 in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Bestine Payyappilly, Building India’s Largest Financial Literacy Platform · Full-Stack & Mobile Developer · Fintech | EdTech | Consumer Apps based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including github and bestinepayyappilly.com."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/bestine-payyappilly/share-image"
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# Bestine Payyappilly on Tal

## Headline

Building India’s Largest Financial Literacy Platform · Full\-Stack & Mobile Developer · Fintech \| EdTech \| Consumer Apps

## About

I learnt a new language and submitted a phd assignment for a friend for free beer and pizza\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

notebooklm

openclaw

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer 2 at Streak \(YC W22\), Mar 2024 \- Present · 2 y 5 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Product Engineer with \~5 years shipping consumer products end to end: the interface, the API behind it, the payments inside it, and the release that ships it\. At Streak \(YC W22\) I was sole mobile architect for a teen fintech app with 500k\+ downloads on iOS and Android, owning architecture, release engineering, and on\-call across React Native, Swift, and Kotlin, mentoring 4 engineers, and working with the founders on what to build next\. I also built and own the education platform the business runs on, taking it from zero to 500\+ schools and 100,000 participants: a React to Next\.js migration run on a documented runbook and rollback path with no downtime at cutover, checkout across 4 payment gateways verified server\-side instead of trusting client callbacks, and production AI on the Claude API with RAG on pgvector and a LangGraph multi\-agent pipeline, A/B tested with 500 students\. On my own I designed and shipped Synqed, an Android to Mac continuity app in Kotlin and Swift that keeps notifications, files, and calls on an encrypted link over your own Wi\-Fi, with no cloud or account behind it\. Based in Bangalore\.

Senior Frontend Developer/ Senior Mobile Developer at Streak \(YC W22\), Oct 2024 \- Jan 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos, Hybrid, • Sole mobile architect for a fintech app, overseeing both iOS and Android platforms with over 500,000 downloads\. • Developed a comprehensive payments ecosystem for teenagers, including prepaid cards and gamification features\. • Engineered a robust 7\-layer security stack with custom native modules for secure payment flows\.

Frontend Developer at Streak \(YC W22\), Aug 2022 \- Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

React Native Developer at Streak \(YC W22\), Feb 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Javascript Developer at Techolution, Dec 2021 \- Feb 2022 · 3 mos, Remote

React Native Developer at Tago Care, Oct 2021 \- Dec 2021 · 3 mos, Remote, Worked as a React\-Native developer for Tago Care\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, SRM IST Chennai

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/bestinepayyappilly
- bestinepayyappilly\.com: https://bestinepayyappilly\.com/

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