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title: "Chirag Maheshwari - Head of Engineering in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Chirag Maheshwari on Tal

## Headline

Founding Team @ Fam

## About

Building India’s first payments app for teenagers\. Join us if you love to solve exciting challenges and be a part of the fam https://join\.fampay\.in/cm

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Head of Engineering at Tri O Tech, Apr 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Making Bharat financially inclusive

Founding Team at FamPay, May 2020 \- Present · 6 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1st Engineer at FamPay, Sep 2019 \- May 2020 · 9 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Building the future of payments for teenagers

Software Engineer at RIVIGO, Jun 2019 \- Sep 2019 · 4 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Worked in the Data Engineering team Languages: Scala, Java, Python

Google Summer of Code 2019 Mentor at Amahi, May 2019 \- Sep 2019 · 5 mos, Mentored three students under the Google Summer of Code 2019 program for Amahi\. One in Backend \(GoLang\) and two in iOS \(Swift\)\.

Backend Developer at Bolo, Aug 2018 \- May 2019 · 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India \(Remote\), Bolo is a video questions and answers platform for Indian users\. It allows users to post short one minute video answers to questions posted by other users\. I handled the complete backend built on Python's Django framework and other micro services\. I also added many features to the Bolo's android app\. Apart from these I worked on various things like: • One to one video call scheduling, payment gateway integration and connecting via webRTC, implemented and deployed custom turn/stun and signalling servers • Feed Performance: database optimizations, thumbnail blurred previews implementation using AWS lambda • Search Optimization: implemented both Postgres Full\-Text Search and ElasticSearch with support for hindi characters • Worked on transcoding videos to various formats and adaptive streaming using HLS protocol • Developed various in\-house tools to help teams in their daily tasks • Managing servers on AWS stack, load balancing, scaling etc\. • Setup centralized logging for all servers using ELK stack

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Higher Secondary, Science with Maths, The Aditya Birla Public School, Khor

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