Headline

Principal Engineer at Zeta | Building Distributed Fintech Platforms

About

I’m a Principal Engineer with 12+ years of experience building and scaling distributed fintech platforms that handle millions of transactions at high reliability. Currently at Zeta, I architect platform-level systems that power credit card issuance, payments, and workflow orchestration at scale. My work has directly enabled systems handling 10M+ transactions per day, with strong focus on performance, reliability, and developer velocity. Some of the problems I’ve solved: • Re-architected a tightly coupled monolith into domain-driven microservices — reducing latency by 95% and production incidents by 80% • Built an event-driven issuance pipeline achieving <8 seconds turnaround with 99.99% uptime • Designed a multi-tenant workflow orchestration platform enabling zero-engineering onboarding for new clients • Scaled onboarding and payments systems to hundreds of thousands of daily users and transactions. Beyond systems, I operate at the intersection of engineering and business: • Tech lead for a 30+ engineer org, driving architecture across multiple teams • Influenced product direction through platform thinking and system design • Conducted 100+ interviews and helped raise the engineering bar I’m also exploring the next wave of engineering with AI: • Built multi-agent systems for automated debugging and root-cause analysis using LLM frameworks Core areas of expertise: Distributed Systems • Event-Driven Architecture • Platform Engineering • System Design • Fintech Infrastructure • AI Systems

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

cursor

github copilot

langchain

Work experience

Principal Engineer at Zeta, Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Re-architected a tightly coupled monolith into domain-driven microservices, achieving a 95% reduction in latency. • Built an event-driven issuance pipeline with a turnaround time of under 8 seconds and 99.99% uptime. • Designed a multi-tenant workflow orchestration platform for seamless onboarding of new clients. • Led a 30-engineer business unit, influencing product and business strategy through technical direction.

Senior Software Engineer at Zeta, Dec 2020 - Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at HTC Global Services, Apr 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos, Greater Chennai Area, • Developed material tracking and transfer modules for a radiation safety platform at the University of California. • Designed concurrency-safe transaction handling to ensure data consistency and correctness.

Project Associate at Cognizant, May 2018 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr, Tamil Nadu, India, • Developed modules for a data entry tool that significantly improved data capture time and processing efficiency. • Created a dynamic report generation system, allowing users to generate customizable reports effortlessly. • Enhanced user experience by improving UI responsiveness and implementing multi-tab support for a legacy web application.

Software Engineer at VITALMED SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED, Apr 2014 - May 2018 · 4 yrs 2 mos, Coimbatore, • Led the end-to-end design and delivery of a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) across three international factories in Hungary, Mexico, and Slovakia. • Integrated real-time manufacturing monitoring by connecting MES with Oracle EBS and shop-floor machines through various interfaces.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Anna University Chennai