Headline

SDE @ PhonePe | Backend & Systems Performance | Distributed Systems · Concurrency · Low-Latency Infrastructure | Java · Kafka

About

Backend engineer at PhonePe working on the layer most engineers don't touch - where concurrency, latency, and memory pressure are the daily problems. I build and optimise backend systems that stay fast and reliable under real production scale. Recently led a full database re-architecture - billions of rows, live traffic, zero downtime. Core stack: Java · Kafka · RabbitMQ · MariaDB · DropWizard Passionate about infrastructure and systems performance where concurrency, latency, and scale are the actual problem - not an afterthought.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

cursor

opencode

githubcopilot

Work experience

Software Engineer at PhonePe, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, • Led end-to-end re-architecture of a core transactional database cluster - billions of rows, zero downtime, zero data loss • Expanded sharding topology 4x to eliminate critical shard skew and unlock capacity headroom • Tuned CDC pipelines for safe in-flight data migration under high-throughput live load • Designed entity versioning enabling live schema evolution without breaking dependent microservices • Optimised high-concurrency, low-latency Java microservices handling millions of daily transactions • Delivered full migration ahead of schedule in close collaboration with SRE, Analytics, and Finance teams

Software Engineer Intern at PhonePe, Jan 2025 - Jul 2025 · 6 mo, bangalore

Software Engineer at PhonePe, Jan 2025 - Jun 2025 · 6 mos

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Vellore Institute of Technology