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Keshav Soni

Engineering Manager at Clear | Leading fintech teams across investing and tax | Shipping AI products

Bengaluru

9+ years of work experience

Clear
Dec 20242 yrsPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pluang
Jul 20222 yrs 6 mosDec 2024

Gurugram, Haryana, India

RSG Media
Feb 20202 yrs 6 mosJul 2022

Gurgaon, India

Sopra Steria
May 20181 yr 10 mosFeb 2020

Noida Area, India

Sopra Steria
Nov 20177 mosMay 2018

Noida Area, India

Trident Information Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 20175 mosMay 2017

Delhi

Worked as an intern on Microsoft NAV.

Keshav’s AI Stack

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anthropic apis
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codex
gemini
gemini
github copilot
github copilot

Education

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science

PDMCE

20134 yrs2017

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Headline

Engineering Manager at Clear | Leading fintech teams across investing and tax | Shipping AI products

About

Engineering Manager at Clear with nearly 9 years in fintech and media-tech, leading teams across consumer investing and tax-filing products. Focused on building products from scratch and keeping them fast and reliable at peak load. Recent work: • Leading a team building a new investing product from scratch. • Built and managed a team of engineers that took a new personal finance product from idea to beta launch, including a multi-agent LLM assistant with advice-refusal guardrails and CI evals. • Drove the latency overhaul of the production RAG support chatbot through ITR season: p95 halved, user-facing 5xx errors eliminated at ~3x peak load. • Coaching engineers into AI-assisted development and co-owning tech hiring. Before Clear: led design and development of the crypto product at Pluang (30+ microservices, ~150k rpm) and rebuilt RSG Media's flagship product on Node.js and Postgres. Focus areas: engineering leadership, system design, hiring, platform reliability, and AI products in fintech.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

github copilot

Work experience

Engineering Manager at Clear, Dec 2024 - Present · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SDE-3 at Pluang, Jul 2022 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Software Engineer at RSG Media, Feb 2020 - Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Gurgaon, India

Software Engineer at Sopra Steria, May 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos, Noida Area, India

Junior Software Engineer at Sopra Steria, Nov 2017 - May 2018 · 7 mos, Noida Area, India

Intern at Trident Information Systems Pvt. Ltd., Jan 2017 - May 2017 · 5 mos, Delhi, Worked as an intern on Microsoft NAV.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, PDMCE

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