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Mayank Nagpal

SDE II

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

Clear
Nov 20258 mosJun 2026

Bengaluru

Hike
Apr 20256 mosSep 2025

Hike
May 20223 yrsApr 2025

- Engineered robust and scalable wallet and payments systems by identifying and resolving numerous legacy issues, ensuring seamless transaction processing, high system reliability, and an optimal user experience. - Implemented sharding and partitioning strategies for the wallet database, achieving a 70% reduction in API latency and supporting significant growth in transaction volume. - Successfully integrated multiple deposit and withdrawal payment gateways for both India and US businesses, significantly expanding payment options and increasing payments uptime to 99.9% by enabling seamless failover when any single gateway experienced downtime. - Developed an intelligent algorithm to dynamically distribute traffic across payment gateways based on real-time success rates, ensuring 99.9% uptime for all payments by automatically rerouting transactions during gateway issues. - Built comprehensive end-to-end reconciliation systems for payments and internal operations, enabling detection and resolution of discrepancies in less than 12 hours to ensure financial and operational accuracy. - Led the end-to-end integration of TDS and GST taxation systems within payment workflows, automating tax handling and ensuring regulatory compliance. - Reduced application boot-up time by 60–70% during scale-up events by making basic connections and initial configurations multithreaded, enabling faster deployments and improving service availability during peak loads. - Optimized backend operations by refining MySQL queries, adding indexes, reworking legacy architecture, and introducing database partitions—improving maintainability, scalability, and reducing heavy query API response times by approximately 50%.
Hike
Mar 20211 yr 3 mosMay 2022

- Developed and optimized the backend for 3D avatar generation, enabling users to merge 3D meshes and generate custom images based on their selections. - Re-architected the avatar rendering pipeline by integrating Unity, replacing a legacy three.js solution. - Achieved a dramatic reduction in image generation latency—from 8 seconds to under 1 second—resulting in a significantly improved user experience. - Enabled real-time avatar customization at scale, supporting seamless and interactive user journeys. - Collaborated closely with frontend and product teams to ensure smooth integration and high reliability of the new system.
CodeQuotient
Oct 20204 mosJan 2021

Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab, India

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Education

Chitkara University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science

Chitkara University

20184 yrs2022

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SDE II

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Software Development Engineer II at Clear, Nov 2025 - Jun 2026 · 8 mos, Bengaluru

Senior Software Development Engineer at Hike, Apr 2025 - Sep 2025 · 6 mos

Software Development Engineer at Hike, May 2022 - Apr 2025 · 3 yrs, - Engineered robust and scalable wallet and payments systems by identifying and resolving numerous legacy issues, ensuring seamless transaction processing, high system reliability, and an optimal user experience. - Implemented sharding and partitioning strategies for the wallet database, achieving a 70% reduction in API latency and supporting significant growth in transaction volume. - Successfully integrated multiple deposit and withdrawal payment gateways for both India and US businesses, significantly expanding payment options and increasing payments uptime to 99.9% by enabling seamless failover when any single gateway experienced downtime. - Developed an intelligent algorithm to dynamically distribute traffic across payment gateways based on real-time success rates, ensuring 99.9% uptime for all payments by automatically rerouting transactions during gateway issues. - Built comprehensive end-to-end reconciliation systems for payments and internal operations, enabling detection and resolution of discrepancies in less than 12 hours to ensure financial and operational accuracy. - Led the end-to-end integration of TDS and GST taxation systems within payment workflows, automating tax handling and ensuring regulatory compliance. - Reduced application boot-up time by 60–70% during scale-up events by making basic connections and initial configurations multithreaded, enabling faster deployments and improving service availability during peak loads. - Optimized backend operations by refining MySQL queries, adding indexes, reworking legacy architecture, and introducing database partitions—improving maintainability, scalability, and reducing heavy query API response times by approximately 50%.

Software Development Engineer at Hike, Mar 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, - Developed and optimized the backend for 3D avatar generation, enabling users to merge 3D meshes and generate custom images based on their selections. - Re-architected the avatar rendering pipeline by integrating Unity, replacing a legacy three.js solution. - Achieved a dramatic reduction in image generation latency—from 8 seconds to under 1 second—resulting in a significantly improved user experience. - Enabled real-time avatar customization at scale, supporting seamless and interactive user journeys. - Collaborated closely with frontend and product teams to ensure smooth integration and high reliability of the new system.

Trainee at CodeQuotient, Oct 2020 - Jan 2021 · 4 mos, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Chitkara University

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