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title: "Mayank Nagpal - Software Development Engineer II in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Mayank Nagpal, SDE II based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes cursor, opencode, and claudecode."
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# Mayank Nagpal on Tal

## Headline

SDE II

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

opencode

claudecode

## 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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