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title: "Mukul Taneja - Software Development Engineer 2 in Gurugram | Tal"
description: "Meet Mukul Taneja, Backend Engineer @ Mudrex (YC W’19) | Distributed Systems | AI Engineering based in Gurugram. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude."
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# Mukul Taneja on Tal

## Headline

Backend Engineer @ Mudrex \(YC W’19\) \| Distributed Systems \| AI Engineering

## About

Backend engineer specializing in high\-scale distributed systems, currently building trading infrastructure at Mudrex \(YC W'19\), India's crypto exchange broker\. I design and ship Go microservices that process real\-time financial data at scale \- recently led a fix for a production performance issue in our funding\-fee pipeline, cutting P99 latency by over 99% through bulk\-insert buffering, covering index design, and Kafka partition strategy\. Earlier at OkCredit, I re\-architected a central auth system serving 1M\+ users/day at 15ms p90 and led messaging infrastructure \(WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS\) handling 1M\+ messages/day at 25% lower cost\. Stack: Go, MySQL/RDS, Kafka, Redis, AWS \(ECS/Fargate\), gRPC\. I have also spent 2\+ years on the product side, so I build systems with a clear sense of business impact, not just technical elegance\. Always open to conversations about backend architecture, distributed systems, and fintech infrastructure problems\.

## Location

Gurugram

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

kiro

lovable

## Work experience

Software Development Engineer 2 at Mudrex, Mar 2026 \- Present · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Redesigned the Futures Place Order API, reducing P99 latency by \~50% to support higher API trading volume Architected a Redis\-backed batch processing pipeline, reducing funding fee processing latency by \~99% while eliminating database spikes Designed and implemented a large\-scale data archival framework for a 115M\+ row MySQL table, reducing active data by 98% while maintaining seamless historical access Owned code quality through PR reviews, production support, and technical documentation across backend services

Career transition at Career Break, Oct 2025 \- Mar 2026 · 6 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Got married, also decided to come back to engineering\.

Senior Product Manager at Irame, Jun 2025 \- Sep 2025 · 4 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Building Irame\.AI \- B2B SaaS AI in Finance

Product Manager at OkCredit, Jul 2023 \- May 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Drove 16% install growth and 40% of ad revenue by launching OkFeed, a content feed for merchants Achieved 0\.5% WoW growth by launching payment reminders unlocking potential for 30% YoY profit increase Fostered strong remote engagement for a cross\-functional team of 9 by driving structured product rituals

Senior Software Engineer at OkCredit, Feb 2021 \- Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Re\-architected a central auth system with session management, serving 1M\+ users/day at 15ms p90 Built Defaulter feature for 3M\+ merchants, improving payment recovery by 22% Led a migration to a new SMS provider, handling 1M\+ SMS/day and achieving 25% cost reduction Integrated WhatsApp Business API and Telegram as communication channels, serving \~100K messages/day Built OkScore, a WhatsApp bot to check customer’s score for merchants; handled \~10K conversations/day Mentored 3 junior engineers on design, code quality, and delivery

Software Engineer at Orange Business Services, Jun 2019 \- Jan 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, As a backend Golang developer, I designed APIs, wrote database queries, developed service layer code, and created unit tests\. My technical stack included Golang, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL\. Additionally, I conducted research in blockchain, bots, software design, and microservices while actively participating in innovation activities such as hackathons, seminars, and delivering presentations\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Information Technology, Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of Technology, Delhi

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