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Nikhil Gupta

Engineering Manager at Decentro (YC S20)

Greater Delhi Area

9+ years of work experience

Decentro
Aug 20251 yr 2 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Lead multiple engineering teams owning UPI Collections, Recurring Payments, Cross-Border Pay- ments, Merchant Onboarding, and Backoffice systems. • Member of the IT Steering Committee, responsible for IT policies, security controls, and RBI regu- latory compliance. • Drive technical strategy, execution planning, and delivery predictability across backend and frontend teams.
Decentro
Aug 20232 yrsJul 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led engineering teams building high-availability, fault-tolerant payments, collections, and payout platforms. Designed and implemented scalable, secure, and RBI-compliant systems, including recurring payments, settlements, and chargebacks. Architected a Lakehouse Data Platform with Apache Iceberg & Doris, reducing infrastructure costs by 70%. Built provider-agnostic reconciliation and AI-assisted incident investigation systems, saving hours of manual operations daily. Drove observability, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines, improving system reliability and reducing MTTR. Mentored engineers and fostered a high-performing, collaborative culture, improving delivery predictability. Integrated multiple PSPs and banks, enabling 200+ TPS financial transactions with 99.95% uptime.
Decentro
Jul 20212 yrs 1 moJul 2023

UpKeep
Oct 202010 mosJul 2021

Part of RTB squad team, handles new feature requests to the existing modules and also bug fixes,. Designed and developed backend for an internal tool which was used by Customer Support team to handle various client request. Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, EKS, RDS and Atlas, including backups, patches, and scaling.
Veris
Nov 20181 yr 11 mosSep 2020

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Part of core team, work regularly on things like api optimizations, database optimizations, adding new features in the system . Designed and developed a Plugin Marketplace Module which creates a platform for enabling third party integrations as well as handles all the notifications. The pipeline was built over Serverless principles using AWS lambda, Step Functions, S3, dynamoDb, etc. Designed and developed reporting module which reduces the report generation time by 10x, it also provides a feature of building a custom report template. Created various pipelines using AWS Lambda's and other services for dynamic workloads which increased core server performance by 3x. Delivered end-to-end on systems spanning dozens of micro-services supporting more than 250+ active clients.
Veris
May 20187 mosNov 2018

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Veris
Jan 20184 mosApr 2018

Gurgaon, India

UPES ACM Student Chapter
Jun 201711 mosApr 2018

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

My work is to look over all the technical activities happening in the chapter and provide suggestions and has the final say in technical decision which are beneficial for the chapter growth.
Boston Analytics
Jun 20173 mosAug 2017

gurgoan

In my internship I worked on two projects- 1) Taxonomy based search using luwak, a searching tool based on Apache licence. 2) Narratives-DealSourcing a new feature in kognetics(a product of Boston Analytics). It includes development of web based service using reactjs, js, mongoDb and Java code which as a mediator to connect UI with mongoDb.It also uses git libraries like ggraph, oligrapher.js, reveal.js, etc.
UPES ACM Student Chapter
Aug 201610 mosMay 2017

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

I was responsible for leading the technical team in web development front. The job also requires to develop various online competition portal time to time as per the need and also the website of Upes Acm student and website for the annual technical fest of the chapter "Prodigy".

Education

UPES

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

UPES

20144 yrs2018

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Headline

Engineering Manager at Decentro (YC S20)

About

Experienced Full Stack Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in fast moving environment. Skilled in DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, PostgreSQL, Django, React JS, Git, Terraform, Managing Infrastructure.

Location

Greater Delhi Area

Work experience

Engineering Manager at Decentro, Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Lead multiple engineering teams owning UPI Collections, Recurring Payments, Cross-Border Pay- ments, Merchant Onboarding, and Backoffice systems. • Member of the IT Steering Committee, responsible for IT policies, security controls, and RBI regu- latory compliance. • Drive technical strategy, execution planning, and delivery predictability across backend and frontend teams.

Lead Engineer at Decentro, Aug 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led engineering teams building high-availability, fault-tolerant payments, collections, and payout platforms. Designed and implemented scalable, secure, and RBI-compliant systems, including recurring payments, settlements, and chargebacks. Architected a Lakehouse Data Platform with Apache Iceberg & Doris, reducing infrastructure costs by 70%. Built provider-agnostic reconciliation and AI-assisted incident investigation systems, saving hours of manual operations daily. Drove observability, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines, improving system reliability and reducing MTTR. Mentored engineers and fostered a high-performing, collaborative culture, improving delivery predictability. Integrated multiple PSPs and banks, enabling 200+ TPS financial transactions with 99.95% uptime.

Senior Software Engineer at Decentro, Jul 2021 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Full Stack Engineer (Contractual) at UpKeep, Oct 2020 - Jul 2021 · 10 mos, Part of RTB squad team, handles new feature requests to the existing modules and also bug fixes,. Designed and developed backend for an internal tool which was used by Customer Support team to handle various client request. Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, EKS, RDS and Atlas, including backups, patches, and scaling.

Full Stack Engineer at Veris, Nov 2018 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, Part of core team, work regularly on things like api optimizations, database optimizations, adding new features in the system . Designed and developed a Plugin Marketplace Module which creates a platform for enabling third party integrations as well as handles all the notifications. The pipeline was built over Serverless principles using AWS lambda, Step Functions, S3, dynamoDb, etc. Designed and developed reporting module which reduces the report generation time by 10x, it also provides a feature of building a custom report template. Created various pipelines using AWS Lambda's and other services for dynamic workloads which increased core server performance by 3x. Delivered end-to-end on systems spanning dozens of micro-services supporting more than 250+ active clients.

Software Developer at Veris, May 2018 - Nov 2018 · 7 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Software Developer Intern at Veris, Jan 2018 - Apr 2018 · 4 mos, Gurgaon, India

Technical Advisor at UPES ACM Student Chapter, Jun 2017 - Apr 2018 · 11 mos, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, My work is to look over all the technical activities happening in the chapter and provide suggestions and has the final say in technical decision which are beneficial for the chapter growth.

Software Developer Intern at Boston Analytics, Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 · 3 mos, gurgoan, In my internship I worked on two projects- 1) Taxonomy based search using luwak, a searching tool based on Apache licence. 2) Narratives-DealSourcing a new feature in kognetics(a product of Boston Analytics). It includes development of web based service using reactjs, js, mongoDb and Java code which as a mediator to connect UI with mongoDb.It also uses git libraries like ggraph, oligrapher.js, reveal.js, etc.

Webmaster at UPES ACM Student Chapter, Aug 2016 - May 2017 · 10 mos, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, I was responsible for leading the technical team in web development front. The job also requires to develop various online competition portal time to time as per the need and also the website of Upes Acm student and website for the annual technical fest of the chapter "Prodigy".

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, UPES