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Nikhil Musale

SDE-2 @Razorpay

Bengaluru

6+ years of work experience

Razorpay
Oct 202511 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Paysafe
Apr 20241 y 5 moSep 2025

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Building resilient backend systems for high-volume payment platforms, focused on uptime, performance, and scalability. 🧠 Engineered the Payafe payments gateway (200K+ txns/day, 27K+ merchants, 1M+ users) achieving 99.99% uptime and <150ms latency 🔁 Refactored 6+ legacy services to Java 21 & Spring Boot 3.4.1, improving system performance and observability 📊 Integrated Elasticsearch, reducing reporting query latency by 30%+ 🧵 Architected Kafka-based event-driven microservices for reliable async communication 🔐 Implemented fine-grained API permission controls, increasing security compliance across user/merchant layers
Morningstar
Aug 20212 y 7 moMar 2024

India

Morningstar
Jul 20212 y 9 moApr 2024

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

ACM, Association for Computing Machinery
Jul 20191 yr 1 moJul 2020

Vidyalankar institute of technology

Jul 20196 mosDec 2019

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

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Education

Scaler

Computer Science

Scaler

20221 yr2023
Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology

Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai

20174 yrs2021

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Headline

SDE-2 @Razorpay

About

🚀 Backend Engineer | SDE-2 | Scalable Systems Architect As a Software Development Engineer II at TechMojo, I’ve engineered high-throughput payment platforms like Payafe, processing 200K+ daily transactions for 27K+ merchants, ensuring sub-150ms latency and 99.99% uptime. My expertise lies in: 1. Modernizing legacy systems using Java 21 + Spring Boot 3.x 2. Architecting event-driven microservices (Kafka) 3. Scaling observability and analytics with Elasticsearch I write clean, maintainable code and thrive on solving complex backend challenges in distributed systems. Let’s connect if you're passionate about scalable fintech infra, performance optimization, or system design at scale!

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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codex

cursor

deepseek

github copilot

hermes agent

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Razorpay, Oct 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SDE 2 at Paysafe, Apr 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 y 5 mo, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Building resilient backend systems for high-volume payment platforms, focused on uptime, performance, and scalability. 🧠 Engineered the Payafe payments gateway (200K+ txns/day, 27K+ merchants, 1M+ users) achieving 99.99% uptime and <150ms latency 🔁 Refactored 6+ legacy services to Java 21 & Spring Boot 3.4.1, improving system performance and observability 📊 Integrated Elasticsearch, reducing reporting query latency by 30%+ 🧵 Architected Kafka-based event-driven microservices for reliable async communication 🔐 Implemented fine-grained API permission controls, increasing security compliance across user/merchant layers

Associate Software Engineer at Morningstar, Aug 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 y 7 mo, India

Software Engineer at Morningstar, Jul 2021 - Apr 2024 · 2 y 9 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Publicity Head at ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Jul 2019 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo, Vidyalankar institute of technology

Video Producer at brainheaters, Jul 2019 - Dec 2019 · 6 mos, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, It was great experience making contents. And successfully increased ctr.

Education

Computer Science, Scaler

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai

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