SDE-2 @Razorpay

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Vidyalankar institute of technology
Mumbai Metropolitan Region







Computer Science
Scaler

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology
Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai
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🚀 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!
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Computer Science, Scaler
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai