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title: "Nikunj Mehadia - Software Developer II in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Nikunj Mehadia, SDE II @ Vegapay | Payments infra — reconciliation, disputes, card processing, fraud risk, UPI Switch | Java · Kafka · AWS | BITS Pilani ’24 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, gemini, and github copilot."
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# Nikunj Mehadia on Tal

## Headline

SDE II @ Vegapay \| Payments infra — reconciliation, disputes, card processing, fraud risk, UPI Switch \| Java · Kafka · AWS \| BITS Pilani ’24

## About

Backend engineer at Vegapay, working on the payments infrastructure behind card and UPI transactions — reconciliation, dispute management, and fraud risk\. High\-volume, correctness\-critical pipeline work — event\-driven Kafka services and reconciliation jobs matching 300k\+ transactions a day\. Recently I've been building out our UPI switch integration and a rail\-agnostic dispute lifecycle engine, both largely from the ground up\. Stack: Java/Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka \(MSK\), AWS \(Lambda, S3, EKS\), Python, ClickHouse\. BE in Computer Science \+ MSc in Economics from BITS Pilani\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

gemini

github copilot

notebooklm

## Work experience

Software Developer II at Vegapay, Oct 2025 \- Present · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Developer I at Vegapay, Jul 2024 \- Oct 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer Intern at Vegapay, Jan 2024 \- Jun 2024 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer Intern at Societe Generale Global Solution Centre, Jun 2023 \- Jul 2023 · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Summer Intern at LTI \- Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Jun 2021 \- Jul 2021 · 2 mos, Business Intelligence \- Ecommerce Industry

## Education

Dual Degree \- B\.E\. in Computer Science & MSc\. in Economics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

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