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# Pratyush Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal \| Go · Java · FastAPI · MCP · RAG · Distributed Systems

## About

Currently Senior Software Engineer at PayPal with total 8 years of experience, working in Go, Java and BigQuery on distributed payment systems\. These days most of my attention goes to the other side of the same problem — agentic AI in production\. MCP servers, RAG pipelines, LLM workflows on FastAPI\. Built with distributed\-systems, because that's what they are: retries, idempotency, observability, graceful degradation\. An agent that fails silently is more dangerous than one that fails loudly\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at PayPal, Nov 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Hybrid, • Own backend platform services in Go and Java serving millions of requests per day, exposing REST APIs consumed by engineering teams across the organisation • Designed distributed service architecture for fault tolerance — idempotent request handling, retry with backoff, circuit breaking and structured observability • Built data infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery powering internal analytics and developer tooling at production scale • Built agentic AI tooling \(MCP servers, RAG pipelines, Anthropic Claude\) that cut manual engineering effort 30\-50% on targeted workflows • Hardened LLM pipelines with distributed\-systems patterns, keeping agent behaviour predictable under partial failure and upstream latency • Drove agentic prototypes to production\-grade internal services in partnership with platform and product teams

Senior Associate L1 at Publicis Sapient, Sep 2023 \- Oct 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, • Shipped event\-driven Java/Spring Boot microservices processing 500K\+ events daily for booking and customer\-facing systems • Built Scala and PySpark data pipelines handling 2TB\+ of volume per day • Cut deployment time 60% by rebuilding CI/CD pipelines • Raised test coverage to 95%\+ with SonarQube quality gates • Architected fault\-tolerant backend services with improved scalability, observability and graceful degradation

Software Engineer III at Walmart Global Tech India, Jul 2021 \- Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Built Java and Spring Boot microservices for supply chain and inventory systems serving thousands of Walmart stores across a large SKU catalog • Reduced inventory API latency \~30% by optimising read and write paths over Cassandra and MySQL • Designed event\-driven flows on Apache Kafka to keep inventory state consistent across stores and distribution centres • Raised batch inventory processing throughput through a concurrency and multithreading redesign • Automated build, test and release via Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment reliability across services

Senior System Engineer at Infosys, Feb 2020 \- Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Chandigarh, India

System Engineer at Infosys, Feb 2019 \- Jan 2020 · 1 yr, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

System Engineer Trainee at Infosys, Sep 2018 \- Jan 2019 · 5 mos, Mysore, Karnataka, India

## Education

Bachelor's degree, electronics and communication, Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of Technology, Delhi

Senior secondary, science, Ambience Public School

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