Headline

Housing.com | BITS Pilani

About

As a Software Engineer with a focus on Java and a strong interest in Fintech, I've led significant backend initiatives aimed at enhancing data security and service communications. My achievements include spearheading system upgrades and reengineering payment solutions for greater scalability and efficiency. My passion for Fintech drives my commitment to improving performance and efficiency within complex technical landscapes.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude

codex

gemini

huggingface

Work experience

Tech Lead at Primetrace, Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mo, Bengaluru, Personalised-video app that reached #1 overall on the India Play Store. I own the video platform end to end - on-device rendering, server-side processing, and the content pipeline behind it. - Built the animation template format and on-device rendering SDK (OpenGL / Media3) that lets complex designer animations play live in the feed with a user's own photo composited into them. - Architected the server-side video processing pipeline and led its implementation - queue-driven workers with autoscaling - cutting end-to-end download time by ~3x. - Designed a deadline-and-cancel protocol across API, queue and workers with idempotent state transitions safe against duplicate delivery. - Built the creator app - a CapCut-style Android editor on a from-scratch C++/NDK OpenGL engine, that bakes animation template files automatically as a designer edits, closing the chain from design to identical on-device render.

Senior Software Engineer at Housing.com, Jul 2022 - Jan 2026 · 3 y 6 mo, Remote, Contributing in the development and design of various micro-services involved in Pay on Credit (Rent Pay), Insurance, Housing Premium, Rent Agreement, and other Housing Edge products. - Enhanced data security with encryption of over 10 Million documents in MongoDB collection, with zero downtime and negligible impact on API response times. Organised a company level session for knowledge sharing on the same. - Redesigned inter-service communication flows among high-traffic micro-services, reduced overall rent payment latency by 79% from 800s to 170s. Developed a callback synchronisation process, eliminating the need for manual intervention. - Redesigned a pivotal payment service having throughput over 15000 requests per minute, managing a monthly payment volume exceeding INR 4000 crores, enabling multiple orders from different categories using just one payment option. - Successfully integrated with various payment gateways, enhancing system resilience against downtimes of other gateways, and ensuring uninterrupted payment and payout processes. - Recognized for outstanding performance and contributions with the Spotlight Award on three occasions, reflecting a consistent track record of excellence and commitment to professional growth.

Software Developement Engineer - Backend at Housing.com, Aug 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr, - Worked on scaling up “Pay on Credit”. - Implemented Consistent Hash RabbitMQ listeners, solving parallel message processing challenges and reducing the error rate from 3% to nearly 0%. - Migrated an outdated service from Java 7 to Java 17 Spring Boot, streamlining service development and fostering a more efficient development environment.

Software Engineer at Nucleus Software, Jul 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Machine Learning Intern at Nucleus Software, Jul 2018 - Dec 2018 · 6 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Research Intern at Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, BITS-Goa, Aug 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo, Goa

Head, Aurora and Research at Quark BITS Pilani Goa, Apr 2017 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo, Goa

Core at Quark BITS Pilani Goa, Aug 2015 - Apr 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos, Goa

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Instrumentation, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus