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Engineering Leader | GCC India Builder | AI-Native & Agentic SDLC | Fintech | SaaS | ex-Pine Labs, FreeCharge, Mercer | DCE Alumnus (B.E)

About

Experienced Engineering Leader with a demonstrated history of building and scaling teams in the fintech and SaaS industry. Skilled in Java, Golang, Spring Boot, Kafka, Microservices, and AWS. Strong technology leadership professional with a B.E. focused in Information Technology from Delhi College of Engineering (now DTU).

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Engineering Leader, India GCC, Startup at Talendy Holdings, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, In my role at Talendy Holdings, I spearheaded the establishment of a distributed engineering model that enhanced collaboration between Japan HQ and India GCC. By founding the engineering organization from the ground up, I led a team of 20 engineers, implementing innovative practices such as an AI-native SDLC and a competency-based performance system. My efforts significantly improved engineering rigor and team cohesion.

Technical Architect at Isha Foundation, Oct 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 y 6 mo, Coimbatore, • Led∼20 engineers across 3 cross-functional pods — restructuring a shared backlog into capture, settlement, and refund squads (backend, integrations, QA) with end-to-end ownership and on-call, eliminating the cross-team handoffs behind most delivery slippage. • Introduced structured code reviews, design doc requirements, and incident post-mortems, reducing production incidents 50% and improving mean time to resolution (MTTR). • Mentored and promoted 2 engineers to senior roles through structured growth plans with quarterly milestone reviews; maintained 90%+ team retention. • Established SRE practices — on-call rotations, incident-management playbooks, SLO monitoring, active-active multi-region with automatic failover, and circuit-breaker/DLQ patterns — sustaining 99.9% uptime during peak loads of 200K+ transactions/hour. • Set architecture direction and led hands-on implementation of a headless payment system on Kafka (Go, Java, AWS) — with an event-sourced DynamoDB ledger, exactly-once processing (saga with outbox), and a PSP-gateway abstraction — decoupling capture from settlement to enable independent scaling. • Owned delivery of a high-availability Refund API, reducing refund processing from 7 days to 2 days and improving donor retention 15%.

Principal Engineer at Mettl at Mettl, Apr 2019 - Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Team Lead at Mettl, Apr 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos, Gurugram, ● Made system more robust and secure by fixing vulnerabilities like sql injection, cross side scripting, csrf and by adding security headers like hsts, referrer-policy, content-security-policy, cache-control. ● Generate student certificates using Aws Lambda and SQS and SNS, Node js. ● Designed and develop bloom filter apis with multithreading on a different redis level like adding , flushing, percentage apis etc. ● Integrated third party sms and voice sms api for time based opt verification using google authenticator. ● Added circuit breaker approach to handle sms apis exception and api timeout using redis. ● Upgraded spring to spring boot made changes , browser callback (secure flag). ● Develop apis to generate unique id for order id in payment gateway. ● Design and developed invoice generation system for payment. ● Integrated captcha integration using google re-captcha. ● Integrated ccavenue payment gateway for student transactions. ● Added BlockIP / spamming feature in forgotpassword, login flow. ● Designed and developed new standalone application (csc reporting) to externalise report data from disha-web ○ Added Exception handling mechanism , swagger functionality ○ Developed numerous dashboard APIs like map data, statewise / district wise / theisil wise etc ○ Decreases time complexity for dashboard API for tp/tc/sia by adding caching and in-memory h2 feature ○ Designed and Developed PopulateCSCData API to integrate two meity Dashboard APIs, to populate data in government website. ● Design and develop re-authentication flow for csc by pass. ● Guided team to develop mobile registration apis.

Lead Software Development Engineer at Freecharge, Feb 2018 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos, Gurgaon, India, ● Taken primary ownership and monitoring production regularly. ● Reduces transaction failure rate for rupay cards transactions by integrating redirect/Iframe flow of NPCI Paysecure in Payments System. ● Developed Rest APIs for Digital Savings Account Axis Asap Save Card API, AuthorizationCheck API, FetchDebitCardDetails API, MiniStatement API, Balance Enquiry API etc using Spring MVC and Jackson. ● Developed Rest APIs for Ops panel like transaction detail API, transaction list API, search transaction API etc.

Module Lead at Pine Labs, Mar 2016 - Feb 2018 · 2 yrs, Noida Area, India, ● Taken primary ownership and monitoring production regularly. ● Partially automated the txn payment reports for banks and merchants, which would be responsible to transfer money from bank to merchant via Pine Labs nodal a/c, by using Spring Batch, Spring MVC and JXLS, leading to ease in money settlement between the stakeholders. ● Integrated CB / AR / Loan Recovery feature by adding Spring Steps and Spring MVC in batch processing, leading to recover any invoices / chargebacks / loans against any merchants. ● Developed automated job which will email txn summary report monthly using Spring Quartz . ● Developed UI screens to send payment delay intimation to merchants on the basis of day/acquirer using Spring MVC . ● Added dashboard graph showing Pine Labs earnings per day basis using Spring MVC, Jqplot plugin . ● Reduced batch processing time from 1 & 1/2 hr to 1/2 hr for 6k+ transactions by using multithreading, indexing, sql optimization, removing obsolete code etc ● Removed unnecessary bank a/c duplication and their linking from system using SQL. ● Added feature in UI to index individual entity based on annotation @Indexed using Java Reflection . ● Found and fixed many critical bugs in the system. ● Gave technical support to another Project KWOK. ➢ Added support to send SMS to both TSE and State coordinator using third party API . ➢ Automated issue report containing ageing, last update ageing etc for last two months using Crontab, SQL, Triggers.

Sr. Software Engineer at Pine Labs, Oct 2013 - Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Noida, ● Implemented keyword search through ElasticSearch, Logstash and used Kibana for monitoring. ● Developed library which can generate MVC from POJO class using java reflection . ● Developed standard tag libraries using Jstl, spEL . ● Developed many RestFul web Services like Customer Spent Pattern API, Store Detail API, User Register API, Customer Voucher API etc using Spring MVC and Jackson . ● Developed True Gains Web Portal based on Spring MVC from scratch. ● Developed Job scheduler which will send push notifications to mobile users using Spring Quartz, Spring MVC . ● Developed Generic APIs to work with HSM for encryption and decryption. ● Developed PL/SQL to generate image from table data and also done the archiving. ● Worked with Jquery Plugins : Chosen, FormValidator, Jtable, SmartMenus, AppendGrid. ● Won 3rd Quarterly award of 2015-2016.

Education

B.E, Information Technology, Delhi College of Engineering

Class XII, Science, Amity International school