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title: "Praveen Raj - Engineering Leader, India GCC, Startup in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Praveen Raj, Engineering Leader | GCC India Builder | AI-Native & Agentic SDLC | Fintech | SaaS | ex-Pine Labs, FreeCharge, Mercer | DCE Alumnus (B.E) based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and claudecode."
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# Praveen Raj on Tal

## Headline

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

claude code

claude

claudecode

## 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

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