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title: "Rishab S. - Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Rishab S., Software Engineer at PhonePe | NSIT based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/rishab-s-1/share-image"
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# Rishab S\. on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer at PhonePe \| NSIT

## About

A Software Developer with hands\-on experience in designing and developing scalable, consumer\-facing applications\. An ardent coder at heart, I love spending time listening to 90s hits\. I take pride in my programming skills and my sense of humor \(WIP\)\!

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

opencode

## Work experience

Software Engineer at PhonePe, May 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, \* Led the Foxtrot Analytics Platform, an in\-house analytics system processing over 6M writes/sec across 5 Elasticsearch clusters of 2000 nodes; led a team of 5 engineers while owning reliability, on\-call, and performance SLAs\. \* Benchmarked Apache Pinot as a secondary OLAP engine against Elasticsearch; achieved \~50% higher write throughput and projected >20% reduction in data infrastructure cost \* Improved service throughput by \~20% through deep Elasticsearch cluster tuning \(sniffing, circuit\-breaker optimization\) and other optimisations in the data pipeline\. \* Designed, developed and implemented Comprehensive Health Insurance PAN India, which was positioned as the centerpiece for the World Cup marketing campaign\. \* Designed and developed a monthly payment component that involves mandate execution for health insurance policies that drives majority of the sales\. \* Led the enhancement of on\-call metrics, reducing ops and on call load by 60% and enhancing Average Time to Debug \(ATD\) and overall Turnaround Times \(TATs\) by 80%\. \* Executed Data Centre migration, spanning across >20 services, infra and capacity planning, ensuring 99\.99% uptime, eventually using it for Disaster Recovery setup\. \* Picked up projects pertaining to the tech hygiene, like tuning the applications to reduce memory footprint, and other resource utilization\.

Software Engineer at airtel X Labs, Jun 2019 \- May 2021 · 2 yrs, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, • Designed, developed and implemented Broadband shifting journey with online feasibility\. • Designed and Developed a campaign for on boarding an existing customer base on Airtel Xstream Fibre\. • Worked on Coupon Engine Application that is integrated across different lines of businesses at Airtel\. • Designed and developed a MESH PLAN construct for the existing broadband customers on the Airtel thanks app\. • Developed a rule engine microservice that is used for coupon discovery\. • Developed a configurable offer’s webPage currently catering to high end broadband customers\. • Developed an EXTRA DATA Proposition for existing broadband customers offering extra data for six months\. • Hands on experience on critical projects including Broadband feasibility, coupon management, and various microservices\.

Software Engineer at Airtel XLabs, Jun 2019 \- May 2021 · 2 yrs, Built the Broadband Shifting Journey feature end\-to\-end, generating \~15,000 orders/month and directly contributing to Airtel's field operations efficiency\. Built a cross\-business Coupon Engine and Drools\-based eligibility microservice powering dynamic discount management across all Airtel Thanks app customers\.

Software Engineer Intern at National Hydro\-electric Power Corporation, Jun 2018 \- Jul 2018 · 2 mos, Faridabad, Haryana, Built an app that is used to internally monitor the performance of the employees\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Information Technology, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Class XII, DAV Public School, Dayanand Vihar, Delhi

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