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title: "Saurav Kumar - Senior Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Saurav Kumar, Senior backend engineer | Auth & compliance platform at Razorpay (multi-region systems) | ex-Postman | IIST based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes codex, cursor, and opencode. Explore public work links including github."
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# Saurav Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Senior backend engineer \| Auth & compliance platform at Razorpay \(multi\-region systems\) \| ex\-Postman \| IIST

## About

Senior Backend Engineer with 6\+ years of experience building distributed systems and backend platforms operating at multi\-region scale\. Currently own the Auth Platform at Razorpay — a critical multi\-region system handling \~10K requests per second and powering authentication and core platform workflows\. Previously led the development of Razorpay’s merchant KYC compliance platform end\-to\-end, driving architecture and execution across a team of 7 engineers\. Worked on platform\-wide initiatives including monolith decomposition, phased service migrations, and event\-driven architectures \(transactional outbox, CDC pipelines with Maxwell \+ MySQL\)\. Regularly part of production oncall and operational ownership for high\-criticality systems\. At Postman, worked on backend systems serving \~5M requests per day, led framework migrations, executed zero\-downtime Redis \(ElastiCache\) upgrades, and built event\-driven systems powering Azure integrations\. Also volunteered as a Google Summer of Code mentor\. Started my career as a founding engineer at early\-stage startups, building systems from scratch with high ownership and fast execution\. Interested in how AI\-native systems are reshaping backend infrastructure, developer platforms, and distributed system design\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

codex

cursor

opencode

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Razorpay, Apr 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Bringing structure to the chaos

Software Engineer at Postman, May 2022 \- Feb 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos, Remote, \- Back to basics: solved a few problems in the distributed systems\.

Product Engineer 2 at Mingout, Apr 2021 \- May 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, \- Got hired as the 1st founding engineer \- Led a team of 5

Software Engineer at GalaxyCard, Sep 2020 \- Mar 2021 · 7 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, \- Got hired as a tech employee \#1

Project Trainee at ISRO \- Indian Space Research Organization, Jun 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 2 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, \- Explored classical problems in computational geometry\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/saurav9878

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