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Backend Engineer · Fintech Security Specialist | Turning Complex Auth Problems Into Airtight APIs | SDE II @ Groww

About

I almost didn’t end up in backend engineering. But once I got into APIs, distributed systems, and how data moves through financial products — I was hooked. Five years later, I’m an SDE-II at Groww, building backend systems people trust with their savings and investments. Before this, at Fisdom, I led the backend for a trading platform serving 1M+ active users — redesigning architecture that delivered a 30% performance gain, optimizing APIs that boosted user engagement by 10%, and integrating Razorpay S2S to process all platform trading transactions securely. At Groww, I’m now architecting the backend for the W app — a wealth management platform for high-net-worth users across PMS and AIF products. I’ve also led and mentored a team of 2–3 engineers while staying hands-on as an individual contributor. I care about backend code that’s secure by design, scalable by default, and owned end-to-end. Always open to conversations about backend problems, fintech, or just good engineering.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

codex

cursor

Work experience

Software development engineer II at Groww, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Built a real-time portfolio analytics engine tracking net worth across multiple asset classes with sub-second response times, serving high-net-worth users at production scale. • Designed a Key-Based User Attribute API powering live net worth tracking, significantly reducing mobile latency and becoming a core product feature relied on by thousands of users daily. • Designed high-throughput data sync pipelines ingesting multi-format transaction data from external providers, with exactly-once processing guarantees to prevent data inconsistencies. • Built an AI-powered code review agent integrated with the Claude API and GitHub PR workflows, automating detection of common issues and cutting PR review turnaround time across the team. • Informally led 2 to 3 backend engineers: ran sprint ceremonies, assigned and estimated tasks, reviewed code, drove end-to-end feature delivery, and served as the point of technical coordination with product and mobile teams.

Software Development Engineer - II at Fisdom, Apr 2024 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Led a backend architectural overhaul introducing Stale-While-Revalidate passive cache revalidation, improving overall system performance by 30% with no client-side changes required. • Redesigned order placement RESTful APIs to handle higher transaction volumes at lower latency, reducing processing time by 25% and improving user engagement metrics by 10%. • Maintained and improved CI/CD pipelines and containerised microservices on Docker across GCP Cloud Run, keeping deployment reliability high and release cadence predictable. • Integrated Razorpay S2S APIs to guarantee transaction integrity for stock payments and withdrawals, handling refunds, reconciliation, and edge cases under high concurrency. • Diagnosed and resolved complex production issues across GCP Cloud Run, VPC connectors, and NAT egress, reducing intermittent timeouts affecting user-facing flows.

Software Development Engineer- I at Fisdom, Sep 2020 - Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Built and scaled backend microservices using Python, Flask, and GCP (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL) • Developed consolidated net worth tracker integrating external Mutual Fund and Equity data via AA and MFC • Built an event-driven Refer and Earn microservice on GCP Pub/Sub handling automated reward distribution at scale with exactly-once semantics, replacing an error-prone manual process. • Delivered Help & Support microservice with live chat, ticket handling, and categorized FAQ system

Software Engineer Intern at BridgeLabz, Mar 2020 - Aug 2020 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, BANGALORE