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# Shaik Mohammed A on Tal

## Headline

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

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