SDE-4 @ Tide | Ex- Flipkart | Ex-Cashfree| BITS Pilani

India

India

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bangalore






B.E. (Hons), Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
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Lead Software Engineer (SDE-4) with 9 years designing distributed backend systems in fintech and e-commerce. Scaled a payments platform 3x to INR 7.5B/month (250k+ txns/day, p99 200ms, 99.9%+ availability) and built event-driven platforms serving 1M+ UK SMEs processing tens of millions of events. Drove Kubernetes adoption from single-team POC to org-wide infrastructure at Flipkart. Adept in Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS, and PostgreSQL. Looking for Senior Engineering positions with lots of ownership and complexity. Excited about building revenue generating products for my organisation.
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Lead Software Engineer (SDE-4) at Tide, Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, India, As SDE-4 of the Accounting - Engagement & Reporting Backend Team, I design software architecture, guide junior engineers, carry out the delivery of initiatives and maintain 100% uptime, low p99 latencies, and system behaviours affecting the end user. My initiatives focus on increasing user subscriptions to related products. ◦ Accounting Notifications: Compute different types of Calculations for 700k UK users in configurable frequencies, and trigger notifications in a timely manner. Tech used: Springboot Java, AWS SQS, Threadpools and Event driven architecture ◦ Task Manager: Create, maintain and complete To-do items related to Compliance, Tax filing, other accounting reminders for 700k Tide UK users. Tech used: using Springboot Java, AWS SQS, and event driven architecture ◦ Subscription Migration: Migrated Subscription management to a central team for better bundling of features. Allowed Sub/Unsub operations at both source and destination. Tech Used: using Springboot Java, Postgres, AWS SQS ◦ System Reliability: Created service level metrics (SLIs) and Service level objectives(SLOs) to monitor and maintain the uptime, latencies, and user-level behaviours of the my team’s components(microservices, jobs, DBs etc). Added DB failover mechanisms, Dedicated DB connection pools per workload(jvm), and designed all initiatives with reliability and deterministic failover scenarios. Used datadog to manage SLOs, track SLIs and Rootly to raise alerts.
Senior Software Engineer at Nanonets, Jun 2024 - Jan 2025 · 8 mos, India, ◦ Distributed Tracing and connectors: Worked towards adding distributed Tracing to trace requests and time spent in each phase across components. Added connectors to export document data to Sage. Most of my time here was focused on solving dev escalation issues for existing components
Software Engineer at Clarisights, Jul 2023 - Apr 2024 · 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Contributed towards building an HTAP database(morseldb) to ingest and serve adtech metric data for large-scale clients like Uber, HelloFresh, and DeliveryHero. Worked on a Custom Query interpreter to transform ASTs to executable pipelines. Worked on Scheduling checkpointing of table data for quicker persistence of writes to tables.
SDE-3 at Cashfree Payments, Apr 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ◦ Global Collections: Designed and implemented payment collection and reconciliation for Inward international remittances. ◦ Split Payments: Designed and developed capability to split a transaction into multiple parts, which would be paid out to different vendors.
SDE-2 at Cashfree Payments, Jul 2021 - Mar 2022 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ◦ Merchant Payouts: Built Payouts for customer-initiated transactions to merchants. Implemented Transaction Reconciliation and Automatic Reversals. This initiative increased the GMV of Autocollect product from 2.4 Billion INR/month to 7.6 Billion INR/month. ◦ Payment Collection: Designed and developed Virtual Payment Addresses. Created Transaction collection and Transaction reconciliation pipelines. Created On-call Runbooks and monitoring + alerting pipelines.
Software Engineer at Flipkart, Mar 2019 - Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I worked as part of Pricing and promotions team ◦ Workflow Automation: Built Container Orchestration with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm for testing and build validation environments for Pricing and promotion workflows. This was used as a POC to go use Kubernetes in production at Flipkart. B ◦ Notification Management: Built a system to send notifications for Flipkart’s Assured Phone BuyBack program. Built an archiver using MySQL partitions.
Software Engineer at TARGET INDIA, Jun 2017 - Feb 2019 · 1 y 8 mo, Bangalore
B.E. (Hons), Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
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