Headline

SDE-2 at Uber | Backend Engineer | Distributed Systems & Low-Latency Platforms | ex-PhonePe

About

Backend engineer with 5 years of experience building low-latency distributed systems and high-scale financial platforms. - At Uber, building LLM-based infrastructure for mobile platform reliability and AI-driven developer tooling. - At PhonePe, owned end-to-end architecture across critical trading infrastructure — from instrument data serving (300K+ instruments, nanosecond-latency caching at 5K QPS) to payment orchestration (idempotent mandate flows, exactly-once semantics) and recurring investment execution across mutual funds and equities. - Open to Senior SWE roles at product-focused companies where backend depth and distributed systems experience matter.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

gemini

notion

claudecode

ChatGPT

Work experience

Software Engineer 2 at Uber, Dec 2025 - Present · 9 mos, - Part of the Platforms team building an LLM-based automated testing framework for mobile applications at Uber - Framework validates critical user journeys through intent-driven test execution, increasing coverage of high-priority flows - Focus areas: LLM agent orchestration, mobile infrastructure, AI-driven developer tooling, and platform reliability

Software Engineer at PhonePe, Jul 2021 - Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Instrument Catalogue - Led architecture and rollout of the Instrument Catalogue Service serving metadata & analytical data for 300K+ financial instruments across trading, portfolios, and market-data pipelines - Introduced multi-layer RocksDB + in-memory caching, reducing lookup latency from 30ms → nanoseconds at 5K QPS peaks across 5+ critical trading paths - Partnered with Market Data, OMS, and Holdings teams to standardize data contracts and consistency SLAs, improving read availability during peak load SIP Orchestration - Architected the SIP orchestration platform handling millions of monthly executions across mutual funds, with extensibility for new asset classes (Stock SIPs) without migrations or downtime - Collaborated with Product to influence roadmap by proposing unified recurring investment pipeline, reducing future integration effort by 40% Mandate & Payments - Owned the Mandate Management System integrating with PhonePe and BillDesk payment gateways, designed for plug-and-play addition of future PGs - Implemented idempotent and retry-safe execution flows ensuring exactly-once semantics across network retries, gateway delays, and partial failure scenarios - Drove automated refund handling for failed transactions, minimizing manual intervention and ensuring smooth user experience Holdings & Reconciliation - Designed and implemented the Holdings Computation Service maintaining real-time holdings across stocks and derivatives for 80K daily users at 100 QPS - Ensured correctness via EOD/BOD reconciliation, reducing on-call incidents and Ops/Finance escalations - Mentored two engineers and championed PR and design review standards across the team

Software developer Intern at OYO, Jan 2020 - Jun 2020 · 6 mos, Gurugram, - Developed invoice generation workflows and automated reconciliation pipelines, improving reliability of financial systems across OYO's global operations - Collaborated with the Global Recon team to identify and resolve bugs in reconciliation flows, reducing manual intervention in financial reporting

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh