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Senior Software Engineer @ Finicity building AI-Powered Platforms | Python | Distributed Systems | Microservices

About

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience designing and building scalable backend platforms, distributed systems, and high-throughput data pipelines. Throughout my career, I've worked across startups and global organizations, taking products from concept to production while solving complex engineering challenges at scale. My expertise spans Python, FastAPI, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, microservices, data engineering, and cloud-native application development. I enjoy designing platforms that simplify complex workflows, improve developer productivity, and enable organizations to scale efficiently. Some areas I've worked on include: • Distributed systems processing 10M+ URLs per day and 50M+ data points per week. • High-performance APIs serving millions of records per request. • Self-service reporting platforms built on event-driven microservices. • Large-scale data processing and workflow automation. • AI-assisted engineering and ML-integrated business workflows. • Platform modernization, performance optimization, and engineering standards. I enjoy working at the intersection of software architecture, automation, and business impact. Whether it's designing a new platform, improving engineering practices, or optimizing performance, I'm motivated by solving complex problems with simple, maintainable solutions. Outside of work, I enjoy building and experimenting with my homelab, exploring self-hosted infrastructure, automation, networking, and open-source technologies. I'm also passionate about automobiles, military strategy, and defense technology, and enjoy studying how engineering, logistics, and systems thinking influence real-world outcomes. I believe the best engineering ideas often come from learning across disciplines.

Location

Mumbai

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

openai

opencode

githubcopilot

vLLM

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Finicity, a Mastercard Company, Mar 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 8 mos, Mumbai, • Architected and scaled a high-throughput self-service reporting platform for open banking, leading architecture across 16 microservices and standardizing integrations across 4 engineering teams, reducing report delivery cycles by 70% and improving data processing latency by 40–50%. • Designed event-driven, asynchronous processing with a shared Python SDK, enabling enterprise-scale reporting, processing 5M+ transactions in hours instead of days, and significantly improving reporting SLAs. • Led end-to-end solution architecture for 12 clients across 2 regions, partnering with Data Science, Product, and GTM teams to deliver configurable reporting that enabled non-engineering teams to create reports independently and increased custom report deliveries by ~50% within 3 months. • Integrated ML models with configurable business rules to standardize classification workflows, reducing deployment time from 8–10 weeks to 2 weeks (~75%) and lowering incorrect report tickets by ~40%. • Established engineering standards for data collection, transformation, and reporting, reducing maintenance overhead by ~60%, while introducing AI-assisted development workflows that reduced production incidents by ~60% and debugging time by ~35%. • Mentored 6 engineers on microservices, asynchronous architectures, and scalable design, reducing PR review iterations by ~30% and production defects by ~25%.

Senior Software Developer at eClerx, Feb 2018 - Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai, • Architected and led the migration from a monolithic platform to microservices, redesigning client workflows and large-scale data pipelines to increase throughput ~3×, eliminate SLA breaches, and improve scalability while supporting client retention and contract expansion. • Designed distributed data acquisition and processing platforms using RabbitMQ, Requests, and Selenium, scaling to 10M URLs/day and 50M+ data points/week through reusable, standardized crawler and parser frameworks that reduced new crawler development from ~6 days to <1 day. • Owned end-to-end solution architecture, including requirements, API design, microservices, and client integrations, reducing time-to-market by ~70% while delivering high-performance APIs capable of serving 3M SQL records per request (~1,000 records/sec). • Established engineering standards and reusable automation frameworks adopted across 1,000+ crawlers, reducing maintenance from ~2 days/week to <4 hours/week and significantly improving platform reliability. • Mentored 10 engineers on Python, distributed systems, and scalable design, reducing PR review effort by 50–60% and post-release issues by ~30%.

Software Developer at Opinr Inc., Jun 2017 - Nov 2017 · 6 mos, Mumbai, • Led migration of email workflows from SMTP to the SendGrid Web API and containerized the service into a standalone microservice, improving reliability, scalability, and client communication workflows by ~40%. • Designed and automated PDF report generation, eliminating manual processes, saving ~80 hours/week across support teams, and reducing software costs by ~$3,200/month. • Optimized backend workflow orchestration and notification pipelines, reducing email delivery latency by ~65% and improving overall system responsiveness. • Expanded automated testing and streamlined local workflow validation, reducing production incidents by ~40% and enabling faster, more reliable releases.

Software Developer at Craftsvilla, May 2016 - Mar 2017 · 11 mos, Mumbai, • Migrated email and media storage workflows by building an S3 upload wrapper in PHP and automating legacy asset migration, reducing storage costs by ~30% while improving reliability and scalability. • Developed end-to-end backend and frontend dashboards for mobile landing page customization and experimentation, reducing iteration time from ~2 hours to 15 minutes (8× faster) and enabling product teams to launch experiments independently.

Software Developer at Coverfox Insurance, Feb 2015 - Apr 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos, Mumbai, • Optimized dashboard performance by implementing Apache Solr for key-value and full-text search, reducing load times by ~6× and enabling near real-time data access. • Automated insurance renewal SMS and email workflows with integrated reporting, improving customer retention by ~25% through timely communications. • Collaborated with advisors and business stakeholders to enhance reporting and data visibility, eliminating ~100 hours/week of manual effort and freeing 5 data analysts to focus on higher-value analytics.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

12th Class & 10th Class, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Computer Science, English, Kendriya Vidhayala Vehicle Factory Jabalpur