Raunak Ladha

CTO

West Delhi, Delhi, India10 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

11+ years of experience in startup environments
Expert in scalable system design and architecture
Proven leadership in engineering management

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fintech Architect with strong engineering management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

System ArchitectureEngineering ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

AWS KMSAWS SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonMQApplication Programming Interfaces (API)ArchitectureBusiness AlignmentC++ (basic)Core JavaCross-Functional & Cross-Org CollaborationDDBData StructuresDistributed SystemsEMQXFirebase

About

Detail-oriented developer with 11+ years of experience in vibrant startup environments. Recognized by superiors & colleagues alike, as someone who takes great ownership of his work and can easily make sense out of unstructured data. A quick-learner with ability to work in high-stress, fast-paced environments. Looking for an opportunity to grow my technical and leadership skills. 1. Excellent knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms 2. Team player with exceptional problem solving and analytical abilities. 3. Have good understanding of OOPS concepts. Programming languages known: Core Java, jQuery, CSS, C++ (basic) Database: MySQL, PostgresSQL, MongoDB(Basic), Cassandra (Basic)

Experience

Paypay india

Engineering Leader

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Strategic engineering leader driving the vision, architecture, and execution of scalable platforms powering critical communication infrastructure at PayPay, one of Japan’s largest fintech companies.
1. Platform Strategy & Ownership: Owning end-to-end backend platforms including Notification Services (Transactional, Promotional), WebSocket-based Real-Time Messaging, and Push Infrastructure — enabling consistent, reliable communication across PayPay, PayPay Card, and group companies.
2. Scalable System Design: Architected and optimized high-throughput services (Kafka, AmazonMQ, EMQX, DDB, SES, Firebase) processing 4000+ TPS and supporting multi-million user base.
3. India Site Leadership: Established and scaled a new backend team in India; built a strong engineering culture with a focus on ownership, reliability, and velocity.
4. Cross-Functional & Cross-Org Collaboration: Partnering with Product, Infra, Marketing, and other Engineering teams across geographies to define and deliver a reusable, multi-tenant notification platform.
5. Innovation & Re-Architecture: Driving re-architecture of WebSocket and Notification systems to support future scale, better observability (OpenSearch), and CQRS design patterns.
6. Business Alignment: Delivering platform capabilities aligned with business goals like campaign performance, user engagement, merchant integration, and cost optimization.
7. Tech Vision & POCs: Leading exploration of cutting-edge solutions (e.g., MQTT brokers, Netty servers, Elastic infra) to future-proof the architecture.

Platform Strategy & OwnershipScalable System DesignCross-Functional & Cross-Org CollaborationInnovation & Re-ArchitectureBusiness AlignmentTech Vision & POCs+2

Nielsen

Engineering Manager

Jul 2024 – Oct 2024 · 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Media Application Framework, MediaView and MediaPortal

Nykaa

4 roles

Engineering Manager - III & Software Architect

Apr 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr

NoSQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)Engineering ManagementSystem ArchitectureMultithreadingJenkins+8

Engineering Manager II

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Apr 2023 · 6 mos

Building payment aggregator for nykaa

NoSQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)Engineering ManagementSystem ArchitectureMultithreadingJenkins+8

Engineering Lead

Aug 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

1. Handling checkout and payments platform team of Nykaa.
2. Leading a team of 9 developers
3. Refactored Dynamic Routing logic by adding more granular level cardinality. Improved overall success rate from 73% to 78%.
4. Re-architectured payment service to build it as a Unified Payment Platform that provides a seamless experience in on-boarding new merchants
5. Building payment service as PCI DSS Compliant with Nykaa as the token requester
6. Designed coupon-less payment offers that support offers on multi-mode payment as well
7. BNPL partner integration like Simpl and ZestMoney
8. Build Jenkins pipeline to sanitize every pull request before raised for review
9. Added static code analysis (pmd) in our services and included it in the Jenkins pipeline.
Tech Stack: Java, Springboot, MySQL, Redis, Quartz Scheduler, AWS KMS, Konga (API Gateway), AWS SQS

JavaSpringbootMySQLRedisQuartz SchedulerAWS KMS+4

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

1. Handling Checkout and Payment team of Nykaa
2. Refactored Checkout Service to accomodate multiple merchants (Nykaa Fashion)
3. Implemented Payment Alerting and Dynamic PG Switching to improve success rate of payment transaction
4. Working on making payment system PCI DSS Compliance
5. Migrated existing giftcard service from Magento to Java Microservice
6. Worked on PG Integration (Billdesk and Cashfree)
7. Implemented Auto-Refund feature in Payment Service and refactored existing refund functionality
8. Introduced Quartz Scheduler in Payment, Giftcard and Wallet service for event based scheduling. Migrated existing cron to scheduler.