Kumar Sanyam

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in scalable microservices architecture and cloud-native solutions.
  • Proven track record in fintech product launches and legacy system modernization.
  • Strong leadership in agile environments with a focus on team empowerment.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on scalable architecture and microservices.

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Android DevelopmentApache KafkaBackend DevelopmentBig DataCC#C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)ConsulData StructuresDistributed SystemsEngineering LeadershipGitHBaseHTML

About

Engineering Leader | Fintech | E-commerce | Trading Systems | Scalable Architecture | Microservices | Cloud | Agile | People Management | System Design Engineering Leader with 8 years of experience driving technology strategy, leading high-performing teams, and delivering end-to-end software solutions across fintech, e-commerce, and trading industries. I specialize in building scalable, cloud-native microservices and distributed systems that power complex, high-volume platforms. Throughout my career, I’ve played a key role in designing and implementing robust backend systems, developing APIs, optimizing architecture for performance and reliability, and ensuring secure, compliant infrastructure—particularly in highly regulated domains like fintech and trading. I bring a hands-on approach to leadership: mentoring engineers, managing agile delivery teams, and aligning technology with business objectives. I believe in building strong engineering cultures rooted in collaboration, innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement. Core Expertise: • Leading cross-functional engineering teams through the full SDLC • Scalable microservices architecture using Java, Node.js, Python, etc. • Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) • CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and performance optimization • Building systems for payments, trading, order management, and e-commerce workflows • Implementing Agile methodologies, Scrum, and stakeholder management • Hiring, mentoring, performance reviews, and team growth Key achievements include launching revenue-impacting fintech products, modernizing legacy systems into scalable microservices, and building trading platforms with millisecond-level latency requirements. I’m passionate about solving real-world problems with clean architecture and resilient engineering. My leadership style focuses on empowering teams, driving clarity in execution, and delivering value through technology. Always open to connecting with fellow engineers, product leaders, and hiring managers to exchange ideas or explore new opportunities in tech leadership.

Experience

Arcana

Software Engineer

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Building ingestion platform for large dataset in a reliable and robust way

Quince

Tech lead

Dec 2024Nov 2025 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Working on user generated content services and improving dev productivity.

Zeta

2 roles

Tech Lead

Jul 2024Nov 2024 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Led the UPI Saas platform development team. Delivered UPI PSP as a platform which is now live with HDFC’s payzapp. Apart from this I have also overlooked the delivery of UPI Issuer platform which includes the issuer side implementation for PPI wallets, credit cards and Credit line. Experienced in stakeholder management, sprint planning, product grooming and engineering management.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Jun 2020Jul 2024 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Leading the development of new features in UPI like UPI on ATM, UPI on PPI, etc. as well as leading the end to end development and delivery of Issuer side implementation of UPI on credit cards and credit line. Involved in sprint planning, task allocation, tech design and reviews, delivery of features on production.
  • Worked on designing the low level design of the UPI payment application for the largest private sector bank in India, HDFC bank. Implemented end to end UPI payment solution. Tuned the app performance to handle the expected high TPS of UPI payments and was instrumental in solving critical problems for a payment switch along with the team.
  • Migrated all existing services' cryptographic operations to a single hub to enable platform independence in case of using Hardware Security Modules. This involved extensive knowledge of crypto operations being used in payment systems and understanding of all the services starting from card creation to payment. This helped in achieving an active-active setup for any DR situation.
  • Adding support for distributed instances of ACS server in case of ECOMM payments. This was achieved by using caching mechanisms for SecondFactor data and message publishing to maintain same state for all transactions in all the instances

Edelweiss financial services

3 roles

Assistant Manager

Promoted

Apr 2019May 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Developed complex order state management for parent child orders in international trading/risk management platform. Devised out a robust logic to split orders based on positions available and handle all the complexity of deriving parent order state from the child orders so as to save the algo from performing these tasks and focus only trading logic.
  • Worked on real time position and limits monitoring system using Kafka and ESPER which displays
  • consolidated numbers of all the trading teams throughout the floor thus helping in managing
  • risk across the floor by providing correct hedging numbers for any loss incurring outstanding
  • position.
  • Interact with stakeholders in requirements gathering and proactively coordinate with teams from
  • QA to Production support for successful deployment and daily support of the live applications.
  • Mentor juniors in understanding technical as well as the business models involved in our
  • applications.

Associate

Jun 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Design and development of a trading platform consisting of pre-trade risk management system
  • for low latency algo trading and scaling it to domestic as well as many international markets. This
  • platform supports a configurable environment making it easy to enter any market with minimum
  • development effort.
  • Worked on a back office product which provides solution for all the aftermaths of trading like
  • trade reconciliation and EOD report generation.
  • Additionally been a part of the development team for the reference data system for
  • international and domestic markets which is used by all other financial applications.
  • Automated various testing and deployment processes throughout the product cycle thus
  • enabling TDD.

Intern

Feb 2017Jun 2017 · 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Development of the framework which can provide templates and easy to use services for any
  • product to be developed further providing a low code interface to the users.
  • Inculcate model driven development to create a language agnostic modelling of any software.
  • Developed the messaging service in the framework using Confluent Kafka which currently
  • powers all the real time data publishing in all our products.
  • Worked on code generator service as a part of this framework which could generate boilerplate
  • code in three different programming languages.

Education

Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2013Jan 2017

St. Karen's High School, Patna

High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates

Jan 2001Jan 2011

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