Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Worked across multiple high-impact teams. I began with the Payouts team, contributing to core money movement infrastructure which clocks in 1.5M transactions daily, then moved to the International Expansion team, where I led engineering efforts to launch Cashfree’s operations in the UAE with support for Payouts and Payment Gateway. I currently work for cross border payments team.
• Led the migration of approximately 90 repositories to enable UAE payouts and payment gateway support, building infrastructure for multi-region routing, timezone handling, currency conversion, and multi-deployment setups.
• Migrated the reporting stack from Redshift to Elasticsearch under tight deadlines, improving API response times by 40% by designing scalable Kafka-based data pipelines and backfilling historical data using Airflow.
• Built and managed a high-throughput bulk transfer service handling over 100,000 daily transactions. Introduced a manual approval workflow to improve financial governance and later merged the service into the core transfer system, reducing complexity and improving operational efficiency.
• Initiated and led an organization-wide migration from Bitbucket to GitHub, managing a team of three to move key Java, Go, and React repositories. Authored comprehensive documentation and secured approval from the Design Review Committee. Designed and deployed reusable GitHub Actions workflows, refactored pipeline scripts, and built a centralized workflow for 200+ repositories, resulting in an approximate 30% reduction in overall deployment time and a significant drop in manual errors.
• Developed a low balance queue feature that prevented over 50,000 transfer rejections daily, significantly boosting successful transactions and improving SR for transfers.

Jul 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Worked as part of the Banking as a Service (BaaS) team, contributing to the design and development of a 0→1 fintech platform that enabled core banking features for merchants.
• Contributed to building a 0→1 fintech platform that enabled merchants to offer current/savings accounts, prepaid cards, wallets, and virtual accounts, working in a lean, 4-person team.
• Independently designed REST APIs, database schemas, and integrated Card91 to support prepaid card functionality; owned key design decisions for OTP flows and KYC, collaborating with external partners and leadership to secure buy-in.
• Extended prepaid card features to wallets, playing a key role in the successful acquisition of the organization’s PPI license.
• Executed end-to-end UAT for critical banking integrations, interpreting complex specs, implementing SSL handshake, secure connection pools, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and operational standards.
• Set up Prometheus + Grafana monitoring across BaaS services, enabling real-time observability, faster debugging, and improved system reliability.