Apr 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 🔹 Payouts System Scaling and IPL Readiness
• Scaled payout processing from ~1M transactions/day with an average of 50–100 TPS, reaching up to 2k TPS during IPL peak season and ~5M/day at maximum load.
• 🔹 Built Flink-Based Real-Time TAT Monitoring and Alerting System For Payouts
• Built a scalable Flink-based SR monitoring system with merchant-configurable rules, multi-window support (15m–12h), Kafka integration, and Metabase dashboards. Reduced false positives by 40% and enabled proactive incident response for 1,000+ merchants.
• 🔹 Cashfree Payouts UAE Launch - Internationalize Payout Product
• Led UAE expansion with multi-region, multi-currency, timezone-aware support. Built region-agnostic config systems, delivered brown bag session featured on LinkedIn.
• 🔹 Payouts Router
• Designed and developed Cashfree Payouts Router, enabling seamless routing of transactions across multiple payout aggregators (e.g., Razorpay, Juspay).
• Reduced merchant churn risk by ~15–20% and contributed to 2–3% incremental revenue via a Transaction Service Provider (TSP) fee model for routed transactions.
• 🔹 ERP Connector (Tally) Launch
• Led the launch of Cashfree’s first ERP Connector integrated with Canara Bank’s bulk payout APIs.
• Enabled ERP-driven bulk payouts directly from accounting systems like Tally, opening a new revenue stream through ERP-bank partnerships.
• 🔹 Technical Leadership & Team Management
• Took ownership of architecture decisions and cross-functional collaboration with Product, DevOps, QA, and banking partners.
• Managed a team of 4-5 direct reports, ensuring performance growth and technical mentoring.
• Conducted system design sessions, incident drills, and on-call retros to upskill junior engineers.
• 🔹 Org-wide Contributions
• Actively contributed to Cashfree’s architecture reviews and hiring processes, influencing engineering culture and talent quality.

Sep 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 🔹 Distributed Tracing & Observability at Scale
• Implemented end-to-end Distributed Tracing and alerting using Datadog across 110+ microservices.
• Led cross-team adoption of tracing best practices across product lines.
• Built centralized SLO dashboards tracking p99 latencies, error rates, and success rates.
• Set up critical Datadog Monitors and integrated Incident Management workflows for early detection and faster MTTR.
• Authored technical blog: Distributed Tracing APM – The What, Why, and How.
• 🔹 Escrow as a Service (EaaS)
• Designed and launched Cashfree’s Escrow-as-a-Service platform enabling secure, agreement-based money movement between lenders and borrowers through escrow agents.
• Enabled a new business line, enhancing merchant trust and acquisition through transparent, controlled fund flow mechanisms.
• Strengthened product offerings in fintech lending and NBFC domains.

Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 · 5 mos

• Responsibilities – Includes working closely with the product team to understand business requirements, design and architecture system, managing team and it's task , development, deployment and monitoring, and documentation.
• Role - Team lead as well as Individual contributor for Ride Monitoring and Ride Invoice Project, System designing, interaction with all the stakeholders including Product Managers, Front-end and QA engineers to clarify the requirements for the successful delivery of the product. Interacting with other teams to identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and project delivery
• Built near real-time TSP Recommendation - Manual Dispatch System
• TSP (Transport Mobility Provider) recommendation engine algorithm is based on the ride parameters for computing Tsp score. Rides in the requested state are dispatched to these potential recommended TSP's via Manual Dispatch Workflow ticket(BPMN flow)
• Built Automation Dispatch System for rides
• Recommending tsp with offered price via push notification and cards to its respective Dispatcher/Driver app and web. Hence reducing manual interventions via ticket creation and automating the process.
• Developed various workflows (BPMN flows)
• The driver is not assigned (DNA): When Rides is in an Accepted state but the driver has not been assigned to the ride. To ensure a driver gets assigned to such rides, the system makes automated calls and sends notifications at configured intervals.
• Built Workflow Configuration service
• The system takes in a set of reservation attributes and based on a predefined rule set it will figure out eligible ride workflows to be triggered for a given reservation.
• Built Ride Invoicing & Accounting System
• Actively involved in the hiring process of prospective candidates.
• Tech Stack - Java, Golang, Spring boot, PostgreSQL, Camunda(BPMN Tools), Redis, Kafka, gRPC, Micro Services, Rest API, ELK ,Grafana, Prometheus & Instana for alerting and monitoring

Sep 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Jan 2019 – Aug 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Hands-on engineer for designing and developing high throughput modules on Subleger space for institutional clients.
• I have been leading one of its team and involved extensively with operations on requirements gathering and implementation.
• Technology Stack: Java, Rest Api, Sybase, Elastic Search, and DB2
• Managed a couple of interns and ensured their project was completed on time.
• Actively involved in the hiring process of prospective candidates.

Feb 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed and owned Products of quarterly and monthly Statement generation ("Mifid Regulatory Statement"). Handling use case to provide high throughput within permitted time-stamp of quarter start. I have been leading Statement Generation for Prime Brokerage Client with a new strategic Statement generation stack.
• Technology Stack: Java, Rest Api, Sybase, Elastic Search, and DB2
• Actively involved in the hiring process of prospective candidates.

Oct 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Software Developer in "Quantum Foreign Exchange - QFX Citigroup Offshore Development Team"
• My present responsibility includes development of robust and configurable functionality in Spring Framework and Core Java for "CITI Bank Forex Module-QFX" with thorough understanding of client specific requirement.

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Allahabad

• Completed a summer internship at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, focusing on Bluetooth-Based Home Automation.
• Designed and developed an intelligent system using Flowcode 4 and microcontrollers for remote control of home appliances.
• Enhanced expertise in embedded systems and wireless communication, contributing to innovative automation solutions.
• Achieved seamless integration of multiple devices, improving user convenience and efficiency in home automation.

May 2012 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Raipur Area, India

• Entrepreneurship Cell, NIT Raipur is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurial skills and promoting personality development among college youth.
• At E-Cell, we successfully organized numerous seminars featuring top-notch speakers and conducted a series of events designed to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs and cultivate essential leadership qualities in young minds.
• A major highlight of contribution was conceptualizing and organizing the flagship event, "Entrepreneurship Development Program," in collaboration with NISEBUD and MSME. This event attracted an outstanding participation of over 1,200 students, both from within and outside the college community.
• Through these initiatives, played a key role in creating a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus, empowering students to think innovatively and develop the mindset required to become future leaders and changemakers.