Sarang S. Chaturvedi

Backend Engineer

India6 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led critical disaster recovery initiatives at PhonePe.
Improved performance of Adobe InDesign by 40%.
Expert in systems design and backend engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer with expertise in Fintech and high-performance systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Systems DesignLow-level Design

Other Skills

HBaseOpenTSDBVictoria MetricsApache KafkaRabbitMQHigh-Level DesignDropwizardDBMSC++AndroidJavaCMachine LearningOpenCVData Structures

About

A Software Engineer who is also passionate about psychology, philosophy, sports and travel. Software Engineer Traveller | Runner | Reader | Writer https://sarangschaturvedi.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/10_Sarang

Experience

6 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Phonepe

Backend Engineer

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Led the evaluation and adoption of next-generation TSDB alternatives to OpenTSDB and HBase (˜10M
writes/sec), including Grafana Mimir, VictoriaMetrics, and Gorilla, providing architectural tradeoff
analysis.
Improved stability and performance of OpenTSDB and HBase systems.
Led disaster readiness drills for multiple critical services, ensuring compliance and business continuity.
∗ Shipped Service client for upstream services, enabling dynamic endpoint switching during DR scenarios.
∗ Integrated with PhonePe’s cross-DC service discovery and traffic shaping framework for multi-DC resilience.
Led the first ever truncation activity of MariaDB of our service.
Migrated Service to Dropwizard DB sharding framework and validated sharding correctness with 1.6M+ records.
Led integration of new settlement mode to settle money to merchants with all partner banks.
Led data remodeling, HLD/LLD, API design, and state machine definition of my service to transition into a platform service.

HBaseOpenTSDBVictoria MetricsApache KafkaRabbitMQSystems Design+3

Adobe

3 roles

Member of Technical Staff 2

Jan 2020 – Sep 2020 · 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Member of Adobe InDesign Team
1. Enhanced performance of desktop app by reducing start-up time by 40% at hot launch.
2. Improved software development cycle by integrating Adobe Floodgate with InDesign.

Member Of Technical Staff

Jun 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Member of Adobe InDesign Team
Developed new features such as Locate Color and revamped Styles Kit, that helped fulfill customer requirements and improved efficiency.
Performed customer research through Adobe Forums to create a prototype of a feature that was in high demand, and showcased the prototype at higher management levels.

Product Intern

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Member of Photoshop Express Team
Added new features and workflows in collage section of Photoshop Express for better feature discovery and traffic increase in the app.
Developed the capacity of the team to experiment with user interface in real time through Adobe Target.

Lans lab, dtu

Research And Development Intern

Dec 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 mo · India

LANS Lab stands for Linux Android Network System Lab. The research work was to establish interaction between 2 devices using NFC in a secure and trusted environment.