Gautam Thareja

Software Engineer

New Delhi, Delhi, India6 yrs 6 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led development for Kindle app, impacting 100M+ users.
  • Revamped data ingestion pipeline, optimizing costs and performance.
  • Gold Medalist with a strong academic background in Computer Science.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Fintech and AI applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

PythonBackend DevelopmentData EngineeringMachine LearningPayment ProcessingApi DevelopmentMobile DevelopmentUser Experience DesignBlockchain DevelopmentAi Development

Other Skills

FastAPIRedisAthenaData ValidationBenchmarkingGolangAPIsPayment SystemsCentralized LogicRESTful APIsKafkaPostgreSQLPayment Gateway IntegrationAndroid DevelopmentComponent Architecture

About

Software Engineer with a track record in global tech firms. Combines deep technical expertise with a passion for solving complex problems. Distinguished academic background and a knack for innovative projects. Committed to driving growth through technology and collaboration.

Experience

6 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Mlexperts.ai

Senior Engineer

Feb 2026Present · 4 mos

  • Building Python/FastAPI backends to process millions of S3 records. I actively manage Redis caching and optimize complex Athena queries to keep our latency and AWS costs low
  • Revamped our core data ingestion pipeline. Added automated deduplication, data enrichment, and thorough pre/post-upload validation reporting to clean up legacy data
  • Running evaluation spikes on Document AI models (like Surya and Marker) for production viability. Set up benchmarking pipelines on cloud GPUs via Modal to test performance, actively ruling out models that fail to meet our accuracy and cost thresholds
PythonFastAPIRedisAthenaBackend Development

Flip

Software Engineer 2

Nov 2023Nov 2025 · 2 yrs

  • Built concurrent Golang APIs for a multi-bank payment routing system. Added dynamic provider filtering to actively drop payment failure rates
  • Cleaned up legacy architecture by centralizing core logic. Wrote idempotent APIs that successfully reduced obsolete app usage by 25%
  • Scaled our risk orchestration engine to handle over 1M+ transactions. Built a rate-limited OTP system and added velocity checks to boost fraud detection by 20%
  • Treated system reliability as a priority during on-call rotations. Cut overall API response times by 30% and reduced downtime by 40%
GolangAPIsPayment SystemsCentralized LogicBackend DevelopmentPayment Processing

Nium

Software Engineer

May 2023Oct 2023 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Developed RESTful APIs for a global payment solution, enabling multi-currency merchant transactions
  • Designed and architected an async system for real-time report generation leveraging Kafka and PostgreSQL. Engineered for scalability, facilitating easy integration of new report types and efficient CSV & S3 storage
  • Integrated the Xendit Payment Gateway into our payment checkout infrastructure for Indonesia and the Philippines, supporting diverse payment methods including Wallet, Virtual Accounts, and Direct Debit
RESTful APIsKafkaPostgreSQLPayment Gateway IntegrationAPI DevelopmentPayment Processing

Amazon

Software Engineer

Sep 2022Mar 2023 · 6 mos · Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain · On-site

  • Led the development of library features for the Kindle Android application by collaborating across engineering and testing teams, benefiting 100M+ customers across 10+ marketplaces
  • Proposed and implemented the solution for creating reusable client-side component for multiple services to perform the same action which resulted in a simple and maintainable architecture
  • Onboarded new metrics service to the Kindle app & implemented multiple metrics required for business insights & software monitoring purposes. This helped developers find error trends & root-cause high severity issues
  • Identified and led the development of product improvements by analyzing customer pain points, providing a seamless user experience and boosting productivity
Android DevelopmentComponent ArchitectureMetrics ServiceUser ExperienceMobile DevelopmentUser Experience Design

Sabre india

SDE Intern

Jan 2022Jul 2022 · 6 mos

  • Worked on Hyperledger Iroha blockchain platform to build a decentralized loyalty exchange system
  • Developed customer critical features for GetThere, serving 1M+ users across 100 countries
BlockchainDecentralized SystemsJavaBlockchain Development

Samsung india

PRISM Summer Research Intern

May 2021Nov 2021 · 6 mos

  • @Samsung R&D Institute, Bengaluru (SRIB)
  • Worked on an On-Device AI application for ‘Screen Layout Classification’ Project :
  • Developed hybrid models using MobileNet and ResNet50 models to classify screen layout images with >90% accuracy
  • Built our own dataset consisting of thousands of screenshots of various mobile applications
AIMobile ApplicationsModel DevelopmentAI Development

Thapar satellite development center (thapsat)

Technical Team Member

Dec 2019Nov 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • - Worked on developing an in-house nano-satellite to observe the long-term hazardous effects of pollution using specialized cameras and instruments.

Backslash computing society

Co-Founder & General Secretary

Aug 2018Jul 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala

  • Led a team of students to organize technical quizzes and coding workshops over a span of 12 months.
  • Strategized the annual budget distribution across logistics, honorariums, prizes and goodies for all events

Education

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor's — Computer Science

Jan 2018Jan 2022

Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram

Jan 2013Jan 2017

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