Githu George

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led the development of secure, scalable cloud-native applications.
Played a key role in building a top consumer-goods lending company.
Recognized as a leading expert in C#, Golang, and security.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on secure cloud-native architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Solution ArchitecturePlatform EngineeringSecurity

Other Skills

.NET.NET FrameworkAWS LambdaAWS SQSAmazon EKSAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSApache KafkaC#Cloud-Native ApplicationsCloud-Native ArchitectureDeployment StrategiesDockerElasticSearch

About

Architect, security, backend polyglot. With 8 years of experience in building distributed and scalable cloud-based applications in golang, Java and C# within the fin-tech domain. Helped build a lending startup from scratch to one of the top consumer-goods lending companies in the country. I’ve worn multiple hats at zestmoney - from leading the platform engineering team, the pay-anywhere team (BBPS, virtual cards), SPOC for security and authentication, etc. - Led the platform team, which designed and developed libraries and POCs, used by the rest of the organization. - Designed, implemented and maintained the security architecture for all the applications used by the rest of the org. - Worked on automated environment creation, policies and simplified employee onboarding and offboarding. - Worked with the devOps team, to have a developer-friendly approach to CI/CD for all applications. - Led the pay-anywhere project which included billpay (fully autonomous BBPOU - BBPS and non-BBPS on BNPL) and virtual card. - Worked with different teams on the Identity solution at the organization. - Worked on identifying and solving different bottle-necks to solve for scalability - cost and performance.

Experience

9 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

8 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Razor group

Lead Data Platform Engineer

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Leading 4 verticals
○ Freight-forwarder and shipment tech.
○ Content scraping and enrichment
○ Enterprise master data management
○ PO, TO automation

Python (Programming Language)

Zestmoney

4 roles

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2017 – Aug 2024 · 7 yrs 2 mos

Architect, security, backend polyglot(C#, Java, and golang).
Domain-guru.
Currently leading a full team (golang, flutter), to solve bill pay over credit (BNPL) and the virtual credit card initiative.
I've designed and architected secure, performant and scalable cloud-native applications
and own a large number of libraries used across the organization.
Presently leading a team to deliver solutions to many complex problems faced by the company especially on the customer acquisition front.
I'm the lead security developer at the organization and own some of the most critical services.
Due to my experience within the lending ecospace domain, as well as being part of ZestMoney's startup lifecycle - from the foundation stage to one of the leading companies in the FinTech space in India, I can provide deep insights and solutions into a plethora of challenges across many verticals.
Regarded as hands-down the best reviewer in the company, as well as one of the most prominent experts in C#, golang, and certain parts of the infra. I am called on to guarantee success in crucial and/or complicated projects. And have worked on projects across organizations such as Xiaomi, Google, etc.

Go (Programming Language)Platform EngineeringOpenID Connect (OIDC)C#Solution Architecture

Full Stack Developer (Junior)

Jun 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr

Working as a Full Stack Web Developer at ZestMoney under agile methodology (experience with both Kanban and bi-weekly sprints) with an amazing team spread over different time-zones.
On the Backend, I've worked on the core applications following TDD/DDD approach under the microservice architecture in both C# as well as Java (Spring stack) to provide the different internal and external services and APIs with test suites for the same.
Over on the front-end, I've built test-driven static and dynamic websites and webapps using Jekyll, Gulp, Foundation, FountainJS, TypeScipt, AngularJS, Jasmine, SCSS and LESS and a plethora of other frameworks and tools.
And finally, on the data side, I've worked on generating different data sets and reports, and automating them using Advanced SQL, C#, Java. Stat-tracking and analytics via custom built dashboards, google analytics, other third party solutions and also excel sheets.
Complementing these, I've had to work with logging and error-reporting tools such as Loggly, Sentry etc, Cloud messaging solutions SQS, SNS ; AWS Lambda, Deployment via Jenkins, with MySQL, MongoDb and ElasticSearch as backend storage and querying solutions.