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 2025Present · 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 2017Aug 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 2016Jun 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.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2016May 2024 · 8 yrs 4 mos

Go (Programming Language)Platform EngineeringC#JavaSpring BootSecurity+3

Full Stack Developer (Internship)

Jan 2016May 2016 · 4 mos

Education

Acharya Institute Of Technology

Master’s Degree

Jan 2013Jan 2016

Smt.Parvatibai Chowgule Cultural Foundations College of Arts & Science Fatorda

Bachelor’s Degree

Jan 2009Jan 2013

Smt.Parvatibai Chowgule Cultural Foundations College of Arts & Science Fatorda

High School

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Loyola High School, Goa

Jan 1999Jan 2005

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