Jay Pathak

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

Core contributor to Razorpay's new API gateway.
Expert in building scalable and secure web applications.
Strong leadership in mentoring junior engineers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer in the Fintech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesInfrastructureApi DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureApi ManagementPerformance OptimizationMachine LearningCloud ComputingBackend DevelopmentDevopsWeb DevelopmentData Analytics

Other Skills

API gatewayAWSAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Back-End Web DevelopmentBackend webservice architectureBashCI/CDCode ReviewCommunicationContainerizationData structures and algorithmsDatabasesDataplane

About

I was a Senior Software Engineer at Razorpay, part of the Edge team that builds and maintains the API Gateway. With over 5 years of experience, I specialize in designing and building scalable, secure, and high-performance tools and web applications. At Razorpay, I ensure our API Gateway integrates smoothly and performs reliably, helping businesses accept and process online payments effortlessly. I'm always looking to connect with like-minded professionals, share knowledge and collaborate on new projects, so please don't hesitate to reach out!

Experience

5 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Shopify

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · India · Remote

Implemented Kubernetes controllers using the controller runtime to assign static ip to a node as part of the egress proxy gateway services and to capture OOMKilled instances on a container.
Contributed to infra ops including migration from firewall profiles to rules using GKE’s terraform resources.
Worked on version upgrades for eBPF probes within the networking infra.

Kubernetescontroller runtimeGKEterraformInfrastructure

Razorpay

2 roles

Senior Software Development Engineer

Oct 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Core contributor of rProxy, the new API gateway built from scratch at Razorpay, and developed Dataplane for the same, architected core plugins like the rate limiter and authz enforcer
Mentoring junior engineers, onboarding them to the team, and supporting their growth.
Assisting stakeholders with their API gateway requirements and ensuring smooth integration.

API gatewayDataplanerate limiterauthz enforcerAPI DevelopmentSoftware Architecture

Software Development Engineer

Mar 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Managed Razorpay's API gateway as part of the SPINE Edge Team, focusing on performance and security enhancements.
Implemented rate limiting service context separation to mitigate DDoS attacks, improving plugin latency by over 60% through Redis optimization.
Migrated the API gateway’s datastore from Cassandra to Postgres without any downtime.
Developed a custom unit testing framework on top of Busted, increasing code coverage from 37% to 92%.
Onboarded multiple services onto the gateway, providing API protection, authentication, and authorization solutions.

API gatewayperformance enhancementsRedis optimizationPostgresAPI ManagementPerformance Optimization

Cognitivescale

Software Engineer

Jun 2021 – Mar 2022 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

> Enhanced functionalities for Certifai to support runtime monitoring for machine learning models in production, implemented packaging for the enterprise users on AWS , RHOS and other marketplaces.
> Implemented new functionalities to existing enterprise version that allows user to apply policy to a usecase to ensure score meets threshold.
> Added notebooks to public repository to support users with functionalities like remote scan using a Kubernetes cluster with preexisting certifai scanner docker image and generate results.

runtime monitoringAWSKubernetesMachine LearningCloud Computing

Dosepacker india

Software Engineer

Aug 2020 – May 2021 · 9 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Vial Semi Automation Robot.(Version1)
Developed the Backend webservice architecture for Vial Robot, the first of its kind.
Tools Used: CherryPy, MySQL
Built APIs for Dosepacker(Version-3) from scratch
Impact: Efficiency in the flow for the WebApplication.
Tools Used: CherryPy, Python, Peewee(ORM) and MySQL
Upgraded and Deployed OAuth 2.0 Flow: Tool for authentication and authorization in Dosepack Portal for User access and validation.
Impact: Version upgrade led to efficiency in speed which in turn optimized Login mechanism.
Tools Used: Python and MySQL
CI/CD Integration:
Mainaining CI/CD using Jenkins and Kubernetes.
Tools used: GIT and Jenkins.

Backend webservice architectureOAuth 2.0CI/CDJenkinsBackend DevelopmentDevOps

Vethics

Software Engineer Intern

Dec 2019 – May 2020 · 5 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

Implemented a Proximity Marketing based Branding Analytics Web Application for presenting Customer Behaviour in the form of a DashBoard using Django and PostgreSQL.
Impact: The web-application can directly integrate with the APIs of the existing Mobile application and dashboard can be updated on the basis of the customer usage of the application.
Tools used: Django, Python, AdminLTE(for Dashboard) .

Proximity MarketingDjangoPostgreSQLWeb DevelopmentData Analytics