Raghul S

Software Engineer

India7 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

7 years of experience in fintech and SaaS.
Expert in architecting scalable APIs and data platforms.
Proven track record in enhancing system performance and reliability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full Stack Engineer specializing in Fintech and SaaS with a focus on scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesApisWeb Development

Other Skills

AngularArchitectural OptimizationsAsynchronous CommunicationBack-End Web DevelopmentCommunicationCritical ThinkingCross-Functional CollaborationCross-Functional LeadershipData HandlingDesign PatternsDistributed CachingDockerDomain-Driven Design (DDD)Go (Programming Language)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

About

Full Stack Engineer with 7 years experience building distributed, high-volume systems across fintech and SaaS. Skilled in architecting scalable APIs and data platforms that power mission-critical payment flows. Passionate about reliability, efficiency, and system design that scales effortlessly.

Experience

7 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Highlevel

2 roles

SDE III

Promoted

Jun 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Remote

Own and scale the Payments Core Platform powering orders, subscriptions, and transactions at global scale, ensuring consistent reliability and performance, handling data at a multi-million scale
Lead cross-functional efforts across 8+ checkout and billing teams to deliver seamless, high-volume payment processing and compliance readiness.
Spearhead initiatives that enhanced system throughput, resiliency, and observability, supporting rapid product expansion and international growth.
Partner with architects and product leads to evolve platform foundations for scalability, data consistency, and reduced operational overhead.

Payments Core PlatformReliabilityPerformanceData HandlingCross-Functional LeadershipDistributed Systems+1

SDE II

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024 · 8 mos · Remote

Played a key role in evolving the company’s payment infrastructure, integrating global payment providers and supporting multi-region expansion.
Delivered resilient, developer-friendly APIs enabling fast integrations across product teams.
Strengthened platform performance and reliability through architectural optimizations and scalability enhancements.
Collaborated cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering leadership to improve payment experience and compliance across markets.

Payment InfrastructureAPIsArchitectural OptimizationsCross-Functional CollaborationMicroservices

Cookr

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2022 – Sep 2023 · 11 mos · On-site

Designed and developed a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) on Customer Orders and Payments
Led an iterative development approach with Prototyping and validating core features
Scaled the product to accommodate growing user demand
Improved system architecture for better performance and resilience
Key Contributions:
Implemented asynchronous communication across microservices to enhance throughput and responsiveness
Enabled distributed caching with clustering, ensuring high availability and low-latency data retrieval
Configured MongoDB replication to support fault tolerance, improve read performance, and enable scalable clusters
Performed database profiling and query optimizations to ensure efficient and high-performing data operations
Optimized and stabilized WebSocket communication for real-time tracking of delivery partners, improving reliability and performance under load
Integrated Razorpay for reliable and secure payment processing
Responsibilities: High level design & Object oriented end to end design and development, Code reviews, mentoring, Leading the Customer module team with 4 junior engineers

Minimum Viable ProductPrototypingSystem ArchitectureAsynchronous CommunicationDistributed CachingMongoDB+3

Impetus

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2022 – Oct 2022 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Contribution:
Worked on POCs on embedding Salesforce chatbot with Server side rendering React application
Worked on Docker and Kubernetes setup to replicate client's Server side rendering of web pages
Responsibilities: Interaction with product stakeholders for requirement gathering and design feasibilities, Code reviews and mentoring juniors

Salesforce ChatbotServer Side RenderingDockerKubernetesWeb DevelopmentMicroservices

Ajapro ai technologies pvt.ltd

Full Stack Developer

Sep 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos · On-site

Contribution:
Monolith to Microservices transformation
SaaS features including Multi tenant support, Payment gateway integration (Chargebee), Tenant onboarding, Row Level Security (PostgreSQL) for tenants, subscription management
Roles based permissions and authorisation based on tenant subscriptions
Responsibilities: Low Level Design & Full stack web development, Query optimisations & indexing, REST API development and integrations, Led Fast sprint and Innovation team, Worked with support team for addressing & resolving customer issues, Interaction with product stakeholders for requirement gathering and design feasibilities

Microservices TransformationSaaS FeaturesPayment Gateway IntegrationRow Level SecurityREST API DevelopmentMicroservices+1