Saket Saumya

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To Switch

Key Highlights

Expert in building reliable distributed systems at scale.
Led significant backend projects at PhonePe, enhancing service efficiency.
Strong background in microservices and cloud infrastructure.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Fintech and Infrastructure with a focus on Distributed Systems.

Contact

saket.iiit@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsJavaMicroservicesPythonRabbitmqWeb ScrapingFlutter

Other Skills

AWSAerospikeAmazon ECSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AsyncIOC (Programming Language)CeleryCloud FirestoreContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DartData AnalysisData ScienceData StructuresData VisualizationDisaster Recovery

About

Hey there! 👋 I'm a Software Engineer at PhonePe, India’s largest fintech platform, where I work on high-scale backend and Infrastructure systems in the Insurance space. Previously, I was at Healthify and a London-based proptech startup, following my Bachelors and Masters from IIIT Gwalior. I specialize in Backend Development (Java, Python) and Platform Engineering (CI/CD, AWS), and contribute part-time to open-source libraries. I'm deeply passionate about building reliable Distributed Systems at scale. Outside of work, I'm into competitive programming (saket13), spirituality, and badminton. Always up for sharing experiences or helping out ! Resume here - saket13.github.io My Calendar - calendly.com/saket13 1:1 with me - topmate.io/saket13 Let’s connect at saket.iiit@gmail.com!

Experience

5 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

1 yr 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs

Current Experience

Phonepe

2 roles

Software Engineer 2

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Core Platforms - Insurance
Open Source Initiatives : https://github.com/santanusinha/dropwizard-db-sharding-bundle/pull/135

Distributed SystemsAerospikeJavaHBaseRabbitMQDisaster Recovery

Software Engineer

Jun 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Backend & Infra
ULIP : Led E2E backend development of PhonePe’s ULIP offering using Java and Dropwizard, with MariaDB and Aerospike for persistence. Oversaw complete project execution driving service abstraction & securing high-level design (HLD) approvals from the Architect.
Visana Split : Split PhonePe’s 2nd largest monolith service into category-specific micro-services, routing app and cross-DC ingress traffic to new services. Reduced code release and deployment time by 43%, optimized CPU/memory usage and enhanced team agility.
API G/W Routing : Enhanced Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) readiness by routing all mission-critical Insurance callbacks (Checkout, Mandates, etc.) through an internal API Gateway, enabling fault isolation and seamless failover.
Term Life Revamp : Migrated the pre-payment journey to a new user workflow orchestration framework, reducing unpredictability, tight coupling, and fragility ; user adoption now at 92%.
Limited Pay : Boosted life insurance payments by 20% and average monthly ticket size from ₹1150 to ₹1320 by developing the Limited Pay feature, allowing payments over a term equal to or less than the policy term.

JavaMySQLAerospikeDistributed SystemsMicroservices

Healthify

Associate Software Engineer - Backend

Jun 2022 – May 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Coach Connect Pod
Eliminated P0 4xx production outages in automated chat system by designing a RabbitMQ backed Golang event processor for rate limited processing.
Improved tail-latency (P98-P99) of high throughput legacy MySQL transactions by optimizing indexing, query planning and batching to reduce network RTTs.
Reduced Customer Delight team chat volume by 25% by building a Django based Infra to manage premium plan subscriptions and launching in-app features Coach Change and Plan Pause/Resume.

RabbitMQMongoDBPython (Programming Language)Go (Programming Language)GraphQLAWS+3

Paytm

Software Engineer Intern - Backend

Jan 2022 – Jun 2022 · 5 mos · India · Remote

Received Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) based on performance.
Payments Merchants Team.
Led design and development of a dynamic feature flag in Java and Spring for the Payments team, eliminating mandatory login and reduced payment completion time by over 60%.
Integrated migrated IoT Device APIs(ex-Soundbox) with Merchants service as part of PG 2.0 initiatives.
Implemented event-driven Kafka APIs handling 20M+ online/offline merchant communication chan-
nels, URL configurations and notification settings. This reduced tech debt by 4%

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesMySQLRedisJava

Houzen

Technology Consultant - Backend & Infra

Apr 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

Fun Fact: Started working at houzen as an FTE, promoted from Intern, when I was still in College. Handled Backend and Infrastructure (CI-CD, AWS Infra) in the Tech Team.
Decoupled services using Pub/Sub pattern with Python, Redis and Kinesis. The new system was able
to asynchronously valuate 3M+ Real Estate properties in bulk.
Improved CI/CD pipelines and AWS Infrastructure, reducing developers on-boarding time from 1 day
to 30 mins and accelerating feature release by 60% through 1-click deployments.
Saved £50k in third-party licensing fees by building an in-house tool that rates millions of Central
London properties using neighborhood health indicator scores.

Government of bihar

Technical Contributor

Jan 2021 – Mar 2021 · 2 mos · India · Remote

Department of Revenue And Land Reforms.
Scraped LRMS website involving asynchronous loading, authentication and paginated response.
Architected Flutter based Android App for making CRUD operations easier with scraped data stored in
Realtime DB for the better management of Land Records cutting paperwork by 80%.

Web ScrapingFlutterPython (Programming Language)Dart