Building reliable
distributed systems
10+ years of experience crafting high-volume payment platforms, cloud architectures, and scalable backend solutions.
Core Competencies
Turning ambiguous requirements into shipped functionality. From initial design to production monitoring and impact measurement.
Partnering effectively with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to align on goals and deliver customer value.
Building systems that scale. Experience with high-volume platforms (33M+ transactions), reducing latency, and improving operational excellence.
Mentoring junior engineers, driving system refactors, and acting as a technical point of contact for complex integrations.
Professional Journey
Senior Software Engineer
Driving features for a B2B payments platform serving ~494K businesses. Specializing in external accounting integrations, system reliability, and performance optimization.
- Launched external accounting integration with auto-connection flow, retries, and failure handling.
- Led auto-connection enhancements driving ~10K additional connections per month.
- Reduced production issue diagnosis time to 30-60 minutes via Datadog/Splunk tracing.
- Optimized Oracle queries to reduce p95 latency under peak load.
- Unblocked ~$7B TPV growth opportunity by resolving critical invoicing integration issues.
Software Engineer
Improved engineering productivity by developing a Django-based platform for IP development teams.
- Enhanced internal platform reliability and usability using Python and ExtJS.
- Owned features end-to-end, gathering requirements and iterating based on user feedback.
Software Engineer Intern
Focused on application performance and caching strategies.
- Implemented Aerospike caching layer on AWS EC2 to reduce latency.
- Designed proof of concept for distributed NoSQL key-value store.
Software Development Engineer Intern
Contributed to cloud infrastructure and billing systems.
- Enabled scalable billing metering for Storage Gateway service.
- Built scalable Java compute infrastructure for usage-based billing.
Software Engineer
Managed releases and batch operations for Global Banking Technology.
- Owned Cognos releases and Control-M batch operations.
- Acted as Defect Prevention Champion to reduce recurring issues.
Education
San Jose State University
Master of Science in Software Engineering
University of Pune
Bachelor of Computer Engineering
Selected Projects
Built a robust auto-connection flow for accounting software integrations. Handled retries, idempotency, and failure scenarios for a platform serving ~494K businesses.
Reduced p95 latency and eliminated slow-query hotspots for payment tracking workflows. Optimized Oracle queries and data access patterns under peak load.
Implemented comprehensive tracing and monitoring using Datadog and Splunk. Reduced time to diagnose production issues from hours to 30-60 minutes.
Technical Arsenal
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