About
Staff Software Engineer · 12+ yrs · distributed systems, payments & DeFi
I'm a software engineer with 12+ years building scalable, resilient, cloud-native systems. I've led teams and shipped across payments, DeFi, and large-scale messaging — at Redpin, 1click.Finance, Microsoft, Indeed, Amazon, and earlier startups — with deep focus on distributed systems, DevOps, and backend engineering in Go, Node.js, Python, and Java.
Experience
- Redpin May 2025 – Present
Staff Software Engineer
Leading B2B engineering to make Redpin an embedded payment gateway for property-developer apps; architecting a greenfield payments platform and mentoring a 7-engineer team.
- 1click.Finance May 2022 – May 2025
Founding Engineer & Tech Lead
Built a DeFi platform (1,000+ users, 1,500+ transactions): escrow-based smart contracts with zero fund custody and a best-quote aggregation engine integrating Lido, Aave, Balancer, LiFi, and Curve.
- Microsoft Mar 2020 – May 2022
Senior Software Engineer
Office mobile (PDF conversion), a MetaOS integration POC, and Teams–WhatsApp integration under the Strategic Initiatives charter.
- Indeed Feb 2019 – Mar 2020
Software Engineer II
Migrated core systems to Kafka — cut high-severity incidents by 90% and scaled the event pipeline to 400M messages/day across 10 async systems.
- Modak Analytics Mar 2017 – Nov 2018
Software Engineer
Designed Edge Node infrastructure and managed 700-node clusters; built and led an engineering team from the ground up.
- Amazon Sep 2016 – Mar 2017
Software Development Engineer
Found and closed a fraud-prevention loophole during onboarding.
- Ionos Networks Jan 2015 – Sep 2016
Software Engineer → Tech Lead
Real-time analytics over 20K device streams; led a 20M+ record MySQL→Cassandra migration cutting read latency up to 40%.
- Amazon · IIIT-Bangalore · Infosys Jun 2010 – Dec 2014
Early-career roles
Backend systems and service delivery; built full-stack foundations.
Expertise
GoNode.jsJavaPythonTypeScriptKafkaRabbitMQdistributed systemsKubernetesHelmDockerAWSAzureGCPPostgreSQLRedisSmart ContractsDeFiobservability
Education
M.Tech, Software Engineering — IIIT Bangalore