About
Senior Software Development Engineer with over 8 years of experience in designing and developing complex software systems and delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. Proficient in backend development and software architecture.
Skills
Languages & Frameworks: Go · Java · Echo · Gin · Spring Boot
Infrastructure & Tools: MySQL · Redis · Kafka · AWS · Docker · Kong · API Gateway · GIT
Experience
Software Development Engineer - 4, Cashfree Payments
Oct 2025 – Present
- Working as an IC on the disbursal platform (payouts), leading scaling efforts and technical roadmap.
Software Development Engineer - 3, Cashfree Payments
Aug 2024 – Oct 2025
- Spearheaded building a 0→1 platform for prepaid cards (PPI) covering cards management and expense management.
- Built a 0→1 VideoKYC platform from the ground up for small finance banks and fintechs, ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Led the full product lifecycle: requirement gathering, architecture design, development, and deployment.
- Reduced UPI extraction from mobile feature latency from ~19s to ~4s.
Founding Senior Engineer, Stealth Startup at Super{set}
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
- Ideated, designed and implemented MVP for a commerce media lakehouse for retailers.
Software Development Engineer - 3, Cashfree Payments
Apr 2023 – May 2024
- Built a configuration-driven framework in Go for 6 identity verification features, reducing release time from ~2 weeks to ~2–3 days.
- Designed an optimal router for the verification suite achieving ~400 TPS at peak; reduced gateway failures by 40% and improved UPI validation SR from 99% to 99.8%.
- Reduced operational overhead of merchant configuration by ~90% through a configuration management system.
- Led monitoring and observability improvements for a team of 8 engineers, bringing down MTTR by ~53%.
- Spearheaded API Gateway migration across Cashfree, eliminating 70% of redundant API layers.
Software Development Engineer - 2, Cashfree Payments
Feb 2021 – Apr 2023
- Led design and development for the Verification Suite team across all products.
- Introduced observability and monitoring for all VRS products, increasing efficiency by 90%.
- Grew code coverage from 25% to 75% through proactive tech-debt reduction.
- Co-led design and development of the Partners platform, including OAuth 2.0 integration.
Senior Software Engineer, Jivox
May 2019 – Feb 2021
- Designed and implemented metadata labeling improving reporting, analytics, and asset selection for campaigns.
- Built campaign cloning feature that reduced manual campaign creation effort by ~60%.
R&D Software Engineer - 2, CA Technologies (Broadcom)
Jul 2017 – May 2019
- Designed and implemented a 3D-Secure server (3DS 2.0 spec) capable of processing ~3,000 transactions per second.
Education
BE Computer Science
· RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru