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backend engineering leader. 10+ years designing and scaling distributed systems across e-commerce, payments, identity, and healthcare — and most recently LLM products and agentic systems. owning architecture end-to-end, leading cross-functional teams, shipping platforms with strong consistency guarantees.

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sep 2024 — feb 2026 · bengaluru

staff engineer · infiot (a netskope company)

→stabilized the IDP login platform — debugged and eliminated a long-standing class of bugs across SAML and OIDC flows, restoring reliable auth for enterprise tenants.
→introduced netskope as a first-class IDP provider on the platform, enabling netskope-issued identities to authenticate across the broader product suite.
→owned the IDP platform end-to-end — architecture and design reviews, on-call ownership, cross-team coordination with product, SRE, and adjacent platform teams.

apr 2022 — sep 2024 · bengaluru

lead backend engineer · explorex technologies

→architected the orders platform (multi-service) powering digital dine-in. scaled the orders service to 140k RPM at 20:80 read/write — no third-party lock providers.
→led a team of 6 building the inventory platform. eliminated aggregated-view discrepancies by modeling stock as an append-only ledger.
→redesigned payments and payouts end-to-end. 100% visibility from initiation to merchant settlement. integrated axis bank and phonepe (phonepe shipped in one week).
→built shared SDKs and a protobuf-based global schema store — cut new-service bootstrap time, standardized cross-service contracts and client generation.
→designed AWS infra and CI/CD on argo cd / rollouts / events. alerting via prometheus + grafana + pagerduty. tracing via jaeger. logging via EFK.

jun 2021 — apr 2022 · bengaluru

sde 3 · cashfree payments

→built the partner platform with OAuth-based merchant impersonation via the kong OAuth plugin, eliminating shared-credential risk.
→authored shared libraries that abstracted cross-cutting concerns across partner-platform services.

jan 2019 — jun 2021 · bengaluru

sde 2 → sde 3 · halodoc technologies

→led 6 engineers building the misool insurance platform. cut policy reconciliation time by 50%+ via dedicated benefits and claims microservices.
→rewrote the bintan online-consultations search service on elasticsearch, doubling read scalability.
→built platform SDKs for distributed caching (redis / hazelcast / caffeine) and distributed locking (zookeeper / hazelcast / redis-lock) behind clean provider-agnostic interfaces.
→replaced algolia with elasticsearch for text search and aggregations, reducing search costs.

jun 2018 — jan 2019 · bengaluru

software development engineer · edge networks

→consolidated multiple per-client workforce-optimization codebases into a single configurable codebase, eliminating per-client forks.
→built CI/CD pipelines across environments.

nov 2016 — jun 2018 · bengaluru

software development engineer · FICO (fair isaac india)

→built a java agent that captured variable values at the moment of exception — cut bug-fix turnaround across the FICO DMS suite.
→designed the ETL + kibana reporting pipeline for FICO-tonbeller AML and KYC products, reducing report generation time by ~1 week.

jan 2015 — nov 2016 · bengaluru

associate software engineer · sprinklr

→owned automation testing for the content management platform used by mcdonald's, coca-cola, and other large brands.
→built an automation testing commons library to abstract cross-cutting test concerns.

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B.E., computer science · bms college of engineering

aug 2011 — aug 2015 · cgpa 8.73

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ai / llm: RAG over pgvector · agentic systems (langgraph + langchain) · multi-format ingestion (pdf · epub · docx) · multimodal · voice
languages: go · java · python
datastores: mysql · postgres · tidb · elasticsearch · redis · kafka
infra: kubernetes · docker · aws · terraform · argo (cd/rollouts/events) · traefik
observability: prometheus · grafana · jaeger · fluentd · EFK
architecture: distributed systems · gRPC · microservices · event-driven · CI/CD