FOR FOUNDERS & CTOs
Your product is growing. Your architecture shouldn't become the bottleneck.
From early-stage architecture decisions to large-scale modernization, I help teams make systems more scalable, reliable and easier to evolve.
Technical Lead · Distributed Systems · FinTech
Building systems
that scale.
I design resilient backend platforms, lead engineering teams, and turn complex financial workflows into reliable, scalable products.
Open to engineering leadership opportunities and select technical advisory engagements
Impact
Scale is a feature.
Selected engineering outcomes from production systems and platform modernization initiatives.
0×transaction scale-up
0M+transactions / day
0GB+production data migrated
0+engineers led
01 · About
Engineer.
Architect.
Leader.
Engineering leader with 9+ years of experience building high-throughput systems across FinTech, lending, payments, and enterprise software.
My focus sits at the intersection of architecture, distributed systems, performance, and people leadership — from decomposing monoliths to designing event-driven platforms and taking systems from prototype to production scale.
I stay hands-on with Java, Python, Kafka, databases, cloud infrastructure, testing, observability, and engineering tooling while helping teams make better technical decisions.
“Good architecture makes complexity manageable. Great engineering makes it invisible.”
02 · Experience
From code to
technical direction.
Progressively broader ownership across architecture, delivery, systems, and engineering teams.
Technical Lead
OCT 2023 — PRESENTmPokket Financial Services · Bangalore
- Lead a 10-member engineering team building high-volume financial and lending platforms.
- Scaled daily transaction processing 15× from ~500K to 7.5M/day.
- Led monolith-to-microservices modernization and event-driven architecture initiatives.
- Led migration of 5 databases, 200+ tables and 700+ GB of data to PostgreSQL.
Principal Software Engineer
APR 2022 — SEP 2023mPokket Financial Services · Bangalore
- Architected a microservices-based Loan Management System covering ledger, credit limits, repayment and rewards.
- Led 3–6 engineers across architecture, implementation, reviews and mentoring.
- Built a multiplication-factor service processing ~100K records in 10 seconds, improving efficiency by ~200%.
Senior Software Engineer
JUN 2020 — MAR 2022mPokket Financial Services · Bangalore
- Architected Customer Creditworthiness and Exposure Monitoring systems.
- Built dynamic credit-limit assignment, scoring and automated financial decision workflows.
- Implemented asynchronous processing with RabbitMQ, Python Flask, Laravel and MongoDB.
Software Developer
NOV 2017 — May 2020Netiapps Software Pvt. Ltd. · Bangalore
- Built enterprise backend applications across hotel management, logistics and multilingual platforms.
- Designed REST APIs, database schemas, integrations and reusable backend components.
03 · Venture
Building beyond
software.
A founder's perspective adds another dimension to engineering: understanding customers, operations, constraints, and the business behind the product.
FOUNDER EXPERIENCE · GROCEFUL
Groceful
Co-Founder · Hyperlocal Grocery & Essentials Delivery
Co-founded Groceful, a grocery and essentials delivery venture focused on serving customers in Tier-3 cities of Bihar.
The experience provided hands-on exposure to the complete journey from identifying a local-market problem and shaping the product to understanding fulfillment, customer experience, and day-to-day operational challenges.
- → Product strategy and customer experience
- → Local-market validation and business execution
- → Grocery catalog, ordering and fulfillment workflows
- → Last-mile delivery and operational processes
- → Building for resource-constrained Tier-3 markets
04 · How I Help
Have an
engineering problem?
I work with founders, CTOs, product teams and engineering organizations that need practical technical direction—not unnecessary complexity.
01 · SCALE
We need to scale.
Find bottlenecks before they become incidents. Design for throughput, concurrency, resilience and operational visibility.
02 · MODERNIZE
Our monolith is becoming a problem.
Create an incremental modernization strategy without turning a production system into a risky rewrite.
03 · FINTECH
We're building a financial product.
Get architecture guidance for lending, payments, ledgers, mandates, credit systems and event-driven financial workflows.
04 · LEADERSHIP
Our engineering team needs direction.
Technical leadership across architecture reviews, engineering practices, mentoring, hiring, delivery and technical decision-making.
Let's talk
Tell me what you're trying to build.
No pitch deck required. A technical problem, product idea or scaling challenge is enough to start a conversation.
05 · Selected Work
Systems I've
built.
[Not the full list]
Click a project to expand the engineering story behind it.
01 / ARCHITECTURE PROJECT
Python Workflow Engine
An extensible workflow orchestration engine built around YAML workflows, DAG execution and asynchronous processing.
- YAML-driven workflows with DAG execution, parallel processing, retries and workflow state management.
- SOLID architecture with Factory, Strategy, Command, Observer and State patterns.
- Plugin architecture for extensible task types and execution strategies.
- Structured logging, metrics, CLI tooling, type checking and automated testing.
- CI/CD quality gates using Pytest, Ruff, Mypy and GitHub Actions.
02
Loan Management System
Microservices platform for lending, repayment, ledger, rewards, mandates and subscription workflows.
- Designed distributed financial workflows and event-driven communication.
- Focused on consistency, scalability, reliability and extensibility.
03
Database Migration Platform
Large-scale migration across production databases used by 10+ microservices.
- 4 databases, 200+ tables and 700+ GB of production data.
- Schema compatibility, validation, dependencies, rollback and cutover planning.
04
Auto-Debit & Mandate Service
Financial platform for mandate creation and automated scheduled payment execution.
- Designed mandate creation, scheduling, execution and retry workflows.
- Built for resilient asynchronous financial processing.
05
Mobile API Gateway
Centralized gateway routing mobile application requests to backend microservices.
- Centralized routing and service integration patterns.
- Containerized for consistent deployments.
06
Creditworthiness & Exposure Platform
Distributed platform for dynamic credit-limit assignment and financial exposure monitoring.
- Asynchronous customer financial activity processing.
- Dynamic limits, scoring and automated decision workflows.
07
Multi-Bureau Credit Reporting
Automated credit-reporting platform integrating multiple bureaus with scheduled delivery.
- Automated report generation and processing.
- Role-based dashboard and scheduled report delivery.
06 · Engineering Stack
The toolbox.
Technologies I use to design, build, test and operate production systems.
Backend
Java · Spring Boot · Hibernate · JPA · Python · Flask · Django · PHP · Laravel
Architecture
Microservices · Distributed Systems · REST · Event-Driven Architecture · API Gateway · HA
Data
PostgreSQL · MySQL · CockroachDB · MongoDB · DynamoDB · Redis
Streaming
Apache Kafka · RabbitMQ · Async Processing · Messaging Patterns
Cloud
AWS · GCP · DigitalOcean · EC2 · S3 · RDS · ECS · Lambda
DevOps
Docker · Jenkins · GitHub Actions · CI/CD · Swagger/OpenAPI
Observability
Datadog · Prometheus · ELK Stack · Metrics · Logging · Alerting
Quality
JUnit · Mockito · Pytest · Ruff · Mypy · Postman · Integration Testing
Leadership
Architecture · Mentoring · Hiring · Code Reviews · Agile · Sprint Planning
07 · Architecture
How I think
about systems.
CLIENTS
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API GATEWAY
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LOAN LEDGER PAYMENTS
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KAFKA / EVENTS
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POSTGRES MONGOENGINEERING PRINCIPLES • SOLID & clean boundaries • Event-driven where it adds value • Async processing for throughput • Explicit failure & retry strategies • Observable by default • Automated quality gates • Testable, extensible components • Operational simplicity
08 · Recognition
Beyond delivery.
Quarterly Excellence
2 Quarterly awards at mPokket Financial Services.
Sprint Performance
7+ Sprint Best Performance awards for engineering contribution and delivery.
Technical Leadership
Led college technical committee SPICE and participated in an IIT Bombay Linux tutorial.
09 · Contact
Let's talk.
Whether you're looking to hire an engineering leader, need help solving a difficult technical problem, or simply want to connect, I'd love to hear from you.