Staff Software Development Engineer
Razorpay • Bengaluru, India • 2026 – Present
- • Promoted to Staff SDE, driving cross-team technical strategy and architecture for UPI payment systems
Experience
Lead Software Development Engineer
Razorpay • Bengaluru, India • 2024 – 2026
- • Reduced cost per transaction by 25% through targeted cost optimization program across EC2, databases, logging, and GitHub Actions
- • Increased application reliability by implementing multi-step canary deployments and graceful shutdown handling for zero-downtime deployments
- • Boosted developer velocity by optimizing GitHub Actions workflows, reducing PR merge time from 30+ minutes to 16 minutes
- • Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for UPI payments and primary design approver for all UPI-related architectures
- • Improved engineering quality by establishing unified end-to-end testing platform, reducing production incidents
Senior Software Development Engineer
Razorpay • Bengaluru, India • 2022 – 2024
- • Optimized UPI payment latency from 1.9s to 200ms through performance tuning and architectural refinements
- • Led technical interviews and campus hiring, evaluating 20+ candidates across machine coding and system design rounds
Software Development Engineer
Razorpay • Bengaluru, India • 2020 – 2022
- • Built core UPI payment microservice in Go, enabling 10x throughput scaling and processing 1.5M+ transactions/day
- • Published open-source developer tools including gRPC service boilerplate, structured logging wrapper, and end-to-end testing framework
- • Improved fault tolerance and modular deployment capabilities for payment systems
Education
National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK)
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
2016 – 2020 • Surathkal, India
CGPA: 8.4/10