Experience

Lead Software Development Engineer

Razorpay • Bengaluru, India • 2024 – Present

• 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

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

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

National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK)

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology

2016 – 2020 • Surathkal, India

CGPA: 8.4/10