Professional Summary
Eight years shipping web platforms for fintech and health-tech teams. I care about accessibility, observability and APIs that stay simple as they grow.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer, Lumen Labs
Bengaluru · Mar 2022 – Present
Platform team lead for payments and identity. Cut p95 checkout latency from 1.9 s to 420 ms; introduced contract tests and on-call runbooks.
- Led the migration of 14 services to .NET 8 with zero downtime
- Designed the idempotent payments API used by three apps
- Started the accessibility guild (40 members)
Software Engineer II, Finly
Bengaluru · Jun 2019 – Feb 2022
Built the lending decision service and its data pipeline; owned reliability for the customer app's backend.
- Reduced loan-decision time from 40 s to under 3 s
- Introduced feature flags and progressive rollouts
Software Engineer, Kite Interactive
Pune · Jul 2017 – May 2019
Full-stack work on an e-commerce platform for 200 merchants.
Education
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal
Jul 2013 – May 2017
Skills
TypeScript, C# / .NET, SQL, Go, ASP.NET Core, React, PostgreSQL, Azure, Kubernetes, System design, Accessibility, Mentoring
Certifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert — Microsoft, Feb 2023 (valid to Feb 2026)
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer — CNCF, Aug 2022
Projects
Ledgerline — Creator
2024
An open-source double-entry ledger library for .NET with 1,200 stars. Used by two fintech startups in production.
https://example.com/ledgerline
a11y-lint — Maintainer
2023 – present
A linter that catches common accessibility mistakes in React and Razor views before review.
https://example.com/a11y-lint
Checkout latency programme — Lead
2022 – 2023
A nine-month effort across four teams that made checkout four times faster and removed two services.
Awards
- Engineering Excellence Award — Lumen Labs, Dec 2024. For the checkout latency programme.
Languages
English (Fluent), Hindi (Native), Kannada (Conversational)