Backend engineer with 6 years building
distributed, event-driven systems, writing
Go since university and shipping it in production
since 2024. Built core Go services for India's
Central Bank Digital Currency (Digital Rupee) at NPCI,
and now engineer Mastercard's AI-powered financial crime
platform on Kubernetes. Earlier, powered Hotstar, SonyLIV, and Optik TV
on Accenture Video Solutions. Day-to-day in
Go, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes on
Linux.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer, Financial Crime Solutions
Sep 2025 – Present Mastercard · Hyderabad, India
via Tech Mahindra
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Extended Mastercard's Consumer Fraud Risk scoring
engine with multi-model orchestration, running
2 live risk-scoring models and swapping between
them with zero production downtime. ·
Press
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Built a high-throughput Kafka streaming service in
Go that decodes complex binary payloads into
domain objects for downstream fraud pipelines, tuned to hold
real-time fraud-alert SLAs.
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Automated developer-experience and code-quality workflows with
4 agentic AI tools (vulnerability remediation,
PR review, DevOps, and release notes) built on
LLM orchestration and RAG, lifting team
productivity 25%.
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Led migration of legacy Vocalink services off Azure onto
Mastercard's internal Kubernetes platform,
cutting operational cost 12% and making
deployments consistent across services.
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Wrote a custom Kibana linter that validates logging schemas across
15+ production services, catching schema and
datatype drift before it degraded Elasticsearch index integrity.
GoKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesElasticsearchLLM / RAG
Application Development Associate, Go Backend Engineer
Jan 2024 – Sep 2025 National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) · Hyderabad, India
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Built core backend services in Go for India's
Central Bank Digital Currency (Digital Rupee /
e₹), a national-scale payment rail operating under RBI
regulation.
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Engineered concurrent, high-throughput Go
services using goroutines, channels, and context-based
cancellation for fault tolerance and correctness under
regulated-payments load.
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Ran Go microservices on Kubernetes with
Kafka-driven event flows and
Redis-backed state for sub-second transaction
handling; containerized with Docker on Linux.
GoKafkaRedisDockerKubernetesCBDC
Software Engineer, Accenture Video Solutions
Oct 2020 – Jan 2024 Accenture · Hyderabad, India
Associate → Sr. Analyst
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Led backend development for Telus's
Optik TV, powered by Accenture Video Solutions,
the platform behind Hotstar, SonyLIV, DiscoveryPlus, and F1,
which holds the world record for highest concurrency on a
streaming event.
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Built Node.js REST APIs and Elasticsearch query
templates serving high-traffic catalog, search, and content
discovery surfaces; deployed on GCP and OpenShift with
Splunk-based observability.
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Promoted twice across the OTT track while keeping backend
services inside strict SLAs through
record-concurrency live events.
Node.jsExpressElasticsearchRESTGCPOpenShiftRedisMongoDB
Skills
Go (Golang) Goroutines · Channels · Context · Concurrency Patterns · Go Modules · Table-driven Tests
Distributed Systems Kafka · Redis · REST APIs · Microservices · Event-driven Architecture
Cloud & Platform Kubernetes · Docker · Linux · GCP · Azure · OpenShift · CI/CD · Splunk
Data & Storage SQL · PostgreSQL · Redis · Elasticsearch / Kibana (ELK) · MongoDB
Also Works In Node.js · Python · TypeScript · Kotlin · Cryptography (AES, RSA)
AI & Dev Tooling LLM Orchestration · RAG · Agentic Workflows · Claude Code · Git · Agile
Domains Real-time Payments · CBDC · Financial Crime · OTT Streaming
Open Source & Personal Projects
Mudra
Android · Personal
Privacy-first offline expense tracker with AES-256 encrypted
backups, smart SMS detection, and multi-currency support. Zero
tracking, zero analytics. ·
Play Store
cryptify-js
NPM · OSS
AES-256-CBC & RSA encryption library for Node.js,
TypeScript, and browsers, tested across Angular and React. ·
NPM ·
GitHub
Education
B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering
2017 – 2020 G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur
Founded and led the Google Developer Student Club on campus (now
GDG on Campus, still active), and co-authored an IEEE-published
paper on IoT environmental monitoring for agriculture.