Aarav Sharma
Senior Software Engineer · Backend & Platform
Bengaluru, Karnataka | +91 98xxx 12345 | aarav.sharma@example.com | linkedin.com/in/aarav-sharma | github.com/aarav-sharma | aaravsharma.dev
Professional Summary
Backend engineer with 6+ years building high-throughput payment and platform services for Indian fintech and e-commerce. Owns systems handling 2M+ daily transactions; strong on distributed systems, reliability, and mentoring. Looking to lead platform teams solving scale problems.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer — PayNimbus Technologies, Bengaluru, KA
Apr 2021 – Present
- Led migration of the settlements platform to an event-driven architecture, cutting reconciliation latency from 40 minutes to under 3 minutes.
- Designed an idempotent payment-capture pipeline processing 2.1M transactions/day at 99.98% success.
- Mentored 5 engineers; introduced service-level objectives that reduced Sev-1 incidents by 46% year on year.
- Cut cloud spend ₹1.2 crore annually by right-sizing compute and adding request-level caching.
Software Engineer — Flipvertex Commerce, Pune, MH
Jun 2018 – Mar 2021
- Built the order-orchestration service backing 8M+ monthly orders across 3 marketplaces.
- Reduced checkout p99 latency by 38% by rewriting the pricing engine in Go.
- Implemented feature-flagged rollouts adopted by 12 product teams.
Education
B.Tech — Computer Science & Engineering · National Institute of Technology, Warangal · 2014–2018 · CGPA 8.7/10
Projects
OpenLedger · github.com/aarav-sharma/openledger
Open-source double-entry ledger library for INR micro-transactions with pluggable reconciliation.
Go · PostgreSQL · gRPC
- 1.4k GitHub stars; adopted by 3 early-stage fintech startups.
RailWatch
Real-time IRCTC seat-availability notifier serving 20k+ users during festival travel peaks.
Node.js · Redis · React
Skills
Languages: Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, SQL
Platforms & Tools: Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Terraform
Domains: Distributed Systems, Payments, Observability, API Design
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — Amazon Web Services · 2022
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) — The Linux Foundation · 2021
Languages
English (Professional) · Hindi (Native) · Kannada (Conversational)
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