Backend Systems · FinTech · Engineering Leadership
Staff-level backend and distributed systems engineer specializing in financial technology platforms — with a focus on revenue-critical decision systems, transaction infrastructure, and correctness-sensitive products used at global scale.
Current Role
Staff Software Engineer
at Robinhood
Specialty
Backend and distributed systems engineering for FinTech platforms.
Core Focus
Financial correctness, transaction systems, real-time decision engines, platform architecture.
Experience
11+ years across Robinhood, Navan, Bolt, Uber, and Flipkart.
Location
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Delivered high-impact work across support automation, embedded commerce, expense policy systems, and portfolio correctness.
Repeatedly entrusted with Staff and Tech Lead roles on revenue-critical, correctness-sensitive, and operationally central systems.
Deep experience in transaction infrastructure, policy engines, portfolio systems, and backend architecture at global scale.
Selected work
Developed a centralized policy-driven automation platform used across Uber's global customer support operations. The contribution resulted in a 91% increase in ticket throughput, reduced approximately 90,000 support contacts per week, and generated approximately $4M in annualized savings. The work was formally recognized by Uber's CTO and contributed to broader commercialization of policy-driven customer automation models in the industry.
Led development of Remote Checkout, a revenue-critical capability supporting embedded and headless commerce. The strategic significance of this initiative was reflected in Bolt's approximately $200M acquisition of Tipser to expand remote checkout capabilities. The work aligned with the broader industry shift toward decoupled and API-driven commerce systems and contributed to Bolt's product expansion strategy.
Led redesign of real-time expense policy systems across 30+ currencies, reducing policy evaluation staleness from multiple days to seconds. Built customizable policy capabilities for global enterprise customers.
Currently leading correctness-focused infrastructure for investor-facing products used by millions. Reduced portfolio inaccuracies by over 95% and cut onboarding time for new asset classes by over 60%.
Career progression
Staff Software Engineer
Technical lead for the Portfolio and Trading Tools team. Owns correctness-sensitive and extensible financial infrastructure central to investor trust, product expansion, and regulatory integrity.
Staff Software Engineer
Technical lead for Expense Policy systems responsible for transaction evaluation, reimbursement, reconciliation, and global policy logic across complex multi-currency enterprise workflows.
Tech Lead / Engineering Manager, Checkout
Led the core checkout platform and later the broader Checkout Engineering organization, responsible for Bolt's flagship revenue-generating product and merchant-facing transaction systems.
Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineer II
Built large-scale growth systems for international expansion and later developed the Policy Engine platform that materially transformed customer support operations at global scale.
Software Engineer II
Built the User Insights Platform powering personalization, recommendations, search, and targeted marketing for India's largest e-commerce company.
Professional profile
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Get in touch
I'm open to thoughtful conversations around distributed systems, financial infrastructure, and building reliable products at scale.