Chirag .

Engineering at Paytm

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

About

I'm a seasoned Backend Engineer with over 10 years of experience building scalable, resilient systems across fintech and enterprise technology domains. My career has centered around designing and implementing robust Java-based microservices architectures, migrating monolithic systems to cloud-native solutions, and optimizing infrastructure to support high-throughput, low-latency applications. I've successfully led end-to-end migrations to Spring Boot microservices on cloud platforms, managed services handling 15K+ transactions per second, and delivered significant cost savings through performance tuning and resource-efficient engineering. My technical toolkit includes: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs Kubernetes, Docker, and container-based deployments Distributed Systems, caching, and messaging patterns Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) Monitoring & Observability with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki I’m deeply passionate about: System scalability and resilience Cloud-native architecture and automation Mentoring and technical leadership Driving innovation through clean architecture and cost-effective design My goal is to continue contributing to high-impact backend systems, leverage AI and automation where relevant, and take on roles that allow me to lead engineering teams, scale systems, and shape product architecture.

Experience

  • Paytm (4 yrs 6 mos)
    • Senior Technical Lead
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Technical Lead
      Feb 2022 - Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      - Building and managing core services that power the home page and various verticals across mobile and web as part of the Storefront team.

  • Software AG (2 yrs 4 mos)
    • Engineering Specialist
      Mar 2021 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr

      - Developed primary back-end services for a low code business application development platform including the permission model framework as part of the Agile-Apps team.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Nov 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

      - Revamped application components including object and record handlers for multiple application templates using Spring,MySQL,Hibernate and Kafka. - Led efforts to enable application containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes for swift deployment and testing

  • ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE LIMITED (4 yrs 4 mos)
    • Application Developer 2
      Jan 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Build internal applications to automate implementation documents in excel using Apache POI library. Report, Schedule and Cell level dashboards which display information on configured cells and used metadata fetching data from configured schema using a REST layer. Java back-end for reporting metadata information to be displayed in the web interface. Developed a web based interface built in OJET libraries based primarily upon knockout.js,require.js and jQuery followed by query refresh in database using PL/SQL procedures invoked via Java API’s.

    • Associate Application Developer
      Aug 2015 - Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Regulatory Reporting for US Federal Reserve: • Worked on development of various report schedules under the regulators primarily USFED. • Primary responsibilities included manipulating and working on data from a Finance based data-model so that it can be retrieved into the materialized views as per the regulator line item requirement. • Automation involving generation of scripts to be executed with installer,Metadata validation and listing and XML generation through various utilities

  • Summer Intern at Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)
    May 2014 - Jul 2014 · 3 mos

    GPON Hardware Design Group. • FPGA logic synthesis of the Dual port memory interface for Microprocessor using VHDL. • Worked on design development and simulation of the dual port memory. • Gained valuable expertise in system level hardware integration and embedded software.

  • Summer Research Intern at IIT Hyderabad
    May 2013 - Jul 2013 · 3 mos

    Design & Fabrication Process Flow For FAIMS Miniaturized Device. A possible fabrication process flow of an On-chip miniaturized Field Asymmetric Ion Mobile Spectroscope (FAIMS). Analyzing the use of Metal assisted etching for high aspect ratio TSV's and better etch profiles.