Backend Engineering | Distributed and Scalable Systems
Abhimanyu is a software engineering leader with 9 years of experience designing and building scalable, reliable backend systems in fintech and e-commerce domains. He brings a strong focus on engineering quality, thoughtful system design, and long-term maintainability.
He consistently takes ownership of critical systems and services, driving architectural improvements and delivering solutions with measurable business impact. He is highly adaptable and embraces continuous learning, with a track record of effectively working across diverse technology stacks. Known for his collaborative mindset, attention to detail, and commitment to best practices.
Led re-integration of major merchants like Amazon and Agoda as dedicated affiliate networks, reducing tracking latency and improving commission accuracy for $4M+ monthly payouts across 12 countries.
Designed and led the architecture of lending onboarding and KYC services, decoupling loans from Savings Account and establishing loans as a standalone product, bringing 40 crores in additional revenue.
Built auxiliary services for transactional messages and two-way streaming data between content & commerce domains, handling up to 2 million requests daily with 100% p99 latency improvement.
Leading high-scale merchant integrations and affiliate network optimization. Designed end-to-end merchant switchover pipelines for 100K+ daily events. Building automated billing and reconciliation systems.
Led architecture and design of lending onboarding and KYC services. Co-led and mentored a team of 6 engineers. Integrated multiple NBFCs bringing 40 crores in additional revenue annually.
Mentoring folks wanting to transition to backend engineering roles. Focusing on teaching fundamentals of application development, databases, low level design and interview preparations.
Led pre-checkout engineering pod for product listing and discovery experience. Built auxiliary services handling 2 million requests daily. Improved global caching layer reducing p99 latency by 100%.
Led CX-Ops engineering pod scaling commerce, logistics and operations platforms. Automated user queries through chatbot and IVR reducing manual workload by 30%. Supervised AWS to Azure migration reducing ETL costs by 20%.
Led the development and architecture of the commerce platform. Implemented features like product search, price comparison engine driven by in-house price scrapers and a comprehensive product rating system.
Built client-facing websites through different pivots in early days. Owned multiple client-side front-end modules and managed static client hosting infrastructure. Wrote server-side scripts for data migration and analytics.
Contributed to PySoy, an open source cloud gaming engine. Developed a procedural terrain generation engine using pseudo random height-map generator and Simplex Noise. Introduced Tri-Planar texture mapping with custom shaders for improved blending techniques.