About

I'm a backend engineer at Zoho Payments. I joined as a technical trainee in December 2024 and have been a Member Technical Staff since May 2025. I build the identity verification checks that decide whether a merchant can start transacting: mostly Java services on PostgreSQL and Redis, integrations with external data providers, the state model behind each check, and a data layer that holds up as volume grows.

The domain is a good teacher. The code has to be correct, because mistakes have regulatory consequences; resilient, because external providers fail constantly; and fast, because every extra second delays a real business from onboarding. I would rather design for the failure up front than find it in production.

Lately I'm drawn to the architecture side: taking a system built for one product and reshaping it so new business verticals plug in without rewrites. Extensibility without instability is the kind of problem I enjoy most.

I came to software from mechanical engineering, wrote Python through my computer science degree, and learned Java on the job. Outside work I read system design, experiment with AI and DevOps on side setups, and build the occasional React or Vue app to stay dangerous on the frontend.

1. Write down the failure modes before the happy path.
2. Prefer state you can inspect. A row with a status beats a flag in memory.
3. Every claim about a system should survive the next question.
4. Plain words over pattern names. "Adapters behind an interface" says more than a label on a diagram.

1. 2026

   buildAlfred, Guardian and a multi-tenant verification service, in my own time. Projects.

2. 2025-05

   roleMember Technical Staff, Zoho Payments. Backend for identity verification.

3. 2025-05

   eduB.E. Computer Science and Engineering, University College of Engineering, BIT Campus, Tiruchirappalli (Anna University). CGPA 8.03.

4. 2024-12

   roleTechnical Trainee, Zoho. Onboarded onto the KYC module, converted to full time.

5. 2024-07

   roleSoftware Developer Intern, Bharathidasan University. A student fees system in Django and MySQL.

6. 2023, 24

   awardFinalist, Smart India Hackathon, both years.

7. 2020-06

   eduDiploma in Mechanical Engineering, Seshasayee Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. 89.14%.

Sorted by where I have actually used a thing, not by how often I've read about it.

languages

Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL

backend

Spring Boot, FastAPI, Django, Node.js, REST APIs, an internal Java framework on Tomcat

frontend

React.js, Next.js, Vue

data and messaging

PostgreSQL, Redis (including Lua scripts), Kafka

devops and tooling

Docker Compose, Git, GitLab, tmux

ai tools

OpenCode, Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, MCP servers

learning

AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, operating system internals, Redis internals