Arjun Mehta
Senior Software Engineer
Backend-leaning full-stack engineer. I build distributed systems that stay boring under load — event pipelines, APIs, and the infrastructure that keeps them honest. Currently scaling payments at a Series C fintech.
8
Years exp.
6k+
OSS stars
200k
Peak req/s
99.98%
Uptime held
About
I started writing code to automate my college attendance spreadsheet and never really stopped automating things. Over eight years I've moved from scrappy startup monoliths to designing systems that process millions of transactions a day. I care most about observability, clear failure modes, and APIs that are a pleasure to integrate against. When a system is well-designed, on-call gets quiet — that quiet is the goal.
Make complex systems feel simple for the people who build on top of them.
Track Record
8 years building payments, data, and platform infrastructure
Senior Software Engineer
Razorpe (fintech)
Lead the payments reliability pod. Cut p99 settlement latency 62% and drove a zero-downtime ledger migration across 40M accounts.
2022 – Present
Software Engineer II
Swiggy
Built the real-time order-tracking pipeline (Kafka + Flink) serving 1M+ concurrent sessions during peak.
2019 – 2022
Software Engineer
Freshworks
Shipped the public REST + webhook platform used by 10k+ developers.
2016 – 2019
Education
B.Tech, Computer Science — NIT Trichy · 2016
Skills
Go · Rust · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Kafka · Kubernetes · gRPC · AWS · Terraform · Redis
Certifications
CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator — CNCF (2023)
AWS Solutions Architect – Professional — AWS (2021)
Works
ledgerd
Open-source double-entry ledger engine in Go. 3.4k stars, used in production by 5 fintechs.
Go · OSS · 2.1k⭐
Flux Rate Limiter
Distributed token-bucket limiter with Redis + Lua. Sub-millisecond decisions at 200k req/s.
Rust · Redis
obsctl
A CLI that turns OpenTelemetry traces into readable incident timelines.
CLI · Observability
schema-diff
Zero-downtime Postgres migration planner. Catches lock-escalation risks before they page you.
PostgreSQL · DevTools
Word on the Street
“Arjun is the engineer other engineers escalate to. He left our payments stack more reliable and far easier to reason about.”
“His PRs to our OSS project were the cleanest we've reviewed — tests, docs, and a design note every time.”
Honors
- ★ Speaker, GopherCon India 2024
- ★ Top 2% contributor, CNCF projects
- ★ Internal 'Reliability Award' 2023