Arjun MehtaBengaluru, India

Software Engineer

Arjun Mehta

Senior Software Engineer

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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.

ledgerd

01 · Go · OSS · 2.1k⭐

ledgerd

Open-source double-entry ledger engine in Go. 3.4k stars, used in production by 5 fintechs.

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Flux Rate Limiter

02 · Rust · Redis

Flux Rate Limiter

Distributed token-bucket limiter with Redis + Lua. Sub-millisecond decisions at 200k req/s.

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obsctl

03 · CLI · Observability

obsctl

A CLI that turns OpenTelemetry traces into readable incident timelines.

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schema-diff

04 · PostgreSQL · DevTools

schema-diff

Zero-downtime Postgres migration planner. Catches lock-escalation risks before they page you.

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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.

Reliability · Clarity · Pragmatism · Mentorship

Background

2022 – Present

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.

2019 – 2022

Software Engineer II · Swiggy

Built the real-time order-tracking pipeline (Kafka + Flink) serving 1M+ concurrent sessions during peak.

2016 – 2019

Software Engineer · Freshworks

Shipped the public REST + webhook platform used by 10k+ developers.

B.Tech, Computer Science — NIT Trichy 2016

Go · Rust · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Kafka · Kubernetes · gRPC · AWS · Terraform · Redis

Résumé

Words

“Arjun is the engineer other engineers escalate to. He left our payments stack more reliable and far easier to reason about.”
Priya Nair, Eng Director at Razorpe
“His PRs to our OSS project were the cleanest we've reviewed — tests, docs, and a design note every time.”
Dan Kohl, maintainer

Recognition

  • Speaker, GopherCon India 2024
  • Top 2% contributor, CNCF projects
  • Internal 'Reliability Award' 2023

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