Available for engagements · Bangalore, India · Worldwide

Complex systems,
built right.

12 years of designing distributed systems that scale — Fintech, Astronomy, Quick commerce, EdTech, Banking. Architected, Built, Shipped.

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A decade of building at global scale.

▸ Built core systems at
Thoughtworks · Talabat · Delivery Hero · Alef Education · Equal Experts · Best Wing Solutions
12
Years building production systems
6
Years at Thoughtworks
5
Global enterprises
3
Scientific papers published
▸ Selected Work

Systems built for the real world.

01 / 06
Financial trading dashboard with charts and market data
2025 — PresentBangalore · India

IG Infotech

Lead Consultant · Equal Experts

Greenfield investment vertical for a UK regulated trading platform. Built Upvest integration from scratch — account opening, KYC/AML flows, real-time pricing streams, and portfolio analytics across sectors, countries and ratings.

JavaSpring BootKafkaPostgresMongoNomad
▸ Services

Where the depth shows.

A seasoned command of the engineering problems that resist easy answers.

Systems designed to last

Greenfield builds from first principles. Architecture, schema, pipelines, APIs — done with rigour from day one.

ArchitectureDDDGreenfield

Distributed & reactive at scale

Event-driven architectures, concurrent systems, real-time data — built for throughput and resilience under real load.

Event-DrivenKafkaAkkaReactive

Fintech & regulated platforms

Payments, investment integrations, KYC/AML across MENA, UK, and India. Where correctness isn't optional.

PaymentsKYCFintech

Craft that compounds

TDD, clean code, CI/CD, observability. The discipline that stops today's delivery becoming tomorrow's liability.

TDDXPCI/CD
Direction

Engineering reimagined
with AI.

The engineering discipline itself has evolved. AI is now central to how systems are designed, built, and delivered — enabling faster, higher-confidence decisions, identifying defects before they cascade, and compounding quality. This means shipping features faster, building better architecture, and enabling smaller teams to accomplish more.

“Building systems where AI is architecturally woven in and strategically embedded. Essential to how engineering is done today — faster delivery, stronger quality, compounding results.”

  • AI-augmented development across the entire lifecycle — from architecture to implementation to testing
  • Rigorous design exploration — uncovering tradeoffs, edge cases, and hidden assumptions through AI analysis
  • Handling complexity that demands both deep systems expertise and AI fluency
  • Smaller teams shipping more — AI as a force multiplier in every phase of development
▸ Experience

A decade of deep work.

Each role expanded with the bullets that actually shipped. Click any collapsed card to see the detail.

  • ▸Built portfolio analytics platform delivering comprehensive multi-dimensional analysis — sectors, market capitalizations, credit ratings, and geographic exposure
  • ▸Engineered distributed event-driven platform enabling seamless portfolio transfers from competing brokers — high-throughput, fault-tolerant, eventually consistent
  • ▸Built highly available real-time pricing system using concurrent & reactive architecture — maintaining sub-second price freshness at scale
  • ▸Coaching developers on pair programming, test automation, continuous delivery, and trunk-based development
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  • ▸Led transformation of the fragmented, inconsistent payment experience across verticals to the new Unified Payment Widget
  • ▸Drove team transformation via XP practices (TDD, refactoring, CI/CD) — automated tests, refactored services, reduced incidents
  • ▸Pioneered transformation from synchronous blocking to event-driven architecture
  • ▸Established a strong observability, monitoring & alerting system — optimized MTTD and MTTR
  • ▸Cultivated product mindset via controlled customer experiments & RFCs with detailed impact analysis
  • ▸Expanded MENA online payment market via new Checkout.com integrations
  • ▸On-call technical leadership for payments where every outage costs direct revenue
GoC#.NET CoreKrakenDPostgresMS SQLKafkaDrone CI
  • ▸TMT Telescope — distributed control system in Scala/Akka. PTP-based nanosecond Time Service. Low-latency Event Service (Redis/Kafka). Concurrent Command Service with Akka Actors & Streams. Kotlin DSL for observatory scripts. Fully open source (csw, esw)
  • ▸Pioneered Engineering for Research (E4R) vertical at Thoughtworks — architected petabyte-scale data processing pipeline for the world's largest radio telescope (SKA). Published research papers became strategic credential, catalyzing firm-wide expansion into science-driven consulting
  • ▸Indian bank · digital lending — unified event-driven microservice platform (Kotlin, Spring Boot, Node.js, React)
  • ▸Sony Corporation — marketing platform in Scala/Play, MongoDB, Chef, GoCD. Migrated infrastructure to AWS via Ansible/Python IaC
  • ▸US bank — Data Lake solution on AWS EMR, Apache Hadoop, Hive
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▸ Contributions

Research, speaking, & open source.

Published work, conference talks, and contributions to production systems.

Scientific papers

Co-author·2018

Rare detection of OH absorption in a galaxy — detected by the automated radio telescope pipeline I contributed to.

arxiv.org/abs/1806.00172
Credit·2017

Notable scientific paper using the data processing pipeline I built.

arxiv.org/pdf/1712.03511.pdf
Credit·2017

Scientific insights enabled by ARTIP radio telescope pipeline contributions.

arxiv.org/pdf/1708.07371.pdf

Conference talks

Grace Hopper Conference
2019

Science of Time Keeping for the World's Largest Telescope

Slides·GHCI
Grace Hopper Conference
2017

Automating Radio Telescope Imaging Pipeline

Slides·GHCI
HI Absorption Conference · ASTRON
2019

Automated Data Processing for uGMRT and MeerKAT Absorption Line Surveys

Slides·HI Absorption 2017
Thoughtworks Tune.in
2017

Tune.in Episode 2 - IUCAA ARTIP & RangDe

youtube.com

Open source

Core contributor2019

ESW · Executive Software

Sequencer and remote control system for the Thirty Meter Telescope.

github.com/tmtsoftware/esw
Core contributor2018

CSW · Common Software

Distributed control system and command service framework for the Thirty Meter Telescope.

github.com/tmtsoftware/csw
Founding contributor2017

ARTIP · IUCAA Radio Telescope Imaging Pipeline

Automated data processing pipeline for the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project.

github.com/rtip/artip
▸ Contact

Let's build something
worth building.

Have a complex system to design, a greenfield product to build, or an architecture decision that needs a senior eye? Reach out directly — no forms, no gatekeepers.

dollygyanchandani1996@gmail.comDownload CV

Based in Bangalore, India · Remote engagements worldwide