Gnanesh R

Summary

Language-agnostic engineer with expertise in software development, demonstrating strong capabilities in understanding requirements, taking ownership of design, building, and maintaining solutions. Experienced in distributed systems, payment technologies, and open-source contributions.

Experience

Sept 2021-Present | Setu | Software Engineer III

• Led and maintained mission-critical payment infrastructure serving India's largest credit card payment provider, ensuring 99.99% uptime while handling 150+ TPS consistently with peak loads of over 200 TPS, demonstrating system resilience at scale
• Re-architected payment infrastructure from monolithic to event-driven architecture, scaling system capacity from 100 RPS to 750+ RPS while maintaining strong consistency through Redis integration
• Achieved 100% system uptime through fault-tolerant design and proactive monitoring, implementing automated failover mechanisms and immediate incident response protocols
• Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 60-70% through code-level optimizations and efficient auto-scaling implementations while handling high-traffic scenarios
• Managed critical BBPS integrations with multiple banks (Axis, Canara), implementing bank-specific security algorithms and compliance protocols while serving as primary stakeholder contact
• Built highly reusable system components and utility scripts, enabling rapid deployment of new payment services and reducing development time for team initiatives
• Developed bank integration middleware for payload transformation, enabling seamless vendor onboarding without core application changes
• Automated multi-version API documentation generation with spec file compatibility for internal documentation servers

Oct 2021-Present | Redis | Software Engineer

• Maintained RedisInsight V1 and provided technical expertise for V2 development
• Implemented visualizers for RedisGraph, RedisTimeseries, and module query explainer
• Developed infrastructure automation using Terraform and enterprise reverse proxy setups

Aug 2021-Sep 2021 | Vital | Full Stack Engineer II

• Reverse engineered 8sleep's complex API infrastructure and provided seamless integration pathways, enabling data extraction from proprietary endpoints while ensuring maintainable and robust implementations
• Designed and implemented provider-agnostic dashboard APIs that standardized data formats across multiple health device manufacturers, reducing integration complexity and maintenance overhead
• Built automated testing frameworks for API reliability verification, ensuring consistent data extraction and transformation across various provider platforms and API versions

Feb 2019-Aug 2021 | HashedIn Technologies | Senior Software Engineer - 1

• Led integration of RedisGraph, RedisJSON, and RedisGears modules
• Optimized cypher query performance, reducing memory usage by 85%
• Implemented auto-discovery for Redis servers in Kubernetes environments
• Reduced CI resources cost by 50% through optimization

Technical Skills

Languages

Golang, Python, Rust, TypeScript, C

Technologies

React, Docker, Redis, Git, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Specializations

Distributed Systems, System Programming, Reverse Engineering

Notable Projects

• LazyKubernetes: TUI for Kubernetes, winning project in FOSS 2020 hackathon
• RDBParser: Parser for RDB file implemented in Rust
• Raft-rs & Swim-rs: Implementation of Raft consensus and SWIM gossip protocol in Rust

Education

2015-2019 | VIT University

• B.Tech. in Computer Science