Aarav Mehta
Backend Engineer
Experience
Backend Engineer, a fintech startup
- Performance work: added Redis caching on hot read paths of the payments API, p95 420ms to 180ms.
- Involved in the settlement rewrite, in FastAPI. It is idempotent, about 40,000 transactions a day.
- Helped move the nightly batch jobs onto AWS Lambda. Run time down by about two thirds.
- Responsible for backend services and APIs on the payments team. On call rota, code reviews, hiring loops.
- Tech: Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Redis, FastAPI, Git, Linux, Jira, Excel.