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⚡ Software Engineer · India

ENGINEER / BUILDER / OPEN SOURCE

PrathamRanka

Backend engineer building distributed systems, reliable infrastructure, and production software that survives real traffic, real failures, and real deadlines.

FocusBackend systems · Cloud infrastructure · Developer tools
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Experience

Work measured in outcomes.

Roles where ownership meant making hard systems understandable, dependable, and ready for real users.

July 2026 - Aug 2026

S45

Software Engineer

Contributing to production backend systems by implementing features from HLD/LLD specifications, building a standardized multi-layer testing framework, developing shared testing infrastructure, writing comprehensive unit and integration tests, strengthening repository contract tests, validating database migrations, and improving CI quality gates. Collaborating on code reviews, bug fixes, and production engineering practices to improve maintainability, reliability, and long-term scalability.

Mar 2026 - May 2026

Paasa

Y YC S24

Software Engineer Intern

Engineered fintech infrastructure powering banking and payment workflows across KYC, payouts, collections, and financial reconciliation. Built and optimized backend APIs, integrated banking partners, improved transaction reliability, automated internal operations, and contributed to production systems handling over $19M+ in assets while working closely with product and engineering teams.

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

TalKeys

Full-Stack Engineering Intern

Developed production-ready features across the React and Node.js stack, implemented REST APIs, integrated third-party services, improved application performance, resolved production issues, and collaborated in an agile environment to ship customer-facing functionality with a focus on reliability and maintainability.

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Selected work

A small list with real depth.

Selected systems spanning infrastructure, privacy, developer tools, and production software.

01

AgentPay

Featured

Modular monolith for non-custodial x402 USDC payments on Base Sepolia, with 17 isolated Go domain packages, a DynamoDB single-table design, cryptographic evidence, an SSRF-hardened proxy, secure MCP tooling, and Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure. Deployed on Lambda ARM64 and API Gateway HTTP API v2 with <42ms P95 API latency, <8ms P99 queries, and under $10/month operating cost.

CodeCase study
02

SendAI Fun

Active

Cloud-native runtime for AI agents that securely executes tool calls inside Kubernetes sandboxes using distributed lease management, optimistic concurrency control, FIFO scheduling, automatic recovery, and production-grade container orchestration.

Code
03

StarSwap

Completed

Developer platform for discovering GitHub repositories with intelligent recommendations, GitHub OAuth, Redis-powered caching and rate limiting, PostgreSQL, real-time leaderboards, and a scalable full-stack architecture.

Code
04

ZKavach

Completed

Privacy-preserving payment infrastructure implementing Coinbase x402 with Groth16 zk-SNARKs, Poseidon hashing, Solidity smart contracts, and programmable USDC payments for autonomous AI agents.

Code
05

SpotifyDownloader

Completed

Production-ready TypeScript CLI featuring concurrent download workers, resumable pipelines, intelligent source matching, FFmpeg processing, ID3 metadata embedding, automated testing, CI/CD, and cross-platform support.

Code
03

Capabilities

Tools change.
Engineering judgment compounds.

My work centers on backend engineering, distributed workflows, open source, and turning ambiguous requirements into maintainable production systems.

THE TOOLKIT
18 tools · four working layers
TypeScriptGoPythonC++GoNode.jsFastAPIWebSocketsNext.jsPostgreSQLDynamoDBRedisKafkaMongoDBDockerKubernetesGitHub ActionsReactTypeScriptGoPythonC++GoNode.jsFastAPIWebSocketsNext.jsPostgreSQLDynamoDBRedisKafkaMongoDBDockerKubernetesGitHub ActionsReact
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WORKING LAYER

Languages

04

The primitives I reach for when correctness and clarity matter.

TypeScript
Go
Python
C++
02

WORKING LAYER

Backend

05

APIs, services, and real-time paths built for production traffic.

Go
Node.js
FastAPI
WebSockets
Next.js
03

WORKING LAYER

Data & systems

05

Durable state, event streams, caching, and operational visibility.

PostgreSQL
DynamoDB
Redis
Kafka
MongoDB
04

WORKING LAYER

Infrastructure

04

The delivery layer that turns working code into dependable software.

Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
React
04

Open source & GitHub

M

Medusa / Contributor

Contributing to the infrastructure behind modern commerce.

Thoughtful code contributions to Medusa's open-source commerce platform, with the same emphasis on clarity and maintainability I bring to product work.

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How I work

Make the hard parts
observable and boring.

I move from ambiguity to dependable systems by making boundaries, failure modes, and operational tradeoffs explicit.

01

Clarify requirements and failure modes

02

Model domain boundaries and access patterns

03

Design APIs, tests, and security controls

04

Measure performance under realistic load

05

Document decisions and operational playbooks

Recruiter & team inquiries welcome

Let's make it
dependable.

prathamworks06@gmail.com +91 70232 06003

For recruiters and engineering teams anywhere, email directly with the role, product, or system you would like to discuss.