Abhinav Kasaudhan
Gurgaon
Summary
Results-driven Senior Tech Lead with 9.5+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams and architecting scalable backend systems, driving performance, reliability, and operational efficiency at Paytm, Tower Research, and Walmart.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Technical Lead
Paytm
Gurgaon
11.2022 - Current
- Owned end-to-end delivery including requirement analysis, system design, task allocation, and execution tracking, ensuring timely releases and stakeholder management
- Architected and built a centralized Shipment Tracking & Warehouse Management platform from scratch, enabling real-time tracking of payment devices (Soundbox, EDC) and ensuring seamless integration between merchant onboarding, transactions, and logistics workflows
- Worked on reconciliation systems to ensure consistency between transaction systems and inventory/device records and improved merchant experience by enabling accurate delivery timelines and reliable transaction enablement for payment devices
- Improved inventory sync success rate from 58% to 99% by implementing event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka, with robust retry mechanisms and detailed event logging. Also optimized file processing from 10k records to 100k+ records by introducing sharded batch processing
- Prototyped an AI-powered chatbot for internal agents to query inventory data using modern AI tools (MCP, Cursor), reducing dependency on manual support and improving response time
- Enhanced reliability and scalability of transaction and inventory systems by implementing advanced observability (telemetry-driven monitoring of APIs and business KPIs) and leading migration to cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure, resulting in 35% cost reduction, 40% faster deployments, and 99.9% uptime across microservices.
- Company Link-> https://paytm.com/
Software Engineer 3
Tower Research Capital
Gurgaon
06.2021 - 11.2022
- Lead the end to end development, design and deployment for Tower's Internal+ External+ Intraday Margin framework from scratch and spanned it across 6 classes, 17+ teams and 40+ brokers
- Implemented a Global Strategy Solution for Reference data strategies so that higher management can group the strategies on global short code and view the performance of strategies
- Company Link->https://tower-research.com/
Software Engineer 3
Walmart Labs
Bangalore
08.2019 - 06.2021
- Developed a BFF layer which acted as middleware between Ul and Backend to decrease the load and reduced the app load time
- Worked as a backend developer for Quality check module to develop the work handlers which consumes upstream events and push events if a particular order passes the quality check or not
- Onboarded and developed Walmart storage module to Canada market in ring based architecture which gives the feature for associate to stage the order till the customer arrives to pickup.
- Company Link -> https://www.walmart.com/
Lead Engineer
HCL Products and Platform Division
Bangalore
11.2018 - 07.2019
- Worked on Enhancements and new Features of the Urban Codebuild tool
- Fixed Ul bugs in the tool and also involved in designing new features for the tool.
- Company link-> https://www.hcltech.com/
Assistant Consultant
Software AG
Bangalore
08.2016 - 10.2018
- Developed a Utility to set, update and delete components in 9 servers of google partners
- Reduced 2 monthly maintenance of 10 hours by automating these tasks.
Education
B.E. - Computer Engineering
Thapar University
Patiala07.2016
Skills
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Spring MVC
- Cursor
- MCP
- Prometheus
- Telemetry
- Python
- Flask
- Distributed Systems
- Architecture
- Linux
- Nginx
- Apache Tomcat
- Apache Kafka
- Pub Sub Model
- Docker
- Jenkins
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- ELK Stack
- OpenSearch
- Kibana
- Logstash
- Filebeat
Timeline
Senior Technical Lead
Paytm
11.2022 - Current
Software Engineer 3
Tower Research Capital
06.2021 - 11.2022
Software Engineer 3
Walmart Labs
08.2019 - 06.2021
Lead Engineer
HCL Products and Platform Division
11.2018 - 07.2019
Assistant Consultant
Software AG
08.2016 - 10.2018
B.E. - Computer Engineering
Thapar University