Priyesh Agarwal

Payouts Team

• Led the migration of the reporting stack from Redshift to Elasticsearch under tight deadlines, improving API response times by 40% by designing scalable Kafka-based data pipelines and backfilling historical data using Airflow.
• Built and managed a high-throughput bulk transfer service handling 100K+ daily transactions; introduced a manual approval workflow to improve financial governance and later merged the service into the core transfer system, reducing complexity and improving operational efficiency.
• Delivered the Cashgram product end-to-end as part of a 2-member team—translating PRDs into production, building real-time transfer and monitoring features, and supporting integration for high-value merchants, resulting in faster go-lives and improved adoption.

International Expansion Team

• Led the migration of ~90 repositories to enable UAE payouts and payment gateway support, building infrastructure for multi-region routing, timezone handling, currency conversion, and multi-deployment setups; collaborated with onboarding, dashboard, and infra teams to ensure a smooth launch.
• Redesigned and implemented the merchant dashboard frontend for UAE merchants in the absence of a dedicated frontend engineer, significantly improving UX and regional compliance.

Organization-Level Initiatives

• Initiated and led an organization-wide Bitbucket to GitHub migration, managing a 3-person team to move key Java, Go, and React repositories; authored comprehensive documentation and secured approval from the Design Review Committee.
• Designed and deployed reusable GitHub Actions workflows and migration tools, automating CI/CD pipelines for 100+ repositories, cutting manual deployment effort and errors by 50%, and reducing release times.

Banking as a Service (BaaS) Team

• Contributed to building a 0→1 fintech platform that enabled merchants to offer current/savings accounts, prepaid cards, wallets, and virtual accounts, working in a lean, 4-person team.
• Independently designed REST APIs, database schemas, and integrated Card91 to support prepaid card functionality; owned key design decisions for OTP flows and KYC, collaborating with external partners and leadership to secure buy-in.
• Extended prepaid card features to wallets, playing a key role in the successful acquisition of the organization’s PPI license.
• Executed end-to-end UAT for critical banking integrations, interpreting complex specs, implementing SSL handshake, secure connection pools, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and operational standards.
• Set up Prometheus + Grafana monitoring across six BaaS services, enabling real-time observability, faster debugging, and improved system reliability.