Aditi Prachi Desai

Overview

Based in Ahmedabad. I lead embedded systems at Spindle Ops. Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 25% in two quarters. Moved 89% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Visa and Razorpay. Most at home with Spark and hardware bring-up. Kannada theatre fan.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Dec 2025 - Present
   Spindle Ops · 10 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
   • Grew the firmware team from 5 to 18 engineers.
   • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
2. Principal Engineer

   Nov 2023 - Dec 2025
   Visa · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
   • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
3. Principal Engineer

   May 2021 - Nov 2023
   Razorpay · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
   • Previously an operator for 12 years before investing.
4. Director of Engineering

   Aug 2019 - May 2021
   Paytm · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
   • Wrote the hardware bring-up service that now handles 77 million requests a day.
5. Senior Embedded Engineer

   Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
   Swiggy · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 469ms to 94ms.
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

1. VIT Vellore

   B.Tech, Mathematics
   1997 - 2001