Amol Pranav Apte

Senior Backend Engineer at Flipkart · PCI DSS, idempotency

Flipkart

Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

7+ years experience

IIT Bombay IDC

English, Hindi, Marathi

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Overview

I work on payments infrastructure at Flipkart in Mumbai. Built the experimentation framework 26 product teams use to ship changes safely. Took payment success rates from 93.8% to 98.9%. Most at home with Java and Go. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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JavaPCI DSSGoKafkaidempotency

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer
Oct 2023 - Present
Flipkart · 3 yr · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Moved 75% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 603ms to 104ms.
Backend Engineer
Nov 2021 - Oct 2023
Samsung R&D · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 37% in two quarters.
- Wrote the Kafka service that now handles 37 million requests a day.
Backend Engineer
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
PwC · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 17 a week to 3.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from payments platform

2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling payments infrastructure.

Write-up: payments infrastructure in practice

2022

A long-form guide to payments infrastructure for people starting out.

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Education

IIT Bombay IDC
M.Des, Electrical Engineering
2018 - 2020
College of Engineering, Pune
B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
2014 - 2018

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