Ankit Verma

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Senior Engineering Manager at BrowserStack · Payments infrastructure

BrowserStack
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
XLRI Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Marathi
Advising
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Overview

14 years in software engineering, the last 3 at BrowserStack, where I lead the payments platform team. Grew the payments platform team from 6 to 16 engineers. Before that: Deloitte and Goldman Sachs. Most at home with gRPC and PCI DSS. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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  • Advice on payments infrastructure
  • Questions about payments infrastructure
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Working sessions on PCI DSS
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  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
KafkagRPCJavadistributed systemsPCI DSSidempotency
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Open to advising pre-seed teams on gRPC

Topics
payments infrastructure, idempotency, distributed systems
Format
Office hours
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
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First-time founders

14 years of payments infrastructure. One call a month or async reviews.

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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2024 - Present
    BrowserStack · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Led the migration of 46 services to idempotency.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 40% in two quarters.
    • Grew the payments platform team from 4 to 39 engineers.
  2. Staff Backend Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Mar 2024
    Deloitte · 3 yr 5 mo · Contract · Pune, India
    • Grew the payments platform team from 4 to 39 engineers.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2017 - Oct 2020
    Goldman Sachs · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 36 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  4. Senior Backend Engineer
    Feb 2015 - Apr 2017
    JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Grew the payments platform team from 3 to 28 engineers.
    • Moved 90% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Feb 2013 - Feb 2015
    Dream11 · 2 yr · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Wrote the PCI DSS service that now handles 48 million requests a day.
    • Moved 73% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Payments infrastructure benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing gRPC and PCI DSS on real workloads.

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Education

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. IIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
    2008 - 2012

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