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Senior Engineering Manager, American Express - Django · REST · rate limiting

Works at
American Express
Location
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Experience
11+ years experience
Education
College of Engineering, Pune
Languages
English, Hindi, Marathi
Advising
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Overview

Based in Mumbai. I lead API platforms at American Express. Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely. Most at home with REST and Django. Trail runner and occasional climber.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on API platforms
  • Working sessions on REST
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
rate limitingRTOSRESTDjango
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: API platforms and RTOS

Topics
API platforms, REST, rate limiting
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

11 years of API platforms. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Mumbai, India · remote OKrestrate limitingrtos
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2024 - Present
    American Express · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Moved 61% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 529ms to 163ms.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
    Bosch · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 4.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 2 yr 10 mo · Contract · Mumbai, India
    • Moved 77% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the rate limiting service that now handles 75 million requests a day.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Mar 2019
    Airtel · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 18 a week to 2.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 3.

Projects

Write-up: API platforms in practice
2023

A long-form guide to API platforms for people starting out.

Side project: a budgeting app
2022

Built with rate limiting and Django. 1331 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. College of Engineering, Pune
    B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
    2011 - 2015

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