Nasir Zubair Lakdawala

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Senior Backend Engineer at Hartwell Health · Payments infrastructure

Hartwell Health
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
3+ years experience
Symbiosis International University
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Overview

Currently at Hartwell Health, where I work on payments infrastructure. Led the migration of 41 services to Kafka. Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 24% in two quarters. I tinker with 3D printers.

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idempotencyKafkaGodistributed systemsPCI DSS

Experience

  1. Senior Backend Engineer
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Hartwell Health · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 14 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 7 million transactions a day.
    • Wrote the Kafka service that now handles 50 million requests a day.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
    Airtel · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 6.
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 710ms to 138ms.

Projects

Open-source Kafka toolkit
2024

A small library for payments infrastructure that 119 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Symbiosis International University
    BBA, Electrical Engineering
    2018 - 2022

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