Pooja Kajal Arora

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Senior Engineering Manager at Helix Data · Payments infrastructure · PCI DSS, Kafka

Helix Data
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
Indian Statistical Institute
English, Hindi, Marathi
Open to work
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Overview

I've spent 17 years on payments infrastructure - first at JPMorgan Chase, now at Helix Data. Moved 90% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: SAP and Freshworks. Most at home with PostgreSQL and Go.

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Skills
PCI DSSKafkaGoPostgreSQLJavaKubernetesgRPC
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Target roles
Backend Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Logistics, Climate tech
Work mode
Remote
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns payments platform end to end.
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Contract-only roles

17 years in payments infrastructure. Strongest at Go and PostgreSQL. Serving notice now.

Pune, Indiapostgresqlgrpcpci dss
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2022 - Present
    Helix Data · 4 yr · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 431ms to 109ms.
    • Grew the payments platform team from 4 to 15 engineers.
    • Moved 83% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
    SAP · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 8 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 43% in two quarters.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
    Freshworks · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Shipped 8 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
    • Took payment success rates from 95.9% to 98.3%.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Aug 2014 - Nov 2017
    Nykaa · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 36% in two quarters.
    • Took payment success rates from 91.1% to 96.1%.
  5. Senior Backend Engineer
    Dec 2011 - Aug 2014
    JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 4.

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Education

  1. Indian Statistical Institute
    M.Stat, Computer Science
    2010 - 2012
  2. Jadavpur University
    B.E., Computer Science
    2004 - 2008

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