Poulami Sahoo

Overview

I lead payments infrastructure at Canopy Health in Pune. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 4. Before that: Paytm and McKinsey & Company. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   May 2026 - Present
   Canopy Health · 5 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Grew the payments platform team from 5 to 28 engineers.
   • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 28% in two quarters.
2. Engineering Manager

   Jul 2023 - May 2026
   Paytm · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 76 million requests a day.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2021 - Jul 2023
   McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 18% in two quarters.
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 13 a week to 1.
4. Backend Engineer

   Feb 2019 - Sep 2021
   Bajaj Finserv · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 31% in two quarters.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 6.
5. Engineering Manager

   Jul 2016 - Feb 2019
   Morgan Stanley · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 16 a week to 1.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 6.

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Education

1. SRM Institute of Science and Technology

   B.Tech, Computer Engineering
   2002 - 2006