Pranav Rohan Shah

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VP of Engineering at Helix Bio · Payments infrastructure · PostgreSQL, idempotency

Helix Bio
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
University of Wisconsin–Madison
English
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Overview

Currently at Helix Bio, where I lead payments infrastructure with a team of 31. Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 20% in two quarters. Before that: Amazon and Accenture. Chess on lunch breaks.

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Skills
PCI DSSJavaGogRPCidempotencydistributed systemsPostgreSQL
HiringHiring for a role
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Building out payments platform at Helix Bio: security engineers wanted in Boston

Role
Security engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$153k-$216k
Team
Payments platform, 15 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with PostgreSQL Production experience with distributed systems Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $163k-$263k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Boston, MA · remote OKgoidempotencypci dss
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    May 2024 - Present
    Helix Bio · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 2 million transactions a day.
    • Moved 81% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Jan 2022 - May 2024
    Amazon · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Took payment success rates from 94.6% to 97.3%.
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 33 a week to 1.
  3. Staff Backend Engineer
    Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
    Accenture · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 40% in two quarters.
    • Wrote the distributed systems service that now handles 60 million requests a day.
  4. Senior Backend Engineer
    Aug 2018 - Aug 2020
    eBay · 2 yr · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped 27 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
  5. Senior Backend Engineer
    Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
    Boeing · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 19 a week to 2.

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Education

  1. University of Wisconsin–Madison
    BS, Information Technology
    2006 - 2010

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