Pritam Arnab Bhattacharya

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Engineering Manager at Tandem Data · Payments infrastructure · gRPC, Kafka

Tandem Data
Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
13+ years experience
XLRI Jamshedpur
English, Hindi
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Overview

I lead payments infrastructure at Tandem Data in Noida. Moved 63% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with idempotency and PCI DSS. Learning to sail.

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Skills
gRPCdistributed systemsJavaKafkaPostgreSQLidempotencyPCI DSS

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    May 2025 - Present
    Tandem Data · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 17 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the payments platform team from 4 to 26 engineers.
    • Moved 91% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2022 - May 2025
    Postman · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Shipped 25 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
    Nvidia · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Wrote the gRPC service that now handles 15 million requests a day.
    • Took payment success rates from 92.9% to 97.3%.
  4. Senior Backend Engineer
    Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
    Meesho · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Wrote the Kafka service that now handles 38 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 34% in two quarters.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Apr 2014 - Mar 2017
    Philips · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 302ms to 90ms.
    • Moved 69% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from payments platform
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling payments infrastructure.

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Education

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. IIT Kanpur
    B.Tech, Information Technology
    2008 - 2012

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