Pritam Arnab Bhattacharya
SEngineering 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
- Engineering ManagerMay 2025 - PresentTandem 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.
- Senior Backend EngineerApr 2022 - May 2025Postman · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
- Shipped 25 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
- Backend EngineerSep 2018 - Jan 2022Nvidia · 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%.
- Senior Backend EngineerMar 2017 - Sep 2018Meesho · 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.
- Backend EngineerApr 2014 - Mar 2017Philips · 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
2023What went wrong and what worked while scaling payments infrastructure.
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Education
- XLRI JamshedpurMBA, Business Administration2015 - 2017
- IIT KanpurB.Tech, Information Technology2008 - 2012
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