Saloni Tiwari

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Staff Backend Engineer · Payments infrastructure · Java

Elmstead Digital
Jaipur, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
IIT Hyderabad
English, Hindi
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Overview

I've spent 9 years on payments infrastructure - first at Groww, now at Elmstead Digital. Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 30% in two quarters. Before that: Nvidia and Bosch. Most at home with PostgreSQL and distributed systems. Learning woodworking.

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Skills
distributed systemsPostgreSQLKafkaJavaidempotency
CollaboratingLooking to collaborate
closes in 3 months

Looking for collaborators on an open-source idempotency toolkit

Project
An open-source idempotency toolkit
Skills needed
distributed systems, Data
Time commitment
Weekends
Outcome
Conference talk

Will credit everyone who contributes. Based in Jaipur, happy to work remotely.

Jaipur, Indiakafkadistributed systemsidempotency
Open

Experience

  1. Staff Backend Engineer
    Nov 2024 - Present
    Elmstead Digital · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 609ms to 174ms.
    • Shipped 21 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    May 2022 - Nov 2024
    Nvidia · 2 yr 6 mo · Contract · Jaipur, India
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Wrote the Kafka service that now handles 63 million requests a day.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
    Bosch · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Led the migration of 32 services to idempotency.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 3.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
    Deloitte · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 2.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
    Groww · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Shipped 26 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.

Projects

Open-source PostgreSQL toolkit
2026

A small library for payments infrastructure that 400 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. IIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech, Computer Engineering
    2013 - 2017

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