Sanjay Varun Iyengar

Overview

Currently at Quayside Technologies, where I lead payments infrastructure with a team of 11. Took payment success rates from 95.7% to 98.1%. Most at home with idempotency and Kafka. Collector of fountain pens.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   May 2026 - Present
   Quayside Technologies · 5 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 5 million transactions a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 600ms to 142ms.
   • Grew the payments platform team from 5 to 22 engineers.
2. Senior Backend Engineer

   Dec 2024 - May 2026
   Groww · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
   • Grew the payments platform team from 3 to 17 engineers.
3. Principal Engineer

   Jun 2021 - Dec 2024
   Intuit · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
   • Sit on 6 boards.
4. Principal Engineer

   Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
   Visa · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
   • Led or co-led 18 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
5. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2017 - Nov 2019
   ICICI Bank · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
   • Moved 82% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 3.

Projects

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Education

1. Shri Ram College of Commerce

   B.Com, Information Technology
   2003 - 2007