Shankar Harish Rajan

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Backend Engineer at Westbrook Digital · Go, distributed systems

Westbrook Digital
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
1+ years experience
IIT Madras
English, Hindi, Tamil
Open to work
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Overview

Currently at Westbrook Digital, where I work on payments infrastructure. Moved 90% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Took payment success rates from 95.5% to 96.8%. Most at home with Kubeflow and distributed systems. Coffee nerd.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in payments infrastructure
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on Go
  • Questions about payments infrastructure
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Skills
gRPCKubeflowidempotencyKafkaGoPostgreSQLdistributed systems
Open to workLooking for a role
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Senior Backend Engineer roles in cybersecurity - Chennai or remote

Target roles
Senior Backend Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Healthtech, E-commerce
Work mode
On-site
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Indian citizen
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns payments platform end to end.
Not interested in
Night shifts

1 years in payments infrastructure. Strongest at Go and Kafka. Can start in about six weeks.

Chennai, Indiaidempotencypostgresqlkubeflow
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Experience

  1. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Westbrook Digital · 1 yr · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Moved 83% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped 21 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine
2024

Built with gRPC and Kubeflow. 930 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. IIT Madras
    B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
    2020 - 2024

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