Siddharth Kohli

Overview

Based in Noida. I lead payments infrastructure at Nectar Data. Took payment success rates from 94.3% to 97.9%. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

Experience

1. CTO

   Dec 2024 - Present
   Nectar Data · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Took payment success rates from 93.6% to 97.7%.
   • Shipped 30 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
   • Led the migration of 63 services to PostgreSQL.
2. Staff Backend Engineer

   Dec 2021 - Dec 2024
   Airtel · 3 yr · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Senior Backend Engineer

   Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
   Visa · 2 yr · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 38 a week to 3.
   • Moved 85% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Backend Engineer

   Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
   Razorpay · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 2.
   • Shipped 27 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
5. Senior Backend Engineer

   Jan 2016 - Jun 2018
   Persistent Systems · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 35% in two quarters.
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 346ms to 145ms.

Projects

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Education

1. Amity University

   B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
   2008 - 2012