Simranjit Basra

Overview

I've spent 14 years on payments infrastructure - first at Tech Mahindra, now at Wren Mobility. Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: BigBasket and Mahindra Group. Most at home with distributed systems and Go. I read too many books about cities.

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Experience

1. Staff Backend Engineer

   Oct 2022 - Present
   Wren Mobility · 4 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 5 million transactions a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 470ms to 147ms.
   • Grew the payments platform team from 6 to 22 engineers.
2. Senior Backend Engineer

   Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
   BigBasket · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 4.
3. Engineering Manager

   Jul 2018 - Feb 2021
   Mahindra Group · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Wrote the idempotency service that now handles 43 million requests a day.
   • Led the migration of 43 services to Java.
4. Backend Engineer

   Mar 2015 - Jul 2018
   PwC · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Shipped 27 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 34 a week to 4.
5. Backend Engineer

   Oct 2012 - Mar 2015
   Tech Mahindra · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 30% in two quarters.
   • Wrote the Java service that now handles 27 million requests a day.

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Education

1. IIM Bangalore

   MBA, Business Administration
   2013 - 2015
2. Srishti Manipal Institute

   B.Des, Electrical Engineering
   2007 - 2011