Swathi Haritha Shetty

Senior Backend Engineer at Brightline Solutions · REST, PostgreSQL

Brightline Solutions

Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

4+ years experience

IIT Roorkee

English, Hindi, Kannada

Open to work

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Overview

I've spent 4 years on API platforms - first at SAP, now at Brightline Solutions. Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 849ms to 100ms. Before that: KPMG and SAP. Most at home with Django and rate limiting.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

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DjangoRESTrate limitingPostgreSQL

Open to workLooking for a role

closes in 3 months

Staff Backend Engineer roles in fintech - Bengaluru or remote

Target roles: Staff Backend Engineer
Level: Staff / Principal
Industries: B2B SaaS, Healthtech
Work mode: Hybrid
Available: 60 days notice
Work authorization: Indian citizen
What I'm looking for: Scope to lead API platforms work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in: Night shifts

4 years in API platforms. Strongest at PostgreSQL and rate limiting. Serving notice now.

Bengaluru, Indiarate limitingpostgresqlrest

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Experience

Senior Backend Engineer
Mar 2026 - Present
Brightline Solutions · 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Shipped 17 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
- Led the migration of 45 services to REST.
- Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely.
Backend Engineer
Sep 2023 - Feb 2026
KPMG · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Reduced cloud spend on public API by 21% in two quarters.
Backend Engineer
Oct 2022 - Sep 2023
SAP · 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 8 million requests a day.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from public API

2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling API platforms.

Open-source rate limiting toolkit

2023

A small library for API platforms that 833 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

IIT Roorkee
B.Tech, Computer Science
2018 - 2022

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