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Yashika Diya Nagpal

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VP of Engineering at Kestrel Works | ex-Goldman Sachs

Works at
Kestrel Works
Location
New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Experience
14+ years experience
Education
PSG College of Technology
Languages
English, Hindi
Co-founder
Message Connect

Overview

16 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Kestrel Works, where I lead the payments platform team. Moved 92% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Goldman Sachs and Mahindra Group. I teach a weekend class on PostgreSQL.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Questions about payments infrastructure
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Requests to fix your code for free

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Skills
PCI DSSGoPostgreSQLKafkaidempotency
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a commercial co-founder for insurance claims for LatAm marketplaces

The idea
Insurance claims for LatAm marketplaces
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
6 years in payments infrastructure
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
New Delhi or remote

I bring 16 years of payments infrastructure (currently Kestrel Works). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

New Delhi, Indiagoidempotencypostgresql
Open

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Kestrel Works · 11 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Moved 94% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the idempotency service that now handles 18 million requests a day.
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 602ms to 90ms.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2023 - Dec 2025
    Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 4 mo · Contract · New Delhi, India
    • Led or co-led 37 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Nov 2019 - Jul 2023
    Mahindra Group · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 889ms to 134ms.
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 4 million transactions a day.
  4. Senior Backend Engineer
    Mar 2016 - Nov 2019
    Samsung R&D · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Moved 69% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Aug 2012 - Mar 2016
    Accenture · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 62 million requests a day.
    • Moved 63% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from payments platform
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling payments infrastructure.

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Education

  1. PSG College of Technology
    B.E., Computer Science
    2006 - 2010

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