Associate Project Lead • Backend & Microservices Engineer

Building fast, reliable systems for real business outcomes.

I’m Chandrasekhar. I design and ship backend-heavy products focused on API performance, scalability, and clean user experience.

  • MicroservicesDomain-driven service architecture
  • Event-DrivenKafka-powered async integration
  • ReliabilityResilient APIs with clear observability

Experience

Focused work, measurable impact

Associate Project Lead

KFin Technologies • 04/2024 — Present

Leading Loan Against Mutual Fund (LAMF) dashboard and core API development, including pledge/un-pledge transaction workflows, live transaction tracking, and payout reporting dashboards. Also led Comms Dispatcher architecture for Kafka-based Email, SMS, and WhatsApp delivery with operational monitoring.

Promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Associate Project Lead based on delivery impact. Converted legacy .NET APIs to async Node.js services, reducing average response times from 30+ seconds to around 2 seconds, and improved reliability/throughput with optimized MS-SQL query design, validation pipelines, and MongoDB-based logging/caching.

Senior Software Engineer

KFin Technologies • 04/2024 — 04/2025

Built and upgraded LAMF APIs for pledge/un-pledge workflows, implemented high-performance asynchronous Node.js services, and improved core data handling with MS-SQL and MongoDB integration.

This performance and platform modernization work directly led to promotion into the Associate Project Lead role.

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra • 03/2021 — 12/2023 • Hyderabad

Worked across cross-functional teams on projects for Three UK Networks and Genentech, with end-to-end involvement in development, testing, debugging, and production quality improvements.

Developed and maintained applications using Python, JavaScript, and SQL, and collaborated with product managers/stakeholders to define scope, gather requirements, and deliver against timelines.

Software Engineer Intern

Tech Mahindra • 12/2020 — 03/2021 • Bengaluru

Supported engineering teams with implementation, QA assistance, and defect fixes across internal delivery streams, building strong fundamentals in enterprise software development and release practices.

Core Stack (Focused)

Node.js TypeScript Java Spring Boot Kafka MongoDB MS SQL React REST APIs Microservices

Featured Projects

Selected work

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Comms Dispatcher

Distributed communication platform built for high-volume delivery and tracking.

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Loan Against Mutual Fund (LAMF)

Developed and upgraded pledge/unpledge APIs with reliable transaction-state handling.

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