Meera Pillai
meera@email.com | +91 98765 43210 | Bengaluru, India | github.com/meerap · linkedin.com/in/meerap · meerap.dev
Education
PES University
B.E., Computer Engineering
2015 – 2019 | CGPA 8.9
Links
- github.com/meerap
- linkedin.com/in/meerap
- meerap.dev
Skills
- Java
- Kotlin
- Go
- Spring Boot
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- gRPC
- AWS
- Terraform
Certifications
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Summary
Backend engineer with 5 years designing APIs and data pipelines in fintech. Owns services that move ₹900 crore a month.
Experience
Nimbus Payments | Senior Backend Engineer
2022 – Present | Bengaluru
- Designed the idempotent payouts API now handling 2M transfers a day with zero duplicate payouts.
- Moved settlement batch jobs to Kafka streams, cutting settlement delay from 6 hours to 15 minutes.
- Led 4 engineers through a zero-downtime Postgres 11→15 upgrade.
BrightCart | Backend Engineer
2019 – 2022 | Pune
- Built the order service in Spring Boot serving 1.2M monthly users.
- Introduced gRPC between 9 services, reducing p95 latency by 38%.
Projects
pgshard
Open-source Postgres sharding proxy used in production by 4 startups.
Talks
- “Idempotency at scale”, JSFoo 2024.
- “Kafka without tears”, Bangalore Java User Group, 2023.