Sanchit Sood

Software Development Engineer — reliable backends, data flows, and pragmatic product engineering.

Payments & Money Movement

Real-time rails (ACH, Cards), anywhere-to-anywhere transfers, idempotency, observability.

Distributed Systems

Pub/Sub, Kafka, eventing and streaming systems at scale.

Infra & Maps

AWS, Kubernetes, OpenStreetMaps; focus on operability and performance.

Experience

Greenlight Financial TechnologySoftware Engineer 2 (SDE3)

Aug 2023 – Present

Core Payments team; real-time money movement platform.

  • Designed anywhere-to-anywhere transfers across internal/external accounts with consistency and idempotency.
  • System handles 100K+ transactions daily; $800K+ daily throughput.
  • SME for U.S. rails (ACH, Debit Cards); led Canadian expansion (EFT, Interac).
  • Delivered cashback rewards and interest accrual for 2M+ users.
  • Leading payments runbook and incident response maturity improvements.

TATA 1MGSoftware Development Engineer 2

Jul 2021 – Aug 2023

Content & Search team (Python, Ruby on Rails).

  • Led content management system development and maintenance.
  • Cache improvements cut storage by 50% and enabled +0.5M Redis keys, reducing evictions.

OYE! RickshawSoftware Development Engineer

Aug 2020 – Jul 2021

Demand team; Spring and Python microservices.

  • Owned core booking functions; built ETA service with open-source stack.
  • Efficient storage for high-throughput locations using Kafka + MongoDB.

OYO RoomsSoftware Development Engineer Intern

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020

Global Finance team; Spring MVC microservices.

  • Built 8 CSV uploaders with validations for business adjustments.
  • Developed reconciliation calculator for specialized use case.

Skills

KotlinJavaSpring BootRuby on RailsPythonC++Pub/SubKafkaOpenStreetMapsAWSKubernetes

Education

B.E. Computer Engineering

2020

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology — Patiala

CBSE AISSCE

2015 — Tagore International Public School, Ludhiana

CBSE AISCE

2013 — B.C.M. School, Ludhiana

Links

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