Ananya Rao
Senior Product Engineer
[email protected]+91 98765 43210Bengaluru, Indiaananyarao.devlinkedin.com/in/ananya-rao-examplegithub.com/ananya-example
Summary
Product engineer with 7 years of experience building payments and checkout systems used by millions of people. I pair careful backend design with a habit of measuring what users actually do, and I enjoy mentoring engineers through their first large launches.
Experience
Senior Product EngineerApr 2021 – Present
Northwind PaymentsBengaluru
- Led a 5-person team that rebuilt UPI checkout, cutting median payment time from 14s to 6s and lifting completion by 9%.
- Designed an idempotent refunds service handling 2.3M requests a day with 99.99% availability.
- Introduced weekly funnel reviews with design and support, which shaped three of the year's top-five roadmap items.
- Mentored four engineers; two were promoted within 18 months.
Software EngineerJun 2018 – Mar 2021
BrightcartPune
- Built the order-tracking service and its public API, now used by 1,200 merchant integrations.
- Reduced cloud spend by ₹38 lakh a year by moving batch jobs to spot instances with safe retries.
- Shipped the first accessibility audit fixes, taking the storefront from 61 to 94 on Lighthouse.
Education
B.Tech in Computer EngineeringAug 2014 – May 2018
College of Engineering, PunePune
CGPA 8.7/10
Skills
LanguagesTypeScript, Go, Python, SQL
PlatformsPostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes
PracticesSystem design, API design, Observability, Mentoring
Projects
ledgerlint
github.com/ananya-example/ledgerlint
Open-source checker that flags unbalanced double-entry ledger migrations before they run.
Go · PostgreSQL
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Amazon Web Services (Sep 2022)
Languages
English (Fluent), Hindi (Fluent), Kannada (Native)
Awards
Engineering Excellence AwardMar 2023
Northwind Payments
For the checkout rebuild.