About

Chirag Kansal is a highly skilled Software Engineer and Professional Mentor with over 10 years of relevant experience in the field. He has extensive knowledge of distributed system architecture, microservice-based platforms, and event-driven design models. Chirag has worked with the payment domain and has contributed to transaction management product systems, merchant settlement systems, and payment gateway end-to-end solutions. Chirag has exposure to various technologies such as Kafka, ElasticSearch, caching, load balancer, and rate limiting, which help in better system design solutions. He has also handled alerting, monitoring, and reconciliation of the transaction flow, which helps in fund loss or system challenging scenarios. Chirag has a good understanding of the end-to-end architecture of the system, including financial reporting, and has worked on the system of ant financial system. Currently, Chirag is rebuilding complex systems from scratch, such as the GST taxation system of India, and designing solutions for complex business problems. He has worked on complicated integration solutions and has good exposure to team handling of around six people. Task management, deliverables, and resource planning are part of his job role. Chirag has worked with several companies in the past, including Clear and Paytm. At Clear, he was an SDE 3 and was responsible for rebuilding the GST SaaS services from scratch for the use of CA's and enterprise clients. He also designed and built multiple platform services from scratch and handled complicated third-party integrations where latency is quite high. At Paytm, Chirag was a Technical Lead and handled a team of six people. He was involved in E2E delivery of multiple payment instruments like merchant gift vouchers, Paytm First rewards points, and advance deposit. Chirag has good exposure in designing solutions that can sustain for functional and non-functional requirements like scalability, reliability, and availability. Chirag has a B.Tech (Honors) degree from Uttar Pradesh Technical University and has completed his intermediate and 10th from TRM Public School and Tulsi Ram Maheshwari Public School, respectively. He has a strong tech stack, including Java, Microservices, MongoDB, Spring Boot, Spring, AWS, MySQL, and Web. Currently, he is working as a Mentor at GeeksforGeeks, mentoring college students and working professionals in their career in solving project-related design queries and other technical queries.