About

Keshav Bathla is a Software Engineer at CoinSwitch, with over 2 years of relevant experience in the field. He is a curious learner and a kickass developer who specializes in Python and TypeScript. Keshav has a diverse skill set that includes Django, Linux, AWS, Flask, FastAPI, and many more. At CoinSwitch, Keshav is responsible for handling payments services, integrating multiple payment gateways, and ensuring that payment options are available 24*7 for over 15 million users. He has also refactored the old codebase and architectured it in a more scalable and maintainable way. Keshav has scaled existing systems that can handle millions of transactions per day and has secured the payments flow by fixing all bugs in day-to-day operations. He is currently working on multiple payment options like UPI, NetBanking, VA Transfer, and many more. Prior to CoinSwitch, Keshav worked as a Software Engineer at Grofers, where he fixed existing and new upcoming bugs on the Grofers app and implemented new features like Instant Replacement for FNV items. He also migrated Grofers Tech Dept from Legacy service to new Product Discovery Microservices and scaled the new service to more than 20 million users while improving the performance of existing endpoints by removing bottlenecks. Keshav has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology. He is also a co-founder of GoCareers, a platform that helps students and professionals find their dream jobs. Keshav is proficient in Python, JavaScript, Go, and has experience with SQL, AWS, Flask, Django, Web3, Microservices, TypeScript, MongoDB, New Relic, ML, and Frontend development. He is an open-source engineer, a tech consultant, and a freelancer. Keshav has also won the AtlasHack 2020 and was a Google Summer of Code 2019 participant at Oppia.