About

Rohit Laddha is a Technical Lead at PayU with over 7 years of experience in software development. He is an expert in backend development with a focus on usability, maintainability, and performance. He has a proven track record of building products from scratch, making fundamental architectural changes to make systems more robust and agile, and understanding complex systems. Currently, Rohit is leading a team at PayU to deliver high-quality products and maintain high team productivity. He has worked on several products from scratch and has made core architectural system changes that allowed cross-lender repeat loans, resulting in highly profitable products. He has also managed project discussions with stakeholders, helped product managers get system insights, reviewed PRD and design, estimated efforts, broken down tasks, onboarded teams, unblocked and guided them wherever required, and conducted code reviews to maintain high code quality. Rohit has also been responsible for team hiring, conducting interviews, hiring the best talents, and guiding teams to understand the interview process and conduct them. In his previous role as a Senior Software Developer at PayU, he designed and developed a distributed event bus using Kafka to share events across systems, developed repeat loan products for customers, and registered the NACH payment solution with YesBank as a provider. Before joining PayU, Rohit worked as a Software Engineer at BrowserStack, where he worked on scaling machine clean-up and running automated tests on remote devices using Appium. He has a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT). Rohit's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Backend, Redis, Ruby, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search, Kafka, Integration, Python, and MySQL. With 8.53 years of relevant experience, Rohit is a highly skilled technical lead with a proven track record of building and managing high-performing teams and delivering high-quality products.