About

Surendra Pratap is a Senior Technical Lead at Paytm with over 10 years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing server-side applications. He has worked on multiple projects at Sapient, developing applications from scratch and integrating them with other systems. At Paytm, he worked on the Payment Gateway project and scaled the system to handle over 2000 requests per second, 300+ transactions per second, and 7+ million transactions a day. He has expertise in scalability, performance, load balancing, fail-over, and in-memory caching concerns with Java applications. Surendra's specialties include design and development, service-oriented architecture, and R&D, engineering, and SDLCs using Agile and Scrum methodologies. His experience spans across domains such as Payment Gateway, NBFC, and Education. He is proficient in technologies such as Data Structure & Algorithms, Java/J2EE technologies like JDBC, Struts, Spring Framework, Redis Cache, RabbitMQ, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Apache Kafka, Web services (REST/SOAP), Ant, Maven, SVN, GIT, and AWS Cloud (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, API). Currently, Surendra is working as a Senior Associate Platform L1 at Publicis Sapient, where he is responsible for designing systems for integration with FCM and Adobe Campaign APIs. He has developed solutions for Android devices push notifications and email notifications, and he has also designed and developed backup/restore applications. In the past, he has worked at Paytm as a Senior Technical Lead and Senior Software Engineer, where he was responsible for designing and developing new features for the Payment Gateway product and managing and enhancing the transaction system, which sees over 7.5 million transactions daily. Surendra holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from IILM. He is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Selenium, MongoDB, Cassandra, Spring Boot, Jenkins, Microservices, Frontend, and Backend. With 11.29 years of relevant experience, Surendra is a seasoned professional with a deep understanding of the technical aspects of software development and implementation.