About

Tholkappiyan Velavan is a polyglot, startup enthusiast, and tech fanatic with 9.62 years of relevant experience. He is currently the Co-Founder and CTO of Togai, where he is building a usage-based pricing infrastructure. Tholkappiyan is also the brain behind Hypto, a payment processing platform that processed $30Bn payments in just two years. Tholkappiyan is a specialist in application performance tuning and has single-handedly scaled multiple SaaS products. He has reduced AWS infrastructure costs to 1/4th and has expertise in backend engineering, performance optimization, application security management, and internal tools. Tholkappiyan is also skilled in cloud infrastructure, root cause analysis, deployment, scaling, infrastructure cost reduction, and Chef recipes. Tholkappiyan's technical expertise includes Ruby on Rails, AWS, Docker, and Jenkins. He has also worked with data stores such as MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch, S3, and Redshift. Tholkappiyan holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from SSN College of Engineering, where he graduated in 2013. In the past, Tholkappiyan has worked as the Co-Founder and CTO of Hypto and as the Director of Engineering at Hypto. Tholkappiyan is a senior software engineer with a strong background in infra, AWS, backend, Ruby, Redis, Docker, MySQL, Elastic Search, Jenkins, and DevOps. He is passionate about building innovative solutions that solve real-world problems.