About me
Backend engineer with six years on high-traffic Laravel products. I own billing correctness and queue reliability, and I like the unglamorous work of making a flaky system boring again.
Lately that has meant payments infrastructure — retries, reconciliation and the reporting that finance actually reads.
Selected projects
A curated selection of recent work showing design, development and problem-solving.
Skills & expertise
PHP
95%
Laravel
95%
MySQL
85%
Redis
85%
Livewire
85%
Alpine.js
60%
Docker
60%
AWS
60%
I make flaky systems boring — billing, queues and the parts nobody notices until they break.
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Payments & billing
Subscriptions, retries, reconciliation and the ledgers behind them — built to be audited.
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Queue & job reliability
Idempotent workers, dead-letter handling and dashboards that say what actually failed.
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API design
Partner-facing APIs with contract tests, versioning and documentation people can follow.
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Performance work
Finding the one query that costs four seconds, and the report that never needed it.
What clients say
Aarti rebuilt our settlement pipeline in a quarter and it has not paged anyone since. That is the whole review.
The rare engineer who writes the runbook before the incident. Our integrators noticed the difference within a month.
Clear, calm and honest about trade-offs. I would hire her again tomorrow.
Where I have worked
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Mar 2022 — Present
Senior Backend Engineer
Acme Payments · Remote
- Rebuilt the retry pipeline and cut failed settlements by 54%.
- Moved reporting exports onto a queue, taking p95 request time from 4.2s to 180ms.
- Mentored three engineers through their first on-call rotation.
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Jul 2020 — Feb 2022
Backend Engineer
Corepoint Systems · Pune
- Built the partner reporting API used by 40 integrators.
- Introduced contract tests that caught every breaking change before release.
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Aug 2019 — Jun 2020
Junior Developer
Nimbus Labs · Pune
- Shipped the customer portal that replaced a spreadsheet workflow.
Let us create something great
Have a payments problem, a queue that misbehaves, or a team that needs a steady pair of hands? I would love to hear about it.