Engineering Leader · Airtel Digital

GauravSharma

I build low-latency systems that move money — and lead the teams that ship them.

13+ years across fintech & banking. Real-time trading risk engines, payment rails, and a production lending platform launched in 5 months. Java · Spring Boot · Kafka · Redis · AWS.

Gaurav Sharma
13+ years
<10ms latency
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Years of engineering
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Trades validated / day
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Engineers led
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Fintech & banking orgs
About

I turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into resilient systems — and ambiguous teams into ones that ship.

At Airtel Digital I lead the end-to-end build of Airtel Money's NBFC Loan Origination System — concept to production in five months with a 20-person team. At Upstox I designed an in-house risk engine validating 6M+ trades a day and a square-off system that lifted annual revenue.

My work lives where latency, correctness, and uptime are non-negotiable: real-time trading, payments, and credit. I care about clean architecture, sharp system design, and growing the engineers around me.

NowEngineering Leader, Airtel Digital
BasedGurugram / Mumbai, India
FocusDistributed systems · Fintech · Leadership
EducationB.Tech (Hons), Information Technology
01 — Experience

Where I've made an impact

Thirteen years owning systems end to end — from global investment banks to high-growth fintech.

Now
2025
Engineering LeaderAirtel DigitalGurugram

Leading the end-to-end build of Airtel Money's NBFC Loan Origination System with a 20-member engineering & QA team — a production-ready lending platform delivered from concept to launch in just 5 months.

Lending / NBFCTeam LeadershipMicroservices
2023
2025
Engineering ManagerUpstoxMumbai

Led 5 engineers to build an in-house Risk Management System with a scalable rule engine — real-time validation of 6M+ trades/day. Shipped a live-editable Risk Admin UI, a priority-based Square-Off System (+10% revenue), and a market price protection rule (+20% revenue). Drove architecture that cut response times 70% to <10ms.

Risk EngineLow-latencyKafkaKubernetesSystem Design
2018
2023
Technical Team LeadFirstRand ServicesMumbai

Led the Multi-Product Scoring Project for First National Bank (South Africa) and directed the RoFA initiative — scalable credit systems across Namibia, Botswana & more. Owned delivery end to end, cutting go-live cycles by 40%, while mentoring developers and driving hiring.

Credit ScoringBankingMentorshipEnd-to-end Ownership
2017 — 2018Senior Web Developer · Prometheus GroupERP microservices · Maxavera
2016 — 2017Senior Associate · Morgan StanleyPrime Brokerage ETL · "Make Whole Fee"
2015 — 2016Web Developer · JP Morgan ChaseVirtual card payments · Spring Batch
2013 — 2015Software Engineer · Tata Consultancy ServicesiNeo+ · ICICI Prudential
02 — Toolbox

The stack I build with

Languages & Frameworks

Java 21Spring BootSpring CloudSpring BatchSpring SecurityJPA / HibernategRPCWebSocketsOAuth2 / JWT

Messaging, Caching & Data

Apache KafkaRabbitMQRedisMySQLPostgreSQLMongoDB

Architecture & Design

MicroservicesSystem DesignEvent-DrivenDesign PatternsSOLIDAPI DesignDSA

Cloud, DevOps & Observability

AWSDockerKubernetesJenkinsArgoCDPrometheusGrafanaPagerDuty

Testing & Quality

JUnit5MockitoSonarQubeTDD / BDDLoad Testing

AI & Productivity

Generative AIPrompt EngineeringGitHub CopilotClaudeGit / Jira
03 — Beyond work

An arcade & trading tools I built for fun

Ten browser apps — pure HTML/CSS/JS, no frameworks, deployed live. Because good engineers never stop building.

Let's talk

Building something that
has to scale?

I'm always open to conversations on engineering leadership, distributed-systems architecture, and fintech platforms.