Rishabh Nigam
@rishabhnigam
Backend software engineer at Vegapay who cut UPI settlement failures by 85% and builds distributed systems.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
At Vegapay, I engineered a multi-clearing settlement engine for UPI credit transactions, reducing failures by 85% and bringing reconciliation accuracy to 99.99%. I also designed fraud and risk rules for UPI credit line payments.
At Uolo.com, I delivered an assessment module supporting 15,000+ schools and 5.5 million-plus students. I also developed event-driven monitoring that cut manual log-checking effort by 90%.
On my AI SRE Agent project, I built an incident investigation system using LangGraph, Prometheus, Loki, and retrieval-augmented generation. I'm seeking to bring my distributed systems design and observability engineering expertise to a growth-stage backend engineering team.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Software Development Engineer 1
Vegapay
Dec 2025 - Present (10 months)
Engineered a multi-clearing settlement engine for UPI credit transactions, reducing failures by 85% and improving reconciliation accuracy to 99.99%. Architected a real-time fraud and risk rule engine and introduced PgBouncer, Kafka, Grafana, and Redis optimizations.
Software Development Engineer 1
Uolo.com
Mar 2025 - Nov 2025 (8 months)
Architected an event-driven monitoring system handling 10,000+ webhook events per day, automated sales returns management, and delivered a scalable exam conduction platform for 15,000+ schools. Conducted 150+ code reviews and mentored junior developers.
Associate Software Development Engineer
Uolo.com
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025 (8 months)
Streamlined sales order dispatch flow across Zoho CRM, AAJ SCM, Google Sheets, and PostgreSQL, reducing turnaround time by 90%. Implemented logistics automation with Apache Airflow and optimized internal Node.js services.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
ABES Engineering College
Bachelor of Technology, Engineering
2020 - 2024
Bachelor of Technology degree from ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India, from November 2020 to June 2024.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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