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ronil Merchant

@ronilmerchant

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Experienced backend architect building scalable systems and modernizing legacy platforms.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior backend or architecture roles where I can design scalable, reliable systems, modernise platforms, reduce costs, and mentor engineering teams.

I am an experienced and driven backend architect with a strong track record of building complex, scalable systems from scratch and modernizing legacy platforms. I deliver functional and non-functional requirements — including performance, reliability, and maintainability — through clean architecture, well-engineered solutions, collaboration and deep domain understanding.

My recent work includes architecting air supply systems, supply fulfilment, cache optimisation, and hotel extranet capabilities, leading capacity planning for high-traffic sales events, reducing GCP costs by ~25%, modernising Java stacks, and mentoring senior engineers to raise technical standards.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Architect

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Cleartrip

Jan 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Architect for air supply and hotels systems, re-architecting legacy platforms to improve observability and reduce losses while driving cache and capacity optimizations that supported 20x BAU scale and cut GCP costs ~25%.

Java GCP)Caching Observability Performance Optimization Microservices Capacity Planning

Product Engineer

Udaan

Jun 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Built B2C quick-commerce Pickily features including payments, refunds and pricing automation; developed pricing systems benchmarking competitors and enabling strategy-driven price updates.

Java Pricing Automation Payments Backend Development SQL Benchmarking E Commerce)APIs

Tech Lead

Bounce

Jun 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year)

Led consumer product initiatives including payments, pricing, billing and promotions; optimized platform reliability by resolving Redis pool exhaustion and migrated bike discovery to Redis Search to cut latency and DB load.

Java Redis Performance Tuning Microservices Postgres Payments Scalability

Senior Software Engineer

Practo

Oct 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years)

Revamped Elasticsearch autosuggest and built data pipeline services for aggregated analytics using AWS (Kinesis, SNS/SQS, S3, Redshift, Athena); developed backend APIs and optimized platform reliability for health content and medicine info.

Java Elasticsearch AWS Kinesis Redshift)Data Pipelines API Design Performance Optimization

Software Engineer

Aris Global

Jun 2013 - Jul 2015 (2 years 1 month)

Built pharmacovigilance and compliance applications in the healthcare domain using Spring and Hibernate, focusing on backend development and domain-driven requirements.