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Vishal Bhola

@vishalbhola07

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I build fault-tolerant payment systems and high-volume data pipelines that scale reliably.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build reliable, high-scale backend systems, especially payments, analytics, and event-driven data platforms, while contributing through design reviews, architecture, and mentorship.

At Glue Up, I build payment and analytics infrastructure that improves performance and reliability: I accelerated report generation 5–6x, achieved exactly-once payment execution for 4,000+ customer organizations, and cut P99 dashboard latency to under 200ms.

Previously at Sprinkle Data, I designed CDC and event-driven ingestion systems processing 5M+ records daily across enterprise integrations, built multi-tenant pipelines for BigQuery, Snowflake, and Redshift, and mentored seven junior engineers through architecture and code reviews. I enjoy design-doc-first development, durable distributed systems, and shipping measurable improvements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Backend Engineer

Current

Glue Up

Feb 2024 - Present (2 years 6 months)

Accelerated analytics report generation 5-6x by migrating high-volume read workloads to ClickHouse OLAP data warehouse. Increased recurring revenue 10% by re-architecting the subscription pricing engine and achieved exactly-once payment execution with zero duplicate charges.

Kotlin Spring Boot Clickhouse MySQL Redis ActiveMQ Liquibase REST APIs API Gateway Distributed Locking Event Driven Architecture AWS Docker Datadog Jenkins CI CD Agile Scrum Unit Testing Integration Testing

Senior Software Engineer

Sprinkle Data

Jan 2023 - Feb 2024 (1 year 1 month)

Raised code quality and onboarding speed by establishing CDC checkpoint test patterns and mentoring 7 junior engineers. Cut core API response latency 25% and reduced technical debt 20% by refactoring blocking calls to asynchronous execution and optimizing hot-path SQL queries.

Java Kafka MySQL MongoDB SQL Server CDC BigQuery Snowflake Redshift REST APIs Microservices Docker Jenkins CI CD Agile Scrum Unit Testing Integration Testing

Software Engineer

Sprinkle Data

Aug 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 6 months)

Ingested 5M+ records/day by designing an event-driven Change Data Capture (CDC) framework consuming MySQL binlogs, MongoDB change streams, and SQL Server CDC. Automated analytical data delivery for 20+ enterprise deployments by building multi-tenant sync pipelines into BigQuery, Snowflake, and Amazon Redshift.