Summary
Sushant Athley is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience delivering scalable systems and leading cross-functional teams in high-pressure environments. He is currently shaping Reddit’s Payments Platform Infrastructure, focusing on reliability and performance for high-volume transactions. At Uber, he was a Senior Software Engineer on the Earner Experience team and served as a Bar Raiser interviewer, underscoring technical excellence and mentorship. His background spans Uber Freight’s pricing engine and Wayfair’s Ocean Integrations, where he led cross-domain initiatives connecting in-house systems with third-party partners. Earlier in his career, he built data-centric platforms at Videology handling billions of data points across multiple databases, and contributed to mobile-backend platforms at Appacitive. Based in San Francisco, he holds an MS in Computer Science from UMBC and a BE in IT from Pune, merging strong academic foundations with hands-on production impact.
11 years of coding experience