Devesh S
Senior Software Engineer at PayU
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolDevesh S is a Senior Software Engineer and acting Tech Lead based in Bengaluru with 10 years of experience building and scaling fintech systems, currently leading personal lending services at PayU. He combines hands-on expertise in Java, Python, Spring Boot and cloud-native deployments with practical experience in PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis and Kubernetes to deliver measurable business outcomes—such as reducing assessment times from days to hours and cutting costs via a phased Python-to-Java migration. A pragmatic leader and mentor, he drives high Say-Do ratios, sprint discipline and developer growth while championing best practices like blue-green deployments and parallel processing to improve latency and deployment speed. His background includes systems and test automation work at Tesla and VMware, and open-source contributions to critical Python tooling such as pip and Twine where he improved test coverage and reliability. Comfortable bridging ML risk models, audit requirements and production engineering, he has a track record of increasing disbursals 5x and automating large-scale assessments for hundreds of thousands of users. Trained at IIT Kanpur and Purdue, he blends strong academic foundations with a bias for measurable engineering impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate PCM, Intermediate PCM at Maharshi Patanjali Vidya MandirIndian Institute of Technology KanpurMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Purdue University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
packaging10
pip10
mousewheel10
pypi10
pytest10
python10
wheels10
package10
scroll-wheel10
testing10
documentation8
git6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/pip
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
The Python package installer
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:178 commits, 80 PRs, 925 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Devesh primarily contributed to the Python package installer, specifically focusing on improving and maintaining its core functionality. Their work included adding a "What Next" page to the getting started guide, fixing a bug related to uninstallation, refining the author list, adding and modifying test cases, clarifying freeze use, raising an exception for empty revisions, and removing outdated git URLs. They also addressed code quality and documentation concerns by clarifying some URLs and changing the value error to installation error.
pythonpackage-installerpippackaginginstaller
pypa/twine
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Utilities for interacting with PyPI
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 commits, 21 PRs, 160 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Devesh primarily contributed to the project by adding and improving unit tests. They wrote tests for various modules, including `twine.utils`, `twine.wheel`, `twine.register`, and `twine.repository`, ensuring the software's reliability. Their work involved writing tests for different scenarios, including edge cases and error conditions, and they also refactored and updated existing tests to improve their effectiveness. Furthermore, the user focused on improving test coverage by adding tests for more code paths.
pythonpypipypi-packagepython-wheelwheel
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