Hitesh Peswani
Senior Backend Engineer at PayPay India
Gurugram, Haryana, India
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Top SchoolHitesh Peswani is a Senior Backend Engineer with 9 years of experience building and operating high-traffic systems, most recently shaping core infrastructure at PayPay India after driving major backend programs at Blinkit (10M+ DAU). He specialises in Python and Go, Kafka pipelines, Postgres, Redis, and designing resilient microservices that prioritize low latency and operational simplicity. Hitesh has led multiple zero-downtime migrations and infra modernizations, reduced DB query latency by 40%, and cut authentication infra costs substantially while eliminating major reliability overheads. He routinely diagnoses and resolves complex production failures—from memory leaks and ingress outages to Celery and async-job bottlenecks—while improving developer productivity through canaries and golden metrics. Beyond reliability work, he has shipped revenue-driving features like sponsored ads rails and fraud-preventing OTP delivery, showing an ability to balance technical depth with clear business impact. Based in Gurugram, he enjoys tackling hard systems problems and driving cross-team execution that materially improves customer experience.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Jaypee Institute Of Information Technology
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Github Skills (36)
utility7
desktop-application6
imdb5
javascript4
utilities4
windows4
desktop4
cmd4
earth3
crawler3
cli3
electron3
realms3
linux3
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hit-11/imdbCrawler
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 days
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