Nishant Joshi
SDE 2 at JUSPAY
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNishant Joshi is an SDE-2 based in San Francisco with seven years of engineering experience and a strong focus on Rust and Python for building safe, high-performance backend systems. He has driven production-grade payment infrastructure work at Juspay, contributing notably to the open-source hyperswitch payments router—improving routing, scheduling, Redis interfaces, and database models for mandate management. Comfortable with AWS and Kubernetes, he specializes in precision-driven distributed systems for financial use cases where correctness and reliability matter most. A pragmatist influenced by functional programming and type theory, he blends rigorous engineering with a continuous-learning mindset and a knack for making complex systems maintainable.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 9.33/10, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 9.33/10 at Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering
Github Skills (11)
rust10
postgresql10
payment10
database-design10
api-design9
restful-api9
redis9
orchestration9
orchestra9
api9
apim9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
juspay/hyperswitch
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:4 releases, 621 reviews, 139 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nishant primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the payments switch, making changes to the router and scheduler components. They fixed a bug related to payment retrieval by altering the payload to use a query. Additional contributions involve adding a new column and implementing features related to mandate management within the database and storage system, demonstrating expertise in data modeling and database interactions. Furthermore, they refactored the Redis interface, separating its functionalities, which showcases a focus on maintainability and modular design.
financialpaymentsaffordableorchestrationrust
juspay/hyperswitch-card-vault
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Hyperswitch Card Vault is an open-source sensitive information storage system built on Rust.
Contributions:81 reviews, 65 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 4 months
financepostgresqlrustsecurity
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