Prasunna Soppa is a backend-focused SDE based in Bengaluru with five years of experience building payment systems at Juspay. He specializes in Rust-backed payment infrastructure, having improved maintainability by refactoring status handling to enums and expanded connector capabilities for PayPal (authorize, capture, void, refunds, syncs). At Juspay he progressed from intern to SDE, demonstrating rapid learning and ownership of API contract changes such as adding country and billing data for bank redirects. Comfortable in production payment flows, he blends pragmatic engineering with attention to API design and cross-connector consistency. His contributions to the open-source hyperswitch project show a commitment to reliable, affordable payments beyond company walls.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati
Class 12, PCM, Class 12, PCM at Narayana Junior College - India
An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:444 reviews, 18 commits, 107 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Prasunna primarily focused on back-end development within the open-source payments switch project. Their work involved refactoring code to use enums instead of strings for statuses within the Adyen connector, enhancing code maintainability. Additionally, the user contributed to the PayPal connector by adding authorize, capture, void, psync, refund, and rsync functionalities. Moreover, the user modified the API contract to incorporate country and billing details to bank redirect functionality, demonstrating attention to API specifications.
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Prasunna Soppa - Associate Software Development Engineer