Summary
Saarang Tiwari is a Head of Engineering and Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, observable backend systems and leading engineering teams from London. He specializes in high-performance Node.js and Java services, has introduced Go into production, and applies TDD alongside DevOps tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and ArgoCD to streamline delivery. At Costello Medical he migrated deployments to Kubernetes, implemented ELK-based observability, automated credential rotation and backups, and led initiatives to apply generative AI to internal workflows. Saarang has a strong fintech/crypto background from ZebPay and CoinDCX where he helped build trading platforms, mobile apps, and a socket server designed for millions of concurrent connections. He combines hands-on system design with hiring, training and documentation to scale teams and processes, and is actively expanding his skills in C++, Python and machine learning. Notably, he blends practical security and GDPR practices into architecture decisions rather than treating them as afterthoughts.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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