Sahkal Poddar
Backend Developer at juspay
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSahkal Poddar is a backend developer with 8 years of experience building reliable payment systems and scalable server-side services from Bengaluru. At Juspay he contributes to Hyperswitch, an open-source Rust payments switch, where he implemented Stripe compatibility features like mandates, metadata handling, straight-through routing, and richer card details in payment responses. His background in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering gives him strong algorithmic and systems foundations, which he applies to low-latency, high-throughput payment flows. He combines practical production engineering with open-source collaboration, focusing on interoperability and robustness in financial integrations. Known for improving router and intent handling logic, he brings both attention to protocol-level detail and a pragmatic delivery mindset.
8 years of coding experience
A++, A++ at delhi public school,siliguriBachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College
English, Hindi, Bengali
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Github Skills (12)
apim10
rust10
api10
payment-processing10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
payment10
restful-api10
stripe-api10
finance9
progressive-web-apps6
javascript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
juspay/hyperswitch
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 515 reviews, 123 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Sahkal was a back-end developer actively contributing to the stripe compatibility layer within the Hyperswitch repository. They implemented support for mandates in stripe compatibility, added metadata objects to payment and setup intent requests, integrated straight-through routing, and enhanced the payment response with additional card details. The user's work involved modifying files related to setup intents, payment intents, and the overall router to improve compatibility with Stripe.
financialpaymentsaffordableorchestrationrust
sahkal/Restaurant-Review-App
Sep 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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