Sanchith Hegde is a backend-focused software engineer with 9 years of experience, currently a founding engineer on the open-source Hyperswitch payments project and a Software Development Engineer 2 at Juspay in Bengaluru. He builds high-performance server-side systems in Rust and Python, and pairs that with DevOps and CI expertise to keep integrations and builds reliable at scale. Comfortable across the stack, he also crafts native Android experiences in Kotlin, blending low-latency backend thinking with polished client work. Notably, he has contributed to the widely used diesel ORM by improving its CLI and schema tooling, showing a strong attention to developer ergonomics and tooling robustness. His background spans rapid startup shipping and infrastructure hardening, making him adept at turning complex payment and build problems into maintainable, production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engg., MYSORE
An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:91 releases, 4116 reviews, 98 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sanchith primarily focused on improving the project's build processes and resolving integration issues, with emphasis on ensuring the proper functioning of the continuous integration builds. Contributions involved fixing failing CI builds and incorporating a build script for gathering environment information, indicating work on both back-end code and DevOps aspects. The user's code changes also touched upon core functionalities, such as the addition of a version number display and modification to data models.
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 1 PR in 19 days
Contributions summary:Sanchith primarily contributed to the `diesel-rs/diesel` repository by adding functionality to the diesel CLI tool. Their commits focused on enhancing the CLI, specifically implementing a configuration option for custom type derives within the schema printing functionality. This involved modifying code related to schema generation and SQL type definitions. Additionally, the user fixed tests and addressed clippy lints within the CLI tool's codebase.
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Sanchith Hegde - Software Development Engineer 2 at JUSPAY