Summary
Vatsal Mehta is a Lead Software Engineer based in Mumbai with six years of experience building high-throughput payments and cloud systems. At HighLevel (an American unicorn), he leads the core Payments and Invoicing modules that handle over $1.3B in annual transactions, reflecting strong domain expertise in mission-critical finance infrastructure. Previously he drove payments engineering at Udaan, India’s largest B2B ecommerce unicorn, and has progressed rapidly through SDE-2 to lead roles in less than three years. He combines hands-on backend and cloud engineering with people leadership, mentoring high-performance teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems. Known for tackling high-stakes problems, he favors pragmatic architecture choices that prioritize resilience and observability. Outside of work he keeps a developer-first mindset informed by steady GitHub activity and a background in data and cloud engineering.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Engineering - BE Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computer Engineering - BE Software Engineering at A. P. Shah Institute of Technology, Thane
English, German, Japanese