Summary
Vatsal Rustagi is a backend-focused Software Development Engineer II based in San Francisco with 9 years of industry experience and a concentrated 2-year track record in fintech. He designs and ships microservice architectures using Kotlin and Java (Spring Boot), gRPC/REST, Kafka, and Postgres, and has integrated with payment and banking vendors like Visa DPS, Temenos, and TransUnion. At Varo he owned major features for a secured card product—building ISO-8583 transaction flows, test automation that improved regression coverage, and resolving production incidents with sub-5-hour MTTR. Now at Amazon, he continues to apply strong engineering discipline to scalable systems while mentoring distributed teams and improving delivery processes. A former iOS developer and CS tutor, he blends front-end empathy and teaching experience with backend rigor, which helps him anticipate edge cases and improve cross-functional collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Hindi, English