Pratik Kanani

Backend engineer with 8 years of experience, 4+ years of deep production depth in C#/.NET, currently leading an 8-person engineering team as engineering SPOC for a regulated, high-volume payments platform processing ~100K transactions/month at ~99% availability. Strong distributed-systems and architecture track record — redesigned a payment integration platform around a provider-agnostic adapter architecture after an initial approach proved unstable in production. Hands-on production experience across Java, Python, and Node.js alongside primary C#/.NET depth.

Genuinely AI-forward in practice: designed and shipped an MCP server integrating LLM-callable tools into production operations with a full security guardrail layer. Comfortable owning architecture end-to-end, mentoring engineers, and working within regulated, compliance-driven environments where correctness and auditability are non-negotiable.

Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead) - Aurionpro Solutions - Mumbai, India

(2022-01)

• Engineering SPOC, regulated payments platform: Own a bill-payment platform end-to-end — architecture, regulatory compliance, and production operation — while leading a team of 8 engineers (5 backend, 3 frontend).
• Architecture under real constraints: Designed a provider-agnostic adapter architecture after an initial integration proved unstable in production, eliminating a single point of failure. The platform now supports 22,000+ billers, ~100K transactions/month, and ~99% availability.
• AI-enabled platform work: Designed, built, and deployed an MCP server giving AI/LLM clients the ability to trigger production workflows, with a full authentication and audit-logging guardrail layer.
• Deep production debugging: Root-caused and fixed a thread-pool starvation deadlock and a cache-stampede failure, both requiring reasoning below the application layer under live production pressure.
• Compliance & audit workflows: Built audit-trailed dispute-management systems aligned with RBI Ombudsman guidelines, and automated reconciliation pipelines ensuring settlement accuracy across distributed systems.
• Cloud-native delivery: Owned the migration of production services from AWS Lambda to containerized ECS Fargate, including CI/CD pipeline setup and full technical documentation.
• Mentorship: Introduced SDLC practices and code review standards still in use; mentor engineers as team scope has grown.

Full-Stack Developer (Freelance / Contract) - Multiple Clients

(2017-01 - 2022-12)

• Delivered backend systems using Java, Python, and .NET Core across e-commerce and services clients, building a consistent track record of ramping quickly on new languages and stacks.

Diploma in Programming - Programming - Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras)

BS Data Science & Application - Data Science & Application - Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras)