Sameep Aher
Backend engineer with experience building scalable financial infrastructure, distributed backend systems, and high-throughput data processing platforms
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Backend engineer with experience building scalable financial infrastructure, distributed backend systems, and high-throughput data processing platforms. Built large-scale reconciliation platforms, ETL pipelines, and event-driven backend infrastructure using Golang, Python, Spark, and Airflow.
Experience
Software Engineer at Coinbase (Jun 2025 – May 2026)
- Architected distributed reconciliation infrastructure and ETL pipelines supporting multi-source financial data ingestion using Golang, Python, Apache Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, and Databricks, reducing reconciliation processing timelines by multiple weeks.
- Led reconciliation correctness and data quality initiatives across distributed financial microservices processing millions of high-volume fiat transaction records daily, significantly improving reconciliation match rates and reducing manual month-end accounting overhead for Finance and Accounting teams.
- Engineered backend finance review automation infrastructure for new payment rail launches and external vendor integrations, reducing validation and finance review turnaround time from multiple weeks to 1–2 weeks and individual review workflows from multiple days to 20–25 minutes through scalable validation workflows, optimized search systems, and low-latency backend processing.
- Improved operational reliability and fault tolerance of distributed ETL and reconciliation systems through observability tooling, automated backfill workflows, production monitoring, and failure recovery mechanisms across event-driven services.
Software Engineer Intern at Coinbase (May 2024 – Aug 2024)
- Built and deployed a Golang microservice integrating the ID3 identity verification vendor into Coinbase's regulatory onboarding platform, improving onboarding scalability and automation.
- Led internal service migration initiatives that improved scalability, maintainability, and operational reliability across multiple backend services.
Open Source Contributor at Zulip (Nov 2022 – May 2023)
- Contributed search bar and compose box improvements to Zulip's large-scale open-source collaboration platform through production-level code review and release workflows.
Education
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow (Dec 2021 – Jun 2025) - Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
