Ranjith Kumar MV

Associate Architect · Platform & Data Engineering · Hyderabad, India

Summary

Associate Architect with 12+ years in software engineering, including 9+ years at Paysafe progressing from R&D Engineer to platform engineering lead and architect. Experienced in cloud platforms, microservices and data engineering in the payments industry, with a background in rapidly prototyping emerging technology such as blockchain and NLP.

Experience

Paysafe

Jul 2017 — Present · 9 yrs 4 mos

Hyderabad, India · Full-time

  1. Associate Architect

    Apr 2023 — Present

  2. Lead Platform Engineer

    Oct 2021 — Present

  3. Senior Platform Engineer

    May 2020 — Oct 2021

  4. R&D Engineer

    Jul 2017 — May 2020
    • Prototyped a remittance chatbot using NLP (Recast.AI) for intent classification, integrated with Facebook Messenger.
    • Delivered a proof of concept for infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation.
    • Evaluated blockchains including Hyperledger Fabric, Chain and Ethereum; built a cryptocurrency wallet on Stellar.
    • Worked on merchant linkage analysis using KeyLines and Dgraph graph analytics.

UMAI · Software Engineer

May 2017 — Jun 2017

SaaS platform for restaurant reservations. Built embeddable widgets for integration with third-party websites.

A Slice Of Digital · Software Engineer

Jan 2017 — Apr 2017

Migrated the company website from shared hosting to a VPS with zero downtime; load-tested sites with Locust and optimised performance; built a Candy Crush–style game in JavaScript.

Fromahome Technology · Software Developer

May 2015 — Dec 2016

Marketplace connecting home cooks with customers. Developed the backend and REST endpoints for web and mobile apps.

Adsonik Media · Full Stack Developer

Nov 2014 — May 2015

Portal for renting billboards directly from owners. Built the prototype website in PHP and MySQL.

Skills

Architecture
System design, microservices, distributed systems, REST APIs
Platform & cloud
AWS, CloudFormation, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, Docker, Git
Data
Data engineering, ETL pipelines, ELK Stack, Dgraph, analytics
Languages
Go, Node.js, JavaScript, HTML, Angular
Emerging tech
Blockchain (Stellar, Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum), NLP chatbots

Education

Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University

Aug 2011 — May 2015

Bachelor of Engineering — Electronics and Communication

Interests

Stock market analytics and algorithmic trading, AI, blockchain, travel.