Sample profilesStaff backend engineeringIndia and global

Backend engineers with identifiable systems responsibility

Streaming storage, payment platforms, infrastructure migrations and database design call for different kinds of technical depth. These profiles focus on the systems involved and the contribution that public engineering work can support.

3
India
2
USA and Canada
1
Europe and UK
1
Australia
Experience areas
Event streaming · Payments · Platform infrastructure · Databases
Regional coverage
3 India · 2 USA and Canada · 1 Europe and UK · 1 Australia

Illustrative profiles based on publicly documented professional work. Inclusion does not indicate availability or representation by Talhive.

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Profile BE-01 Senior staff engineer, streaming infrastructure India

Coauthored the engineering account of tiered storage for a global mobility platform

20+ yrs
Experience
Companies
Enterprise middleware, big data platformsnow a global mobility platform
Current work
Senior staff engineer, streaming infrastructure
Location
India
Selected work

A global ride hailing platform operating large distributed data systems. His public technical record is closely connected to event streaming and open source infrastructure.

  • Named coauthor of a company engineering article on Kafka tiered storage.
  • The architecture separates storage layers so that keeping more event history need not require the same local broker storage footprint.
  • His public open source record adds inspectable project activity to the company engineering account.
10 yrs
at an enterprise middleware provider
7 yrs
at the mobility platform
6
streaming conference talks
Education
IIT KharagpurBachelor's and master's degrees
Career path
A global mobility platform · Senior Staff Engineer, streaming
2019 to present
A big data platform company · Staff, then Principal Engineer
2015 to 2019
An enterprise middleware provider · Senior engineer to principal member of technical staff
2005 to 2015
An Indian software products company · Senior Development Engineer
2003 to 2005
Career context

His professional and open source profiles identify senior staff engineering experience and participation in established streaming projects.

Relevant hiring mandate

A platform team evolving event streaming storage, retention and operational architecture.

Profile BE-02 Principal engineer, payments and developer platforms India

A principal engineering record supported by public writing on databases and system design

11yrs
Experience
Companies
Healthcare, a global marketplace, education technologya global cloud platform, own startup, now payments
Current work
Principal engineer, payments and developer platforms
Location
India
Selected work

An Indian payments infrastructure company, with earlier experience at a global consumer technology company and an online education business.

  • His professional record names work across an agent platform, customer data and developer experience.
  • His technical writing examines databases, distributed systems and architecture, making the reasoning behind technical choices visible.
  • The combination of a principal role and a sustained technical publication record provides a basis for assessing platform judgment beyond a list of technologies.
10.8K
GitHub stars on the database he created
145,000
readers of his engineering newsletter
210K+
subscribers to his systems engineering channel
Education
IIIT HyderabadMTech, Computer Science
College of Engineering PuneBTech, Information Technology
Career path
Own startup, then a payments company · Cofounder, then Principal Engineer II
2024 to present
A global cloud platform · Staff engineer, managed data services
2022 to 2024
An education technology company · Director of Engineering
2018 to 2022
A global marketplace · Software development engineer II
2016 to 2018
A healthcare platform · Senior software engineer, platform
2015 to 2016
Career context

His professional site identifies principal engineering work in Bengaluru and describes responsibilities spanning merchant and developer experiences.

Relevant hiring mandate

A payments or developer platform business hiring for architecture across several systems and product teams.

Profile BE-03 Staff engineer and technical lead, data infrastructure India

Named contributor to a streaming storage architecture at a global ride hailing platform

14yrs
Self-reported experience
Companies
A global ride hailing and delivery business
Current work
Staff engineer and technical lead, streaming
Location
India
Selected work

A global mobility business with substantial event streaming infrastructure. His public professional profile places him in India and identifies staff engineering and technical leadership.

  • Coauthored the company's Kafka tiered storage engineering account.
  • The article explains separating longer term event retention from the storage attached to active brokers.
  • The technical account gives a concrete basis for discussing storage architecture, operational trade offs and infrastructure cost.
1
of the largest streaming deployments in the industry, led from India
3.6
the open source release listing him as a contributor
14 yrs
of experience, self-reported
Education
IIT KharagpurBTech, Computer Science and Engineering, 2006 to 2010
Career path
A global mobility platform · Staff Software Engineer, streaming team lead
2022 to present
Career context

His education record identifies IIT Kharagpur, BTech in Computer Science and Engineering. The company engineering publication supplies a concrete technical contribution alongside the current role.

Relevant hiring mandate

A data infrastructure team hiring for streaming architecture and technical leadership within a shared platform.

Profile BE-04 Principal backend engineer USA

Principal engineering experience across developer platforms and financial technology

18yrs
Experience
Companies
A global software company, an early startupcontent collaboration, feature delivery, now fintech
Current work
Principal software engineer
Location
USA
Selected work

A US financial technology company, following experience in feature management, software delivery and enterprise content platforms.

  • Her public technical record includes writing and speaking about software architecture and dependencies.
  • Her earlier employer author page connects her directly to published engineering material at a developer tooling business.
  • Worked through an engineering organisation's growth from around 30 people to a few hundred over eight years, by her own account of that period.
8 yrs
at a content collaboration company, engineer to staff
30 to a few hundred
engineers in that organisation as it grew around her over eight years
7+
named conference talks on staff engineering careers
Career path
A fintech company · Principal Software Engineer
2025 to present
The acquiring company · Staff plus engineer
2024 to 2025
A feature delivery company · Senior staff, then principal engineer
2019 to 2024
A content collaboration company · Full stack engineer, manager, then staff engineer
2011 to 2019
An early stage startup · Engineer
2010 to 2011
A global software company · Software development engineer
2008 to 2009
Career context

Her public professional and conference biographies describe a backend engineering career and principal level work.

Relevant hiring mandate

A backend organisation seeking a principal engineer who can reason across service boundaries and explain architectural decisions.

Profile BE-05 Principal engineer, platform infrastructure UK

A public CV describing live infrastructure migrations above one million requests per second

16yrs
Experience
Companies
Cloud hosting, a transit navigation appnow a digital bank, eight years
Current work
Principal engineer, platform, infrastructure and data
Location
UK
Selected work

A UK digital bank, with earlier backend leadership at a journey planning app. His documented scope spans platform infrastructure and data systems.

  • His CV describes infrastructure migrations performed without downtime at more than one million requests per second.
  • The same record identifies work on core libraries and difficult correctness issues involving distributed infrastructure.
  • Technical scope includes Kubernetes, etcd and Cassandra alongside cloud infrastructure, architecture and mentoring.
15M
customers on the platform he helps run
3,500+
microservices in production
1M
requests a second sustained during live database migrations
Education
University of BirminghamBSc, Computer Science, First Class Honours
Career path
A digital bank · Principal Engineer, platform, infrastructure and data
2018 to present
A transit navigation app · Lead software engineer
2014 to 2018
A cloud hosting company · Software engineer, web and mobile
2010 to 2014
Career context

His public CV records joining the digital bank in 2018 after leading backend engineering at the transport app; he holds a computer science degree from the University of Birmingham.

Relevant hiring mandate

A digital bank or high traffic platform carrying out infrastructure changes while preserving service continuity.

Profile BE-06 Database founder with principal infrastructure experience Canada

Moved from large commerce infrastructure to building a vector database company

13yrs
Experience
Companies
A Danish support software startupa commerce platform for eight years, now his own database company
Current work
Cofounder and chief executive, database company
Location
Canada
Selected work

A Canadian database startup, following infrastructure work at a global commerce platform. His professional site places him in Ottawa.

  • His professional account describes working through a substantial increase in the commerce platform's request traffic.
  • A firsthand technical interview explains the database company's use of object storage and the resulting cost and architecture tradeoffs.
  • The profile connects operational infrastructure experience with building a specialised data product.
1,000 to 1M
requests a second, the scaling arc he worked through over eight years
1T+
documents hosted on the database he cofounded
~1,200
customers on that product
Education
Self-taughtNo formal degree; international informatics olympiad competitor
Career path
Own database company · Cofounder and chief executive
2023 to present
Short engagements at several startups · Engineer
2021 to 2023
A commerce platform · Intern at eighteen, to principal engineer and infrastructure leadership
2013 to 2021
A Danish support software startup · Engineer, during secondary school
2010 to 2013
Career context

His own career account records eight years at the commerce platform in principal engineering and infrastructure leadership roles before cofounding the database business in 2023.

Relevant hiring mandate

A database or infrastructure business seeking deep storage judgment and experience operating a growing platform.

Profile BE-07 Staff backend and protocol engineer Australia

Distributed protocol engineering, low latency Java and the test infrastructure behind an exchange

Since 2000
Professional software roles documented
Companies
Software research, enterprise editing software, a financial exchangeprotocol development, now blockchain scaling infrastructure
Current work
Staff protocol engineer, distributed systems
Location
Australia
Selected work

A blockchain scaling infrastructure business in Brisbane, following protocol development and low latency work at a financial exchange.

  • Helped develop an execution client and built a team to take a consensus client from research into production.
  • Earlier exchange work included tooling to distribute more than 20,000 acceptance tests across servers.
  • His published CV documents the career, the education and the test infrastructure work, which gives a reviewer specific material to examine.
20,000+
acceptance tests distributed across servers in his exchange test tooling
2
blockchain clients worked on: an execution client and a consensus client
Education
Griffith UniversityBachelor of Information Technology with Advanced Studies, 1999 to 2001; computing science and artificial intelligence
Career path
A blockchain scaling infrastructure business · Staff protocol engineer
2023 to present
A protocol development business · Senior blockchain engineer
2018 to 2023
A financial exchange · Team lead and senior developer
2011 to 2018
An enterprise editing software provider · Engineering and technology leadership, including CTO
2002 to 2010
A software research organisation · Software engineer
2000 to 2002
Career context

His own published CV documents professional software roles from 2000, a 2012 return to Brisbane and the current staff protocol engineering role. The 2002 to 2010 period covers several roles at one employer, including a CTO period, rather than a single tenure.

Relevant hiring mandate

A backend team working on distributed protocols or low latency systems, where production testing has to scale with the codebase.

Compare the experience

Seven examples, side by side.

Each row links to the full example. Regions follow the coverage split described above.

ProfileRegionResponsibility
BE-01Senior staff engineer, streaming infrastructureIndiaSenior staff engineer, streaming infrastructure
BE-02Principal engineer, payments and developer platformsIndiaPrincipal engineer, payments and developer platforms
BE-03Staff engineer and technical lead, data infrastructureIndiaStaff engineer and technical lead, data infrastructure
BE-04Principal backend engineerUSAPrincipal backend engineer
BE-05Principal engineer, platform infrastructureUKPrincipal engineer, platform infrastructure
BE-06Database founder with principal infrastructure experienceCanadaDatabase founder with principal infrastructure experience
BE-07Staff backend and protocol engineerAustraliaStaff backend and protocol engineer
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