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Lead Backend & Platform Engineer / Former CTO & Co-Founder

Think like a founder.Build like an engineer.Care like a customer.

I build distributed systems with end-to-end ownership—from architecture and delivery to production recovery and customer impact.

Seeking remote Lead, Staff, or Principal roles in Backend and Platform Engineering. Based in Udaipur, India.

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40M+Events per dayChargebee · 60+ modules · 10+ teams
30×Faster webhooksChargebee · ~6s to 200ms
40×Faster deploymentsChargebee · ~2h to 3 min
200K+Registered usersGohiggs · founder-led scale
01 /Selected engineering work

Complex systems. Clear ownership. Measurable outcomes.

Platform, recovery, and product systems owned from architecture through production.

Case file 01 / Chargebee

A shared queue platform for teams and languages

Context. Teams needed a consistent way to work across SQS, SNS, and Kafka without coupling product modules to provider-specific details.

Ownership. Owned the architecture and evolution of a language-agnostic gRPC abstraction, including its adoption across the organization.

Design. Established a shared boundary over messaging infrastructure and automated queue provisioning through Terraform-based CI/CD.

Outcome

40M+ events per day across 60+ modules, 10+ teams, and 20+ engineers.

Conceptual architectureNot an exact internal design
Product modules60+ producers & consumers
Queue frameworkLanguage-agnostic gRPC boundary
SQS
SNS
Kafka
Terraform CI/CD · automated provisioning & plan generation

Case file 02 / Chargebee

Recovery engineered around customer impact

Context. As the Platform team’s primary contact for major incidents, reliability decisions had direct consequences for customer workloads.

Ownership. Led incident recovery, identified Lambda concurrency constraints, and drove the resulting ECS redesign.

Design. Architected a cross-shard, cross-region Job Recovery Platform to strengthen recovery across distributed workloads.

Outcome

Restored queue, job, and webhook workloads within approximately 3 hours during a major AWS disruption.

Case file 03 / Gohiggs

Founder-level ownership, engineer-level depth

Context. Building a real-time social platform required product judgment, technical delivery, and operational ownership to move together.

Ownership. As CTO & Co-Founder, owned AWS architecture and core backend systems end to end.

Design. Built self-managed live-streaming infrastructure supporting approximately 500 concurrent viewers and introduced on-device computer vision using TensorFlow Lite.

Outcome

Scaled to 200K+ registered users, helped secure ₹10 million in funding, and led a 10-engineer team.

Case file 04 / Kadel Labs

OkayGo’s backend foundation

Context. The workforce platform needed a cohesive technical foundation spanning matching, APIs, and deployment.

Ownership. Architected the end-to-end backend and established engineering standards.

Design. Defined APIs, domain boundaries, workforce matching, and deployment architecture.

Outcome

The OkayGo platform was later acquired by BetterPlace.

02 /How I work

Engineering judgment grounded in what happens next.

01 / METHOD

Customer impact

Own the incident, restore the workload, then redesign the constraint that caused it.

02 / METHOD

Systems thinking

Set durable abstraction boundaries across messaging, asynchronous workflows, and recovery architecture.

03 / METHOD

Engineering leadership

Write design documents, review deeply, and make sound decisions easier across teams.

400+ reviews · mentored 3–4 · advised 30+ engineers

04 / METHOD

Founder mindset

Connect product needs, delivery constraints, and technical decisions without losing hands-on depth.

03 /Experience

A decade of building, scaling, and leading.

Chargebee

Remote, India

Lead Software Engineer

Senior → Principal → Lead

Oct 2021 — Present

Novopay

Remote, India

Senior Software Engineer · Contract

Banking, payments & eKYC

Dec 2020 — Oct 2021

Kadel Labs

Udaipur, India

Principal Software Engineer

OkayGo platform architecture

Jun 2020 — Nov 2020

Gohiggs

Udaipur, India

CTO & Co-Founder

Product, platform & team ownership

Jul 2017 — May 2020

Deerghayu Lifestyle

Udaipur, India

Java Developer

SaaS clinical-data workflows

May 2016 — Jun 2017

04 /Technical expertise

From protocol to production.

Backend
Java · Go · Node.js · Spring Boot · REST · gRPC
Distributed systems
SQS · SNS · Kafka · asynchronous workflows
Cloud & infrastructure
AWS · ECS · EC2 · Lambda · Terraform · Docker · CI/CD
Data
RDS · DynamoDB · S3 · ClickHouse (proof of concept)
Observability
OpenTelemetry · CloudWatch · Datadog · Splunk · Grafana
Exploratory AI work
TensorFlow Lite (on-device) · vector databases, RAG & LangGraph (proof of concept)

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering · Rajasthan Technical University · 2016

05 /Contact

Hiring remotely? Let’s talk.

I’m looking for a remote backend or platform engineering role where I can own complex systems, solve customer problems, and help teams deliver.

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mehta.kapil25@gmail.comUdaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaAvailable worldwide, remotely