10+ Years Engineering Experience
Progressed from backend application development into Staff-level platform ownership, architecture and technical leadership across enterprise banking systems.
Staff Software Engineer · Technical Lead
Building reliable backend platforms at scale.
I'm Vaibhav Gupta, a Staff Software Engineer and Technical Lead focused on backend engineering, distributed systems, platform architecture and production reliability.
10+ Years
Engineering Experience
Platform
Backend Architecture
FinTech
Digital Banking
FOCUS
Backend · Platform · Architecture
ABOUT ME
Engineering systems that teams can depend on.
My work sits at the intersection of backend engineering, distributed systems, platform architecture and technical leadership.
Staff Software Engineer and Technical Lead with 10+ years of experience building cloud-native backend platforms for digital banking and SaaS products. Strong in Ruby on Rails, distributed systems, microservices, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes/OpenShift, authentication, workflow orchestration, background processing, API design, security remediation and production reliability.
I focus on building reusable foundations, simplifying complex systems, improving production reliability and enabling engineering teams to deliver confidently.
SELECTED IMPACT
Impact beyond individual services.
10+ Service Security Automation
Built vulnerability-remediation automation spanning more than 10 Ruby services, standardizing dependency remediation and enabling one-click merge-request generation.
Shared Platform Architecture
Led shared foundations spanning authentication, Keycloak versioning, notifications, audit logging, reusable libraries, Temporal workflows and background-job modernization.
EXPERIENCE
A decade of backend and platform engineering.
Jan 2026
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Present
Staff Software Development Engineer-I / Technical Lead
SBS (Formerly Sopra Banking Software)
Lead backend and platform engineering for a SaaS digital banking product, owning reusable foundations consumed across multiple Ruby on Rails services and engineering teams. Drive architecture for authentication and security capabilities including 2FA/Confirmable, Keycloak integration and versioning, shared libraries, notifications and audit logging. Led adoption of Temporal and migration from Delayed Job to Solid Queue. Own technical coordination for multi-service releases and mentor engineers on Rails architecture, Kubernetes, security and production support.
Jan 2024
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Dec 2025
Senior Software Development Engineer-II
SBS
Led backend initiatives for payments and accounts within an enterprise digital banking platform, coordinating design, implementation, releases and production support. Owned Kubernetes/OpenShift troubleshooting across configuration, probes, networking, storage integrations and service dependencies.
Jun 2022
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Dec 2023
Senior Software Development Engineer-I
SBS
Developed and supported Ruby on Rails microservices for digital banking using PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Keycloak, API Gateway, OpenAPI and K6, with focus on deployment stability and API integration.
Jan 2021
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Jun 2022
Senior Software Engineer
Cambiante Technologies Pvt Ltd
Built scalable Ruby on Rails microservice applications with ReactJS using testable, behavior-driven development practices.
Mar 2020
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Jan 2021
Senior Software Engineer
Jarvis Technology and Strategy Consulting
Developed Ruby on Rails and Angular applications including responsive web experiences and reusable authorization and communication integrations.
Dec 2016
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Mar 2020
Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineer
AppyFactor
Designed REST APIs and backend services for mobile and web clients and integrated Stripe, Paystack, SendGrid, Firebase, Twilio, Paytm and Razorpay. Delivered applications using Ruby on Rails, PHP/Laravel, Angular, VueJS and Swift.
SELECTED ENGINEERING WORK
Platforms, foundations and architecture.
Selected engineering initiatives involving backend systems, platform infrastructure, security, orchestration and production delivery.
Digital Banking Platform
Backend and platform engineering for enterprise digital banking services with emphasis on reusable architecture, production reliability and secure delivery.
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Kubernetes
Microservices
Foundation & Workflow Platform
Shared platform foundations spanning authentication, Keycloak configuration management, notifications, audit logging, reusable libraries, Temporal orchestration and asynchronous processing.
Keycloak
Temporal
Solid Queue
Rails
RabbitMQ
Security Remediation Automation
Automation for identifying and remediating vulnerable dependencies across more than 10 Ruby services while generating remediation merge requests with minimal manual effort.
Ruby
GitLab CI/CD
Security Automation
Payments & Accounts Platform
Backend engineering across payments and account services with responsibility spanning architecture, implementation, releases, integrations and production troubleshooting.
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
REST APIs
Kubernetes
CORE EXPERTISE
Technologies supporting the architecture.
Backend & Architecture
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
System Design
Microservices
Distributed Systems
REST APIs
OpenAPI
API Gateway
Cloud & Platform
Kubernetes
OpenShift / ROSA
Docker
Helm
AWS
GitLab CI/CD
K6
Data & Messaging
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
S3
MinIO
Identity & Security
Keycloak
OAuth2
2FA
Vulnerability Remediation
Audit Logging
Workflow & Processing
Temporal
Solid Queue
Delayed Job
EDUCATION
Academic foundation.
Bachelor of Technology
Computer Science Engineering
Guru Premsukh Memorial College of Engineering
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU)
2016
LET'S CONNECT
Interested in building reliable systems?
Let's talk about backend architecture, distributed systems, platform engineering or technical leadership.