Pravesh Karn

About Pravesh Karn

I am an Engineering Manager at Razorpay with over 10 years of experience architecting high-scale, low-latency backend systems and distributed architectures. I currently lead engineering pods (14+ engineers) focused on building the next generation of FinTech infrastructure, including high-throughput UPI systems that handle 40-50% of India\'s UPI payments.Throughout my career at PayPal, Upstox, and Envestnet Yodlee, I have specialized in transforming complex business requirements into robust technical roadmaps. I am particularly passionate about the intersection of distributed systems and Agentic AI, having recently launched intelligent onboarding systems and automated payment flows in partnership with OpenAI and NPCI.Core Impact & Leadership:* Scale: Managing systems with peak traffic of 400-500 TPS and achieving availability for critical payment operations.* AI Innovation: Built conversational agentic systems using Langraph Supervisor and GPT-4 to move toward zero-ops merchant onboarding.* Efficiency: Reduced developer dependency by launching internal AI mentor systems and optimized infrastructure costs across AWS and GCP.* Team Growth: Proven track record of mentoring high-performing teams, aligning engineering OKRs with business AOP, and driving agile transformations.Technical Expertise:* Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, GoLang, Python, GraphQL.* Cloud & Infra: AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda), GKE, Kubernetes, Docker.* Data & Messaging: DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, MySQL, Teradata, Aerospike.* Architecture: Microservices at scale, Event-Driven Design, and Cell Architecture.Let’s connect to discuss distributed systems, Agentic AI, or scaling engineering cultures. GitHub: https://github.com/karnpravesh

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Razorpay

   Jan 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Strategic Leadership: Managing a high-performance pod of 14+ engineers, aligning technical roadmaps with business AOP across Merchant Onboarding and UPI Payments.UPI Payments Scale: Overseeing P0 services handling 400–500 TPS and powering 40-50% of India\'s UPI P2B transactions with 99.99% availability.AI Innovation: Spearheaded \"Agentic Payment Orchestration\" using LangGraph and GPT-4, featured at GFF 2025. Reduced manual onboarding overhead by implementing autonomous compliance decisioning.https://youtu.be/jsZGLHDEDZI?si=Im5d9TWFFtBHZc9iInfrastructure: Designed Multi-Component Server (MCP) architectures in GoLang and Python, improving modularity and observability across platform services.

Education

• St. Joseph's Convent High School, Patna

  12th, Physics

  2009 — 2011

• DAV Schools Network

  10

  1997 — 2009

• Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science

  2011 — 2015

Skills

• C++
• C
• Programming Concepts
• Android Development
• Databases
• Photography
• Php
• Xml
• Html
• Css
• Team Building
• Teamwork
• Data Structures
• Java
• Python
• Programming
• Sql
• Microsoft Office
• Javascript
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)