About
Backend engineer with six years on high-traffic Laravel products. I own billing correctness and queue reliability, and I like the unglamorous work of making a flaky system boring again.
Lately that has meant payments infrastructure — retries, reconciliation and the reporting that finance actually reads.
Experience
Senior Backend Engineer
Mar 2022 — Present
Acme Payments
- Rebuilt the retry pipeline and cut failed settlements by 54%.
- Moved reporting exports onto a queue, taking p95 request time from 4.2s to 180ms.
- Mentored three engineers through their first on-call rotation.
Backend Engineer
Jul 2020 — Feb 2022
Corepoint Systems
- Built the partner reporting API used by 40 integrators.
- Introduced contract tests that caught every breaking change before release.
Junior Developer
Aug 2019 — Jun 2020
Nimbus Labs
- Shipped the customer portal that replaced a spreadsheet workflow.
Projects
Open source
Ledgerline
Double-entry bookkeeping library with property-based tests covering every posting rule.
Product
Settle
A payments dashboard for finance teams: reconciliation, disputes and payouts on one screen.
API
Northwind Partner API
The partner reporting API used by 40 integrators, with contract tests on every endpoint.
Mobile
Tally
A small expense app built to learn Flutter — and to stop losing receipts.
Skills
Education
B.E. Computer Engineering
2015 — 2019
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Services
Payments & billing
Subscriptions, retries, reconciliation and the ledgers behind them — built to be audited.
Queue & job reliability
Idempotent workers, dead-letter handling and dashboards that say what actually failed.
API design
Partner-facing APIs with contract tests, versioning and documentation people can follow.
Performance work
Finding the one query that costs four seconds, and the report that never needed it.
Testimonials
“Aarti rebuilt our settlement pipeline in a quarter and it has not paged anyone since. That is the whole review.”
“The rare engineer who writes the runbook before the incident. Our integrators noticed the difference within a month.”
“Clear, calm and honest about trade-offs. I would hire her again tomorrow.”
Clients
Let us work together
Have a payments problem, a queue that misbehaves, or a team that needs a steady pair of hands? I would love to hear about it.