Hi, I'm Pranjal Goyal

Senior Software Engineer · Backend & Platform
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Pranjal Goyal
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What do I do?

I build and scale backend microservices and platform infrastructure across fintech and open source — distributed systems, REST APIs, and reliability tooling. I also share what I learn through technical blogs.

4+ Years of experience
55+ Merged PRs @ Camunda OSS
1M+ Users served at scale

More about me

I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 4+ years building and scaling backend systems across Camunda, AngelOne, Groww, and SuprDaily (Swiggy). I've worked on trading systems serving 1M+ active users and contributed 55+ merged PRs to the public camunda/camunda monorepo.

I enjoy tackling challenging backend problems — designing robust workflows, improving reliability, and building benchmarking and observability tooling that shortens engineering feedback loops.

Outside of work, I explore open source, write technical blogs, and enjoy table tennis and FPS games.

Skills & Tooling

The languages, frameworks, and infrastructure I reach for.

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Java Go (Golang) Python SQL

◈ Frameworks

Spring Boot Gin Django REST APIs

▦ Databases & Caching

MySQL PostgreSQL Redis Bigtable

⇄ Messaging & Workflow

Apache Kafka Camunda

☁ Cloud & DevOps

AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes CI/CD New Relic Grafana

✦ Core Areas

Distributed Systems Microservices System Design Platform Engineering High Availability Open Source

Work Experience

From e-learning platforms to trading systems and open-source infrastructure.

Senior Software Engineer

Camunda
Dec 2025 – Jun 2026 · Remote from India (HQ Berlin, Germany)
  • Led migration of a reliability platform to Java / Spring Boot, replacing rigid legacy configuration with parameterized setups — cutting load tests from multiple iterations per config change to a single run.
  • Built self-serve benchmarking workflows letting internal teams benchmark any PR against a release baseline, with agentic orchestration (Claude) automating results comparison — reducing engineering feedback loops by ~30% (internal DX survey).
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) for publishing versioned build artifacts across release branches, eliminating a manual publish step per release.
  • Designed benchmarking & observability solutions with platform engineering, improving incident detection and troubleshooting efficiency.
🌱 Open Source — camunda/camunda

55+ merged pull requests in the public monorepo spanning benchmarking, CI/CD, and reliability tooling.

All merged PRs → feat: quick benchmark for load-test metrics feat: reusable load-test metrics workflow fix: message completion handling in Worker
Java Spring Boot GitHub Actions Kubernetes Grafana

Software Engineer

AngelOne
May 2024 – Dec 2025 · Remote, India
  • Designed and implemented a high-availability account transfer flow in Golang, letting users close accounts and seamlessly transfer shares to demat partners — reducing manual-transfer complaints by ~90%.
  • Implemented SSE-C (customer-provided key) encryption across all AWS S3-backed services, strengthening data security and compliance posture.
  • Parallelized the online modification flow to support concurrent user requests, boosting overall conversion rate by 12%.
  • Built auto-retry mechanisms into Camunda workflows, increasing end-to-end success rate by 20%.
Go (Golang) PostgreSQL AWS S3 Camunda

Software Engineer

Groww
Jul 2022 – May 2024 · Bengaluru, India
  • Designed and shipped a Recent Activity service (Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis) powering Help & Support — improving support visibility by 25% and customer-service efficiency by 10%.
  • Architected database archival to Google Bigtable, reducing storage costs by ~15%.
  • Engineered an automated bank verification service, improving verification conversion rate from 82% to 94%.
Spring Boot Apache Kafka Redis Bigtable

Software Engineer Intern

SuprDaily (Swiggy)
Feb 2022 – Jun 2022 · Bengaluru, India
  • Reduced checkout API latency by ~30% by replacing legacy direct DB queries with a Redis caching layer (Python / Django).
  • Ran A/B tests on checkout-flow experiments, increasing conversion rate by ~13%.
  • Automated the nudge-creation workflow with Retool, cutting time-to-production for engagement campaigns.
Python Django Redis

Software Engineer Intern

Groww
May 2021 – Nov 2021 · Bengaluru, India
  • Built Groww Academy from the ground up — an e-learning platform serving 1M+ users — using Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, React, and REST APIs.
  • Implemented referral-eligibility checks preventing payouts to non-invested users, cutting referral spend by ₹500K monthly.
Spring Boot Kafka React

Blogs

I write about performance and reliability engineering on Zeebe Chaos.

Performance
Impact of High Process Deployments on Elasticsearch

A deep dive into how high process deployments affect Elasticsearch performance in Zeebe.

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Reliability
Performance of Platform without Secondary Storage

Exploring the performance characteristics of the Camunda platform when operating without secondary storage.

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Security
REST API and OIDC

A look at securing Camunda's REST API using OIDC-based authentication.

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Education & Achievements

Where it started, and a few milestones along the way.

🎓 Education

B.Tech, Computer Engineering

Pandit Deendayal Energy University

2018 – 2022 · CGPA 9.78 / 10

🏅 Achievements

  • All India Rank 2 out of 10,000+ participants — National Creativity Aptitude Test.
  • Community Prize (2nd place) as team lead — Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative (ADDI) Hackathon.
  • Top honors in the feedback category — Atlassian Devpost Hackathon.

Let's Connect

Have something to build or talk about? Drop me a message.

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