Mahipal Saran

Software Engineer @ Coinbase

About

Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience building distributed systems, streaming platforms, and financial infrastructure at Coinbase, Adobe, and Fidelity Investments.I specialize in event-driven architectures, Kafka/Spark-based streaming systems, backend platform engineering, and operational reliability at billion-event scale.At Coinbase, I worked on launch-critical reconciliation infrastructure, reusable streaming transformation platforms, and operational intelligence tooling powering large-scale financial workflows processing 1B+ events/day.Previously at Adobe, I built observability infrastructure and backend integrations for large-scale advertising systems.Core areas:• Distributed Systems• Streaming Infrastructure• Backend Platform Engineering• Financial Systems• Operational Reliability• Kafka / Spark / Databricks

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Scalability, Distributed Systems, Microservices, Platform Engineering, Go (Programming Language), Technical Vision, Systems Design, Oral Communication, Debugging, Communication, Clarity, Python, FastAPI, Java, Data Warehousing, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Wherescape Red

Experience

Software Engineer

Coinbase

2024-8 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Built large-scale distributed streaming and reconciliation infrastructure for financial systems at Coinbase, processing 1B+ events/day across 100+ pipelines, adopted across 20+ engineering teams. Led launch-critical backend infrastructure for Coinbase DEX rollout, focusing on real-time reconciliation, event processing, operational reliability. Core areas: • Distributed Stream Processing • Kafka / Spark / Databricks • Financial Reconciliation Systems • Backend Platform Engineering • Operational Reliability & Incident Detection

SDE 2

Adobe

2021-11 - 2024-8 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Banglore

As a Software Development Engineer II at Adobe since November 2021, I have: Enhanced Monitoring: Designed and implemented a comprehensive monitoring system using Prometheus and Alertmanager for core services, setting a new organizational standard. Led Performance Max Campaigns: Spearheaded the design, testing, and deployment of performance max campaigns support for Microsoft. Delivered Key APIs: Successfully delivered the Ad Conversions Download Service for MSN AdCenter ahead of schedule. Developed Conversion Adjustment Service : Led a team to create and deploy the Conversion Adjustment Service for Google AdWords and MSN AdCenter. Improved On-Call Processes: Reduced in-flow ticket counts by 20% weekly through proactive fault mitigation and alarm configuration.