Arun Chaitanya Miriappalli

BukuWarung · Hyderabad, India

• Led engineering for all payments and financial products processing ~4M transactions monthly, supporting 100K+ daily active SMB merchants across Indonesia, with Philippines expansion underway.
• Partnered with founders and leadership to define multi-year engineering strategy aligned with growth, cost efficiency, and product-market fit in a Series A fintech environment.
• Architected cloud-native, compliance-first platforms (BI, OJK, ISO), improving uptime from 96% to 99.9% and increasing transaction success rates from 98% to 99.2% while working with external PSPs.
• Introduced data-driven and AI-assisted automation across engineering, operations, and customer support, reducing overall engineering burn by 30% and infrastructure + subscription costs by 65%.
• Built and scaled cross-functional teams of 45+ engineers (Android, Web, Data, DevOps, QA), establishing hiring standards, engineering guidelines, and execution metrics.
• Accelerated product delivery by reducing release cycles from weekly to daily and cutting time-to-market for new products from 8 months to under 2 months.
• Improved operational efficiency through AI-enabled systems: automated sales route planning, reduced device operations team from 6 to 2 through faster incident detection, and cut customer support resolution time from ~6 hours to under 2 minutes using chatbot-driven workflows.

Works Applications · Singapore

• Led an 80-member global engineering organization with 8 direct reports across Tokyo, Shanghai, Chennai, and Singapore, supporting large-scale SaaS platforms.
• Drove modernization of core platforms using cloud-native and data-centric architectures, enabling scalability, performance improvements, and operational automation.
• Delivered a 100x performance improvement in month-end batch and financial processing through architectural redesign and data pipeline optimization.
• Reduced AWS infrastructure costs through capacity planning, system redesign, and automation while improving platform reliability.
• Oversaw adoption of modern technology stacks including AWS Aurora, microservices, Angular, and Spring, balancing speed with platform stability.
• Established engineering standards, architectural review processes, and cross-region collaboration models for distributed teams.

Works Applications · Singapore

• Owned platform engineering and developer productivity initiatives, enabling faster feature delivery across multiple SaaS product lines.
• Built internal frameworks and abstractions over open-source technologies to standardize development and improve engineering efficiency.
• Served as an architecture reviewer across product lines, contributing to decisions on microservices, Kubernetes, ELB, batch systems, and data platforms.

Works Applications / Microsoft

• Built data-intensive backend systems and platform libraries using Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, and AWS.
• Improved performance and scalability of customer-facing systems through caching, search optimization, and backend redesign.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad

Graduated with Honours · Patent Holder