Hello, I’m Santanu Sinha. I’ve been working with computers for more than thirty years with a professional career spanning more than twenty of them.
I love working with Distributed Systems that work towards solving problems people face everyday. Thankfully, this also provides opportunities to work across the stack all the way from the hardware to the interactions between the user and the front-end.
I’ve had the rare privilege of being a part of and helping scale some of the largest consumer companies in India and by the sheer virtue of the numbers they serve, some of the largest consumer tech companies in the world.
I have been working with PhonePe, since it’s inception and have designed and built a lot of the platform and the transaction processing services that handle more than 400 million transactions a day, hundreds of billions of analytics events, runs tens of thousands of containers that handle a million requests per second on the edge.
I have built the modern checkout system and the localized real time search engine at Flipkart (India’s largest retailer), and the modern real time streaming data platform at Ola Cabs (the indigenous cab booking company).
Before all this I was working in a completely different domain on EDA synthesis tools and designing distributed systems that process huge volumes of chip design data.
I have worked as a guest lecturer in a couple of places and love working with and learning from students and youngsters.
I have been maintaining a lot of open source software that have been and continue to be used at very high scale to serve hundreds of millions of customers. I love simplicity and focus on performance in software architecture, design and code.
Current top priority projects I am actively working on:
Other projects I have written and available as OSS and are managed by others now can be found in the following Github Orgs:
I have a Masters Degree in VLSI, BTech in Information Technology and a BSc(Hons) in Physics.
Elsewhere
You can find me in a few other places:
- GitHub — santanusinha
- LinkedIn — sinhasantanu
- Twitter — @santanu_sinha
Outside of work
I love listening to music. I love listening to music and not constrain myself to genres, but nowadays I see myself going for Jazz much more than any other thing, with Hiromi, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Dave Brubeck and Mingus taking up most of my listening time.