Guruprasad is a software engineer currently serving as an architect at PhonePe, a leading fintech company revolutionising digital payments and financial services in India. Within the data platform team, he heads the development of core infrastructure and platform services crucial for ingestion, transforming and querying vast volumes of multi-modal data. His journey at PhonePe has been marked by a series of impactful projects spanning real-time streaming, online aggregations, user profiling, fraud detection, machine learning inference, and data warehousing. He is deeply drawn to the intricate challenges of engineering, particularly those posed by large distributed systems. His expertise lies in navigating the delicate balance between consistency, fault tolerance, and performance in system design. Beyond the realm of technology, he enjoys quizzing, reading non-fiction books, watching movies and hiking.