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Discover profound insights into what makes PhonePe's systems work flawlessly to power millions of transactions, all the while improving the lives of Indians

19th October, 2022

engineering tech change

At PhonePe, we strongly believe in ‘Positive Disruption’ — in building technology that helps all our stakeholders positively, by increasing the size of the pie for everyone in our operating ecosystem. We believe in sharing what we have learnt in our journey. This is a key step towards our vision of creating financial inclusion for a Billion Indians, and that is the reason we launched ‘etc’ — engineering tech change!

As part of ‘etc’, here is a unique initiative to bring together Women in Tech & Product roles across industries. This series of events is designed to openly share Tech learnings from PhonePe, with women aspiring to build their careers in the growing FinTech ecosystem.

Theme - ‘Scale’ and its relevance today

One of the primary reasons why PhonePe is able to handle billions of transactions per month is because we strongly believe in ‘Simplicity builds scalability’. All our engineering systems were built for scale. Our Tech team spends considerable time and energy in database sharding and load communication to reduce our failure rate.

We also scaled our infrastructure components that provided observability, alerting and automated algorithmic corrective measures. This helped in building our engineering ecosystem to scale seamlessly with exponential growth. ‘etc’ interactions will provide a rare insight into what makes the systems at PhonePe work seamlessly to power millions of transactions and make lives better for the people of India.

Partnering with AnitaB

PhonePe has partnered with AnitaB.org, in our mission to increase the representation of women technologists at all levels. This event aims at facilitating engagement and building a network across the Women in STEM and non-binary communities across India.

This event is an excellent opportunity to interact with the Local Communities, Prominent Tech Leaders, PhonePe leaders and the AnitaB.org team.

Event Schedule

Topic

Scaling from 1 million to 100 million users

Date

19th October

Time

11:30am - 1:30pm

Duration

2 hours

Medium

Virtual

Time Topic Speaker
11:30am - 12:00pm PhonePe Engineering Story Rahul Chari, CTO PhonePe
12:00pm - 12:45pm Scaling our Database for 100 Million from Day 1 - Learnings & Insights from our payments journey Kanika Khetawat, Engineer @PhonePe
12:45pm - 01:30pm Conversation with Product leaders on their journey of Exceptional Scaling in a Tech organization Radhika Tamvada, Principal Product Manager Amazon and Malthi S, Former Director of Product at PayPal

Speakers

Rahul Chari
Co-founder and CTO at PhonePe
Kanika Khetawat
Software developer at PhonePe
Radhika Tamvada
Principal Product Manager at Amazon
Matlhi S
Director of Product Management at PayPal

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About PhonePe

PhonePe was founded in December 2015, and has emerged as India’s largest payments app, enabling digital inclusion for consumers and merchants alike. With 40+ crore (400+ Million) registered users, one in four Indians are now on PhonePe. The company has also successfully digitized 3.2 crore (32 Million) offline merchants spread across Tier 2,3,4 and beyond, covering 99% pin codes in the country. PhonePe forayed into financial services in 2017, providing users with a safe and convenient option to buy 24-karat gold, and has recently also launched silver on its platform. Since then, PhonePe has introduced several Mutual Funds and Insurance products like tax-saving funds, liquid funds, international travel insurance, life insurance, COVID-19 insurance amongst others. Using PhonePe, users can also send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, pay at stores and make all their utility payments. PhonePe was recently recognized as the Most Trusted Brand for Digital Payments as per the Brand Trust Report 2022 by Trust Research Advisory (TRA).

About AnitaB

AnitaB.org India currently connects with local communities in Indian cities such as Delhi (NCR), Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Mumbai. They are referred to as chapters and are involved in developing relations, knowledge, student communities, and a support system in their local communities. Their mission is to inspire, encourage, and help women technologists connect with each other and organizations nearby — allowing them to learn, exchange stories, and grow their careers.

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