Keshav Nagpal
Staff Software Engineer with 9 years in fintech, energy and govtech. At Tide I identified and led the digitisation of three lending partners with no digital presence, and took Iwoca pre-qualified offers from 20% failed submissions to 0% while lifting conversion from 65% to 73%. I define target architectures, lead teams of 5–10 engineers, and build with agentic AI tools daily.
Professional Journey
Staff Software Engineer
Nov 2025 – Present- Migrated the Post Office integration from Zunoma SFTP file drops to their API, replacing delayed batch feedback with real-time responses.
- Cut analytics carbon footprint by 40% by optimising BigQuery views.
- Set technical direction across Python/PostgreSQL and TypeScript/React, breaking down complex initiatives for the team.
Lead Software Engineer
Dec 2023 – Nov 2025- Identified and led the digitisation of three lending partners with no digital presence, expanding Tide’s SME credit offering and revenue.
- Led rollout of Iwoca pre-qualified offers across third-party APIs and Tide services; cut failed submissions from 20% to 0% in two weeks and lifted conversion from 65% to 73%.
- Defined target architecture and RFCs for Partner Credit Services integrations, setting reusable patterns for future lenders.
- Led backend for the Liberis Business Cash Advance acceptance flow, coordinating API and frontend changes across teams.
- Drove funnel recovery enabling ~1,500 members with applications stalled 60+ days to reapply.
- Built lender-level Datadog monitoring and alerts; managed a cross-functional team of 5–10 engineers.
Founding Engineer
Oct 2021 – May 2023- Built Salesforce reverse-sync of field configs and validation rules so reps stopped losing deals to failed data entry.
- Cut client onboarding time with standardised meeting scripts and email templates.
- Built the core UI component library (ClojureScript/Reagent) for the product redesign.
Software Engineer
Jan 2020 – Sep 2021- Built floor-planning libraries for interior designers over a catalogue of 15k furniture items and 65k materials.
- Automated 3D home walk-throughs with Blender and Three.js, lifting homeowner and builder engagement.
Software Engineer, Knowledge Augmentation
Jul 2017 – Jan 2020- Automated ingestion of $40B+ in project data via Python email bots on Azure WebJobs.
- Shipped a multi-tenant chatbot for 3+ Australian federal departments (C#, Bot Framework, Azure).
- Fine-tuned BERT for report summarisation; sentiment analysis across 1M+ status reports.
Technical Palette
Leadership
Target architecture & RFCs, Third-party integrations, Production monitoring, Managing team of 5–10
AI
Agentic development (orchestrator + sub-agents), Ticket-to-PR automation, Agent knowledge base
Backend
Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, AWS SNS/SQS, Azure, Datadog, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Scala, Clojure, C#
Frontend
React.js, TypeScript, Three.js, ClojureScript
Tools
Curiosities
Traveling, cooking, coffee, chess, and investing.