About Sethuraman

Software Engineer at Cash App

With over two decades of experience in software engineering, I am a polyglot programmer and architect specialising in building distributed systems on the cloud.
My career has been enriched by diverse roles, including significant contributions during my time at Thoughtworks.

Presently, I am a key member of the Cash App team, where innovation meets cutting-edge technology.Passionate about simplifying code and advocating for test-driven development, I bring a unique blend of expertise and enthusiasm to every project.

At the intersection of experience and a drive for excellence, I am committed to pushing the boundaries of what's achievable in the ever-evolving tech landscape.

Unlocking Simplicity: How Temporal Transformed Cash App's Code Complexity

Sydney

Digital Product Deep Dive

We have an easily explainable use case - Buy and Sell bitcoin from Liquidity providers by interacting with their APIs.

But in order to achieve this we have a wide variety of kafka consumers, SQS job queues, DB updates and internal services to call. The code to make all of this work is spread all across one repo and it was getting impossible to fit in a team's head.

Attend and learn how Temporal helped unravel our code complexity and in return made the entire backend trading system at Cash App a lot more reliable.