Vishal Pokuri

Vishal Pokuri

Software Engineer


About

Software Engineer @ Chargebee | Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Amateur | Prev - Insight AI, Zunno.xyz | Solana and Rust Geek

Skills
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
Next.js
React
Rust
Node.js
Docker
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
System Design
CI/CD
AWS
Playwright
Jenkins
Websockets
Experience

Software Engineer

Chargebee

Feb 2026 to Present
  • Delivered 2 production payment gateway integrations for Ecentric (Card) and NMI (ACH) across Chargebee’s distributed payment platform, contributing to its backend-for-frontend (BFF), Openpay SDKs, hosted checkout, merchant dashboard, and QA automation supporting production merchants like Shoprite, InciteTax, Jami
  • Designed and implemented Openpay payment plugin Java SDKs for vault-first tokenization, 3DS authentication, CIT, MIT, SOAP integrations, and complete payment lifecycle management.
  • Migrated Checkout testsuite from Selenium to Playwright, drastically reducing 75% test time from 3.2 minutes per test to 50s.
  • Implemented Error Intelligence, mapping 160+ Response scenarios, improving transaction diagnostics and merchant-facing error reporting for Ecentric Card
  • Implemented Payment Components for NMI ACH, a PCI DSS compliant Payment collection JS layer for custom checkout building experiences.

Software Developer Intern

Insight AI

Jul 2025 to Jan 2026
  • Built the complete frontend for an enterprise private RAG platform, including the marketing site, admin dash, customer dashboard, Chat page using Next.js and TypeScript.
  • Implemented connectors like Google Drive, Jira, enabling selective ingestion, & data management for RAG queries.
  • Containerized microservices for admin tools for RBAC, connectors, content, and platform configuration.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for automated dashboard deployments and collaborated on API design and schema migrations

Engineering Contributor

Zunno.xyz

Jan 2025 to Feb 2025
  • Implemented WebSocket-based game state synchronization with Redis-backed sessions.
  • Refactored Express.js backend into modular services to support scalable real-time multiplayer gameplay
  • Improved maintainability and debugging by decoupling networking, game logic, and state layers under concurrent load
Projects

Apple Music Clone

• Built a music player with YouTube IFrame and Spotify APIs for search, playback, and metadata integration. • Achieved 11,000+ streams and 400+ unique users in first week post-organic deployment. • Migrated to YouTube IFrame API and AWS EC2, slashing load times by 70%

React.js (Vite)
TypeScript
AWS EC2
Node.js
Tailwind CSS
Zustand
PostHog

Zerobug

• Engineered a CLI tool that visualizes backend endpoints in realtime using a node-based infinite canvas in frontend webclient • Added TypeScript-like type inference to auto-detect endpoint schemas, cutting down schema lookup time by 40%. • Integrated CLI tool + WebClient bridge to auto-reflect backend edits live, eliminating repetitive endpoint rewrites. • Planned flows where previous node responses can be chained as inputs for subsequent nodes with a single button. • Implemented Postman-like interface to test endpoints directly with dynamic values and responses

React.js (Vite)
Javascript
TypeScript
AWS EC2
Node.js
Tailwind CSS
WebSockets
CLI
Education

Btech - CSE Blockchain Technology

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore

May 2022 to May 2026
Certifications
Vishal Pokuri · DevFest Hyderabad 2026