Yashjeet Luthra

Engineering leader with 12 years (Oct 2013 – Apr 2026) in fintech infrastructure, payments, and AI-native products. Director of Engineering at Alaan (YC W23), where I scaled the organization roughly 5x from 14 to 70 engineers, launched a new country market in under 90 days, and architected event-driven, multi-cloud platforms in regulated environments. Owned headcount planning, vendor selection, and budget, reporting to the CTO and founders. Deep expertise in distributed systems, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and microservices, paired with hands-on delivery of LLM and agentic AI workflows. AWS Certified Solutions Architect.