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How do you scale digital trust in a country as vast and diverse as India? At Cashfree Payments, we’re doing it with AI, multilingual tech, and RBI-ready compliance. In an exclusive conversation with Aaratrika Talukdar from Express Computer, our Head of Product Nitin Pulyani shared how Secure ID, our AI-powered identity verification platform, is building the foundation for India’s regtech future. Here’s what he covered: How our Secure ID stack is helping financial institutions, fintechs, and NBFCs scale rapidly by enabling real-time KYC, risk scoring, and fraud detection, even in tier 2 and 3 markets. How we are leveraging AI to proactively detect and prevent identity fraud or misuse. How our AI-VKYC solution is a step forward in our mission to power growth with accessible, trusted, and future-ready financial infrastructure. Read the article here: lnkd.in/gHTxx4Ft

What does it take to make test case generation async, scalable, and API-ready? We did it with LLMs at the core. At @gocashfree , we built an AI-powered system using GPT-4o-mini to generate test cases across functional, security, and logic layers. The outcome? 160+ hours of manual effort saved, accelerating productivity without compromising on quality. Fast, modular, and built for scale. 🔗 Read the full breakdown in our latest engineering blog on Cashfree Tech Medium👇 tech.cashfree.com/how-cashfree-p…

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From simple workflows to intelligent agents, our latest hands-on workshop at Cashfree Payments HQ had builders thinking, tinkering, and launching! We recently teamed up with AI Learn Circle to host an engaging session on how to build custom AI agents using n8n and OpenAI, led by Saurabh Khante, Product Manager at Jiva. A special shout-out to Raj Nandan Sharma, our Director of Engineering, for setting the tone with sharp insight on how we’re leveraging AI across systems, teams, and workflows to scale smarter at Cashfree Payments. Thanks Harkirat Singh from AI Learn Circle for making this collaboration seamless and impactful! With engaged participants from Flipkart, Muthoot Fincorp One, Wells Fargo, Zepto, Wayfair, Signzy, Porter, and more, the energy was high, the questions sharp, and the curiosity contagious. More sessions for the eco-system coming soon. Stay tuned! ✨

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What if AI handled the grunt work so your team could focus on innovation? At @gocashfree , that’s not a what-if, it’s how we build today. In a recent interaction with Prabhu M and Merin Susan John of AIM Media House, our team shared how AI is reshaping our work and accelerating product velocity. Here is what they covered: 🔹 Developers are becoming AI-powered builders, focused on real outcomes 🔹 Multilingual, no-code tools are expanding access to fintech for everyone 🔹 LLM-powered orchestration is automating planning, testing, and debugging 🔹 We’re building for the future of agentic commerce, where AI agents transact for users As we mark AI Appreciation Day, we’re proud to be building with AI in a way that scales access, speeds innovation, and drives outcomes. 👉 Check out the full story here to know more: analyticsindiamag.com/ai-features/be… #NationalAIDay #engineeringculture

When IPL season bowls a traffic surge your way, can your tech field it cleanly? At @gocashfree our systems played like champions. Fast, reliable, and traffic-ready. 🏏 We caught up with our members from our IPL war room, Subham Kumar Goyal (Lead DevOps), Prashant Kumar Jha (SDE-4), and Abhishek Ranjan (SDE-2), who brought match-readiness to life through sharp planning, strong observability, and cool-headed execution. Swipe to know more. 👉 Curious how we handled 10x traffic without breaking a sweat?

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From real-world problem-solving to system-level thinking, the session was packed with insights, energy, and momentum for what’s next. 🚀

Behind every great tech intervention is a team that learns, shares, and builds together. That’s exactly what our recent Engineering Townhall was about. Engineers from across teams came together to celebrate wins, reflect, collaborate, and create space for new ideas.

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At @gocashfree , we leverage Virtual Threads for high-concurrency, I/O-heavy workloads, like bank API calls. In this blog by our SDE-3 Aman Siddhartha, we unpack 7 key lessons from running Virtual Threads in production: What to use them for ✅ What to avoid⚠️ How to tune them for real-world traffic 💡 The benefits? Lightweight threads, clean concurrency, and promising performance boosts. But there were also some surprises, from subtle GC pressure to carrier thread pinning and ThreadLocal quirks. If you’re migrating to Java 21, these insights can help you skip the pitfalls and get to performance wins faster. 🧵 Check out the full blog on Cashfree Tech Medium: tech.cashfree.com/7-key-lessons-…

In today’s internet-first business era, payment integration delays can cost both time and opportunity. At @gocashfree , we recognised this pain point, and built Cashien AI, India’s first AI-powered developer assistant, to simplify and accelerate payment gateway integration. Recently, our CTO, Ramkumar Venkatesan, caught up with SohiniBagchi from @TechCircleIndia , and in an in-depth interview, he put a spotlight on: ▪️How does Cashien AI make Cashfree Payments integration faster, and what makes it a ground-breaking product in the market Read the article here: techcircle.in/2025/06/16/cas…

At Cashfree Payments, we don’t just collect merchant feedback, we build on it. From same-day feature rollouts to real-time alerts and a dashboard-native feedback loop, this is how we Move Fast on what matters most to our merchants. Read more into what went behind the scenes here: cashfree.com/blog/merchant-… #BuiltForMerchants #TechAtCashfree #ProductEngineering #CustomerFirst #MoveFast #FintechIndia

Ever wondered how AI can supercharge developer productivity? At Cashfree Payments, we’re not just talking about it, we’re doing it. Our in-house tools—like our test case automation code generator and our self-learning AI-powered failure analysis engine—are transforming the way we build and deploy. From cutting debugging time from hours to minutes to making merchant onboarding seamless, we’re proving that with the right AI, engineers can move from repetitive to remarkable.

As cyber risks proliferate across sectors, we at Cashfree Payments remain dedicated to building secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure to safeguard the digital economy. 🔐 In an article for ET CISO by The Economic Times, Prashant Madhyasta, our CISO, outlines a strategic cybersecurity playbook tailored for Enterprises, BFSI , and NBFSI institutions. The article breaks down why financial institutions are prime cyber targets, especially during periods of geopolitical tension, and presents a clear, four-pronged resilience strategy: ✅ Rapid audits ✅ Threat intelligence ✅ Proactive defense ✅ Cloud security 📖 Read the full article here: lnkd.in/gJCtK5wf

When top minds in security come together, the result is a torrent of insights, discussions, and shared learning. That’s exactly what unfolded at our recent meetup, hosted in collaboration with the Null Bangalore and @owasp Community at @gocashfree HQ! With 180+ participants from companies like Sisa, Flipkart, Groww, Honeywell and more, the energy was unmatched. Huge thanks to every speaker and participant who brought their curiosity to the table. Missed this one? Don’t worry. More sessions are on the way. 💥

What happens when builders wear many hats? Every blocker becomes a blueprint for better workflows. Here’s a glimpse of @gocashfree engineering team leads coming together for a one-of-a-kind hackathon focused on creating internal tools and product ideas to make everyday work smoother, faster, and smarter. 💡 🚀

First impressions matter, especially when you're building for businesses. At Cashfree Payments, we reimagined onboarding from the ground up—turning KYC and Day Zero into an experience that's fast, intuitive, and confidence-building for every merchant. From simplifying forms to guiding users to their first successful transaction, our teams came together to craft a journey that feels human—and gets businesses live in record time. 👀 Swipe through to see the behind-the-scenes magic. Here's the full story: cashfree.com/blog/merchant-… Nishant Kaku | Roshan Shah | Ishita Sarkar | Ayushi Agarwal #UXDesign #ProductDesign #Fintech #CashfreeTech #BuilderCulture #Payments #MerchantExperience #Onboarding

Broken tests, flaky pipelines, and last-minute config surprises? We’ve felt that pain, and we fixed it. With a rule-based TDM framework, automated recovery jobs, and seamless IT hooks, we’ve made test environments consistent and predictable. In our latest Brown Bag session, Nisith Pati, our SDET-2, walks through how we built a scalable system that wiped out config-related test failures. Check out the article to know more: tech.cashfree.com/how-cashfree-p… 🚀

What does it take to truly empower the businesses that power India? At Cashfree Payments, our answer is AI, not as a buzzword, but as a builder of trust, speed, and seamless experiences. On this #NationalTechnologyDay, here’s how we listen to our merchants to solve their real challenges with AI that’s practical. Whether it is mitigating fraud, simplifying onboarding, or predicting return-to-origin risk, we’re using AI to help businesses move faster, stay ahead of the curve, and serve their customers better. This is AI that helps understand merchant needs, enables tech creativity and makes an impact at scale. 🎥 Watch how our teams are shaping the future of fintech — one meaningful problem at a time.

When collaboration moves from sprint boards to the cricket pitch. ⚡️ Building great products starts with building great teams—and sometimes, that means stepping away from the code and onto the field. Moments like these remind us that while code and workflows connect us, it's shared experiences that truly unite us.