London, UK

Ina
Goel.

Engineer who builds complex systems
and can explain them to anyone.

Across Wise, Confluent, and Barclays Working on the systems behind global payments, real-time data, and AI infrastructure. Now looking to take that depth into roles where the technical and commercial sides of a business meet.

System Design & Architecture
LLMs & AI Tooling
Fintech & Payments
Data Streaming
Cloud Infrastructure
Currently

Software Engineer II at Wise, receive team, cross-border payments infrastructure, London.

LLMs & AI Tooling
Model Context Protocol
System Design
Data Streaming
Fintech & Payments
Kafka · Flink
Multi-Cloud
Agentic Systems
Cross-Border Payments
Distributed Systems
LLMs & AI Tooling
Model Context Protocol
System Design
Data Streaming
Fintech & Payments
Kafka · Flink
Multi-Cloud
Agentic Systems
Cross-Border Payments
Distributed Systems
01

What I solve

Architecture

System Design & Product Thinking

I think in systems. From how services communicate to the trade-offs that shape an architecture, I do the work that happens before a single line of code is written. And I can walk anyone through the reasoning clearly.

AI Tooling

LLMs, MCP & Agentic Systems

Hands-on experience with large language models and the Model Context Protocol, building systems that connect AI to real data and workflows. Comfortable demoing, integrating, and explaining AI tooling to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Fintech

Payments & Financial Infrastructure

At Wise and Barclays, I've worked on the infrastructure behind global finance. I understand the constraints of regulated environments and can speak credibly to both engineering and business stakeholders in this space.

Data

Streaming, Real-Time & Scale

I've worked at Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka, building pipelines that keep data moving in real time. I understand the product inside out, from the architecture to the enterprise use cases it solves.

02

Where I've worked

Feb 2025 — Present
Wise
London, UK
Software Engineer II · Receive Team

Working on the infrastructure that receives money at one of the world's most trusted transfer platforms. Involved in system design and architecture decisions, building reliable services that handle cross-border payments at scale with a strong focus on product thinking and getting the design right before writing the code.

JavaKafkaPostgreSQLSystem DesignPayments
Feb 2024 — Feb 2025
Confluent
Remote, UK
Software Engineer II

Confluent is the company that commercialised Apache Kafka, the data streaming technology underneath most of the world's largest companies. I worked on enterprise security and data infrastructure, helping drive enterprise adoption and leading resilience initiatives across multiple cloud environments.

GoData StreamingEnterprise SecurityAWS · GCP · AzureTerraform
Aug 2023 — Feb 2024
Barclays
Glasgow, UK
Software Engineer

Started my career at one of the world's largest banks, building tools for Private Banking clients in and working across trading systems and Investment Banking. Won the company-wide data science competition,an early lesson in how the right model, applied to the right problem, changes outcomes.

JavaPythonMachine LearningPrivate BankingTrading Systems
03

Depth of experience

I've worked across fintech, data infrastructure, and AI at companies where these things genuinely matter at scale. That breadth means I can hold a deep technical conversation, or step back and explain the business case clearly. Both matter for the work I want to do next.

LLMs & Agentic AI
Production tooling
Model Context Protocol
AI · Data integration
Cross-Border Payments
Wise · Barclays
Real-Time Data Pipelines
Confluent · Kafka
Cloud Infrastructure
AWS · GCP · Azure
04

Technical skills

Languages
Java · Spring Boot
Python
Go
SQL · NoSQL
LLMs & AI Tooling
Large Language Models
Model Context Protocol
Agentic Systems
AI Integration & Deployment
Data & Streaming
Apache Kafka
Apache Flink
Spark · Airflow
PostgreSQL
Cloud & Infra
AWS · GCP · Azure
Terraform
Kubernetes
Jenkins · OpenShift
Architecture
System Design
Event-Driven Architecture
Distributed Systems
API Design
Fintech & Payments
Cross-Border Payments
Direct Debits
Payment Reconciliation
Regulated Environments

Let's
explore.

Solutions engineering, technical advisory and VC conversations.
If there's an interesting intersection of technical and commercial, I'm open to it. No pitch needed, just a conversation.