KARTIK AGARWAL

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 4 years of software engineering experience
Led significant projects in fraud detection and database optimization
Passionate about technology's impact on society

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer in the Fintech industry.

Contact

kartikag1@yahoo.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Go (programming Language)AwsPostgresql

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)RedisRuby on Rails

About

Hey! I'm Kartik 👋 I am a software engineer, have been working in the development space for over 4 years now, building projects, researching, learning, and developing stuff that could help and affect people directly or indirectly. I intend to channel my passion for technology into meaningful contributions to society that could enhance the general lifestyle of the masses. ➡️ I am goal-oriented and always committed to my work. ➡️ Always try to deliver high-quality results, above expectations, before deadlines. ➡️ I believe in continuous self-improvement. Always seek feedback and work on them. Ping me on any of my handles if, ➡️ You have some really cool topics/ideas/opportunities to discuss. ➡️ Need some genuine help (suggestions/advice/referrals etc). ➡️ If you've been reading till now, I would love to know you anyway. 😃 mail -- kartikag1work@gmail.com website -- bit.ly/kartikagarwal

Experience

Motive

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Improving the accuracy of fraud detection algorithms for Motive Card transactions.

Software Engineer

Aug 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

CARDS TEAM (Sept' 22 - Present)
Led the architectural design and execution of a pivotal project titled "Fraud Detection" of Motive Card transactions, Played a key role in empowering users with insights into fraudulent activities associated with their cards, specifically related to transactions where the vehicle was not physically present at the merchant's location. This multifaceted undertaking was marked by its complexity, requiring precision in achieving our accuracy goals and incorporating diverse facets. Learn more about this endeavour here - https://gomotive.com/blog/motive-card-reduce-fuel-theft/
Led several other initiatives such as Metadata capturing (pre & post a transaction), Granularity in preferences etc.
Mentoring junior engineers, helping them make right design choices and deliver high quality code.
FUEL Team (Aug' 21 - Aug' 22)
Led a project to setup a new database for ETL jobs, helps to avoid running ETL jobs on the primary DB.
Collaborated with embedded team to help build better solutions for traditional workflows.
Built functionality for user to alert stakeholders in real-time, during emergency situations.
Designed and built real-time tracking for vehicle's power take off. (Improved visibility for owners)
Designed and built system to detect fuel purchase thefts. (Reduced fuel theft cases significantly)
Built service to enable 3rd party integrations with fuel-card vendors, syncing millions of records monthly.
Built a flow to enable mobile team to re-use web components on mobile app.
Worked on critical improvements across different services (async data extraction and processing).
Worked on several other functionalities in the system, including detection of duplicate imports and allowing partial importing of records.
Conducted various domain sessions and technical workshops across teams.
Kickstarted Brownbags 2.0 (3 hours workshop to study a technology for overall team growth)

Go (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)PostgreSQLRuby on RailsAWS

Testbook.com

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Aug 2021 · 1 mo

Maintained and contributed to the Test Series Service (most used product, more than 5M+ active users)
Built a flow to generate tests with optional sections (dynamic topic selection in a test, extensible to make every topic multilingual.)
Built ASM Tests (marks based on relative performance, built cronjobs to aggregate results and send out mail alerts.)
Built batched bulk GET/POST Api's for data science team.
Worked on several critical enhancements and optimisations in the test series service to make the user experience seamless, user satisfaction score(apdex) reached 1.0 (highest).
Decoupled several API's as per UX to improve the response time (response time of all related API's dropped by 75%).
Built several features like metric charts, multi-level filters for LMS service (internal)
Identified redundant cache keys being used and discarded them, added relevant TTL's to keys. (reduced number of active redis keys)
Worked on a platform wide change to migrate data serialization library from JSON to MessagePack (Improved performance)

RedisGo (Programming Language)

Software Engineering Intern

Dec 2020 – Jul 2021 · 7 mos

Working with the backend team.
Building services handling millions of active requests.

RedisGo (Programming Language)

Teksystems

Apprentice

Oct 2020 – Oct 2020 · 0 mo · India · Remote

Codex.rocks

Software Developer

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 · 6 mos · Australia

Worked on an application that helps kids learn coding in an interactive way.
Built onboarding flow for multiple user signup at one time using Node.js.
Identified and fixed critical issues in the application flow which could have affected the revenue.
Built a user referral system from scratch, handling concurrent anomalies.
Used stripe payment API for multi-user payment flow and invoice generation.

Bigclout

Backend Developer

Oct 2019 – Dec 2019 · 2 mos · India

Worked on the app Revidly currently having 5000+ downloads on the Google play store.
Built production level API's for supporting the server of the application.
Worked on overall optimization of the API response.