Apr 2023 – Sep 2023 · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Key Responsibilities:
• 1. Managed the backend work for the investments in the decoupling project, focusing on ensuring the seamless support of the investment product in a decoupled state. This encompassed serving both users with Savings accounts, users with Loan accounts, and those with both.
• 2. Collaborated closely with the PMs on a series of experiments within the mutual fund domain, aimed at boosting the conversion rate for SIP (Systematic Investment Plan) execution. These experiments involved innovative strategies, such as creating diverse fund collections (e.g., "Invest ₹10", investments based on withdrawal horizon or risk tolerance), as well as encouraging users to add balance for upcoming SIPs. As a result, these initiatives collectively contributed to a substantial increase of ~10% in daily SIP executions.
• 3. Contributed significantly to the transformation of the digital gold platform (Gold 2.0) by developing the Gold Investment microservice from scratch and making substantial code-level contributions to other related microservices.
• 4. Led the design and development of the real-time order processing system for the mutual fund platform. This involved the creation of a microservice responsible for submitting all mutual fund orders to the RTA (Registrar and Transfer Agents) in real time. This initiative was undertaken to enhance the scalability and stability of the mutual fund platform, aligning it with the Execution Only Platform (EOP) guidelines and ensuring SEBI compliance.
• 5. Engaged in discussions and documented the required alterations in the mutual fund platform in collaboration with the business and product teams to align with EOP (Execution Only Platform) guidelines.
• 6. Provided mentorship to junior SDEs/interns and offered guidance and support in various aspects, including design and technical assistance.
• 7. Handled production on-call duties.
• 8. Conducted coding and Low-Level Design (LLD) interview rounds.

Mar 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Founding Engineer in Investments team.
• Key Responsibilities:
• 𝟭. 𝗠𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺:
• Collaborated with the team on the design and development of a mutual fund platform, subsequently taking charge of implementing key components within the system.
• Facilitated direct investments in mutual funds via SIP by seamlessly integrating the Standing Instruction platform.
• Initiated efforts to reduce API latency, resulting in a remarkable 60% reduction in the 95th percentile response time.
• Collaborated with the business team on multiple experiments to drive user engagement in Investments.
• 𝟮. 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
• Built Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards to provide robust platform metric visualization.
• Worked diligently on platform enhancements, focusing on stability and scalability through Event-Driven architecture.
• 𝟯. 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱:
• Led the efforts in designing and developing Digital Gold, which featured diverse purchasing options including one-time purchases and habitual buying.
• Collaborated closely with business and external partners to understand requirements, and integrated the MMTC API to enable seamless gold transactions within the Jupiter app.
• 𝟰. 𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺:
• Led the design and development of the Fixed Deposit platform, incorporating event-driven flows to handle failure scenarios.
• Successfully tested and integrated APIs from prominent financial institutions like Federal Bank and Bajaj Finance.
• Built a platformized system that can be easily re-used by other verticals, enabling them to provide their offerings, such as Lending for Secured Cards, with enhanced efficiency and scalability.
• 𝟱. 𝗥𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴:
• Led backend development for a rule-based investment feature encouraging SIP setup based on daily habit stories, resulting in a remarkable 40% increase in SIP execution.

Jan 2022 – Mar 2022 · 2 mos

• Key Responsibilities:
• 1. Construct various product reports that are reflected on the Balance Sheet using Excel.
• 2. Integrated these reports to streamline the data flow across different quarter cycles.
• 3. Offered support on an On-Call basis and took on the role of Scrum Master on a rotating basis.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr

• I worked within the IST division on the Financial Planning & Analytics Workbench, an application designed to automate the entire process of submitting the annual CCAR (Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review) report.
• Key Responsibilities:
• 1. Worked on building the UI and backend to automate dataset creation and dimension tagging, which is utilized for model execution.
• 2. Conducted a proof of concept (POC) with the TM1py API and IBM Planning Analytics to automate report navigation.
• 3. Implemented a microservice using the TM1py API to automate the report navigation process.
• 4. Integrated behavior-driven test cases using the Concordion and JBehave frameworks.
• 5. Developed the UI interface for Balance Sheet Allocation and the backend for the validator required for model execution.
• 6. Upgraded the JDK version to 11 and updated older Gradle dependencies to prepare the platform for cloud deployment.

Jul 2020 – Jan 2021 · 6 mos

• Completed an intensive 6-month training program, covering a range of technologies such as Java, Scala, and C++, alongside in-depth exploration of their industry-best practices.
• Worked on a project that involved retrieving extensive datasets from HBase, transforming them into Parquet format, preprocessing the data, passing it to a model for execution, and encompassing both front-end and back-end development within the project's scope.

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Worked in Corporate & Funding Technology Division and developed Agile Ceremony tools for software development in order to make efficient, effective and unbiased estimation of stories in a sprint.