Sailok Chinta

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India5 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in scaling systems and enhancing performance.
Recognized multiple times for mentoring and contributions.
Developed CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time significantly.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Backend Engineer with expertise in microservices and cloud technologies.

Contact

sailok.chinta@kotak.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

SpringbootAwsPostgresMicroservicesJavaNodejs

Other Skills

API DesignAPI DevelopmentAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsAzureBootstrapBuild ToolsC (Programming Language)C++CI/CDCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CassandraData StructuresDockerElasticSearch

About

I am Sailok Chinta, a skilled Software Development Engineer having nearly 5+ years of experience with Distributed Systems, Event Driven and Microservice Architecture. I am proficient in Java and SpringBoot, with hands-on experience in MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, and Docker. My focus is on solving complex problems, scaling systems, and enhancing the security and performance of systems. I frequently mentor my junior engineers and have been recognised multiple times for my contributions to the team.

Experience

Kotak mahindra bank

2 roles

SDE-II, Mortgages Team

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

SDE-II, Fraud Risk Management Team

May 2024 – Apr 2025 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

● Technology Stack: SpringBoot, Postgres, SQS, Lambdas, Azure, AWS.
● Working as an SDE-2 in the Fraud Risk Management team.
● Developed CI/CD pipelines for existing FRM services to facilitate service deployment and DB patch updates using Azure Build & Release pipelines, reducing the deployment process from 4 hours to approximately 40 minutes, and further to around 10 minutes through parallelisation. This eliminated the manual effort required for deployment and introduced one-click deployment and rollback.
● Designed HLD & LLD and implemented Suspect Registry Service, which exposes API to MHA for the weekly submission of suspect data, accommodating nearly 100,000 records at once. It also serves as a source system to enrich Internal Negative DB.
● Designed and Documented HLD & LLD for frm-auditing-service, a wrapper layer encompassing all vendor products used across Kotak in the context of the FRM space, led the development of this service alongside a fellow SDE-2, successfully deploying it to production with a load of 300 Transactions per second (TPS).
● Designed and Documented the user flow journey for the FRM Admin Module enabling Business Teams to create and modify various source system configurations.
● Mentored 2 Junior SDE-2s and groomed them to hone their coding and design skills.
● I was rewarded with the Star Performer award for my contributions to OND Quarter 2024.

SpringBootPostgresSQSLambdasAzureAWS

Slice

2 roles

SDE-II

Promoted

Nov 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

● Technology Stack: Java, MongoDB, SpringBoot, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS.
● Worked as SDE-2 in the Slice Account team, mostly focusing on P2P transactions, and account management and L0 UI navigation flows.
● Designed HLD & LLD and implemented Slice Account User Management System from Scratch which manages user lifecycle on the Slice Account Product.
● Scaled the service to handle 1000 Tps, by implementing and optimising various parameters such as ThreadPool, OSIV.
● Designed and Developed a Slice Account BFF to handle all L0 and L1 UI flows related to Slice Account Product, and designed it in such a way to accommodate various changes without major code refactoring.
● Designed HLD & LLD and implemented Pay via Slice Account System from Scratch which offers payment functionalities to users on third party merchants.
● Collaborated across various teams to understand problem statements, scope out changes, to properly deliver the project.
● Mentored 4 Junior SDE-1s and mentored one SDE-1 in getting promoted to SDE-2.
● Rewarded with Spotlight awards for my work in the JFM & JAS quarter of 2023, as Star of Month for Dec 2023, and with Trailblazer award for JFM quarter of 2024.

JavaMongoDBSpringBootPostgreSQLDockerKubernetes+2

SDE-I

Apr 2022 – Nov 2022 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Rupeek

Software Engineer

Sep 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

● Technology Stack: NodeJS, Java, ExpressJS, VueJS, MongoDB, SpringBoot, PostgreSQL, AWS.
● Worked as a SDE-1 in the CentralOps team, mostly focusing on Authentication, Agent slotting and Task Management services.
● Was the direct DRI for AAA (Authentication, Authorization & Accounting) Service. Increased unit test coverage from 7% to 95%.
● Implemented Google OAuth login for internal dashboards to replace legacy phone number based login to increase security which resulted in less fraud cases.
● Implemented user session limitation for increased security in case of account compromise.
● Implemented Rate Limiting on OTP generation functionality to avoid the misuse of the Api, resulting in less cost to vendors & increased security.
● Improved latencies of nearly 13 Apis in Insight Service by observing and fixing non optimal code to optimised code.
● Designed HLD & LLD and implemented Task Management System from Scratch which provides the next step when an agent is assigned a loan order to cx.
● Rewarded with Rising Star and High Five awards for my work in the JFM & JAS quarter of 2021 respectively.

NodeJSJavaExpressJSVueJSMongoDBSpringBoot+2

Unicommerce

Technology Intern

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 · 6 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

● Technology Stack: Spring, MySQL, MongoDB, Maven.
● Worked as a Back-End Java developer to develop features in the organisation's SaaS product “Uniware”.
● Optimised an internal in house script to fetch Inventory count from third party vendor from O(N^3) to O(N^2) time complexity.

Nineleaps

Summer Intern

Jun 2019 – Jul 2019 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

● Technology Stack: SpringBoot, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Gradle.
● Worked as a Back-End Java developer to develop RESTful APIs for Medical Record Management applications.