Aravind Bhashyam

Engineering Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India10 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
Proven track record in engineering leadership.
Strong focus on operational excellence and team management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on scalable backend systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProject ManagementTechnical LeadershipArchitectural DesignDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentDatabase Management

Other Skills

Apache KafkaC (Programming Language)C++CadenceCoaching & MentoringCross-functional CollaborationsDistributed CachingElasticsearchGo (Programming Language)HiringJavaMongoDBMySQLOperational ExcellencePeople Management

About

I’m a technology leader passionate about building scalable distributed systems and high-performance engineering teams that deliver seamless user experiences at global scale. Excited to connect with leaders and visionaries shaping the future of intelligence platforms at scale!

Experience

Uber

6 roles

Engineering Manager II

Promoted

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

## Tax Calculations Platform
Enabling Uber to compute accurate taxes at scale and ensure compliance with local tax regulations across diverse business lines and jurisdictions.
Standardizing tax rules and models with governance for seamless onboarding.
Enabling Tax Determination for business transactions based on jurisdictions and determine applicable deductions, promotions, exemptions and adjustments.
Building scalable systems for Tax Calculation —compute tax amounts with consistent rates and rounding strategies.

Team BuildingCross-functional CollaborationsTeam LeadershipProject ManagementOperational ExcellenceHiring+7

Staff Software Engineer / TLM

Mar 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

## Risk Decisions Platform
Enabled Uber to support adaptive fraud checks on users balancing fraud losses with user experience. #SeeTheForestAndTheTrees
Designed tiered risk-based actioning system that leverages decision trees to categorise users by risk level and propose actioning accordingly.
Architected fallback as a service degradation strategy that provides an alternative workflow in case the primary one is degraded to maintain user experience.
Addressed the cold cache issues impacting business availability during zone failovers.

Cross-functional CollaborationsTeam LeadershipProject ManagementTechnical DirectionArchitectural DesignTechnical Leadership+1

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

## Risk Decisions Platform
Enabled Uber to evaluate fraud checks reliably at scale. #BuildWithHeart
Architected an API gateway that handles ~15B decisions/day across 35+ APIs and supports authorization, authentication, rate-limiting, dynamic routing, degradation fallback, and caching (performance and availability cache)
Identified and removed excessive data exposure in fraud check APIs reducing response sizes by ~4X.
Enabled fraud data analyst teams to design meaningful experiments and analyze experiment insights at scale.

Distributed SystemsApache KafkaSoftware DevelopmentJavaGo (Programming Language)Spring Framework+1

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Mar 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

## Risk Decisions Platform
Enabled Uber to perform real-time safety checks during dispatch (~100x Trip Scale) and avoid safety incidents. #StandForSafety
Led the efforts to identify bottlenecks in performance across Dispatch, Safety, Risk, and ML teams.
Scaled the system throughput by ~2.5X by supporting batch APIs, improving GC performance and NIO threads usage.

Distributed SystemsApache KafkaSoftware DevelopmentJavaGo (Programming Language)Spring Framework

Software Engineer II

Sep 2018 – Feb 2019 · 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

## Revenue Computation Platform
Reduced Uber's month-end close process to ~2 business days.
Automated the process by orchestrating the critical steps of month close including review, reconciliation, and reporting of financial transactions.

CadenceApache KafkaSoftware DevelopmentGo (Programming Language)MySQLDatabase Management

Software Engineer I

Sep 2017 – Aug 2018 · 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

## FinTech Platform
Created Ledger as a Service to report Uber's financial transactions at scale (~5x Trip Scale) across multiple LoBs.

Apache KafkaSoftware DevelopmentGo (Programming Language)MySQLElasticsearchDatabase Management

Sprinklr

2 roles

Senior Product Engineer

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Backend engineer for Customer Care module prototype improving customer experience (CX) across 30+ modern digital social channels.

Software DevelopmentMongoDBJavaSpring FrameworkElasticsearchDatabase Management

Product Engineer

Jun 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Backend engineer for Service Command Center module providing real-time insights into contact center operations and channel-specific performance.

Software DevelopmentMongoDBJavaSpring FrameworkElasticsearchDatabase Management

Samsung r&d institute india

Research Intern

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

Analysed Multi Hop Transfer Service (MHTS) over a mesh network of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
Engineered a prototype by implementing node discovery, connection establishment with neighboring nodes, route identification to a distant node, reliable data transmission to the target node using memory constrained 8kB BLE chips.

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Software Engineer Intern

May 2013 – Jun 2013 · 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

As a summer intern at dres.sy, contributed to the design and development of a responsive virtual trial room — early applications of augmented reality in e-commerce.