Siddharth Sharma

Senior Software Engineer

8 yrs 10 mos experience

AI Enabled

Key Highlights

Proven leader with 10+ years in software development.
Expert in scalable systems and performance optimization.
Strong communication and mentoring skills.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Backend Engineer with expertise in scalable systems and cloud solutions.

Contact

siddharthsharma0888@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

JavaSpring BootMicroservicesCloud SolutionsOracle Integration

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsApache KafkaArtificial Intelligence (AI)Back-End Web DevelopmentCassandraContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Data LakesData StructuresDatadogEngineering LeadJavaScriptKafkaKotlinKubernetes

About

Experienced software development professional with 10+ years in fast-paced environments, distributed and scalable systems including 3 years as team leader with a hands-on approach to system optimization and performance improvement. Proven leader with strong communication, mentoring, and strategic collaboration skills, driving alignment and innovation across cross-functional teams. Skills - Java, Scala, Kotlin, Spring Boot, SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Aurora, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB), Redis, Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Spinnaker, ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Grafana, AWS cloud, private cloud, S3, and other tools.

Experience

Airbnb

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked as an Engineering Lead in Airbnb Payment Compliance Team, responsible for managing all compliance aspects related to payouts for its 5 million hosts, including KYC, PEP, sanctions, and financial crime prevention.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Led a team of 4 engineers to handle KYC, CDD and EDD Compliance cases.
Designed and implemented in-app notifications for the Payments Compliance Tool, enhancing the Operations team's efficiency and reducing average case handling time for a payment compliance case.
Revamped the Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) program by implementing advanced filtering and bulk action features, allowing for simultaneous handling of 100 cases at a time (Improvement of 100x)
Contributed in building escalations platform for the Payment Compliance Tool, optimizing the escalation process for compliance issues and enabled the creation of over 500 cases per day.

JavaSpring BootKubernetesAWSKafkaDatadog

Paytm

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Nov 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Worked as Technical Lead for PayPay PLC(Payment Linked Coupons) product, a Japanese fintech company that develops electronic payment services. PLC is used by more than 4 million merchants for creating coupons for more than 60 million PayPay customers. Customers can use these coupons while making payment via PayPay application and get cashback in return.
PayPay - https://paypay.ne.jp/
Roles & Responsibilities:
Led a team of 5 engineers in designing and developing scalable solutions, enabling the services to handle over 3,000 QPS achieving p95 latency <250 ms and p99 latency < 1 sec.
Responsible for end to end lifecycle of application starting from requirement analysis, planning, designing, implementing and releasing to end users.
Migrated kafka broker which handled 10M+ events from one cluster to another without downtime .

JavaKotlinSpring BootKafkaAWS

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2020 – Oct 2021 · 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Roles & Responsibilities:
Implemented a multi-merchant coupon campaign feature in the PLC application allowing big merchants like 7-Eleven and Lawson to create coupon with 20,000 stores.
Created a monitoring mechanism dashboard and implemented alerts for the PLC application.
Designed and developed scalable microservices for PLC application to meet the business requirements.

JavaSpring BootMicroservices

Oracle

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2020 – Nov 2020 · 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Oracle HCM Recruiting Application, a cloud based enterprise solution that provides one platform for workforce lifecycle management to organizations. HCM suite provides applications like Recruiting, Global HR, Payroll.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Implemented Vanity URL solution for Oracle HCM Recruiting application. Vanity URL helps in branding of SaaS based applications.

JavaCloud Solutions

Software Engineer

Aug 2018 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Roles & Responsibilities:
Integrated Oracle HCM Recruiting Application with Oracle Infinity Analytics platform. Oracle Infinity helps in analyzing user behavior in the application.
Developed Internal message portal for Oracle HCM Recruiting. Message portal was deployed for both SMS and Email communication to user.

JavaOracle Integration

Intellect design arena ltd

Software Engineer

Jul 2015 – Jul 2018 · 3 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Worked as a Software Engineer for Intellect Design Arena Limited, a fintech organization that helps financial institutions on the path to growth and success. Apart from having its own product line, Intellect helps financial companies to digitalize their businesses.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Developed several functionalities in Customer Portal and Agent Portal for LIC Corporation India. LIC is India's biggest life insurance provider and it covers around 70% of insurance market in India. LIC has around 300 million policyholders.
Customer Portal - https://ebiz.licindia.in/D2CPM/#Login
Agent Portal - https://ebiz.licindia.in/AgentPortal/#Login
Contributed to QNI(Quotes and Illustration) module for LIC which calculates premium of the policy based on various parameters.
Developed functionalities in FNA(Functional Need Analysis) and integrated it as part of Digital Distribution Suite(DSS) product of Intellect Seec.

Web Development

Eplanet soft - ep soft pvt. ltd.

Intern

Jan 2014 – Feb 2014 · 1 mo

Worked as an Intern in Eplanet Soft which provides comprehensive Web Development Services.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Developed and provided various web solutions to clients and enabled them to take their business online.