Kanwar Baweja

Founder

London, England, United Kingdom8 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led multiple teams to successful project completions.
Expert in Rust and Ruby on Rails development.
Strong background in Fintech solutions and integrations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech-focused software engineer with strong backend development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Rust (programming Language)Project ManagementProblem SolvingProduct DevelopmentC#Ruby On Rails

Other Skills

AWSBusiness DevelopmentCommunicationDockerGitGrafanaHelmHoneycombKubernetesLinuxMachine LearningMicroservicesRabbitmqRspecSQL

About

I’m a cheerful, energetic software engineer with a product mindset. I like solving problems that bring value to people or businesses. I have built interesting products over the years and coached engineers in new skills and abilities. Experience in Rust, Ruby on Rails and C# as Senior engineer. Other Skills include - System design, Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker,gRPC, Terraform, Helm, Grafana, Honeycomb, AWS, Rabbitmq, Git and Sql Explored machine learning and AI by completing Deep Learning courses (by Andrew Ng) from coursera. I’m fluent in English, Hindi, Punjabi

Experience

Speakeasy

Founding Engineer

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Truelayer

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Led a team of 3 engineers to integrate with Direct Debit.
Spearheaded a cross-team effort to resolve IBAN issue to increase payment conversion for Truelayer (TL). The work involved defining the problem, discussing the potential solutions & implementing it.
Led the work to fix the discrepancy between TL ledger balance & TL banking provider balance. Communicated the changes with impacted TL clients. The work significantly reduced auditing efforts.
Led the work for integrating with a 3rd party provider to enable Sepa & Sepa-instant payments throughout Europe. The work led to the signing of big clients for Truelayer.
Led a team of 2 engineers to combine 2 transaction reconciliation services into 1. The work led to reducing maintenance overhead for the team.
Tech Stack - Rust

Rust (Programming Language)Project ManagementSoftware InfrastructureProblem SolvingCommunicationGit+4

Backend engineer - Payments team

Promoted

Mar 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Allowing businesses to receive and send money directly to their end-users bank account in real-time (Currencies - GBP & EUR)
Tech Stack - Rust

Rust (Programming Language)GitLinuxProduct Development

Backend Engineer - Verification Team

Jan 2021 – Mar 2021 · 2 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Verifying bank account details with onboarding form details to hasten KYC processes for businesses
Tech stack - C# and .Net framework

GitC#LinuxProduct Development

Backend Engineer - Financial Insights team

Jul 2020 – Dec 2020 · 5 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Real-time categorization of financial transactions from UK, France, Ireland using Machine learning model
Tech stack - C# and .Net framework

GitC#LinuxProduct Development

Zoomcar

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Jul 2020 · 9 mos

Architected and designed task-management service
Tech stack - Ruby on Rails

GitRuby on RailsLinuxTeam ManagementProduct Development

Software Engineer

Mar 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

Implemented Hierarchical Tagging
Reduced response time of admin panel by 5x
Worked on Communications Microservice
Implemented Last Mile Direction Module (description, photos for car navigation)
Tech stack - Ruby on Rails

GitRuby on RailsLinuxProduct Development

Beryl systems private limited

Software Engineer Intern

Feb 2017 – Sep 2017 · 7 mos · On-site

Design a parking system backend for iOS and Android
Customer App – discover nearby parking locations, authentication, wallet balance & creating a ticket
Attendant App – parking ticket creation, batch uploading tickets, ticket validation, cash at hand reporting
Admin – reports for parking-lot utilization; out of operational hours ticket printing

Ruby on Rails