Jul 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Award 🏆 : Bankathon Winner – Awarded for presenting a strategic concept to enhance the customer base of a banking application, along with a working prototype demonstrating its viability.
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• Achievements:
• Delivered the zero-to-one “Add on Credit Card” product on the Axis Bank platform, driving significant growth in the credit card customer base within 6 months and contributing to incremental revenue through increased activations and usage.
• Identified and implemented REST API performance optimizations (result reuse mechanisms, data access path optimization, and payload reduction), resulting in a 25% efficiency improvement and faster user response times.
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• Responsibilities:
• Led software application development, integration, and testing activities and delivered exceptional product features from concept to implementation.
• Collaborated closely with Product/Business stakeholders, translating product requirements into impactful user stories and consistently delivering exceptional results within challenging timelines.
• Directed comprehensive code reviews, maintaining top code quality. Mentored junior developers, elevating team performance and fostering growth.

Apr 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Achievements:
• Pioneered innovative approaches (caching, async processing, query tuning, pre-computing, payload reduction) to optimize the backend systems when dealing with large data sets. These solutions yielded 50% efficiency gains, resulting in seamless user experiences and enhanced system responsiveness.
• Applied expert debugging skills to identify and resolve software issues. Skilfully traced root causes (latency, data inconsistency, infra limits, failover gaps), proposing effective solutions to ensure uninterrupted operation and achieve optimal performance.
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• Responsibilities:
• Led technical initiatives, driving the development and evolution of cutting-edge software solutions.
• Thrived in a fast-paced environment by developing resilient back-end components that aligned with product specifications.
• Owned the design and implementation of failure recovery mechanisms, including automated retries and rollback strategies.

Jun 2020 – Apr 2021 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Achievements:
• Successfully led and delivered the end-to-end transformation of a monolithic e-commerce application into a scalable microservices architecture, implementing strict microservice design patterns to improve system scalability, resilience, and independent deploy ability.
• Successfully integrated multiple third-party systems (Lending, Insurance, and Bill payments), enabling seamless communication workflows in production.
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• Responsibilities:
• Architected and engineered a high-performance distributed application with a strong focus on testability, reusability, and efficiency.
• Led integrations with third-party APIs, including payment gateways and messaging services, ensuring secure system interoperability.
• Collaborated closely with clients and stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify expectations, and deliver solutions aligned with business needs.

Jul 2016 – May 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Achievements:
• Gained experience from multiple early-stage startups by building products from the ground up, gaining rapid exposure to end-to-end software development and established a strong foundation in how technology products are designed, built, and scaled.
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• Responsibilities:
• Engineered robust REST APIs, prioritizing optimal responsiveness to client-side requests,
• resulting in seamless user experiences and efficient communication.
• Strategically planned, provisioned, and managed cloud environments and code repositories,
• ensuring smooth deployment and effective version control throughout the software
• development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated exceptional versatility by actively participating as a valuable team member
• across multiple projects within different organizations. Thrived in agile environments,
• leveraging technologies such as NodeJS, Micro-Services, MySQL, SequelizeJS, MongoDB, Elastic-
• Search, Multi-tenancy Architecture, Redis, Docker, AWS, and Git.
• Collaborated closely with team members, fostering effective communication, seamless
• collaboration, and timely delivery of tasks, thereby contributing significantly to project success.

Nov 2015 – May 2016 · 6 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software.
• Establish, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed.
• Extensively use debugger to troubleshoot logical errors.
• Gather the needed modifications from the clients to make the software more user friendly.