May 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

• (1) Worked on stabilizing the Driver Lending workflows and bringing the number of Open Production Incidents down from 100+ to a single digit number in a period of three months via immediate fixes and long-term enhancements leading a team of 4 backend engineers.
• (2) Worked on enhancing existing data pipeline configurations to resolve data sync issues to datalake which impact business reporting and giving out more loans to the driver partners.
• (3) Worked on refactoring the loan repayment workflows to make them more performant and extensible with the increasing scale.
• (4) Launched cash loans in Philippines for MoveIT drivers providing them with a line of credit to avail.
• (5) Identified more than 25 enhancements in the loan management system at Grab. These are in progress to improve the service performance metrics.

Oct 2022 – May 2023 · 7 mos

• (1) Working as the engineering owner for PayLater vouchers, notifications, and external integrations problem spaces under the driver in-ecosystem Lending across Southeast Asia, leading a team of 4 amazing engineers.

Apr 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• (1) As a part of the User Compliance team, designed and implemented Instant KYC feature in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, which enabled the users to get onboarded in less than a minute’s time on average.
• (2) As a part of the COVID recovery initiative by the Malaysian government for smaller businesses – ePenjana 2.0, I was a member of the core team for design and development.
• (3) Led a team of 6 back-end engineers for driving non-functional requirements across the system to enhance stability metrics. This included identifying and fixing open database transactions, memory leaks and security bug-fixes.
• (4) Onboarded 2 interns and 1 back-end engineer in the back-end team. Created short video recordings for easy onboarding of new engineers.
• (5) Led a team of backend engineers to ensure that quality metrics are constantly met for Compliance services through a variety of techniques.
• (6) Gave a tech talk on Database Internals and why it matters, which was presented to around 100 engineers within Grab.
• (7) Designed a library to improve the resilience of services in Grab.

Jan 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• (1) I am a part of "GrabPay Digital Marketplace" responsible for managing digital goods across Grab Platform and handling transactional flow for the same.
• Technologies : Golang, MySQL, Redis, Apache Kafka, AWS Step Functions
• Tools : Consul, Grafana, Kibana, Scalyr
• (2) I was responsible for the backend development of the framework required to support Prepaid Electricity in Indonesia as a digital good.
• (3) I was responsible for building Bill Payments in Philippines. This involved the creation of the framework required to support a customizable JSON based UI that could be modified in production at runtime.
• (4) I was responsible for building a generic feature versioning service that provided support to allow or disallow any feature at runtime based on a flexible number of filters.
• (5) Redesigned the entire bill payments flow to make it more generic i.e. support billers with dynamic input requirements and make it open for extension in the future.
• (6) I was an active contributor in analyzing issues pertaining to the maintenance of digital goods and their transactions across the Grab Platform.
• (7) Performed a series of experiments to scale up the application to 100x load handling capability.
• (8) Migrated 2 microservices with Datasources, Kafka streams and Compute Resources across AWS account in production as a part of compliance requirement.
• (9) I am one of the two engineers from the Swarm SRE initiative responsible for ensuring the stability of the system, bringing upon best practices to be followed in the team and minimizing the outage/downtime, if any.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 · 0 mo

• Winter School on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in AI hosted by IIT Kharagpur

Sep 2019 – Jan 2020 · 4 mos

• Mentored professionals on software engineering skills like Problem Solving, Data Structures, Algorithms and System Design. Engaged in Mock Interviews and sync up sessions to prepare them for actual interviews.

Jul 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida Area, India

• (1) I was responsible for the development of continuous integration pipeline for effective delivery of the product in Payment Gateway.
• Technologies: Groovy
• (2) I was responsible for solving several backend challenges and worked in Java with the "Payment Gateway" merchant facing and bank facing teams at Paytm.
• Technologies: Java EE, Redis, MySQL, Spring MVC, Rabbit MQ
• (3) I was a part of "Paytm Payments Bank Team". I was a core member of the team responsible for the development of UPI from scratch which has over 71 million users and more than 4 million transactions per day on average. I was central to the development of several important verticals of UPI including but not limited to Profile Management Service, Transactional Flows, Data Migration Strategies and methods to improve the success rate of the created transactional system.
• (4) Some other important payment flows developed include Cashback Flow and a real-time recon engine that performs sanity of the status returned for a transaction.
• (5) I was also involved in building features for a 3-way recon engine for reconciling the status of a transaction across different parties and settlement of that transaction. We scaled up the reconciliation service to settle approximately 10 million transactions in close to 7 minutes.
• (6) I was involved in developing a reporting system which generated reports for transactions that were settled through the settlement and reconciliation system.
• (7) I was an active contributor to analyzing issues affecting a major transactional volume.
• (8) I was also responsible for collaborating with the Data Warehousing team to identify important metrics to be queried upon for enabling a fruitful Data Ingestion and Visualization Process.
• Technologies and Concepts: Java, Spring Boot, Aerospike, MySQL, Hibernate, Spring JPA, Elastic Search, Spring AOP, Apache Kafka, Distributed Architecture, Kubernetes, AWS Technologies like Amazon S3
• Tools: Datadog, Kibana, Newrelic, Vivid cortex

May 2017 – Jun 2017 · 1 mo · Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

• Summer School on Information and System Security hosted by Vellore Institute of Technology

Dec 2016 – Dec 2016 · 0 mo · Greater Delhi Area

• I was a problem setter and tester at Stockroom.io and was responsible for setting around 50 problems for monthly contests and hiring challenges at Stockroom.io. All problems were algorithmic in nature. Also I developed test cases for 12 problems that were again algorithmic in nature.

Jul 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• I was responsible for spreading awareness regarding programming among the college students through social media marketing and coordinating programming challenges.

Jul 2014 – Aug 2014 · 1 mo · Greater Delhi Area

• I was responsible for development of content(subtitles) for educational videos.
• https://www.youtube.com/user/mycodeschool