Vicky Chijwani

Senior Software Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India12 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led innovative features for Google Pay with significant user impact.
Expert in AI security and cloud computing solutions.
Passionate about UI/UX design and mentoring future engineers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on user experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai SecurityCloud ComputingMobile PaymentsDeveloper ToolsFront-end Development

Other Skills

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)KubernetesDockerJavaScriptRubyFlutterUser Experience DesignUser Interface DesignSoftware DevelopmentMobile ApplicationsWeb ApplicationsJavaPythonOpen SourceProgramming

About

I'm a full-stack developer with a passion for UI and UX design. My open-source work projects are up at https://github.com/vickychijwani, and I occasionally write blog posts at https://vickychijwani.me. I like to be deeply invested in end-to-end development of product features, all the way from talking to users, to architecture design, implementation, testing, documentation, monitoring, and gathering feedback. I also enjoy delivering talks / training sessions on software development and UX design for engineers. In terms of technical breadth, I have worked in each of these areas for at least 3 years: - Large-scale distributed systems in Java (Google Pay had over 75M MAUs in India as of May 2020) - Android/iOS development (Google Pay) - Front-end web dev (built a flexible, real-time JS charting library for financial use-cases) - Developer tools (worked with Kubernetes, CI infrastructure and C++ source-dependency management; built a JS library for other developers in the company)

Experience

12 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Google

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

May 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

Till March 2024: Tech lead responsible for major parts of core payment flows for GPay India, driving the design and development of innovative new features like UPI Circles, to grow UPI usage to senior citizens, teens and other non-UPI native segments of the population (e.g., house helps, NRIs). This idea was pioneered by GPay first, with major contributions from myself on aspects like how to minimize chances of fraud using this feature. We were successful in eventually getting this adopted by NPCI for all UPI apps.
Apr 2024 - Present: Tech lead on Google Cloud Platform's AI security service - Model Armor. I am responsible for the design and development of integrations of other GCP services with Model Armor.

AI SecurityMobile PaymentsCloud ComputingGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)

Software Engineer

Nov 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

As an Engineer on the Google Pay (formerly Tez) team, I work on incentives, offers and rewards, which are a primary driver of user growth, as well as ensuring our existing users keep coming back to the product. As of May 2020, Google Pay had over 75 million MAUs in India.

Ghost

Open Source Maintainer

Oct 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

I developed and maintained the official Android app for Ghost. This app originally started out in 2015 as Quill, a personal project, and I worked on it for 2 years, before joining forces with the Ghost team in 2017 and turning it into the official Ghost app. Read more at https://blog.ghost.org/android/

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Core Engineering - Software Developer

Mar 2015 – Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Jan 2017 - Nov 2018: Working in the developer tools team to build infrastructure and tools.
Moved our entire CI infrastructure to Docker containers using Kubernetes.
Set up monitoring, logging and alerts for the CI system (InfluxDB).
Mentored a team member as they added support for specific CI use-cases like complex parallel pipelines and matrix builds.
Worked on a source-to-source dependency management and release tool for c++ code, built on Git and written in Python.
Added a feature to the above tool to visualize complex dependency graphs and trace “diamond” dependency conflicts.
Led an initiative to eliminate issues arising from client-server incompatibility in the above tool, by enforcing backward compatibility via tests.
Organized and delivered 3 training sessions (Web Dev, UI Design, and Developer Tools) to a batch of 15 campus hires, each in collaboration with a teammate. These sessions spanned a total of 48 hours.
Mar 2015 - Dec 2016: Built a high-performance JavaScript data visualization library for traders.
Authored a JS charting library on top of Highcharts, optimized for financial data, with real-time streaming from various data sources, custom layouts (e.g., multiple time-synced panes), and arbitrary linear combinations of stock prices. It is extensively tested and documented.
Added several developer-oriented features to a desktop app to enable faster development.

Adobe

3 roles

MTS-II

Promoted

Feb 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr

Software development position at Adobe Systems, India.
Revel for Android (500k-1m installs, 4.1 stars as of Oct ‘14)
Implemented the photo-grouping feature, for browsing photos grouped by date, location, tags.
Photoshop Elements - implemented the following features:
A compact, irregular thumbnail grid, similar to the one on Google Images. This involved comparing
relevant algorithms and implementing the best candidate.
Photo-sharing by email, using the SMTP protocol.
An analytics dashboard with charts for various user-related metrics.

MTS-I

Jul 2013 – Jan 2014 · 6 mos

Software development position at Adobe Systems, India.

Software Engineering Intern

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

Worked on an indoor, location-aware Android application for richer experiences at tech summits.
Led the design and implementation of the client application.

Intellecap

Intern

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos

Worked on an open-source management information system for micro-finance institutions, called Mostfit (http://mostfit.in/). Created an admin dashboard for rapidly deploying source code, monitoring logs, and scheduling tasks. Also helped rewrite Mostfit's access-control system with fine-grained permissions. (Ruby, JavaScript)