Aparna Rajan

Senior Software Engineer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates13 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in modernizing legacy applications to microservices.
Proven ability to lead development teams and mentor engineers.
Significantly improved system stability and performance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in AWS and modular software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

AwsFinanceCapital Markets

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)PythonFlaskData CachingStreaming APIsRabbitMQJavaScalaJenkinsDjangopysparkREST APIsSQLDatabasesOracle PLSQL

About

Proven track record of communicating with Portfolio Implementation (PI) managers to understand their requirements and deliver tailored features for innovative portfolio implementation analytics platforms Expertise in modernizing legacy applications by migrating to microservices-based architectures with zero defects, signifi cantly improving system stability, and optimizing build and release processes Skilled in designing and architecting modular components, including data integration layers, reusable libraries, and tools for alerting, caching, and streaming to enhance system scalability and performance Adept at leading development teams, mentoring junior engineers, and driving continuous improvement in agile environments, delivering long-term projects spanning 6 months

Experience

13 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

10 mos

Current Experience

Property finder

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Aqr capital management

2 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Built modular components for the portfolio implementation platform
Orchestrated the creation of pi analytics platform components, simplifying data access for users.
Developed reusable libraries for business users to retrieve data independently, reducing turnaround time by 50%.
Implemented streaming APIs and data caching for optimal performance and user experience.
Modernize legacy applications
Migrated the legacy performance attribution written in Ruby to an asynchronous distributed system in python Flask framework, using AWS Batch far gate workers provisioned up on demand
Multiple workers parallelized the computation, bringing down the overall completion time by 75%
Implemented data snapshot-ing and versioning, reducing support time by 50%.

FinanceAmazon Web Services (AWS)AWS

Associate

May 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Maintained and added new features to messaging based distributed system for performance attribution built using RabbitMQ Framework written in Java and Scala
Stabilized the legacy system identifying the patterns in run time error and reduced the alert messaged by 50%
Designed and developed self serviceable configuration management tool for researchers following TDD principles

FinanceCapital Markets

Capital one

Data Engineer

Dec 2015 – Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

Implemented a data cleaning, processing, and summarizing pipeline using pyspark to enhance data quality. The pipeline was improved to ingest more than a million rows of data for the statistical model using information from credit bureaus
Designed and developed REST APIs for feature extraction and prediction algorithms on timeseries data.
Handled day-to-day issues and fine-tuned applications for enhanced performance.

JenkinsDjango

Oracle financial services software

Staff Consultant

Nov 2012 – Nov 2015 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

Application Developer for core banking software called Flexcube
Developed client specific product customizations in Oracle PLSQL programming involving stored procedures
The pipeline was improved to ingest more than a million rows of data for the statistical model using information
from credit bureaus
Involved in writing PL SQL programming for stored procedures and functions
Developed UNIX shell scripts to monitor process status

SQLDatabases