Jan 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Integral part of Subscriptions Team (Core Application Platform team).
• Designed and developed the Discounting feature in the Chargebee platform to provide discounts on the fly for a subscription.
• Drove initiatives to ensure tests coverage is improved for the legacy codebase and added unit test cases for the Discounting feature.
• I was awarded the “Chargebee Value Champion - #Curiosity award of Q4 2020” in Q1 2021 and the write up for the award is as follows
• “Ashwin has ensured that he understands the finer details of the product functionality and fills gaps in processes. He goes one step further to document his learnings for the team”

Mar 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Member of the core application development team, where we focus on building a resilient, highly scalable multi-tenant subscription billing and management platform for serving customers across the globe.
• Designed, developed & deployed 10+ features to contribute to the growth of the company. The major features that I designed and developed are as follows:
• ◘ Ability to schedule a subscription cancellation.
• ◘ Ability to add a free billing period during subscription creation.
• ◘ Ability to configure offline payment method.
• ◘ Revamp the Monthly recurring revenue calculation.
• Key member in the migration of the Product Catalog module from the monolith application to a standalone micro-service developed in Spring Boot, completed within a period of 9 months by a 7 member team using strangulation pattern.
• ◘ Worked majorly on enabling the infrastructure for the micro-service by coordinating with the Network & Operations team.
• ◘ Worked on formulating the secret key rotation mechanism for secure communication between monolith and microservice.
• ◘ Implemented various POC's such as implementing a Config server for the spring boot microservice using Spring Cloud, created a Job Server using Quartz and Spring batch, and implemented asynchronous sync of events using outbox pattern.
• Ensured the production errors are in check by setting up a process to create visibility and contributed to closing 35% of total bugs closed by the team.
• Drove change and transformation in the process of feature delivery and agile practices.

Jul 2018 – Mar 2019 · 8 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Developed the backend for the scan-and-upload functionality of OYE! Docs application to further reduce the turn-around-time of the loan approval process from 1 day to 10 minutes.
• Designed and developed an interactive portfolio monitoring dashboard out of my own interest for OYE! Loans.

Jun 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Chennai

• Worked on migrating the Lending Stream product Rackspace servers to AWS
• Key member in developing the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) of OYE! Loans - A digital short-term personal loan application, within a period of 6 months to do a market study of 200 loans.
• Extended the MVP to a marketable product to handle thousands of applications per day within the next 6 months built as a mini-service on Flask framework.
• Developed the web version of the OYE! Loans application using the Django framework in Python.
• Worked on automating the loan application process and enhanced the internal operations (CRM) portal to reduce the processing time from 2 days to 0.5 days.

Dec 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 mo · Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India