Ayaz Ahmad

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India14 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Go and distributed systems.
Led big data infrastructure projects at PayPal.
Strong background in fraud detection systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Fintech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go (programming Language)Distributed SystemsApache SparkJavaPython (programming Language)Elasticsearch

Other Skills

AerospikePostresqlApache KafkaMentoringSoftware DesignGolangPostgreSQLKafkaApache Spark StreamingHDFSApache ZooKeeperCassandraSpringBootWeb fluxSpring BootSpark

About

Quick learner, hard working, team player and always looking for new challenges.

Experience

14 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Effectiv

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Developed Case Management System to provide efficient pagination, search large no of cases. Tech stack used - Aerospike, Elasticsearch
Developed Entity modelling solution to provide following capabilities
Near real time Velocity Counters in fraud workflow strategy to catch bad actors
360 overview of various identifiable entity and their association to help in reviewing suspicious activity
Tech stack used -Golang, Aerospike, PostgreSQL
Developed Notification Framework to deliver various business critical events to customers.
Tech stack used - Golang, Kafka, PostgreSQL
Developed Feature Flag to roll out, enable/disable features to specific set of customers/users
Tech Stack: Golang, PostgreSQL
Collaborated with Other engineer in high level design phase of core that power few business critical feature like comparing live version workflow with candidate workflow, bulk testing a draft workflow.
Regularly conducted Design and Architecture meeting, motivated engineers to increase the Unit Test coverage.
Proposed new ideas to Product team
Expression Tree to ease writing condition in workflow Opentelemetry for observability
Opentelemetry for observability

Go (Programming Language)AerospikePostresqlApache KafkaElasticSearchDistributed Systems+2

Paypal

Member Of Technical Staff

Jan 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Big Data Infrastructure: Led the team in establishing a big data infrastructure (Spark + HDFS) to address a variety of analytics use cases.
Offline Velocity Rule Generator - A system that generates low latency roll up aggregation as spark batch job. Tech stack used -Java, Spring – boot, Spark, Cassandra, HDFS.
Kafka Over Rest (MVP) - A message broker system using Kafka that allows various On Prem customer to share and access data over Http. Tech stack used - Java, Spring boot Web Flux, Kafka, Zookeeper

Apache SparkApache Spark StreamingHDFSApache ZooKeeperCassandraSpringBootWeb flux+1

Simility

Software Developer

Dec 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs · Greater Hyderabad Area

Rule Threshold Tuner: A Cron job that suggests threshold for condition in existing transaction monitoring rules. Tech stack used: Python, Pandas, scikit-learn
Blacklist/Whitelist Service – A rest service that allows to tag certain Entity (like email, phone, device id) as blacklist whitelist. Tech stack used: Elasticsearch, springboot, redis.
De-Dup Signal - A template for indexing fields and template to write de-dup query that allows to monitor transaction for suspicious activity comming from various PII fields. Tech stack used: Elasticsearch, SpringBoot

Python (Programming Language)Pandas (Software)Scikit-LearnElasticSearchSpringBootRedis+1

Amazon

Software Engineer

Jan 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Qualcomm

2 roles

SDE

Nov 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Currently working on FM Radio in android. My main work comprises bug fixing featiure implementation at driver, framework, application level on android OS.