Deepak Kumar Bastia

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in FinTech industry.
Expert in both backend and frontend frameworks.
Recognized for exceptional teamwork and project contributions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech expert with strong full-stack development capabilities.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

PhpAgile MethodologiesBankingCloud MigrationBack-end DevelopmentWeb Applications

Other Skills

AJAXAPIAPI GatewaysAWSAccountingAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsBack-End Web DevelopmentCMS systemsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Code reviewCodeIgniterContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Continuous integrationDebits

About

Experienced Lead Software Engineer with a proven track record in the FinTech industry. Proficient in a diverse range of technologies, including PHP (Laravel, Symfony), Angular, TypeScript, Javascript, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, REST API design, and Agile methodologies. Experienced in working across both backend and frontend frameworks. Educational background includes a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from Biju Patnaik University of Technology and a Master of Technology (M.Tech) from IIIT Bhubaneswar.

Experience

14 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Vearc technologies private limited

Engineering Lead

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Roles & Responsibilities:
1. In my role, I led the design, development, and delivery of scalable banking modules on the Skaleet's core banking platform, ensuring high performance and maintainability aligned with SAAS-based Banking Stack solutions.
2. Guided the team in translating business requirements into robust technical solutions by leveraging OpenAPI standards, along with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles.
3. Enforced coding standards, architectural principles, and best development practices across all project phases.
4. I collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA engineers, and product managers, facilitating Agile practices such as Scrum and Kanban through sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
5. I also played a critical role in developing unit tests to maintain consistent code coverage of at least 80%, as well as managing critical bug resolution, performance tuning, and post-release support to ensure application stability.

PHPLaravelSymfonyAgile methodologiesOpenAPIDomain-Driven Design+3

Open financial technologies

Sr.Lead - Software Engineer

Dec 2019 – Aug 2024 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Roles & Responsibilities:
1. Oversaw multiple modules including Banking, Accounting & Bills.
2. Integrated multiple banking service Integration over the year.
3. Build fully automated system that allows a company/individual to make debit payments to multiple beneficiaries from there connected linked accounts.
4. Created a generic framework for connected banking with a lot of re-usability and build a translation layer which reduced the integration time from 6 weeks to 1 week.
5. Led team members, provide guidance by regular code review and best practices.
6. Collaborating with their team to identify and fix technical problems.
7. Led a team in refactoring the existing code base to improve response time, reduce infrastructure cost, and remove bottlenecks.
8. Worked with DevOps to migrate the cloud infrastructure from AWS to GCP, ensuring a smooth transition and maintaining system stability.
9. Led the migration of existing monolithic components to micro service architecture.
Accomplishments:
1. Received praise from top managements for my quality of work and meet deadlines within the estimated time frame.
2. Received a recognition from the CTO in the company news letter for minimizing the development effort from 45 days to just a week.

BankingAccountingDebitsCloud migrationMicroservicesCode review+3

Perk.com

Full-Stack Web Developer

Jul 2015 – Nov 2019 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Handled reporting and analytics for Perk.
2. Development and maintenance of WATCHBACK.COM and back-end dashboard.
3. Worked on various features for Perk back-end.
4. Handled implementation of background workers and queue system.
5. Worked closely with product managers to collect requirements and implementation.
6. Worked with both the front and back ends architecture and writing challenging front-end & back-end code.
Accomplishments:
1. Recognized as the Most Valuable Team Player multiple times for consistently demonstrating exceptional teamwork skills and contributing to the success of high-profile projects.

ReportingAnalyticsBack-end developmentQueue systemsProduct management

Mindfire solutions

LAMP Stack Developer

Jul 2011 – Jul 2015 · 4 yrs · Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Worked closely with international clients to establish problem specifications and system designs for various web applications.
2. Created and maintained web applications from scratch as well as using various CMS systems.
3. Created, delivered and maintained scalable system architecture to
support a high-availability internet site with various internal applications.
4. Helped to streamline development process by implementing code quality checks and helped to implement continuous integration.

Web applicationsCMS systemsSystem architectureContinuous integration