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Kanchan Aswani

Software Engineer

Toronto, Ontario, Canada11 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 10+ years of experience in backend engineering.
  • Led complex projects improving system reliability.
  • Expert in scalable system design and project ownership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Fintech and scalable system architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentSystem ReliabilityProject ManagementSystem MonitoringFeature DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentImage Processing

Other Skills

AWSActiveMQAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularApplication SupportArchitectural DesignBashC++CommunicationData StructuresDocker ProductsGitGitLab

About

💡 Senior Backend Engineer | Scalable System Design | Project Ownership | Production Stability A results-driven backend engineer with 10+ years of experience delivering large-scale, business-critical systems across ad tech and fintech domains. At Loblaw, I owned and led delivery of complex backend projects that directly impacted system reliability, developer efficiency, and business uptime: 🚀 Delivered end-to-end fixes for high-priority issues, including critical race conditions, budgeting logic failures, and deployment regressions—unblocking releases and restoring production stability within tight timelines. 🔧 Reduced CI pipeline failures by 50% by resolving concurrency and test isolation issues, saving substantial development effort. 📉 Cut logging costs by $500/month through configurable log truncation, dynamic log levels, and GitLab automation. ✅ Enhanced deployment visibility by improving GitLab environments—eliminating manual tracking and reducing release friction. 🤝 Led release recoveries and incident response, coordinating with engineering, QA, and SRE for swift rollbacks and re-releases. At Arcesium, I contributed to mission-critical data pipelines for elite financial institutions, delivering features across ingestion, enrichment, and reporting layers while supporting SLAs in a highly regulated environment. I bring a mindset of ownership, clarity, and delivery—from root cause to resolution, from architecture to deployment. • Independent & Analytical: I thrive in autonomous environments, applying problem-solving skills to complex challenges. • Collaborative Leadership: I work closely with upper management to define software requirements and translate them into actionable technical specifications. • Efficient Project Management: I effectively balance priorities and ensure timely execution across the software development lifecycle. • Cross-Functional Alignment: I foster collaboration with internal teams and vendors to resolve issues, enhance products, and drive high-quality software delivery.

Experience

11 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Loblaw digital

Senior Developer

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

JavaSpring FrameworkGitLabMicroservicesDocker ProductsBackend Development+1

Arcesium

3 roles

Engineering Team Lead

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Working as part of Pricing System, a centralized application responsible for valuing all financial instruments traded by the client as well as producing foreign exchange rates.
  • Currently working under the capacity of Engineering Lead with four direct reports under me and leading PIVal Project.
  • Worked on this PIVal project from inception to delivery with the ultimate aim of providing complete transparency and self-service ability to the clients.
  • This project involved extracting out a big chunk from the main application, comprising of Real-Time API-based Snappers and file parsers back-end into another application and was built with Generics to ensure type safety at compile time.
  • For the same, worked from requirement collection, preparing RND Proposal, getting approvals, design draft (HLD/LLD) and getting approvals for the same, project planning, and implementation phase for this project. This project has been a milestone in my career as well.
  • This project has been delivered and is now in the onboarding and maintenance phase. Now we are working onto making this application Multi-Tenant and containerizing the same using Docker-Containers (AWS platform)
  • It is critical for various aspects of our business, as this pricing data is used to monitor risks across various portfolios and compute profit and loss ("PnL") statements.
  • Tech Stack & Tools: Java 8, Java 11, Kotlin, Perl, ActiveMQ for Message Broker,MySQL, Spring, TDD (Mockito, PowerMockito) S3, Deployed on AWS, Jira
Java 8Java 11KotlinMySQLSpringTDD+3

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Promoted

Jun 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Worked with backend computation Engine tool, which is a highly complex infrastructure that continuously monitors any changes happening in and out of our System in order to reevaluate.
  • It has a complex infrastructure that continuously monitors any changes happening in and out of our application in order to reevaluate instruments. It is critical for the pricing of derivative instruments, as the system should detect any changes in inputs automatically and use new inputs for pricing instruments to avoid PnL discrepancies with broker files.
  • This tool required using collections, multi-threading, process schedulers extensively. This project also used synchronization in a few critical areas.
  • Driving the design and development of the computation systems and business process automation projects for the Pricing department.
  • Job role includes working closely with business counterparts and gathering requirements, planning, analysis, designing, implementing, monitoring, and status reporting
  • Tech Stack: Java, Kotlin, ActiveMQ, Python, Bash, TDD (Test Driven Development)
JavaKotlinActiveMQPythonBashTDD+2

Member Of Technical Staff

Oct 2015 – Jun 2016 · 8 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Working as part of Pricing System, taking care of feature development and enhancements along with RND items
  • Tech Stack: Java, Multithreading, Perl, MySql, Spring
JavaMultithreadingPerlMySQLSpringBackend Development+1

Applied materials

Software Developer

Jul 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Worked as a member of the Automatic Defect Classification team. The tool works on client-server architecture, providing Automatic data collection from connected tools. And on the input data which contains images, it does rigorous Image Processing for attributes collection, and on using neural
  • networks, it does Automatic defect classification.
  • Technology Used: Java, Java Swings, C++, Angular
JavaJava SwingsC++AngularSoftware DevelopmentImage Processing

Rwth aachen university

Intern

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

  • PROJECT DONE IN INTERNSHIP FROM RWTH, GERMANY
  • Live working android app: L2P FORUM.
  • One-time user Log-in facility [Oauth2 Authentication].
  • Based on Android.
  • Fetching data from the Demo Server of RWTH Aachen University and updating UI.

Education

Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

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