Paras Saini

Backend Engineer

Kurukshetra, Haryana, India5 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in backend engineering with proven fraud prevention strategies.
  • Led successful migration projects enhancing system scalability.
  • Award-winning coder with a strong competitive programming background.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and data pipeline architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend EngineeringArchitectureFullstack DevelopmentData Pipeline EngineeringSoftware Development

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAlgorithmsAmazon ElastiCacheAmazon Web Services (AWS)Application DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)AutomationBack-End Web DevelopmentCC (Programming Language)C#C++CommunicationCompetitive ProgrammingComputer Networking

About

Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience Passionate and seasoned Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience and a strong foundation in Information Technology from MNNIT Allahabad. Proficient in a diverse range of backend technologies and frameworks, adept at optimizing performance and ensuring reliability. Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive projects from conception to successful implementation. Known for tackling complex challenges with creativity and precision, bringing a dedication to quality and a drive for innovation to every project. Key Skills: - Programming Languages: C++, JavaScript, X++ - Software Development: Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) - Software Engineering: Design Patterns, System Design, Git, Data Structures and Algorithms, API Development and Integration Work Experience: Salesforce - Hyderabad, Telangana Member Of Technical Staff Contributing to the development of the next-gen Salesforce Commerce Cloud, specializing in backend validation, test optimization, user experience enhancement, and API integration for buyer profile management. Microsoft - Noida, Uttar Pradesh Software Engineer 2 Played a pivotal role in migrating monolith pipeline architecture to microservices, designing and implementing efficient data pipelines, and enhancing database scalability and performance. Citrix - Bangalore, Karnataka Software Engineer Enhanced Secure Mail functionality by integrating innovative features, improving user experience, and expanding the user base. Education: BTech – Information Technology, MNNIT Allahabad (June 2020) CPI: 9.33 / 10 Achievements: - Silver Medalist in Information Technology, MNNIT Allahabad (2016-2020) - LeetCode Rating: 2065, with over 1100 problems solved - Ranked 65th out of 8633 participants in March Circuits ’19 (HackerEarth Coding Event) - Winner of the 10 Days of Code competition organized by Coding Blocks

Experience

5 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 8 mos
Current Experience

Coursera

Back End Developer

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • Backend Engineer:
  • Established WES Backend Engineering in India and led architecture, cross-service delivery and operational readiness for enterprise checkout, payments and fraud-prevention.
  • Key achievements
  • 1) Solved a $1M chargeback crisis by designing and shipping a hybrid email-validation + OTP system (3rd-party vendor integration, caching, Redis). Chargebacks fell 23.4% → 1.9%, preventing >$100K in fraud; zero production incidents.
  • 2) Improved checkout conversion (~4%) by designing and launching Passwordless Checkout (backend auth integration). Owned backend design, experiments and coordinated rollout across 6 teams.
  • 3) Completed full backend migration (Scala → Java) for enterprise checkout & contracts: migrated 70+ endpoints, delivered 100% of the program with zero-downtime rollouts and no production regressions — improved maintainability and developer velocity.
  • 4) Built pricing orchestration for annual vs. quarterly subscriptions across multiple services: eliminated duplicate pricing calls, added automated tests, and enabled safe business experiments for new pricing models.
  • 5) Led GraphQL advisory for India: reviewed 35+ schema changes, removed timezone bottlenecks for approvals, and standardized authorization guidance across teams.
  • 6) Operational & process improvements: delivered Retool tooling for business ops, PR workflow automation across 7 repos, Datadog/Amplitude alerting and runbooks to enable autonomous business and Data Science operations.
  • 7) Mentorship & enablement: mentored all WES engineers and authored LLM migration playbooks to accelerate onboarding and cross-team contributions.
Backend EngineeringArchitectureCross-service deliveryOperational readinessFraud preventionRedis+1

Salesforce

Software Development Engineer 2

Dec 2023 – Sep 2024 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • Building next gen commerce cloud,
  • Working as a fullstack developer,
  • Tech Stack: Java, LWC, Splunk, Javascript, Typescript
JavaLWCSplunkJavaScriptTypeScriptFullstack Development

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer 2

Mar 2023 – Dec 2023 · 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Remote

  • Migrated monolith pipeline architecture to microservices.
  • Build the data pipeline to handle the large volume of tables data and
  • then transform them into reports.
  • Followed the ETL design pattern to divide the pipeline into different
  • stages.
  • Built the monitoring service across the pipeline including Proactive
  • Monitors, Dashboards, Reactive-Alerts.
  • Added the support for database sharding in order to handle and store
  • large volumes of relational, transactional data.
  • Added the cloud schedule flows for triggering transforms logic after
  • every frequent interval.
  • Tech Stack Used: C++, C#, X++, KQL, PowerBi, Geneva, Jarvis.
C++C#X++KQLPowerBiGeneva+2

Software Engineer

Apr 2022 – Feb 2023 · 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Remote

  • Built the Financial Tags project by taking responsibility from the start
  • and completion under a strict timeline.
  • The financial tags are helpful to tag different transactional entries,
  • and reports in order to search and categorize the data as per need.
  • This is the light weight version of Financial Dimensions where a more
  • freedom is provided to customer actions so that customers can
  • interact more with the Finance platform and customize the data
  • accordingly.
  • The project increased the user base by 2.23%.
  • The project has increased the user experience by moving out the
  • tedious task to a single point for tracking transaction details.
  • Tech Stack Used: C++, C#, X++.
C++C#X++Software Development

Citrix

2 roles

Software Engineer 2

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

  • Added Auto Discovery(v2) feature in Secure Mail and reduced the
  • interaction of users on the Sign On page, as this feature is getting the
  • information around mailboxes, thus increasing the user experience.
  • Users don’t have to enter credentials multiple times now.
  • Added support for 21Vianet users, as the servers in China are hosted
  • by 21Vianet, so direct access to exchange servers was not allowed,
  • worked on adding specific configuration around scenario and let the
  • user enroll into exchange servers through Secure Mail.
  • Worked on customer issues and internal bugs parallelly as well.
  • Tech Stack Used: C++, Objective-C, Swift.
C++Objective-CSwiftSoftware Development

Software Engineer

Aug 2020 – Feb 2021 · 6 mos · Remote

  • Integrated Microsoft Teams Meeting
  • feature with Secure Mail. This did
  • increase the user experience.
  • Reduced security threat by using
  • CtxSecureEnclave for encrypting and
  • decrypting OAuth Tokens(O365,
  • GraphAPI) while storing in KeyChain.
C++Objective-CSwiftSoftware Development

Education

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology

Bachelor's degree — Information Technology

May 2016 – Jul 2020

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