Aakash Shrivastava

Senior Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining production web applications, backend APIs, cloud-based systems, internal dashboards, and integration-heavy platforms across fintech and healthtech. Strong experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, Python, Django/DRF, Flask, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, AWS RDS, AWS EC2, AWS CloudWatch, Docker, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD.

At Cake

Capital, built and owned backend services, API integrations, customer-facing workflows, and internal admin dashboards for a regulated fintech platform across 14+ banking, compliance, onboarding, payout, document, and KYB/KYC providers. Experienced in full-stack delivery, API design, cloud infrastructure, production debugging, stakeholder collaboration, and using AI-assisted development tools for planning, debugging, refactoring, test-case exploration, and code review support.

Senior Software Engineer at Cake Capital (2023-10 – Present)

• Built and owned backend and platform systems for onboarding, accounts, payouts, documents, compliance checks, KYB/KYC workflows, and banking provider integrations.
• Designed REST APIs, data models, service workflows, and integration patterns using Python, Django/DRF, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, AWS, Docker, and GitHub Actions.
• Built internal admin dashboards and operational data visibility tools used by KYC, customer support, and business stakeholders.
• Added dashboard views for inspecting provider responses, KYC progress, customer records, document states, payout/account statuses, integration outcomes, and workflow failures.
• Integrated 14+ banking, payment, KYC/KYB, and compliance providers by analyzing APIs, mapping provider data models, handling edge cases, and coordinating with external engineering teams.
• Developed asynchronous data and workflow processing using Celery and Redis for long-running operations, retries, background jobs, and status updates.
• Implemented JWT authentication, OTP flows, partner-specific API contexts, secure document handling, and role-aware operational access patterns.
• Led a team of 4 engineers through technical planning, task breakdown, implementation reviews, documentation, and production releases.
• Used AI-assisted development tools for planning, debugging, test-case exploration, refactoring, and code review preparation.

Software Development Engineer 2 at Procedure Technologies Pvt Ltd (2021-03 – 2023-10)

• Built backend APIs and integration workflows for Paytm Health Locker / ABHA using Node.js, AWS Lambda, S3, REST APIs, and serverless cloud infrastructure, supporting healthcare document validation, encryption, storage, and retrieval.
• Developed Python/Flask APIs and proxy services for Aarogya Setu / National Health App, integrating with ABDM-related healthcare workflows and external systems.
• Built and maintained production backend services using Node.js, Python, DynamoDB, S3, REST APIs, and AWS serverless infrastructure.
• Collaborated with frontend engineers, product teams, QA, and external stakeholders to deliver reliable API-driven features for web and mobile-facing healthtech products.
• Contributed to production debugging, secure data handling, API reliability, integration support, and maintainable service design across public-scale healthcare systems.
• Participated in implementation planning, code reviews, integration testing, release support, and cross-functional product delivery.

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering – Institute of Technology and Management, Gwalior (2016 – 2020)