Rawal Suthar

Backend-focused engineer with 4+ years of fintech production experience across UK banking and financial platforms. Strong in backend architecture, REST API design, core banking integrations, RPA orchestration, and scalable Node.js services. Led backend delivery from requirements through UAT, production launch, security remediation, and post-release reliability.

Known for building practical system boundaries, debugging production issues, and shipping client-facing financial systems with low incident risk.

Lead Backend Developer - Consectus Limited - Mumbai, India

(2023-04)

• Own backend architecture for 3+ simultaneous UK fintech client projects, defining service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, and failure-handling paths for live financial workloads.
• Lead backend delivery for Step One Finance across authentication, authorization, API boundaries, cloud deployment readiness, UAT support, and production launch coordination across 3 organizations.
• Designed a secure mobile-to-RPA orchestration pipeline for Monmouthshire Building Society, enabling 10,000+ customers to onboard at first release with zero critical post-launch incidents.
• Built scalable Node.js and TypeScript backend services using REST APIs, Redis caching, Docker, AWS ECS, AWS S3, and Azure deployment patterns for client-facing financial applications.
• Improved API performance through Redis caching, load-pattern analysis, and latency optimization, supporting sub-200ms response times under peak traffic where confirmed.
• Integrated a third-party mortgage payment provider with webhook handling, transaction lifecycle controls, reconciliation flows, and error recovery for regulated payment workflows.
• Closed critical and high-severity penetration testing findings before go-live, improving production readiness across multiple client environments.
• Resolve production issues through structured debugging, root cause analysis, post-release reports, and prevention work, with zero repeat incidents across managed systems where confirmed.

Software Developer - Consectus Limited - Mumbai, India

(2022-06 - 2023-03)

• Built core banking REST API layers for Bath Building Society, covering account creation, account management, fund transfers, statement generation, and customer banking workflows.
• Delivered backend APIs consumed by mobile, web portal, and internal admin platforms, improving integration reliability across 3 parallel product surfaces.
• Engineered RPA integrations between modern application layers and isolated legacy banking systems with no native API access, reducing manual processing time from 2-3 hours to minutes.
• Aligned API contracts with mobile and web teams before UAT, reducing integration defects and improving release readiness for customer-facing banking systems.
• Supported backend delivery through implementation, debugging, test support, deployment preparation, and production reliability work for fintech platforms.

Software Developer - Sonawane Tech Solutions LLP - Mumbai, India

(2021-08 - 2022-05)

• Developed RESTful APIs and application features using Java and Angular for 3+ client-facing platforms.
• Contributed to requirements analysis, implementation, code reviews, deployment support, and production reliability across client application releases.
• Worked with delivery teams to ship maintainable API behavior and full-stack features for business-facing software products.

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science - ASM Institute of Management & Computer Studies (2020 - 2022)

Bachelor of Technology - Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (2017 - 2020)