Senior Software Engineer at Varo Bank (2024-09 – 2025-11)
- Worked in the Lending team for the development of a full-scale lending platform in Kotlin, taking it from inception to full customer deployment, and enabling seamless borrowing experiences.
- Built multiple core functionalities, including same-day loan approvals for new users and low-fee borrowing options.
- Implemented an automated email notification system for repayments made via non-Varo bank accounts, enhancing customer communication.
- Improved internal developer tooling and user interface for a more efficient development experience.
- Contributed to optimizing various project streams, ensuring scalability, reliability, and a smooth customer experience.
Software Engineer at Amazon.com (Twitch) (2021-11 – 2024-09)
Worked as Engineer in the Twitch Payments platform team and also in the Books publishing team at Amazon.com.
- Lead and implemented Gift Card expansion within the Twitch payment platform to 3 new countries, including updates to eliminate gift card related customer support issues for wallet balance accuracy, and achieve 99.99% reliability for gift card redemptions into wallet. Collaborated with product managers to define requirements and deliver high impact product features.
- Eliminated $700k recurring revenue loss in the Twitch payments platform by researching, identifying, and fixing issues with transaction refunds and Google Developer API integration. Also implemented consistent subscription states and enhanced the test suite to prevent future monetary discrepancies for refunds in the Twitch payments platform. Collaborated with the accounting team and product managers to handle cross-functional requirements.
- Automated state verification for all Twitch subscriptions with Apple by implementing API-based vendor integration with iOS developer APIs. The implementation includes authentication, decryption, parsing, filtering, aggregation, and upload of data. Prior to my solution, Engineers had to undertake the tedious task of manually interacting with Apple APIs to gather data periodically due to the lack of an easy-to-use vendor portal offered by Apple. Collaborated with engineers to identify bottlenecks and fixed them.
- Optimized AWS Lambda utilization in the Twitch payments platform by implementing a builder pattern for selective loading of API clients for outbound API interactions to reduce initialization time, resource usage, and failure rate
- Implemented various code-hygiene efforts like logging standardization, refactoring code flow for maintainability, and reducing CloudFormation configuration drift.
- Mentored five junior engineers and interns through code reviews, design discussions and career growth.
Software Developer at Goldman Sachs (2020-02 – 2021-11)
Engineer on the Spend Management team for employee expense management and analytics.
- Developed Spark SQL applications in Java for Big Data Analytics of Procurement and Employee Spend at Goldman Sachs. The data processing involved enrichment and transformation of raw data for reporting, and decision tables in Spark to modularize conditional business logic.
- Developed as a full-stack engineer to the backend REST API Server in Spring Boot (with Swagger Integration) and React Application for Goldman Sachs' expense and budget management platform to build a one-stop platform for viewing all spend-related information like outstanding balances, reporting, and other business use cases.
- Contributed to Infrastructure as a Code using Terraform and YAML to store configuration-as-code in a versioned, re-usable, and validated format that enables bulk changes.
- Contributed to Expense Workflow Management in Go and Camuda bpmn to automate expense report reminders.
Software Developer Intern at London Computer Systems (2019-05 – 2019-10)
- Developed full stack for web-based property management and accounting products
- Built RESTful APIs in C#.NET and front-end UI in Angular
- Agile team - daily stand-ups, bi-weekly sprints, work tracking in Jira, knowledge store in Confluence
