Summary
Senior Software Engineer with a 8+ year track record of building scalable, high-performance software from the ground up. Combines deep expertise in distributed systems and full-stack development with a product-focused, entrepreneurial mindset honed as a startup co-founder. Passionate about leading teams to solve complex problems, drive technical innovation, and deliver tangible business value. Seeking a role where I can build meaningful products that make a difference.
Driven by a deep passion for engineering, innovation, and problem-solving, with a focus on driving product development and delivering solutions. I have a proven track record of building scalable and high performance software systems. I am a technology enthusiast with a strong foundation in computer science and software engineering coupled with 8+ years of professional experience. I am seeking opportunities to tackle meaningful challenges and apply my time and skills to create valuable products and services.
Senior Software Engineer and former startup co-founder driven by a passion for solving meaningful problems through technology. With 8+ years of experience, I excel at architecting robust distributed systems and leading teams to deliver high-quality, full-stack applications. I am seeking an opportunity to leverage my technical skills and innovative spirit to build valuable products and contribute to a mission-driven organization.
Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience designing and building scalable, high-performance distributed systems and full-stack applications. Proven track record in leading engineering initiatives that drive product development, enhance user experience, and optimize infrastructure costs in fast-paced tech environments. Seeking to leverage my tech expertise to solve complex challenges.
Skills
Experience
Staff Software Engineer @ Visa | May 2024 - Present
- Proposed, led, and delivered a cost-optimization initiative for the data ingestion pipeline, slashing over $360K in annualized($30K/month) recurring AWS infra cost through architectural improvements & resource rightsizing.
- Championed the adoption of Gen AI tools by establishing team-wide best practices & demonstrating productivity gains, leading to an estimated 12% increase in development velocity.
- Improved codebase maintainability by implementing AOP in a legacy Spring Boot application to decouple logic for logging and security, significantly reducing troubleshooting and development time for new endpoints.
- Built a resuable & modular UI platform from ground up with React & TypeScript. Now used by 3 teams and cutting front-end dev time for new pages/modules by over 35%.
Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal | Oct 2022 - May 2024
- Led the development and launch of the Braintree merchant Package Tracking feature, architecting the APIs and asynchronous linkup with PayPal, integrating the feature into 6 server-side SDKs, and successfully piloting with 30+ merchants processing over 12,000 tracking events monthly.
- Engineered the critical merchant onboarding and payment notification workflows for the Braintree & Meta Checkout integration, enabling seamless payments for Facebook and Instagram shops and successfully launching with over 50 merchants in summer of 2023(product has since been sunset).
Software Development Engineer 2 @ Flexe | August 2021 - Oct 2022
- Modularized codebase and migrated certain workflows to be event driven instead of request-response increasing the system throughput by 30% and improving fault tolerance.
- Reduced code complexity and improved performance by eliminating 10+ stale feature flags. Setup a process via Slack bots to ensure timely cleanups of all new feature flags.
Software Development Engineer @ Amazon | April 2019 - August 2021
- Helped prevent counterfeit and verify authenticity of products as a full-stack engineer on Amazon's Transparency program, primarily focused on backend services, RESTful APIs, and leveraging host of AWS services(Lambda, Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, Step Functions, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, CDK, CloudFormation, CloudWatch etc.).
- Architected and built a high-throughput system to process ingestions of traceability visibility events in multiple formats and track job statuses for several asynchronous workflows. At peak, processing over 2.5 million daily traceability events with 99.99% availability.
- Led the end-to-end development and launch of the cross-platform Transparency mobile app (React Native) across 8 international markets, including a critical integration into the main Amazon shopping app.
- Improved engineering excellence by transitioning over 10 legacy services to full CI/CD, enhancing the quality of deployment pipelines and integrating with LPT Visualizer for better IaC management.
Early Career Experience | Honeywell, SAP Labs, Georgia State University | 2016 - 2019
- Gained foundational experience through roles as a Software Engineer (Honeywell), Intern (SAP Labs), and Graduate Research Assistant, contributing to enterprise systems and co-authoring a published research paper.
Co-Founder and Software Engineer @ Bridge | August 2013- December 2015
- Bootstrapped the startup with a mission to deliver efficient and digital ordering and checkout experience to restaurant guests and staff.
- Created and sold feature rich RFID Cafeteria Management Solution to Raychem RPG, currently used by 4000+ users daily, reducing their cafeteria operating cost by 25%.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science
Georgia State University, Atlanta, 2016 - 2017
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering
Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, 2009 - 2013