my work

On a mission to build products people love, and along the way, hone my skills while dedicated to learning and experimentation.

IDFC FIRST Bank

Developer, Feb 2025 - Present

IDFC FIRST Bank is an Indian private sector bank offering a wide range of banking services, including retail, MSME, corporate, and wealth management, with a focus on ethical, digital, and social good banking.

Novo

Software Development Engineer, Jul 2024 - Nov 2024

Novo is an online business banking platform with no hidden fees built for small business owners. Its Merchant Cash Advance product provides quick access to funds and flexible repayment options to help manage cash flow challenges.

• Developed standalone Kafka workers, integrating asynchronous workflows to automate generation of legal documents, including Merchant Cash Advance and Credit Bureau agreements, improving process reliability.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to design and implement user-friendly interfaces and backend optimizations, simplifying customer touchpoints and driving a 40% increase in user acceptance rate.
• Refactored customer decisioning and re-decisioning logic for credit limit calculations, resulting in enhanced processing efficiency and improved accuracy in credit assessments by 25%.
• Eliminated third-party dependencies, streamlining code migration by 20% and reducing technical debt, enabling faster iteration cycles for future updates.
• Enhanced unit test coverage for critical production APIs and Kafka workers using Jest, increasing reliability of deployments and reducing error rates by 20% during production releases.

Better Ed

Full-Stack Software Engineer, May 2022 - Jul 2024

Pixical offers interactive courses in piano, art, guitar, dance, chess and cooking, featuring expert-led instruction and hands-on activities. Pixicook platform enables a user to learn fundamentals of a recipe and plan meals using our meal planner.

• Orchestrated the end-to-end development process for new feature requirements by crafting database schemas, developing APIs, implementing UIs, and ensuring seamless integrations using Agile methodologies.
• Designed and implemented a class scheduler system, automating multi-timezone class scheduling, reducing manual workload by 90%, and boosting operational efficiency by 70%.
• Integrated OpenAI text and image generation APIs into the content creation workflow, enabling the team to produce cooking course recipes 60% faster while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Spearheaded the migration of a React.js project to Next.js, optimizing SEO and reducing page load time from 1.6 seconds to 400 milliseconds.
• Optimized chat list retrieval using RediSearch and RedisJSON, accelerating data retrieval speed by 40% and reducing database load by 50%.
• Implemented a blue/green deployment strategy using Docker Compose, enabling zero-downtime releases by running healthy containers in a load-balanced environment, increasing deployment success rate by 25%.

Codingmart Technologies

Product Engineer, Jan 2022 — May 2022

Product Engineering Intern, Mar 2021 — Dec 2021

Kalanju is a cutting-edge solution designed to cater to the diverse HRMS needs of large organizations. The platform combines simplicity, efficiency, and reliability, ensuring smooth operations across billing, attendance, resource, and asset management.

• Spearheaded the migration from Angular/Ruby On Rails to React.js/Node.js stack for the Kalanju CRM portal, optimizing code structure and achieving a 30% improvement in scalability and performance.
• Designed and implemented a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system, strengthening application security by limiting user access based on roles, reducing unauthorized access incidents by 15%.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained Invoice and Credit Note services, enabling seamless creation, modification, and dispatch of invoices and credit notes, increasing operational efficiency by 20%.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to build and standardize APIs for inter-service communication, improving data consistency and streamlining workflows across the Kalanju platform.
• Developed a holiday/leave approval management module with manager approvals, automating manual processes and reducing administrative overhead for HR and team leads.
• Deployed self-hosted Kubernetes environments to run and manage microservices, ensuring scalable and zero-downtime deployments while reducing deployment failures by 20% and improving system reliability.