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• Engineered a distributed financial automation platform in Node.js, integrating multiple financial services, reducing manual intervention by 90%.
• Developed RESTful APIs in Node.js with OpenAPI/Swagger and JSON:API specifications to execute complex filtration & searching mechanism to serve 10K+ requests with 2X better speed performance.
• Built a pipeline to automate transactions categorization using LangChain and OpenAI APIs, increasing efficiency by 83%.
• Created a solution offering real-time tax saving insights on business expenses, helping client reduce tax liabilities by 55%.

• Enhanced Playroom’s JavaScript SDK to allow users to add personalized custom bots, promoting creativity and engagement.
• Integrated a DQN Agent into the SDK for advanced bot training using reinforcement learning techniques.
• Launched a project for real-time bot training through supervised actions, resulting in a 20% decrease in training time.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Implemented face detection in tweets composer, A/B tested with 80M+ users (15% of total users), resulting in improved engagement.
• Re-architected the tag settings flow, enhancing user control and reducing steps by over 50%, resulting in a more streamlined and intuitive user experience.
• Wrote comprehensive unit tests to ensure robust functionality across devices.Technology

College Park, MD, US

• Designed and productionized a full-fledged surveying platform using Node.js, React.js & Swift, optimizing data collection and increasing survey completion rates by 63%.
• Streamlined reporting by automating data extraction from NoSQL database to the dashboard through Python scripts.
• Achieved a 0% crash rate across 10K+ users, ensuring seamless collection of research survey responses at scale.

Chicago, IL, US

• Managed a team of 5 as a Technical Lead (Power Platform and D365) for feature development, environment administration, solution deployment, and delivery of projects belonging to different domains and clients.
• Communicated proactively with stakeholders, ensuring alignment between project requirements and development.
• Technical Lead for the products Imperium365CRM (Basic) and Hourly.

Woburn, MA, US

• Engineered backend APIs (REST) within microservice architecture and designed responsive Frontend applications (Web: React, iOS: Swift), enhancing user interaction and overall application responsiveness.
• Optimized database performance by implementing a caching strategy at the proxy server, resulting in a 30% reduction in overall database read queries.
• Collaborated seamlessly with cross-functional teams, ensuring QA approval for builds and meticulously tracking diverse build versions across multiple applications.

Masters, Software Engineering

Bscs, Computer Science