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Abhishek Gaur

Founding Engineer at Curie Money | BITS Pilani | Prev: slice, GSoC & GCI, HackerRank, Founding Head - SUTT

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

Curie Money
Feb 20251 yr 7 mosPresent

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

slice
Sep 20246 mosFeb 2025

On-site

- Owned the orchestration micro-service powering the flagship slice borrow and personal loan products. - Designed and developed borrow offers service with a custom rule engine to power activation/churn offers. - Revamped Penny-drop module via SQS retry for VPA verification and refund to improve order SR by 5%. - Added Co-lending Disbursal capabilities with NESFB contributing to over 160Cr+/month. - Developed CKYC Consent Module for NBFCs leading to 50Cr+ increase in GTV and reduced CX tickets. - Automated test cases and stub generation from user traffic by recording API calls & DB queries via Keploy. - Improved observability by configuring Grafana dashboards with Prometheus and Alertmanager. - Improved the user experience via GZIP compression, achieving upto 80% improvement in load times.
slice
Jul 20222 yrs 2 mosAug 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Developed Presentation Layer for orchestration service, a BFF layer to make screen components, analytics events and redirections BE driven that reduced FE release dependency and enabled faster feature rollouts. - Integrated insurance issuance capability with loans with retries and cloud storage adding 15Cr+ GTV. - Set up a data-driven Kafka pipeline to optimize insurance revenue, increased attachment rates by 40%. - Re-calibrated critical Slack and Opsgenie alerts by optimising thresholds and frequencies to cut costs. - Developed Recommendation Chips Module to push higher loans, leading to a 20% increment in AOV. - Enhanced system efficiency by implementing circuit breakers, logging and unit/integration testing.
HackerRank
Jan 20226 mosJun 2022

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

- Optimized the platform for backend development projects by eliminating container dependencies, improving deployment efficiency, and streamlining local and cloud-based deployment processes for faster and reliable operations. - Developed an interactive 3D office tour for the interns’ portfolio page with Three.js, with WebGL-based animations.
Microsoft
Nov 20212 mosDec 2021

Developed University Engage, a one-stop solution for students to plan, organize, and manage their academics, keep them informed about the events, collaborate with others and much more! University Engage is an application that consumes React for the user interface and Django for the API of the application using Django REST framework (DRF).
Wavelabs Technologies
Aug 20215 mosDec 2021

Google Summer of Code
May 20193 moAug 2019

India

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor's degree

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

20175 yrs2022
kendriya vidyalaya

kendriya vidyalaya

200410 yrs2014

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Headline

Founding Engineer at Curie Money | BITS Pilani | Prev: slice, GSoC & GCI, HackerRank, Founding Head - SUTT

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Founding Engineer at Curie Money, Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Software Development Engineer II at slice, Sep 2024 - Feb 2025 · 6 mos, On-site, - Owned the orchestration micro-service powering the flagship slice borrow and personal loan products. - Designed and developed borrow offers service with a custom rule engine to power activation/churn offers. - Revamped Penny-drop module via SQS retry for VPA verification and refund to improve order SR by 5%. - Added Co-lending Disbursal capabilities with NESFB contributing to over 160Cr+/month. - Developed CKYC Consent Module for NBFCs leading to 50Cr+ increase in GTV and reduced CX tickets. - Automated test cases and stub generation from user traffic by recording API calls & DB queries via Keploy. - Improved observability by configuring Grafana dashboards with Prometheus and Alertmanager. - Improved the user experience via GZIP compression, achieving upto 80% improvement in load times.

Software Development Engineer I at slice, Jul 2022 - Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Developed Presentation Layer for orchestration service, a BFF layer to make screen components, analytics events and redirections BE driven that reduced FE release dependency and enabled faster feature rollouts. - Integrated insurance issuance capability with loans with retries and cloud storage adding 15Cr+ GTV. - Set up a data-driven Kafka pipeline to optimize insurance revenue, increased attachment rates by 40%. - Re-calibrated critical Slack and Opsgenie alerts by optimising thresholds and frequencies to cut costs. - Developed Recommendation Chips Module to push higher loans, leading to a 20% increment in AOV. - Enhanced system efficiency by implementing circuit breakers, logging and unit/integration testing.

SDE Intern at HackerRank, Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 · 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - Optimized the platform for backend development projects by eliminating container dependencies, improving deployment efficiency, and streamlining local and cloud-based deployment processes for faster and reliable operations. - Developed an interactive 3D office tour for the interns’ portfolio page with Three.js, with WebGL-based animations.

Engage ‘21 Mentee at Microsoft, Nov 2021 - Dec 2021 · 2 mos, Developed University Engage, a one-stop solution for students to plan, organize, and manage their academics, keep them informed about the events, collaborate with others and much more! University Engage is an application that consumes React for the user interface and Django for the API of the application using Django REST framework (DRF).

Software Engineer Intern at Wavelabs Technologies, Aug 2021 - Dec 2021 · 5 mos

Student Developer at Google Summer of Code, May 2019 - Aug 2019 · 3 mo, India

Education

Bachelor's degree, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

kendriya vidyalaya

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