Headline

Senior Backend & Full Stack Engineer | Python · FastAPI · React · PostgreSQL | FinTech & Payments | Ex-TCS | 5+ Years | Mumbai

About

I’m a Senior Backend & Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable applications and high-throughput financial systems. What I work with: • Backend: Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, microservices, async programming • Frontend: React, JavaScript/TypeScript, API-driven dashboards and workflows • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL/PLSQL, query optimization and indexing • Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes/GKE, GCP, Jenkins, CI/CD • Security: JWT authentication, RBAC, API authorization and secure API design • FinTech: Payment reconciliation, financial data processing, risk/trading systems and regulatory workflows Key experience: • Built MatchPay, a multi-source payment reconciliation platform, and an Audit Workflow platform processing 100K+ records/day at IKS Health. • Developed Python/FastAPI services, React-based dashboards/workflows, payment ingestion pipelines and workflow automation. • At TCS, worked on banking risk and trading platforms processing 1M+ orders/day across equity, derivatives, currency and commodities. • Led a major SEBI brokerage-compliance implementation across 40+ PL/SQL packages and worked on high-volume, performance-sensitive financial systems. Currently expanding into: • Generative AI, LLMs and RAG • Building hands-on projects around AI-powered applications and Agentic AI using Python. I’m interested in opportunities where backend/full-stack engineering, financial-domain expertise and emerging AI capabilities come together.

Location

Mumbai

AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

ChatGPT

Work experience

Senior Product Engineer — Backend (Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL) at IKS Health, Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 💳 Built MatchPay, a multi-source payment reconciliation platform processing 100K+ records/day across Bank, Clearing House, Lockbox and EPM channels. ⚡ Improved master-data performance by implementing LIMIT/OFFSET pagination for 50K+ work-order records, reducing page-load time to approximately 3 seconds. 🧩 Built a microservice-based Audit Workflow platform using Python, FastAPI and React, with independently deployable frontend and backend components. 🔄 Automated audit processing with a Python scheduler that automatically acknowledges audits left unactioned for 24 hours, reducing manual intervention. 📊 Designed reporting structures supporting weekly, monthly and quarterly metrics, recalculated after each file upload for faster dashboard reporting. 🔐 Designed secure REST APIs using JWT, RBAC, OpenAPI/Swagger and structured exception handling. 📦 Built bulk inventory assignment supporting 1,000 records per operation with real-time distribution tracking. 🏆 Received a Best Mind Award for contribution and delivery.

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Jul 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos, 🏦 Banking Technology: Worked on risk and trading platforms for retail and institutional banks across equity, derivatives, currency and commodities. 🚀 High-Volume Platform: Worked on a live trading platform processing 1M+ orders/day, with a focus on low-latency risk validation and system performance. 📋 SEBI Regulatory Implementation: Independently led a major SEBI brokerage-compliance overhaul, refactoring 40+ Oracle PL/SQL packages across equity and derivatives with zero regulatory penalties post-deployment. 💰 Payment Automation: Built an Oracle scheduled job to synchronize confirmed pay-in funds from Back Office to Front Office every 30 minutes, automating a previously manual process. 🌐 Retail Bank Go-Live: Supported a major Bank go-live during platform scale-up from approximately 600K to 1M+ orders/day, contributing to deployment validation, troubleshooting and production stability. ⚙️ End-to-End Product Development: Independently developed the Commodities segment, including order-path, trade-path and exposure-calculation components. 🧠 Technical Leadership: Acted as a technical lead for junior engineers, providing guidance on the codebase, architecture and delivery. 🏆 Recognition: Received Star of the Month Award twice and contributed to a Best Team Award.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College

Higher secondary, Science, Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College (Autonomous)