Biography

Hi visitors, welcome to my web-site!
I’m Pankaj, working as a software developer with more than three years of industry experience in building highly scalable websites and web applications. Presently, I am focused on mastering the MERN stack for full-stack development, delving into the insights of "Data Intensive Applications", and gaining foundational knowledge in product security.
I specialize in JAVA and have experience working in C/C++, Python. I did my major in Mathematics & Statistics and minor in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur.

I love building products from scratch, values learning and growing with people, teams and technology. As an intellectually curious, competent, and motivated professional, I am on a lookout for new and exciting opportunities.

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Experience

Detect Team, Ocrolus | Software Engineer | New York, US

• Developed a groundbreaking Detect service that revolutionizing the lending industry. Empowering clients to detect suspicious documents seamlessly, it enables confident lending decisions and prevents the approval of fraudulent applications. Currently this service handles over 50k documents per day.
• Successfully implemented a cron job with Celery for regular deletion of unverified/unsupported docs, preventing potential misuse of database.
• Engineered an innovative migration service, empowering fraud analysts to test new signals on production data for unparalleled precision, data clean up and release of new functionality without any disruption to the client experience.
• Successfully resolved the challenges related to SQS by seamlessly transitioning to Kafka. This strategic move enhanced reliability and scalability in messaging.
• Implemented a generic workflow using Solid Principles & OOPs concept to generate signals and visualization for different kind of docs like paystub, bank statements.
• Tech Used: Python | Flask | Celery | Pytest | Kafka, SQS | Postgres, Redis | Grafana

Forms Team, Clear | Software Engineer | Bangalore, India

• Developed an end-to-end indirect tax filing platform to handle the traffic of 100k monthly transactions. Streamlined tax compliance processes, reduced errors, and improved accuracy, resulting in a positive impact for businesses.
• Experienced with all the stages of software development cycle by Agile method, from planning to design, coding, testing, deployment and configuring metrics.
• Refactored legacy code using Design Patterns & Solid Principles, reduced latency by 25% by removing deprecated API calls, optimized various db queries.
• Developed a licensing and metering service to enforce the purchasing and renewal of licenses, which reduces instances of unauthorized use by 40%.
• Led, designed, and implemented micro-services which are highly scalable.
• Integrated Govt APIs, established integration test and CI/CD pipeline, configured monitoring tools like metrics, alarms, logging, and dashboards.
• Designed, Planned & Developed Goods and Services Tax Return forms from scratch and deployed to production, which is the primary source of revenue in clear in GST product as a part of forms rewrite.
• Improved the on-call process by hosting training sessions, providing retools, and automating various processes which decreases ticket velocity by 30%.
• Tech Used: JAVA | DropWizard, SpringBoot | Maven, Mockito, Junit | JPA, Hibernate | Kafka, SQS | Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes| MySQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Redis | CI/CD, Git, GitHub Actions | S3, EC2, Route 53 | Grafana, Coralogic, Scalyr, NewRelic, Metabase, Retool, Jacoco, Sonarqube, Vault

Thanos Team, ClearTax | Full Stack Developer | Bangalore, India

• Pulls user returns filed data from government like: G1, G3B, 2A, 2B, TP, RETTRACK
• Optimized various API latency, db query, fixed many AWS workflow issues
• Added a proxy layer to filter user based on priority to whom first allow pulling data from govt
• Tech Used: JAVA | DropWizard | Jenkins | MySQL, InfluxDB | AWS | Grafana, Git, CI/CD