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KUMAR GAURAV

Sr. SDE (SDE-III) @Amazon
Seattle,WA

Summary

Confident in my abilities to produce and while I prepare for the worst, I do the work necessary to tilt the odds that the best will happen.Expertise in Travel and Tele-consultation domain.Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) focused in Computer Science

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Developer

Amazon
9 2020 - Current

Technical Leadership and Contributions:
As technical lead for PayStation Client Onboarding team, I oversee core designs and operational improvements. With 9+ years in software development, I have delivered critical initiatives, including Recurring Payment Contract (RPC) Launch for Digital and Retail systems, Guided Onboarding Client Initiative and Message Generation Exporter Redesign.
Project Highlights:
Recurring Payment Contract (RPC) Launches:I led Prime's onboarding into RPC system, addressing complex edge cases and aligning multiple teams. Work on BLIK payment method improved subscription processes, achieving a 30% lift in Alternative Payment Method coverage. I also enhanced SNSSubscribe and Save) recurring payment process for Retail, reducing cancellations with significant financial impact.
PayStation Central and Client Acceleration: I led knowledge transfer and architectural improvements for PayStation Central, focusing on configuration centralization and client acceleration, laying the groundwork for future milestones in onboarding and payment routing automation.

Operational Excellence, Innovation, and Mentorship:
I've driven operational excellence by resolving critical issues, optimizing processes, and delivering innovations like Payments chatbot and AutoCode generation, recognized at Generative AI Hackathon. I've also contributed to the Payments community through presentations, tech talks, and leading key initiatives like RPC Project transition and Smart Retry. Additionally, I've mentored and grown the team, supporting 5 L4 to L5 promotions and ensuring high standards across all projects.

Senior Software Developer

CULT
01.2020 - 09.2020

1.Have worked with Swasth( Not-for-Profit initiative that aims to leverage India's proven clinical capabilities) platform

2.Designed an open Health service provider,Open HSG(Health service Gateway) and EUA(End user app)

3.The idea is to create a UPI like platform for Telecconsultation.

4.Live with Vodadara,Surat and Telangana

vmc.swasth.app

Senior Software Developer

Paytm
01.2018 - 01.2020

1.Designed Bus Inventory Management System
2.Wrote python script for automation of provider integration.
3.Integrated KSRTC,MSRTC,TNSTC(Bus India) end to end

4.Static and Dynamic Inventory building
5.Event Based Architecture and microservice architecture for entire IMS platform

6.Event Based Booking flow architecture

7.Hystrix module to limit the API calls to providers

8.Proposed several idea to make system robust and increase efficiency

9.CI/CD and docker setup in local across services

Software Developer

VIA
08.2016 - 01.2018

1.Working on web based e-commerce travel application for B2B & B2C
for Hotels Team on different projects which includes performance
improvements, quality content, business decisions & data re-usability.
2.Created a search tracking for Hotel search result.
3.Integrated Supplier Hotel APIs
4.Search By Geo Location,Search By HotelId ,Reprice,Book,Cancellation

Co-Founder

BooksHeritage
08.2014 - 08.2016

An online portal with access of books not available across globe

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Heritage Institute Of Techcnology
Kolkata
08.2011 - 2015.08

Skills

Aws Vpc

DynamoDB

Cassandra

Elastic search

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Grafana and Prometheus

Languages

Java
GO
Node

Affiliations

● Gold Medalist-Best Campus Batch Employee ITC INFOTECH

(2015-16).
● GATE score-702/1000
● Geeks for geeks rank-1820 .Userid-Kumar Gaurav 2(Problem
solved-142)
● RockStar - PAYTM (19-02-2019)
● Achieved 15th rank in Math Olympiad Exam (City Rank).
● Following Websites (.com and .in) Built Independently
● College Tech-Fest : www.dakshh.in
● College Cultural Fest : www.eclecia.co.in
● NGO : www.acefoundation.co
● Book Retailer(CEO) : www.booksheritage.com

Timeline

Senior Software Developer

CULT
01.2020 - 09.2020

Senior Software Developer

Paytm
01.2018 - 01.2020

Software Developer

VIA
08.2016 - 01.2018

Co-Founder

BooksHeritage
08.2014 - 08.2016

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Heritage Institute Of Techcnology
08.2011 - 2015.08

Senior Software Developer

Amazon
9 2020 - Current
KUMAR GAURAVSr. SDE (SDE-III) @Amazon