Sid Ojha

Cloud-Native Migration | Risk Platform Leadership | Workflow Architecture

• Strategic Leadership: Member of SoFi’s Risk Infrastructure Leadership Committee, driving technical strategy and execution across 30+ engineers in lending, fraud, collections, and underwriting.
• Platform Modernization: Spearheaded the enterprise-wide migration from Provenir to Oscilar, launching version-controlled, cloud-native workflows across 10+ product lines (e.g., personal loans, home equity, credit cards, fraud, collections).
• Workflow Architecture: Designed and deployed modular, auditable decisioning logic with rollback support and real-time execution—cutting latency by 70% and reducing dev timelines by 50%.
• Engineering Leadership: Managed an 8-person platform pod focused on reusable logic modules, schema normalization, and cross-product standardization.
• Automation & CI/CD: Built comprehensive test automation infrastructure using GitLab CI/CD, Postman/Newman, and schema diffing to ensure full regression coverage and safe deployment at scale.
• Governance & Interoperability: Delivered robust API and schema governance, including normalized input handling, output diff tracking, and safe imports/exports across Sandbox, UAT, and PROD environments.
• Observability & Auditability: Enabled full telemetry via audit logs, version tags, and webhook integration for downstream risk analytics and compliance.
• Executive Reporting: Presented quarterly to senior leadership on KPIs including decision performance, fallback rates, and migration velocity across all verticals.

Loyalty Tech | SMB Growth | Kiosk & Mobile Platform

• Company Overview: Founded TapIn Rewards, a store-specific loyalty platform built for independently owned liquor stores, smoke shops, and restaurants. Platform includes in-store kiosks, merchant dashboards, and customer-facing mobile tools.
• Product Leadership: Directed product strategy and development across tablet kiosks, merchant portals, and mobile apps, enabling real-time point accrual, redemption, and customer engagement tracking.
• Market Expansion: Scaled operations across Texas and Colorado, onboarding 20+ merchants and thousands of users while navigating compliance-sensitive retail environments.
• Go-To-Market Strategy: Created sales collateral, led merchant demos, closed early-stage partnerships, and drove localized marketing campaigns for merchant and user adoption.
• Hardware & Branding: Managed end-to-end kiosk sourcing, installation, and UX optimization. Developed brand identity and visual assets tailored for high-retention consumer appeal.
• App & Platform Development: Oversaw development of iOS and Android apps (release pending), including user onboarding, store locators, and wallet-based reward tracking.

Credit Bureau Reporting | Data Platform Migration | Loans Infrastructure

• Engineering Leadership: Led technical delivery across key initiatives including Credit Bureau Reporting (CBR), the Loans platform, and a large-scale data migration from Postgres to Snowflake, ensuring high performance and regulatory compliance.
• Cross-Functional Oversight: Directed engineering teams supporting regulatory logic, loan servicing operations, and ETL pipelines—collaborating closely with product, QA, and compliance.
• Testing Infrastructure Overhaul: Replaced manual QA with a fully automated, end-to-end test suite integrated into CI/CD pipelines, significantly improving release quality and velocity.
• Developer Experience Enhancements:
  Built automated JIRA metric trackers to measure sprint velocity and ticket flow.
  Created Slack bots to notify teams of real-time job failures, timeouts, and staging issues.
  Engineered safe pipelines to pull production data into test environments, enabling high-fidelity test validation.
• Best Practices Champion: Standardized testing strategies, introduced version control for test assets, and automated validation for compliance-critical outputs.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Acted as a technical bridge between engineering, QA, and business teams—ensuring timely, auditable, and compliant delivery across multiple domains.

Cloud Migration | Microservices Architecture | Full-Stack Development

• Cloud Migration & Cost Optimization: Led the migration of production-grade banking applications to AWS, significantly improving scalability and reducing infrastructure costs.
• Microservices & Serverless Architecture: Developed secure, event-driven services using AWS Lambda and EKS, improving system uptime, fault tolerance, and real-time observability.
• Monitoring & Reliability Engineering: Automated system health checks and alerting pipelines to achieve 99.9%+ uptime SLAs across critical customer-facing services.
• Front-End Development: Designed and delivered modern web portals using React, implementing best-in-class UX practices and accessible, responsive UI components.
• Infrastructure as Code: Authored reusable infrastructure modules (e.g., Terraform) to support rapid team onboarding, CI/CD setup, and standardized cloud environments.

Secure Communications | Mission Planning | Defense Software Systems

• Encrypted Communications Development: Supported development of a secure communication system used to encrypt and decipher transmissions between ground stations and various fighter jets, including the F-35.
• Mission-Critical Software: Contributed to feature development for the F-35 Mission Planning Environment, a classified system used for loadout configuration, route planning, and operational readiness.
• Agile Adoption & Team Support: Participated in the team's Agile transformation efforts, helping reduce software defect rates by 50% through iterative development, sprint retrospectives, and continuous testing.
• CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: Assisted in building and maintaining deployment pipelines that reduced software release cycles by 40%, increasing delivery efficiency across secure environments.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Regularly interfaced with aerospace systems engineers to clarify mission context, system integration points, and test case alignment—supporting delivery of high-stakes software under tight compliance constraints.

Cloud Security | Compliance Automation | Internal Tools

• Compliance Automation: Automated Unix system audits using Tenable.io, supporting the security team in identifying and tracking vulnerabilities across internal infrastructure.
• Internal Tooling: Built lightweight internal apps using Flask for secure file transfers and structured change request submissions, improving workflow efficiency and traceability.
• Cloud Policy Enforcement: Deployed custom Azure policies to enforce enterprise security controls around identity, encryption, and tagging compliance.
• Process Modernization: Introduced and implemented JIRA for the cybersecurity team to track tasks, document progress, and manage day-to-day priorities—establishing a repeatable process where none existed.
• Foundational Security Experience: Gained exposure to vulnerability management, endpoint hardening, cloud security governance, and agile security team workflows in a regulated aerospace environment.