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Vijaya Bhandari

Austin,TX

Summary

Hands on engineering manager with deep technical experience and product management understanding. Passionate about building and mentoring strong teams to accomplish business goals with technology.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Technology Senior Consultant/Lead

Deloitte
05.2023 - Current
  • Technical lead experienced in delivering projects which span 5 client agencies
  • Design, architect and develop scalable solutions for growing user base
  • Optimized existing notification services to automatically reach users within hours instead of days without needing manual interventions
  • Gather requirements, collaborate with design, front end and backend teams, set timeline with project managers, break down technical work and supervise and mentor team members for on time delivery with removing blockers, code reviews etc
  • Technologies used: REST, Microservices, Spring Boot, Java, Various AWS services, Lambda, Serverless, MySQL, Mongo DB, Apigee

Engineering Manager

Kiva
10.2019 - 11.2022
  • Kiva is a marketplace for crowd-funded micro loans serving entrepreneurs globally
  • Engineering manager leading an agile teams of backend and frontend engineers responsible for Kiva's new deposit growth
  • Lead experiment driven development with close collaboration with Product Manager, Designer and Analytics - testing out ideas quickly and scaling them when proven
  • Experience setting quarterly OKRs, managing stakeholders, and cross functional partnership
  • Track record of hiring diverse team, mentoring and coaching them
  • Lead engineering internship program for multiple years to establish pipeline for future hires
  • Tech lead for Managed Lending product, which manages Kiva's partnership with corporate partners on running their employee engagement campaigns
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to estimate work, establish timeline and lead development to achieve their fundraising goals
  • Architecture, design and development of microservices from converting legacy system using modern tech stack to enable faster fundraising
  • Kiva is a marketplace for crowd-funded micro loans serving entrepreneurs globally
  • Technologies used: Java, Kotlin, PHP, GraphQL, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka

Sr. Software Engineer

PayPal
04.2012 - 09.2019
  • Product Configuration Engine (PCE): PCE is a critical Payment full-stack application that manages sharable, versioned configurations for Payment applications
  • This saves application teams from having to maintain configurations in their code, hence enabling faster time to market
  • Design and develop backend services using Java and Couchbase
  • Set up strong agile process to measure metrics, and meet project milestones
  • Experience with rotational on call support
  • Mentor and coaching new engineers
  • User Domain: User Domain is core data models for PayPal User and Account data
  • Convert legacy service to faster, scalable Java services taking billions of requests a day
  • REST API designs and implementation using Java 8, RxJava, Oracle
  • Scrum master experience converting high level business asks and milestones to stories, conducting grooming and planning meetings with multiple scrum teams, and tracking progress
  • Framework and Core Infrastructure projects: Worked on and maintained PayPal's first Java framework and Infra libraries which are used to build 100s of PayPal applications
  • Technologies used: Java 8, RxJava, REST, Spring Boot, Oracle, NoSql, DevOps, Docker

Java Developer

Phoenix Contact USA
01.2008 - 01.2009
  • Designed and developed Global Portal to allow global distributors to perform various business functions like checking item stocks, product pricing, order tracking/changing, notifications, price comparisons, importing/exporting files etc
  • Created web services to provide data to portlets
  • Developed mediation services on ESB layer, which route portlets to use country specific web services using WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Integration Developer, Java, Schema, and WSDL, MySQL

Education

MS - Computer Science

University of Texas At Arlington

BS - Computer Science

Brigham Young University

Leadership And Product Manager Trainings -

Reforge, The Product School, Strive

Timeline

Technology Senior Consultant/Lead

Deloitte
05.2023 - Current

Engineering Manager

Kiva
10.2019 - 11.2022

Sr. Software Engineer

PayPal
04.2012 - 09.2019

Java Developer

Phoenix Contact USA
01.2008 - 01.2009

MS - Computer Science

University of Texas At Arlington

BS - Computer Science

Brigham Young University

Leadership And Product Manager Trainings -

Reforge, The Product School, Strive
Vijaya Bhandari