Career and Education Highlights

1. ▪
   2016–Present

   Team Lead & Product Development
   Tech Lead

   Visa, Auckland, New Zealand

   2024–PRESENT

   Leading and mentoring a squad as Feature Lead for a multi-partner Accounts Modernization initiative and as the team's Security Champion.

   • Drove end-to-end delivery of a new Accounts experience as Feature Lead, coordinating cross-team dependencies across product, UX and engineering through planning and synchronised multi-release rollouts.
   • Improved page-load performance for high-volume accounts via seamless auto-loading and delivered feature toggling that removed service-interruption risk during releases.
   • As Security Champion, triaged AI-generated SAST findings, led an architecture review that established a reusable least-privilege authorisation pattern adopted by other teams, and guided the team through the secure SDLC with zero security blockers.
   • Built custom Claude Code skills and slash-commands integrating with internal APIs and MCP servers to automate change-request creation and release documentation, adopted by other teams.
   • Mentored engineers through regular knowledge-sharing sessions (.NET 8, CQRS, CI/CD, AI-assisted workflows) and coached others to run the org's change-management process independently.

   • C# .NET 6/8
   • React
   • AWS
   • Microservices
   • Scrum
   • Security
   • Mentoring
   • Technical Leadership
   • Clean Architecture
   • Claude Code / MCP
   • AI Automation
   • Jira
   • Confluence
   Senior Developer

   Visa, Auckland, New Zealand

   2019–2023

   Designed and developed secure, scalable applications while contributing to process automation and system reliability.

   • Delivered 6 React microsites and 8 .NET microservices, owning design, implementation and reliability.
   • Championed secure coding as team Security Champion - drove every security remediation to closure ahead of release.
   • Authored comprehensive unit and integration tests (xUnit) plus 50+ API automation tests; led efforts to increase E2E test coverage with Playwright, reducing regression time.
   • Led incident response for critical go-live issues, investigated production issues for various partner banks such as Wells Fargo, performed root cause analysis and implemented fixes.

   • C# .NET
   • React
   • SQL Server
   • Octopus
   • Jira
   DonateKart & DevaSeva

   Founding Member and Technology Consultant, Remote

   2016–2023

   Founding member, created and scaled online donation platforms for non-profits, processing over $100K in monthly transactions. Both ventures are bootstrapped and still active today, impacting millions in social and spiritual domains.

   • Recruited, trained and led two 4-member tech teams; drove system architecture, performance optimisation, and key technical decisions.
   • Integrated payments (Stripe, Razorpay, PayU, Paytm); ensured PCI-compliant handling and robust reconciliation.
   • Built shared packages (NPM/NuGet) and microservices for Authentication, Payment and Communication to reduce duplication and speed feature delivery.
   • Implemented caching, dynamic image optimisation and load balancing to improve page load times and handle seasonal traffic spikes; containerised services with Docker and tracked user behaviour with Google Analytics.
   • Migrated frontends (AngularJS → React → Next.js) improving UX and SEO; migrated backend .NET 4.8 → .NET Core → .NET 6 for performance and maintainability.
   • Built AWS Lambda functions for generating PDFs (e.g., invoices) using Puppeteer.

   www.donatekart.comwww.devaseva.com

   • AWS
   • Docker
   • Google Analytics
   • AngularJs -> React using webpack -> Next.js
   • .NET Core → .NET 6
   • TeamCity, Bitbucket -> Azure DevOps
   • System Architecture
   Solutions Developer

   Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Auckland, New Zealand

   2016–2019

   Played a key role in modernising and optimising applications, leveraging service-oriented architecture and industry best practices.

   • Led efforts to transition from monolith to service-oriented architecture.
   • Developed Web APIs using ASP.NET Core, created reusable NuGet packages.
   • Applied design principles like CQRS with custom-built libraries, Dapper, and dependency injection using Castle.
   • Developed and contributed to an identity provider, gaining expertise in OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0.
   • Wrote BDD tests using SpecFlow to ensure quality and meet product requirements.
   • Documented project implementations following the defined product delivery process.

   • React
   • ASP.NET Core
   • CQRS
   • Azure Devops
   • AWS
   • SpecFlow
2. ▪
   2015–2016

   Post Graduate Diploma & Research
   Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

   Post Graduate Diploma in Computer and Information Sciences

   2015–2016

   • Winners of Startup Weekend Auckland 2015 - 1st place
   • A+ in Neuroinformatics - classified alcoholic vs control subjects from 64-channel EEG data, and brain-computer interface signals (SSVEP) using Spiking Neural Networks (NeuCube)
   • Data Mining and Machine Learning - analysed ML techniques for IPL auction predictions in sports and healthcare
   OnlineDataLab

   Programmer Scientist - Casual, Auckland, New Zealand

   2015–2016

   Worked with a University of Auckland professor to build a research-focused website for medical data analysis using ASP.NET Web API, R, and AngularJS.

   • ASP.NET Web API
   • R
   • AngularJS
   • AWS
3. ▪
   2009–2015

   Early Career in Software Engineering
   Software Engineer -> Senior Software Engineer

   Software Innovation, India

   2011–2015

   Contributed to Software Innovation's Public 360° ECM product in a distributed environment, collaborating with stakeholders across Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

   • Conducted technical interviews and trained new developers.
   • Managed source control, branch merges, and builds in TFS, following the Scrumban process.
   • Engaged in Microsoft tech events, including Windows App Fest'12 (a Guinness World Record event).

   • C#
   • MVC
   • Kanban
   • Design Patterns
   • Enterprise Content Management
   Assistant System Engineer

   Tata Consultancy Services, India

   2009–2011

   Contributed to web development for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), working on key applications like the Travel Portal and Calendar Management System. Learned the foundation of software development.

   • ASP.NET
   • C#
   • Oracle
   • Web Development
4. ▪
   2005–2009

   Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering
   VIT University, India

   Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering

   2005–2009

   • An Intelligent System for Moving Target Detection - Developed an algorithm to detect motion from video sequences using image processing in MATLAB.
   • Information Extraction from Natural Language Texts Using Fuzzy Logic - Built an NLP system in 2007, long before transformers, using fuzzy set theory to refine search accuracy and handle the ambiguity of natural language queries.