VARAD SHEVADE

I am a tech professional with 7+ years in software development with product based companies and startups.

Tech Consultant VeerTrip (Ithaka Enterprises) 2024 - Present

An airline ticketing product with 100K+ active armed forces.
Did estimations, system designs, data contract definitions and documentations.
Developed features, resolved incidents and did legacy upgrades.
Scaled the system to handle peak loads during daily, seasonal, discount surges.
Migrated to 30% more efficient serverless architecture, defined CICD pipelines and setup monitoring.

Creator Indexgaze 2022 - 2023

Conceptualised and created this free color coded SaaS to analyse the Indian financial market.
Conceived algorithms and calculations to identify patterns, trends, supply/demand of 4000+ stocks.
Innovated a ranking & rating system that summarises financial strength.
Created event driven microservices to analyse 250K+ daily data and distribute it along with security measures.
Created an open source InfluxDb lightweight client called influxdb-light.

Software Engineer - Backend udChalo (Upcurve Business Services Pvt. Ltd.) 2020 - 2022

A travel and finance platform serving 1 million active users.
Created highly scalable, robust and modular airline and bus booking services to handle millions of daily users.
Individually did product development of Insurance(Travel, Refund), uTax(Tax filing portal).
Integrated payment gateway(Razorpay). Developed rule based gateway switch technology.
Did feature enhancements, resolved incidents, PR reviews, deployments and releases.
Led a team of 2 in the development and delivery of aux features.

Software Engineer GS Lab 2017 - 2020

Built phone based surveillance system with IP cams, and showcased at Gitex 2019 in Dubai.
Created a chatbot based customer journey software to exchange data context between FB, Twitter and Avaya IPOffice^TM.
Developed an IoT based patient monitoring system, wrote sensor drivers and integrated video calls with Avaya IPOffice^TM.
Designed and developed a full fledged QA forum with MEAN stack.
From Jan 2017 to Jun 2017 did a full time paid internship.

Programming - Javascript Typescript HTML CSS JSON YAML
Backend- Node.js Koa.js ExpressJs RxJs Hapi/Joi
Frontend- React.Js VITE
Unit Testing and Code Coverage- Jasmine Istanbul
Datastore - Dynamodb MongoDB Redis InfluxDB
Network - REST Web Sockets SOAP
AWS -
- Compute: EC2 Lambda
- Services: API Gateway SQS S3 IAM Route53 CloudFront ACM ECR
- Logging and Monitoring: Cloudwatch
- CI/CD: Codebuild CodePipeline CodeDeploy
IaC & Containerisation - Serverless Framework Terraform Docker
Others Skills - Git Problem Solving Grafana Kibana RaspberryPi
Operating System - Windows Linux Android

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology Pune City, India Aug 2014 - May 2017

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering. CGPA: 8.33/10
Consistently scored >7.5 GPA in every semester.
Project: OCR of Devanagri scripts
- Using Image processing for template matching & ML for feature detection and classification, our team developed an OCR system to detect “Sanskrit”, “Hindi” & “Marathi” texts. Achieved accuracy ~95%.
- Team Members: Advait, Ishwari, Varad, Palash, Apurva

Sou. Venutai Chavan Polytechnic Pune City, India Aug 2011 - May 2014

Diploma in Computer Technology. Score: 90%.
Consistently scored >75% in every semester.
Project: Document Digitizer
- Developed a system that enables users to have all their necessary docs like License, IDs, Certificates etc. available through one single QR code.
- Team Members: Varad, Kashyap, Shashank, Mangesh
Project: Offhand
- Designed and developed wearable bands for performing activities on your smartphone. Leveraged NFC(Near Field Communication) for this purpose. Demonstrated the capabilites and scope of NFC technology when used with Android systems.
- Team Members: Varad, Mohosin, Chaitanya