VARAD SHEVADE

PROFILE

I am a tech professional with 7+ years of excellent experience in design, development and engineering. I have been successfully developing and supporting projects throughout my career. I am very well versed in working with a variety of technology stacks.

MY EXPERTISE

Backend and Frontend with speciality in Web Interfaces/APIs, Real time systems, Automation systems & Data Processing, systems integrations, and SEO.
Experience with NoSQL and time series Dbs, data security, and CICD pipelines. Building and managing scalable serverless and server-based distributed systems supporting microservices.
Conducting code reviews, and implementing unit testing, logging, and debugging.

MY WORK

Creator indexgaze Jun 2022 - Present

A Free to use FinTech tool for casual and beginner investors to view the outlook of the stock market in India. It does candlestick pattern detection, current market trend detection, financial status analysis of a company. The tool has a colour coding scheme that enables novice participants to better understand the market trends. The tool has listings of 20 indexes, 4000+ equities, and 190+ industries/sectors. Each trading day, it performs ETL and processes 250,000+ data points.
Conceptualised the idea behind the tool. Created the systems designs(HLD & LLD) of this project. It is hybrid system with server & serverless based distributed services along with containerisation.
Programmed the entire backend in TS on Node.JS with certain services implementing multithreading for parallelism. I have used React.Js library for frontend with SSR(Server Side Rendering for SEO) using VITE. Programmed unit tests with Jasmine and code coverage with Istanbul. Defined API contracts and validators with Joi.
Used InfluxDB a time series database for stock data, and MongoDB for the application metadata.
Authored the influxdb-light. A lightweight open-source database client for InfluxDB.
Identified and implemented mathematical calculations involved in data extrapolation, pattern detection, and outlook analysis.
Set up the cloud infrastructure on AWS through IaC with the use Terraform. This includes various Subnets, Security groups, computational instances, cache servers, bastion hosts, NAT instances, volumes, IAM policies etc. And created serverless resources like Lambda functions through the use of Serverless framework.
Created the CICD pipelines for frontend and backend deployments.
Created automated schedulers to independently process the data points without human intervention.
Established efficient logging mechanism for tracking errors.
Defined Security measures to restrict data scraping, CSRF attacks, DDoS attacks etc.
Overall I perform all the activities from designing, development and maintenance of this entire ecosystem.

Software Engineer - FullStack VeerTrip Feb 2022 - Present

VeerTrip is an airline ticketing platform serving the Indian armed forces.
Created backend system designs, defined data interfaces with data contracts.
I performed rapid feature development, upgraded system integrations, and delivered key features and high-priority travel domain tasks and incidents.
Efficiently, set up staging environments, CICD pipelines, and did infra cost-saving activities(30% bill savings).
Implemented load distribution, resource optimization, and set up dashboards for monitoring system health and detecting network attacks.
Scoped and estimated tasks, managed feature development, and ensured efficient resolution of issues with minimal recurrence.
Leveraged travel domain expertise to deliver high-priority requirements quickly.

Software Engineer - Backend udChalo Feb 2020 - Jan 2022

UdChalo is an online travel agency and financial service platform serving Indian defence personnel and their dependents.
Integrated travel service distributors into a serverless architecture.
Boosted scalability, uptime, sales, and minimised booking failures with a sophisticated solution using SQS, Lambda, and EventBridge.
Led rapid product development like Insurance(during covid), uTax(Tax calculator and filing) and inter-city cab services for India's armed forces.
Integrated payment gateways, did feature enhancements, managed releases, and incidents.
Quickly mastered the product's codebase and AWS services, implementing reusable serverless modules.
Mentored juniors and led a team of 2 in the development and delivery of auxiliary features.

Software Engineer - Full Stack GS Lab Jan 2017 - Jan 2020

Full Time(2.7 years)
- Developed a healthcare communication system using Raspberry Pi and sensors for real-time patient data sharing with remote doctors. Wrote sensor drivers in Node.js for real-time data feed.
- Developed a customer journey system with chatbots for seamless bot-to-live agent transfers. Implemented webhooks and used XMPP integration to handle customer-agent real time messaging.
- Developed an Android app integrating IP cams, and IoT sensors for real-time data and alerts. Self-taught Android development, mastered IP cam integration. Showcased project at Gitex 2019.
Internship(5 months)
- Designed and developed a full fledged QA forum using MEAN stack. Feature rich application providing commenting, voting, email notifications, content review, text analysis features.

SKILLS

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

EDUCATION

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