Manas Grover

As a manager of full-stack developers in AWS, I lead a team of engineers building scalable, cloud-based applications and services. I oversee the full software development life cycle, from planning and architecture to coding, testing, and deployment on AWS infrastructure. My responsibilities include recruiting top talent, mentoring engineers, fostering collaboration, ensuring development best practices, and championing engineering excellence. I facilitate agile development processes to deliver high-quality products efficiently. Through excellent communication skills, I maintain strong partnerships across business units to understand needs and deliver solutions with the highest business impact. I continuously improve team skills by encouraging knowledge sharing, arranging training/development opportunities, and promoting career growth. I track progress, remove roadblocks, and motivate my team to meet deadlines and exceed expectations. The applications we develop leverage AWS services like EC2, Fargate, DynamoDB and S3 to provide robust, secure, and cost-effective solutions at scale.

As a software developer on a global team, I helped build and scale distributed systems capable of handling millions of transactions per second with low latency for hundreds of millions of delighted customers worldwide. My primary focus was developing and scaling SIP-based communication services to enable calling between over 100 million devices. I owned full lifecycle software development, including planning, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. My solutions balanced performance, scalability, reliability, and simplicity. I collaborated cross-functionally to understand customer needs, set technical direction, and instill best practices. The systems I developed are critical to Alexa's communications platform, which connects people around the world. Overall, I successfully delivered innovative software solutions that enabled core business growth on a massive scale.

During my time at Luxoft, I worked as part of a team that developed and maintained the core trade processing and settlement generation systems for a major investment bank. My primary focus was on enhancing the existing Java-based platform to improve trade throughput capacity and reduce settlement turnaround times. I optimized critical pathways in the transaction flow by refactoring legacy code and implementing concurrent processing techniques. These changes resulted in a 15% improvement in daily trade volume handling. I also spearheaded a settlement notification system rewrite which decreased the settlement cycle by over 20% on average. Collaborating closely with business analysts and traders, I gained significant experience rapidly delivering impactful solutions under tight deadlines in a dynamic investment banking environment. This role deepened my Java development skills and showcased my ability to understand complex systems and implement high-value improvements.

As the lead software developer, I spearheaded the development of a robust in-house digital wallet used by over 20 million customers for a global payments platform. Leveraging deep expertise in fintech, I built the wallet payment system from the ground up, delivering an intuitive, seamless user experience across web and mobile. To enable smooth scaling, I pioneered an intelligent traffic distribution system that routes transactions to third-party gateways based on real-time success rates. This system was critical in supporting a surge in volume as our customer base grew exponentially. With a focus on resilience and uptime, I led performance optimizations that reduced latency by 40%, despite 10x traffic growth. My technical leadership and engineering ingenuity were instrumental in cementing our platform's reputation for reliability and convenience among customers worldwide. Throughout my tenure, I consistently delivered complex solutions on tight timelines that bolstered the business and technological capabilities.

As a senior software engineer, I architected and implemented the foundational services to enable customer acquisition for the flagship lending platform. This entailed designing an extensible framework to support complex business needs, such as risk analysis, customer validation, financial projections, and regulatory compliance. I leveraged cloud technologies and microservices patterns to ensure scalability, availability, and maintainability as customer volume ramps exponentially. Throughout the project, I mentored junior developers, promoted best practices, and advocated for solutions that balance business goals, code quality, and velocity. The platform now serves thousands of new customers per month with high accuracy and low latency.

• Served as a software developer on the Offers Management team, building a middleware application to process promotions for credit card customers. The Offers Management system evaluates customer data to determine eligible offers, integrates with downstream applications to deliver offers through multiple channels, and tracks offer performance analytics. Collaborated cross-functionally to refine requirements and troubleshoot issues through the full development lifecycle, from design to production deployment.