VAIBHAV ARVIND KINIKAR
Mountain View
Summary
Experienced PD lead in the Bill Pay/Banking Platform team, adept at leading critical projects with precision and innovation. Thrives in high-pressure environments, excels at guiding teams through complex challenges and tight deadlines. Utilizes strong software development background and meticulous problem-solving skills to ensure deliverables exceed expectations through strategic collaboration with key stakeholders. Expertise in software architecture, technical leadership, and effective communication drives projects to successful completion.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Software Engineer
Intuit, Inc.
06.2016 - Current
- Responsible for e2e ownership and leading technical design, coding, and managing backend systems, creating robust, scalable, and secure software solutions for bill pay and banking platform capabilities
- Collaborate with principal engineers and architects to shape the technical direction and strategy for the development of backend platform; and work closely to design and implement new features, making key decisions on technologies, tools, and processes used
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, principal engineers, architects, and external partners participating and contributing to the various stages of the software development lifecycle to ensure effective product development and implementation
- Responsible for ensuring all the platform services are available/resilient, and performing per expected SLAs
- Responsible for troubleshooting, debugging and rectifying complex technical issues surrounding the end to end backend systems to ensure the seamless operation of the platform/software applications
- Perform regular maintenance, updates, and optimizations of existing backend systems to ensure continuous performance improvement, guided by the direction set by the principal engineers and architects
- Designed and developed highly scalable, secure, and efficient RESTful Platform Services that provides critical functions like Money Movement capabilities for Intuit’s Quickbooks Payments Product
- Built common libraries to be used across cross functional teams to encourage adoption of common code to avoid code redundancies; documented the usage steps to provide a seamless integration experience
- Gathered required documentation from PM and brainstormed with team to solve complex design problems
- Built CI/CD pipelines using Modern SAAS tools like Blue Oceans Jenkins, Kubernetes(container services), Docker for faster code deployments; followed Agile, SCRUM, extreme programming methodologies
- Technologies: Java, Spring, Jersey, Maven, AWS (S3, RDS, SQS, SNS), Kubernetes, Blue Ocean, Springboot
Software Development Engineer - Intern
RealNetworks, Inc.
06.2015 - 09.2015
- Gathered requirements, documented and demonstrated solutions for a feature called RealTimes – FamilyPlan
- Designed and implemented modifications to existing RESTful APIs and added some additional APIs to support the family plan feature
- Unit tested, deployed and presented a final report to the Engineering team
- Technologies used: Java, Spring, Jersey, MongoDB, Maven, Git, AWS (S3, SWF, SQS, SNS)
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA05.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
BMS College Of Engineering
05.2014
Skills
- Languages/Technologies: Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate JPA, Oracle SQL, Scala, AWS Lamda, ActiveMQ, Kafka
- Operating Systems: Linux, Android, macOS, Windows
- IDE/Tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ, VMware, Postman, GIT, Maven, TestNG, Jira, Confluence
- Frameworks: Spring, Springboot, Android SDK, Kubernetes, RestAssured
Timeline
Staff Software Engineer
Intuit, Inc.
06.2016 - Current
Software Development Engineer - Intern
RealNetworks, Inc.
06.2015 - 09.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
BMS College Of Engineering
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Southern California
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