Vishwak

Backend Software Engineer

Specialized in all backend system from deploying application in cloud to building low latency trading application. If you think I am the right guy for you, hit me up.

Experience

Lloyds Banking Group

London, UK

Platform Engineer
2 years, 2 months
Aug 2023 - Present
  • Leading a 4-person team, I drove the successful migration of the bank's machine learning APIs (JSON and gRPC) from Kubernetes (GKE) to GCP Cloud Run (serverless) by managing sprint planning and skill-based task assignment, ultimately cutting platform running costs by 82%.
  • Mentored junior colleagues on platform engineering skills through a structure of challenging assignments and a continuous feedback loop, resulting in mentees taking full ownership of all Python applications and Terraform projects.
  • Engineered a self-service CI/CD system using GCP Cloud Build, Helm templates, and Istio authentication/authorization, resulting in a 90% reduction in code deployment time.
  • Achieved 100% VM instance compliance by developing and deploying the bank's custom security service as a dedicated Linux systemd service across the fleet.
  • Resolved a critical platform vulnerability incident within 1 hour to ensure 100% bank compliance by rapidly updating user access levels and implementing new security groups via Terraform.
  • Secured application access by deploying a custom GCP external OAuth connection to the bank's on-premises Active Directory, enabling granular authorization control based on defined roles.

Beakbook Ltd

London, UK

Backend Engineer
1 year
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
  • Worked on a start up venture in modern agicultural technology collaborating with small scale farmers and large enterprises like Avara foods.
  • Desgined and Developer PostgreSQL schema to accept IOT data stream (AWS Kinesis) and improved the optimization by 60% using Normalization Techniques.
  • Developed and Deployed the company's anomaly detection model which generated 50% of company's revenue.
  • Sandbox and production environment isolation achieved using Github Actions and Terraform Cloud to try their new algorithm without affecting users. This cut R&D time by 45% for the company.

Telescope Analytics

London, UK

ML Engineer Intern
1 month
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
  • Worked as a Machine Learning Engineer to develop recommendation systems to find sales prospects using Tensorflow and PyTorch.
  • Successfully deployed 9 tracking event alert alert from frontend (React) and the backend (Python).
  • Worked on Data Preprocessing pipelines (Kubeflow) for the recommendation systems.

Education

M.Sc in Data Analytics
University of Warwick
2021 - 2022

Specialized in Machine Learning and Algorithmic Game Theory. Thesis on "Building mobile friendly Anime filter using Generative Adversarial Networks."

B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering
Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology
2016 - 2020

Graduated with merit. Coursework included Data Structures, Algorithms, Database Systems, Networking and Web Development.

Skills

Python

Golang

C++

Java

Certifications

Projects

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