Viral Amin

Senior Software Engineer @ FIS Management LLC

Remote · Jacksonville, FL (Retirement Sector)

• Led a team from inception to launch of a call center referral feature, improving client satisfaction by 15%.
• Architected GraphQL APIs for real-time data fetching, reducing response time.
• Enhanced system security and compliance by integrating end-to-end encryption (GPG) for sensitive PII data during migration and at rest, ensuring adherence to financial industry regulations (e.g., SOC2, GDPR).
• Optimized API performance by implementing Redis caching for frequently accessed 401(k) participant data, reducing average response time by 25% and easing database load during peak hours.
• Mentored junior developers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions, accelerating their ramp-up time and improving overall team code quality.
• Built comprehensive monitoring dashboards using AWS CloudWatch and Splunk, enabling proactive detection of anomalies and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR).
• Collaborated closely with product managers and QA to define acceptance criteria and automate regression tests.
• Optimized AWS infrastructure costs by right-sizing EC2 instances, introducing spot instances for non-production workloads, and cleaning up unused resources, saving the department on non-prod environment.

Software Developer @ T. Rowe Price

• Refactored legacy Java 8 modules to Java 17, applying modern design patterns and reducing technical debt; subsequent feature development velocity increased by 35%.
• Used Kotlin coroutines for asynchronous programming, boosting application performance.
• Engineered emergency withdrawal feature for 401(k) participants, ensuring high availability.
• Designed and implemented a real-time balance calculation service that integrated with third-party market data providers.
• Reduced system downtime by implementing comprehensive health checks, automated failover mechanisms, and improved error handling across critical microservices.
• Optimized database queries and introduced connection pooling, reducing average database latency and resolving N+1 query issues in Hibernate.
• Built a self-service feature flag system using Optimizely, allowing product managers to enable/disable features without deployments.

Full Stack Software Developer @ BrainBees Solutions (Firstcry.com)

Pune, India

• Developed SPAs using MEAN/MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular/React, Node.js).
• Built REST/SOAP web services and integrated jQuery plugins for rich UI.
• Performed CRUD operations and data migrations in MongoDB.
• Consumed RESTful services and implemented responsive designs with HTML5/CSS3.
• Implemented caching and pagination to improve performance on high-traffic product pages.
• Played key role in the migration of legacy PHP templates to a modern component-based frontend architecture.
• Collaborated with QA to establish end-to-end test suites.
• Optimized MongoDB queries and indexes to reduce database response times by 40%.
• Implemented real-time features using Socket.io for live chat and notifications in the e-commerce platform.
• Developed custom AngularJS directives and services to enhance modularity and reusability.
• Integrated OAuth authentication with social media providers for seamless user login.
• Built scalable Node.js microservices to handle product catalog and inventory management.