Akash Satpal Arora

akash-arora.com | Lead engineer with Python expertise

Canada

About

I am a software developer with 7+ years of experience in Python and Python based web frameworks. My work focuses on coding, feature development, optimizations, debugging, planning, coordinating with other developers & teams and developing technical solutions for organizations. I work closely with product and delivery engineering teams to create scalable systems, web APIs, data pipelines and services. I have experience of software engineering best practices such as code reviews, testing frameworks, code readability, documentation and git branching workflows. I have a Permanent Resident Visa and am fully authorized to work anywhere and for any employer in Canada without requiring visa sponsorship from employer.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Citi
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

    - Work as a senior independent contractor for Citigroup in reporting team - Part of my duties include to write python and python based web framework code to generate reports for business applications, process and people - My work also includes optimisations, debugging, developing technical solutions, data analysis and documentation - Technologies and tools I use in my role include but are not limited to Python, Django, Flask, pyenv, PEP8, AWS – S3, EC2, RDS, SQS, Lambda, Boto3, Pandas, Jupyter Notebook, nginx, Postgres SQL, Trino, KDB, Postman, Git, Jenkins, CICD, Micro-services

  • Technical Lead at Infostretch
    Dec 2021 - Apr 2022 · 5 mos

    I rejoined Infostretch as a Technical Lead and oversaw projects & teams, analysed products and helped company in evaluating talent. Summary of my work: - Determine, analyse and negotiate product requirements - Analyse existing operations & standards, improve them if needed and schedule training sessions and meetings to implement improvements - Assist integration team to improve healthcare integration solution by contributing in the product as a Senior Software Developer - Conduct technical interviews to help company hire the right talent to work on Python based Projects and products

  • Solutions Engineer at Instabase
    Aug 2021 - Dec 2021 · 5 mos

    I worked as a Solution Engineer at Instabase and completely owned extraction and validation solutions for many client documents documents as per client specific requirements. Summary of my work: - Understand the customer requirements for various data extraction and validations use cases - Analyse, plan and design the solution that will be required to solve the customer use case - Write rules and python code on top of company tools to extract the required data and validate it with the promised accuracy - Publish/Deploy the end to end solution to solve the customer problem

  • Technical Lead at Infostretch
    Apr 2021 - Aug 2021 · 5 mos

    I worked as a Technical Lead at Infostretch and oversaw projects & teams, analysed products and helped company in evaluating talent. Summary of my work: - Determine, analyse and negotiate product requirements - Analyse existing operations & standards, improve them if needed and schedule training sessions and meetings to implement improvements - Assist integration team to improve healthcare integration solution by contributing in the product as a Senior Software Developer - Conduct technical interviews to help company hire the right talent to work on Python based Projects and products

  • Python Developer at Cactus Communications-Careers
    Dec 2017 - Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    I work in the Labs team of Technology department at Cactus. I design, code, test and maintain analytic tools and REST APIs which provide great business insights and drives new business. Summary of my work: - Analysis of client conversion rate - Quantify editing time effort - Predict editing effort required and perform metric analysis - Identify and analyse anomalies in recipes of task allocation tool - Research Paper data collection - Document Assessment automation by creating a REST API service - Document Conversion tool by creating a REST API service - Maintain and fix Word-Count tool created as a REST API service - Develop multiple features of Document Assessment automation tool - Create REST API services around tools and intelligence - Write clean, reusable and maintainable code by following high coding standards above and beyond PEP8 - Under-the-hood process optimisations which were never assigned tasks but effectively saved many company hours and efforts - Currently fully own Document Assessment automation tool from technological standpoint