About

Chinmay Rakshit is a Software Engineer 3 at PayPal with over 6 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. He has a strong background in Java, Ruby on Rails, DynamoDb, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, Sidekiq, and AWS technologies. Chinmay is passionate about working on products that can have a visual impact on customers. Chinmay started his career at an early-stage startup and later moved to Amazon where he worked as a Software Development Engineer. During his tenure at Amazon, Chinmay created an automation solution for generating plans, reduced the overall SLA of plan creation, and created a plan override tool that helped QA reduce price change testing effort from 2 weeks to 1 day. He also created a Java client that was onboarded by 700 internal teams and helped fetch overridden plan data per customer with a latency of 0.15 ms(P90). Chinmay took full ownership of the tool and Java client design, implementation, launch, onboarding clients, and monitoring. He has experience in API design, distributed job scheduling, unit/integration/load testing, and Agile methodology. Chinmay has also worked as a Software Engineer at Kuvera, a fast-growing fintech company where he created solutions to simplify investment in Direct Mutual Funds. He created an end-to-end payment gateway to allow users to make NEFT/RTGS, net-banking, and mandate payments. Chinmay also created a CAS import that allowed users to consolidate trades invested in different platforms into a single place, which had a major impact on the user base and helped in angle funding. Chinmay holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the West Bengal University of Technology. He is skilled in Software Engineering, Java, AWS, test, QA, Ruby, Redis, Javascript, MySQL, MongoDB, NoSQL, Integration, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Hadoop, Spring Boot, Spring, Search, and Apache Hive. Chinmay is a former ACM-ICPC regional finalist and is always eager to learn and be curious.