Arpan Korat

About Arpan Korat

Software Engineer at Barclays, responsible for technical direction, delivery ownership, and team execution across backend systems, data engineering, and scalable full-stack platforms. I lead by setting architecture, unblocking teams, and driving execution on high-impact, production-critical initiatives in regulated environments.I own end-to-end delivery of complex projects — from design and stakeholder alignment to execution and production hardening — while mentoring engineers and scaling teams as scope grows. I’ve repeatedly been trusted to take over ambiguous or high-risk initiatives and deliver them predictably.While leading, I have:Delivered an ESaaS-based logging and monitoring platform two months ahead of schedule, improving real-time visibility, reducing debugging time, and strengthening production resilience across multiple teams.Designed and optimized internal utilities that saves 40 engineering hours in each month, materially increasing team throughput and delivery velocity.Built and led a team of 7 engineers (expanded from 3), coordinating cross-functional stakeholders to deliver POCs and audit-ready systems that improved BAU efficiency and operational readiness.Spearheaded the migration of legacy services to Red Hat OpenShift containerized clusters, achieving high availability, near-zero downtime, and more reliable deployment pipelines.Led backend performance optimization (Django) resulting in ~50% faster response times, and guided frontend modernization using React + TypeScript, increasing user satisfaction by ~25%.I was Outstanding Performer for Year 2024 in Barclays’ graduate program. Our team was awarded Project of the Year 2024 by the Barclays CEO for contributions to a billion-dollar treasury initiative.I hold an M.S. in Data Science from the University at Buffalo, with a strong foundation in machine learning, big data analytics, and statistical modeling, which informs my approach to building scalable, data-driven systems.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Barclays

   Aug 2023 — Present · Whippany, NJ, US

   Full Stack Developer (Jan 2025 – Present)• Made system faster by 50% by reducing the API logics in Django. • Made UI appealing and more functional using React, TypeScript, and enhance user satisfaction by 25%. • Developing AXIOM reports to enhance financial reporting and compliance monitoring.• Working on to achieve goal- 99.9% system uptime with robust fault-tolerance mechanisms for production environments.Backend Developer (Apr 2024 – Jan 2025)• Increased system performance by 50%. Previously our team was using the solace and spring camel for the data ingestion and processing as part of JMS. Increased accuracy of the system by 10%. • Developed entire service by myself from scratch for real time streaming of data using camel-kafka. • Made all services in my project GOLD standard in SONARQUBE scans. Our team got recognition for that as well. • Reduce the time for deployment by 100%, by using Chef cookbook and Jenkins. • Pioneer developer to introduce the Gitlab in the team deployed services in the OpenShift using Helm Chart. Data Engineer (Aug 2023 - Apr 2024)• Barclays’ CEO awarded our team’s project as project of the year for 2024.• Sole developer in our team, worked on onboarding our team’s applications to the in house tool TOD monitoring tool. • Created critical jobstreams for the business to conduct day to day activities in Barclays in house environment TWS. • Heavily worked on shell scripting, Oracle DB, PL/SQL, TWS scheduling environment, Abinitio an ETL tool, Jenkins automation and CI-CD pipeline, Bitbucket.

Education

• Sarvajanik College of Engineering & Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology

• University at Buffalo

  Master of Science - MS, Data Science