Ashish Agarwal

About Ashish Agarwal

Enthusiastic towards the tech industry where lots of learning and personal development is expected. An extremely curious person who wants to know everything around technology.5+ years of experience in SDE/SWE roles. Currently in Bay Area. Pursued MS in CS from San Jose State University. Tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, Scala, NodeJS, AWS, CDK, Javacript, React, Kafa, Elastic Search, AWS, Docker, REST Tools, Databases like SQL and MongoDB, Vector Databases, Langchain, Android Programming, Git

Experience

1. Software Engineer 2

   PayPal

   Jul 2024 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Identified and corrected upstream-settlement schema discrepancies, reducing transaction failures and enhancing data accuracy.• Engineered a developer tool for searching Control-M jobs by parameters, cutting issue resolution time by 50% in batch-heavy projects and identifying outdated or undocumented jobs.• Devised a solution to automate vendor transaction responses, eliminating manual reconciliation, lowering accounting workload by 40%, and increasing operational efficiency.• Integrated on-premise applications with AWS to enable PGP-based encryption and decryption of sensitive fields and files, strengthening data security across 20+ applications.• Provisioned Kubernetes clusters using AWS CDK with integrated access to S3 and DynamoDB, enabling scalable deployments and eliminating manual setup processes.• Implemented a solution to include missing upstream fields in merchant transaction processing, improving vendor settlements accuracy and reducing transaction fees by 20%.• Addressed 6 batch job failures and bugs, and contributed to resolving a major payment settlement incident impacting 10+ merchants.

Education

• San José State University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

• Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE

  Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

  2014 — 2018