Simran Kaur Kahlon

About Simran Kaur Kahlon

Self-motivated and self-taught professional with 4+ years of experience, a go-getter, who likes to solve complex problems. Passionate about learning innovative technological skills and implementing them to drive results in a rapidly changing industry.

Experience

1. Lead Engineer

   Yocket

   Jul 2023 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Executed the development of the \"Yocket Prep\" a GRE Practice Platform (Web and Mobile), which has around 20k+ free and 3k+ paid users since its launch.• Spearheaded the development of Loan CRM(Internal and Bank-facing) to handle the education loan processes starting from the lead generation stage to loan sanction and disbursement. Helping the Sales and Finance teams with better prioritization, lesser lead leakage, and more efficiency and productivity ultimately bringing in more revenues.• Interface with product managers, program managers and founders in ideation and translating initiatives into technical designs.• Handling the mobile team, taking initiatives to get the mobile app rating from 4.2 to 4.4 on Play Store, handling user feedback gracefully and also incorporating it, leading the development at a fast pace along with refactoring major codebase.• Led a team of 15+ developers, and contributed to the Yocket Web app, which has a community of 900K study abroad aspirants and 15K+ paid users.• Ground-up setup of the whole infrastructure to manage all the applications at Yocket, ensuring proper security of the codebase, database, and system uptime. Setting up the CICD using Gitlab/Bitbucket.• Handled BCP DR compliance documents for audit purposes.• Integrated finance banking APIs for the smooth loan process of the study abroad aspirants.• Tracking weekly metrics and taking priority development decisions based on them, working in a hyper-agile environment.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Master of Science - MS, Information Technology

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology

  2013 — 2016