Über Sivasyam
As a Senior Software Engineer at Solarisbank AG, I bring over three years of experience in designing and optimizing scalable backend systems for fintech solutions. My work focuses on real-time card authorization and settlement processes, leveraging in-depth knowledge of ISO 8583 standards, Spring Boot, Microservices and AWS services like ECS, Lambda, and RDS. By collaborating with cross-functional teams, I contribute to delivering reliable and efficient payment infrastructure that supports Visa and Mastercard integrations.
Dedicated to advancing financial services, I specialize in building secure, high-performance backend infrastructure. My role emphasizes system reliability, robust error handling, and continuous improvement of development practices. Through innovation and teamwork, I aim to enhance the scalability and resilience of FinTech platforms while driving impactful solutions in the financial services domain.
Englisch
Muttersprachlich oder zweisprachig
Deutsch
Grundkenntnisse
Vor Ort möglich
Berlin (bis zu 50 km)
Projekt- und Berufserfahrung
- Solarisbank SESenior Software Engineer | Cards & PaymentsBANKEN & VERSICHERUNGENJanuar 2022 - Heute (4 Jahre und 5 Monate)Berlin, GermanyLeading backend development for card payment processing systems in a regulated Banking-as-a-Service environment.
- Resolved recurring production issues in the settlement process by redesigning the execution model from AWS Lambda to event-triggered ECS tasks, significantly improving platform reliability while keeping infrastructure costs optimized.
- Proposed and implemented automated test coverage enforcement using JaCoCo, integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and failing builds when minimum thresholds were not met.
- Reduced infrastructure costs by migrating authorization and settlement data from DynamoDB to PostgreSQL (RDS), improving maintainability and aligning storage with transactional workloads.
- Designed and executed migration pipelines from DynamoDB streams into PostgreSQL-based architecture for a more efficient and cost-effective data platform.
- Built and enhanced REST APIs supporting card lifecycle flows including authorization, clearing, reconciliation, chargebacks, and dispute management.
- Improved observability through structured logging, tracing, and monitoring using CloudWatch and distributed tracing practices.
- Mentored junior engineers and promoted clean architecture, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
Responsibilities- Implemented credit card onboarding services for the Solaris credit card platform using Kotlin and Spring Boot.
- Integrated with card schemes such as Visa and Mastercard using ISO 8583 messaging.
- Developed low-latency, high-availability services for real-time transaction processing.
- Collaborated with product, QA, operations, and security teams in cross-functional delivery.
- Participated in production releases, incident resolution, and on-call support.
- HeycarSenior Backend EngineerOktober 2020 - Dezember 2021 (1 Jahr und 2 Monate)Berlin, Germany
- Developed backend services for marketplace and dealer integrations using Java, Kotlin, and Spring Boot.
- Designed microservices for finance and lead-partner services.
- Built integrations with external financial partners and dealer platforms.
- Worked with AWS services including EKS, SQS, S3, Firehose, and EC2.
- Contributed to architecture decisions, CI/CD processes, and production support.
- Provided technical mentoring and code reviews to team members.
- Bonify GermanyBackend developerJuli 2018 - September 2020 (2 Jahre und 2 Monate)Berlin, Germany• Backend Developer working with cross-functional team to develop and maintain bank-connector, partner-connector and scoring service• Developed microservices using java and spring boot• Worked on distributed version control system like Git and Source Tree for GUI• Worked on build tool in Maven and Gradle• Worked on Message broker like RabbitMQ• Integration of bank partner APIs• Successfully implemented PSD2 API changes• Responsible for development to deployment, including troubleshooting and production fixes• Reviewing code written by the team and provide the review comments
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Ausbildung und Abschlüsse
- MCAIndira Gandhi National Open University2009MCA
- Bachelor of Science - BSAcharya Nagarjuna University2005Bachelor of Science - BS