Vaibhav Sarda

Experience

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  Shanti Sahyog-a Gandhian NGO

  May 2018 - Jun 2018

  Student Teacher

  Conducted remedial classes for underprivileged students, taught computer application skills to school students and compiled a database on Peace Institutions and NGOs

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  CodeChef

  May 2019 - Jun 2019

  Teaching Intern

  • Received training on classroom management practices and pedagogy• Created and modified lesson plans for teaching students• Taught basics of programming to students through puzzles, activities, and problems

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  Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

  Aug 2019 - Aug 2019

  Event Head

  Event Head of Switcheroo, a programming event in Esya 2019, IIIT-Delhi's Technical Fest

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  HSBC

  Jul 2021 - now

  Data and Machine Learning Services • Currently working as an API developer for delivering APIs to internal business portals. • Spearheading a program level POC on using a managed service on Cloud, as an alternative to an orchestration platform, for efficient usage of Cloud resources. • Leading another POC on using Generative AI for development of an internal search engine for HSBC using Python and some frameworks for using LLMs. • Monitoring that operational costs are in check by developing the right set of automation. • Working on enhancing resilience of platforms by enabling proactive alerting of Kong APIs and acting as my project's Incident management Point of Contact. Show less Development of data refinery for AnaCredit dataset• Worked on generation of monthly regulatory reports for European countries. Automated the execution of batches to avoid access to privileged accounts, and created validation scripts to check data in tables is loaded correctly. • Worked on migration of monthly historical data for European countries from cloud to another server. Created scripts for extraction of data to files on cloud, for loading tables in server from different data sources, and for reconciliation of data and generation of report indicating anomalies.• Worked on making changes in business logic, written in SQL, based on evolving business requirements. Focused on automation to reduce time spent in table loads, and to enable quick implementation of changes.• Took ownership of reviewing Change Requests created by team and representation of changes to upper management. Show less HSBC Mobile banking application development: Account management team• Worked on technical enhancement for mocking response of API calls for testing frontend code independent of backend APIs in various scenarios. Tested all error scenarios for a particular feature, after doing a major code refactoring.• Worked on development of a feature for tracking payments for UK customers. The journey had various scenarios and conditions, associated with payments, to be handled. Tried to handle all the cases in an efficient manner. Journey is currently live. Show less HSBC Mobile banking application development: Account management team• Worked on technical enhancements for using latest Android features• One of the key technical enhancements includes the integration of a library for writing UI tests to reduce the runtime of UI tests. Wrote UI tests for a variety of Android components for different features using this library.• Worked on development of different types of in-app notifications for UK customers. Handled different kinds of re-direction scenarios (in app and outside app) based on the type of notifications. Journey is currently live. Show less

  • Consultant Specialist

    Sept 2023 - now

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Sept 2022 - Sept 2023

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Mar 2022 - Aug 2022

  • Trainee Software Engineer

    Jul 2021 - Mar 2022