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CHIRAG ARORA - Senior Software Engineer in San Jose, CA

CHIRAG ARORA

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

PayPalSan José State UniversitySan Jose, CA9 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks On-Site

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Backend engineer with PayPal experience building a high-reliability onboarding API platform (Java/Spring Boot) integrating KYC/compliance and serving 1M+ users annually. Also shipped an internal LLM-driven developer tool that automates PR review insights and OpenAPI documentation with rigorous evaluation, schema-bound guardrails, and production observability.

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Key Strengths

  • Built and scaled PayPal onboarding APIs handling 1M+ users annually with multiple downstream integrations (wallet/identity/risk/compliance)
  • Diagnosed and resolved peak-traffic latency/timeouts by redesigning synchronous orchestration into partially parallel downstream calls
  • Maintains regulatory correctness via contract tests, expanded automated testing, feature-flagged gradual rollout, and shadow comparisons
  • End-to-end ownership of an LLM-powered developer productivity tool (PR review insights + API documentation generation)
  • Strong AI reliability practices: benchmark datasets, pinned-model regression tests, schema validation, drift monitoring, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks
  • Designs reliable multi-step agent/workflow systems with explicit planning/execution/verification stages and clear retry/escalation policies
  • Database performance tuning using composite indexes and denormalization while preserving append-only audit trails

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Experience

Senior Software EngineerPayPal · Jan 2025 – Present
Software Engineer (Contract)Walmart Global Tech · Jun 2024 – Jan 2025contract
Software EngineerEricsson · Nov 2016 – Aug 2022

Education

San José State Universitymaster, Software Engineering (2024)
Amity Universitybachelor, Computer Science (2016)

Awards

  • Ericsson Ace Award (2021) - Ericsson
  • Ericsson Customer Excellence Award (2018) - Ericsson

Languages

English

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