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SAI RAKAM - Software Engineer in Remote, USA

SAI RAKAM

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech payments

Capital OneGeorge Mason UniversityRemote, USA3 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Capital One engineer focused on fraud and payments platforms, owning end-to-end services and internal tools used by fraud analysts. Built high-traffic Kafka/REST systems and real-time React/TypeScript dashboards (WebSockets, Redis), with strong emphasis on observability, idempotency, and scalable microservices. Successfully drove adoption of AI-assisted fraud classification by pairing transparency and manual overrides with measurable workflow improvements.

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Key Strengths

  • Owned high-traffic fraud lookup/event classification service end-to-end (Kafka ingestion + REST APIs)
  • Strong reliability engineering: schema validation, API contracts, unit/integration tests, observability from day one
  • Data- and user-feedback-driven iteration with incremental releases to balance speed and quality
  • Built real-time analytics dashboard (React/TypeScript + Node.js) with WebSockets and Redis caching
  • Handled distributed-systems consistency issues (out-of-order/duplicate events) using idempotency checks and versioning
  • Microservices at scale: clear service ownership/contracts, centralized logging/metrics/alerting, improved retries and consumer monitoring after incident
  • Drove adoption of internal AI-assisted tooling by building trust (confidence transparency, manual overrides, gradual rollout) and measuring workflow impact

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Experience

Software EngineerCapital One · Jul 2024 – Present
Software DeveloperPaytm · Aug 2021 – Jul 2022
Software DeveloperPhonePe · Jan 2021 – Jun 2021

Education

George Mason Universitymaster, Information Systems (2024)
SR Engineering Collegebachelor, Electronics and Communication Engineering (2022)

Languages

English

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SAI RAKAMMid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech payments