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Sanjana Mali

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech payments

University of California, DavisUC DavisDavis, CA4 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Full-stack engineer with payments-domain experience from ACI Worldwide who shipped an end-to-end MFA system for payment workflows (React/TypeScript + backend APIs + Postgres), then owned it in production with logging/monitoring and client adoption tracking. Also improved checkout responsiveness across Apple Pay/PayPal flows via React performance profiling, component refactors, and state/network optimizations.

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Key Strengths

  • Shipped MFA for payment workflows end-to-end (frontend + backend) in production
  • Designed reusable OTP UI components and error/verification state handling across multiple payment flows
  • Built backend APIs for token validation/OTP verification integrated with payment processing services
  • Drove measurable frontend performance improvements by refactoring large component trees and reducing unnecessary state updates
  • Performance troubleshooting using browser profiling to identify re-renders/long scripting times
  • Designed Postgres schema for authentication attempts/audit logs with constraints and indexes; optimized latest-state queries using execution plans
  • Production ownership: monitored adoption and production behavior; debugged and iterated post-launch
  • Adoption impact: ~70% of ~120 clients enabled the MFA feature within one month

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Experience

Teaching Assistant – ECS 193: Capstone ProjectsUniversity of California, Davis · Jan 2025 – Presentpart-time
Graduate Student Researcher – SEIRV Modeling ProjectUniversity of California, Davis · Jan 2025 – Apr 2025part-time
Software EngineerACI Worldwide · Aug 2020 – Aug 2024

Education

UC Davismaster, Computer Science (2026)
Pune Institute of Computer Technologybachelor, Computer Science and Engineering (2020)

Awards

  • 1st prize - ACI Worldwide internal Hackathon (AI-Enhanced Chatbot for Secure Payments)

Languages

English

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Sanjana MaliMid-Level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech payments