# Ajay D.

> Senior Software Engineer at HOVER Inc.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ajayd

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ HOVER Inc.
Jan 2019 – Present
Teams - Foundation, Platform, Core services and Internal Admin

• Upgraded the Platform stack to the next version of Rails without any incident and downtime as part of 20% project

• Improved metrics for several high traffic API end points by analyzing and fixing performance bottlenecks

• Moved a major workflow communication, between internal applications, from REST to PubSub with protobuf thereby reducing out of sync schema incidents to zero

• Built self service Internal admin tools to aid product and customer support teams to view and act on data related to help desk requests

• Actively maintained the platform application by routinely scanning and removing dead code/features. Over the course of this time I was able to remove several gems, tables with millions of rows, unused features without impacting any performance or user functionality

Languages/Frameworks - Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, RSpec, GraphQL, Pub/Sub, Protocol Buffers

### Software Engineer II @ Indiegogo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Teams - Backer Trust, Marketplace, Amplification and Payments

◦ Built tools for Marketplace sellers to send tracking numbers to buyers, when they ship their order, with tracking status. The tool helped automate Trust and Safety team’s manual disbursement process for Marketplace.

◦ Built tools to empower Entrepreneurs to analyze and customize Pre-launch page.

◦ Worked on the revamp of the explore page to help the discovery of projects and products which led to increased conversions

◦ Worked on compliance efforts and reconciling balances as part of Payments team

Languages/Frameworks - Ruby on Rails, MySQL, RSpec, AngularJS, Vue.js, TypeScript, Mocha, Chai

### Software Engineer @ Hem Design Studio
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Pune Area, India
Worked on multiple initiatives as part of True Sparrow Systems, a subsidiary of Fab.com and later Hem Design, in Marketplace and Supply Chain/Warehouse Management teams

◦ Developed core features like Login, Session Management, Receiving, Packing and Order communication for Fab’s Warehouse Management System(WMS) that managed the company’s own warehouse. Also, developed the Manifest process to help truck drivers with inventory check for the orders

◦ Designed the order communication module to facilitate movement of customized designer furniture orders from the website between the supplier and warehouse, and eventually to the customer

### Mainframe Consultant @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Mumbai Area, India
• Worked on migrating accounts from National Financial Services(NFS), the external clearing firm and technology solutions provider for Bank of America into internal Merrill Lynch’s system after the acquisition

• Involved in coding, testing and deployment phases of the project to digitize and automate checkbook order process for Bank of America through Web to transition from the existing phone order system

Languages/Frameworks - COBOL, Job Control Language(JCL), CICS, IBM Mainframe


## Education
### Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Industrial Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science and Engineering
University at Buffalo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ajay-d-48b1216b

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Last updated: 2026-03-29