# Ashish Agarwal > Software Engineer | 5+ years experience | PayPal | Ex JP Morgan | MSCS Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ashishagarwal Enthusiastic towards the tech industry where lots of learning and personal development is expected. An extremely curious person who wants to know everything around technology. 5+ years of experience in SDE/SWE roles. Currently in Bay Area. Pursued MS in CS from San Jose State University. Tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, Scala, NodeJS, AWS, CDK, Javacript, React, Kafa, Elastic Search, AWS, Docker, REST Tools, Databases like SQL and MongoDB, Vector Databases, Langchain, Android Programming, Git ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer 2 @ PayPal Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, California, United States • Identified and corrected upstream-settlement schema discrepancies, reducing transaction failures and enhancing data accuracy. • Engineered a developer tool for searching Control-M jobs by parameters, cutting issue resolution time by 50% in batch-heavy projects and identifying outdated or undocumented jobs. • Devised a solution to automate vendor transaction responses, eliminating manual reconciliation, lowering accounting workload by 40%, and increasing operational efficiency. • Integrated on-premise applications with AWS to enable PGP-based encryption and decryption of sensitive fields and files, strengthening data security across 20+ applications. • Provisioned Kubernetes clusters using AWS CDK with integrated access to S3 and DynamoDB, enabling scalable deployments and eliminating manual setup processes. • Implemented a solution to include missing upstream fields in merchant transaction processing, improving vendor settlements accuracy and reducing transaction fees by 20%. • Addressed 6 batch job failures and bugs, and contributed to resolving a major payment settlement incident impacting 10+ merchants. ### Instructional Student Assistant @ San Jose State University Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States ISA for Mobile Application Development in Android ### Student @ San Jose State University Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States ### Software Engineer Intern @ PayPal Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States • Built an Apache Spark batch job on GCP DataProc cluster to pull over 25M daily screening profile data. • Leveraged HDFS and BigQuery to extract and display insights through GCP Looker, reducing analyst effort. ### Software Engineer @ Zomentum Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • Designed and improved Web APIs with Scala the Play framework, enabling efficient RESTful interactions. • Delivered and owned Autotask integration features using scheduled jobs and event-driven architectural system, enabling seamless data sync for over 8000 customers. • Automated purchase order tracking with WebSockets and AWS Kinesis, using scheduled jobs for detailed order data, cutting manual checks by 50%. • Analyzed and resolved customer bugs, decreasing weekly issues by 70% over 4 months and boosting customer satisfaction by 25%. ### Associate Software Engineer @ JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ### Software Engineer @ JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Bangalore • Developed and maintained Elasticsearch server for indexing jobs and retrieval queries. Search time dropped from 11 to 1 second. • Created REST Web APIs with Java, Spring Boot and GraphQL, exposing banker-specific and contact information for near real-time information retrieval, decreasing data lookup time by 70%. • Owned and delivered an end-to-end Kafka based platform, achieving near real-time employee and customer data retrieval. • Led the migration of a react application from flux to redux, improving state management and lowering application bugs by 40%. • Built and maintained over 4 frontend applications from scratch in ReactJS and Redux, leveraging essential tools and packages. • Initiated architectural design recommendations, accelerating development by 30% and ensuring rapid adaptation with fast-paced environment. • Led production releases of at least 12 applications, adhering to Agile methodology to facilitate continuous integration and delivery. ### Student @ Self-employed Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru Area, India ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science San José State University ### Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashish-agarwal-2101 - Website: https://ashishagarwal2101.github.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/ashishagarwal JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ashishagarwal/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01