# Elroy Alva

> Growth & User Management Engineering @ Solo Global Inc

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/elroy

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Solo Global Inc
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed a KYC-compliant user onboarding process on a third-party payment platform (Stripe)
- Created a passwordless signup and login system using AWS Cognito and Twilio Verify with integrated risk evaluation.
- Implemented a distributed workflow in Java to import data for 2M+ users.
- Designed and developed a centralized notification service with email, SMS, and push notifications using templates.
- Set up event (SNS/SQS) and RPC (REST API) based inter-service communication Java libraries.
- Created a mobile deep link and short link creation library for interfacing across Firebase DynamicLinks, AppsFlyer and Short.io.
- Built a user image upload feature that utilized AWS Rekognition for automatic AI image moderation with admin overrides.
- Setup CI/CD pipeline, code coverage, common libraries and AWS CodeArtifact maven repo used by over 20 Java microservices.
- Set up metrics, reporting, APM, application profiling and logging using Datadog and Sentry.
- Tools: Java, NodeJS, Maven, Dropwizard, Postgres, Docker, AWS (Cognito, EKS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, RDS, Rekognition, CodeArtifact), Datadog, Sentry, Stripe, Firebase, Github Actions, Shell, REST API

### Senior Software Engineer @ Womply
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California
- Scaled the ETL pipeline to consume daily transaction data from <5K bank accounts to 3M+ bank accounts and over 60GB daily.
- Helped scale registered users from <100K to over 2M+ users in less than 2 months.
- Integral contributor to the team that helped scale the company from <$100M to $2000M+ annual revenue from 2021 to 2022.
- Maintained up-to-date balance and transaction data using Deltalake for 3M+ bank accounts.
- Automated the ingestion process of over 10 million SMB transaction records amounting to over 4 billion USD daily.
- Worked with a small team to achieve PCI DSS Level 1 compliance for the card transaction data ingestion pipeline.
- Contributed to and maintained over 25 containerized microservices.
- Presented with Wombat of the Year (2018) company-wide award for outstanding performance.
- Tools: Java, NodeJS, Maven, Dropwizard, Postgres, Docker, AWS (EKS, ECS, SNS, SQS, RDS, EMR, S3, Redshift, Athena), Datadog, Circle CI, Kafka Connect, DeltaLake, Spark, Shell, REST API

### Software Engineer @ Womply
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco

### Software Engineering Intern @ Ruckus Wireless
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Reduced firmware build steps by 75% by using the Robot automation framework, Python, Shell, HTML, CSS, and C.
- Cut 90% of manual steps by building UI for a testing system using Node, Angular, Django, HTML, and CSS.
- Persisted over 2 months of test results in a NoSQL (MongoDB) database and surfaced it using Node, Angular, CSS and HTML.
- Tools: Python, Shell, HTML, C, Node, Angular, Django, NoSQL, MongoDB

### Software Consultant @ Bit Brothers
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Served 5,000 users from 21 hackathons and 25 career events by building a website using MEAN stack
- Built a cash-on-delivery e-commerce website (12 pages, 5 features) using MEAN stack.
- Tools: Python, Shell, HTML, Django, NoSQL, MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node


## Education
### MS in CSE
University at Buffalo

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Engineering
St. Francis Institute of Technology, Mumbai (Bombay)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elroyalva

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Last updated: 2026-03-29