# Kanwar Baweja

> Founding Engineer

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/kanwar

I’m a cheerful, energetic software engineer with a product mindset. I like solving problems that bring value to people or businesses. I have built interesting products over the years and coached engineers in new skills and abilities.

Experience in Rust,  Ruby on Rails and C# as Senior engineer.
Other Skills include - System design, Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker,gRPC, Terraform, Helm, Grafana, Honeycomb, AWS, Rabbitmq, Git and Sql

Explored machine learning and AI by completing Deep Learning courses (by Andrew Ng) from coursera.

I’m fluent in English, Hindi, Punjabi

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Speakeasy
Jan 2024 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom

### Senior Software Engineer @ TrueLayer
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom
- Led a team of 3 engineers to integrate with Direct Debit. 
- Spearheaded a cross-team effort to resolve IBAN issue to increase payment conversion for  Truelayer (TL). The work involved defining the problem, discussing the potential solutions & implementing it.
- Led the work to fix the discrepancy between TL ledger balance & TL banking provider balance. Communicated the changes with impacted TL clients. The work significantly reduced auditing efforts.
- Led the work for integrating with a 3rd party provider to enable Sepa & Sepa-instant payments throughout Europe. The work led to the signing of big clients for Truelayer.
- Led a team of 2 engineers to combine 2 transaction reconciliation services into 1. The work led to reducing maintenance overhead for the team.
- Tech Stack - Rust

### Backend engineer - Payments team @ TrueLayer
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom
- Allowing businesses to receive and send money directly to their end-users bank account in real-time (Currencies - GBP & EUR)
- Tech Stack - Rust

### Backend Engineer - Verification Team @ TrueLayer
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | London, England, United Kingdom
- Verifying bank account details with onboarding form details to hasten KYC processes for businesses
- Tech stack - C# and .Net framework

### Backend Engineer - Financial Insights team @ TrueLayer
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | London, England, United Kingdom
- Real-time categorization of financial transactions from UK, France, Ireland using Machine learning model
- Tech stack - C# and .Net framework

### Senior Software Engineer @ Zoomcar
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Architected and designed task-management service
- Tech stack - Ruby on Rails

### Software Engineer @ Zoomcar
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Bangalore
- Implemented Hierarchical Tagging
- Reduced response time of admin panel by 5x
- Worked on Communications Microservice
- Implemented Last Mile Direction Module (description, photos for car navigation)
- Tech stack - Ruby on Rails

### Software Engineer Intern @ Beryl Systems Private Limited
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Design a parking system backend for iOS and Android
- Customer App – discover nearby parking locations, authentication, wallet balance & creating a ticket
- Attendant App – parking ticket creation, batch uploading tickets, ticket validation, cash at hand reporting
- Admin – reports for parking-lot utilization; out of operational hours ticket printing

### Software Engineer Intern @ Spyn
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Remote
- Worked on APIs for increasing business efficiency 
- Tech Stack - Ruby on Rails

### Intern @ CSIR-CEERI
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Chennai Area, India
- Developed a dashboard for fruit-sorting machine


## Education
### Master of Science in Information Technology
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kanwar-baweja
- Website: https://github.com/kanwardeep007

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Source: https://flows.cv/kanwar
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kanwar/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05