# Vyshaal Narayanam

> Senior Engineer at Credit Karma

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vyshaal

I graduated from Northeastern University in Computer Science. I have 6 years of professional software development experience building distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs. I am passionate about solving complex data-driven problems, I see every challenge as an opportunity to create an impact. 

Skills
Languages: Java, Python, Scala, C, Bash, SQL, NoSQL
Databases: MySQL, GBQ, Hive, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, MongoDB
Big Data: Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Kafka, Airflow
Web Technologies: Javascript, Angular, Node, Spring, FastAPI, Flask
Tools: Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, JMeter, Jenkins

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Credit Karma
Jan 2022 – Present | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

### Senior Engineer @ Wayfair
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer II @ Wayfair
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Boston Area

### Data Engineering Fellow @ Insight Data Science
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
- Architected a data pipeline that allows manufacturers to learn ​Consumer Insights​ ​for product enhancements
- Orchestrated the workflow with ​Airflow ​to process 8​0 GB​ of ​Amazon Customer Reviews ​using ​Spark
- Developed the search platform using ​Flask​ to retrieve relevant results from ​Elasticsearch​ with minimal latency
- Introduced custom tweaks to ​Elasticsearch​ indices to improve the ​search relevance

### Quant Developer Co-Op @ Natixis Investment Managers
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Worked closely with the Quant team in the Portfolio Research and Consulting Group (PRCG) to assist NGAM clients with an in-depth portfolio evaluation designed to evaluate the overall risk and trade-offs in the portfolio. 
- Built a Risk Dynamic Framework to analyze risk exposure of various market signals on a security over the time using Machine Learning techniques.
- Generated a Tilt Report by productionizing the above model to examine an NGAM portfolio at the fund level.
- Developed PRCG Scorecard to compute performance metrics of securities and rank them within their Morningstar Category w.r.t. to different end dates.
- Automated generation of customized powerpoint client reports, thereby saving analyst's manual effort

### Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area
Teaching Assistant for CS1800 (Discrete Structures).
My responsibilities include:
- Organizing weekly recitations and encouraging student participation.
- Holding office hours to provide more focused assistance to the students.
- Grading assignments, exams and providing feedback to students.

### Software Engineer @ Pipemonk (formerly ZapStitch)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru Area, India
At pipemonk, we enable customers to connect different cloud apps through our platform using their APIs. For example, tax set up in quickbooks accounting software can be automated for e-commerce vendors say shopify sellers through our product. 
- My responsibilities include development of integrations from requirements gathering, design, coding, writing unit test cases, deploying and hosting the applications, triaging and fixing the production issues.

### Research Programmer @ InFoCusp
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Ahmedabad Area, India
Our client is Cerebellum Capital Inc, a hedge fund management firm whose investment programs are developed by a software system based on statistical machine learning techniques.
- Programmed web crawlers and scheduled cron jobs to collect daily returns from financial websites.
- Applied deep learning techniques to discover features in the time series of stock prices that can successfully predict future returns.


## Education
### Executive MBA
New England College
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Master's degree in Computer Science
Northeastern University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Information and Communication Technology
Dhirubhai Ambani University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### High School in Intermediate
Narayana Junior College
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011

### SSC in Board of Secondary School Education
The Sun School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22