ASTHA NIHAR
Summary
Experienced Software Engineer and current MSc Advanced Computer Science student skilled in designing scalable, high impact backend systems in Java, Spring Boot, SQL, and AWS for fintech and real-world applications.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Software Development Engineer
Moneyview
Bengaluru-Urban
07.2022 - 08.2025
- Engineered a scalable microservices architecture using AWS for asynchronous processing, integrating Redis and in-memory caching to reduce database load. This improved computational efficiency, cut system latency and load by 50%, and enabled the platform to dispatch millions of communications within minutes.
- Led the design and implementation of a digital Mcoin rewards system, enabling users to redeem incentives as cash or digital gold. This strategic initiative drove a notable increase in UPI product engagement, accelerated user acquisition, and achieved a 90% uplift in funnel conversions among Digi Gold reward redeemers.
- Designed and implemented a Multi-Product Referral System, incentivizing users to refer others across multiple Moneyview products. Led a team of 2 and deployed multi-layer event filtration using custom consumer code on AWS Lambda, reducing system load by 50%. The initiative drove a 30% increase in adoption of newly launched products.
- Integrated Rich Communication Services (RCS) within the company's communication platform. Partnered with ValueFirst and Karrix to deliver the RCS communication increasing consumer interaction rated by 30%.
- Mentored interns and new team members through debugging and code review sessions.
Software Development Intern
Moneyview
Bengaluru-Urban
03.2022 - 06.2022
- Received industrial training on Java, Spring Boot, AWS, MySQL, Object Oriented Programming, Json-RPC and System Design.
- Developed monolithic micro services using Java and Spring Boot which stored the metrics of the ad campaigns hosted on platforms such as Google, Facebook, AppNext, and Amazon, enabling the analytics team of the company to analyze the performance of the campaigns.
- Optimized, re-factored and fixed the bugs in the existing code-bases reducing the exceptions in the code by 40%
Full Stack Web Development Intern
Delhi Digital Co.
PAN India
12.2020 - 03.2020
- Developed the websites of clients such as July Issue, Shibui, Cameleon using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and made use of digital platforms such as Shopify, Wordpress.
- Developed the company's own website and handled client resources such as their product assets and monitoring their business transactions.
Education
Master of Science - Advanced Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, England 09.2025 -
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Vellore Institute of Technology
VelloreSkills
- Java
- Python
- PHP
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Spring Boot
- My SQL
- DynamoDB
- AWS
- SQS
- SNS
- SES
- Lambda
- Kinesis Firehose
- Glue Crawler
- IBM IOT Sensor Simulator
- Shopify
- Wordpress
- Canvas
- Datadog
- Google Big Query
- Atlassian
- Agile
- Confluence
Certification
SQL Certification, Hackerrank, 2021-01-01
Activities
- Hack4Cause Hackathon, 2020-03-01, Special Mention, Developed an app Vision H+ to help doctors monitor patient vitals through it.
- Math-a-thons, Stat-a-thons, 2021-03-01, Cleared the first two rounds.
- Innovat-a-thon v1.0, 2021-01-01, Conducted a Technical workshop as a board member of the DigitSquad Club.
Community Service
Volunteered to teach underprivileged kids, Be For Nation, Patna, Bihar, India, 2022-04-01
Extra-Curricular Activities
Member of the dance club, 2019-03-01, 2020-05-31, Performed during various fests like Riviera and Gravitas, VIT. Volunteered for the Registration and Reception committee, Riviera 2020, Oversaw the registration and payments of teams coming from other universities.
Project
Tire Defect Detection, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, 2021-08-01, 2021-12-31, 4, This project detects a defect in the tires of a vehicle by making use of four algorithms: Multi-Contrast Convolutional Neural Network, Fully Convolutional Network using VCG 16, Integration of CNN and Faster R-CNN and The Convolution Architecture for Fast feature Embedding., Developed the model based on the Multi Contrast Convolutional Neural Network Algorithm., Created the dataset manually through Google Photos as only X-RAY tire images were available for this model., Documented the project as per the industry standards. IOT Based Smart Irrigation System using Watson IOT, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, 2020-09-01, 2020-10-31, 4, Created an IOT-based Smart Irrigation System made using IBM Cloud, its IOT Platform IBM Sensor Simulator and Node Red app., Created the Node Red App which took the weather input and produced the results in the form of graphs., Configured the IBM Sensor simulator according to the project, integrated it with the Node Red App to send sensor values.
Timeline
Master of Science - Advanced Computer Science
University of Birmingham
09.2025 -
Software Development Engineer
Moneyview
07.2022 - 08.2025
Software Development Intern
Moneyview
03.2022 - 06.2022
Full Stack Web Development Intern
Delhi Digital Co.
12.2020 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Vellore Institute of Technology