CHIPPOLLU SAI SHANKER

www.linkedin.com/in/saishankerchippollu +91-8056092183 shanker3003@gmail.com

EDUCATION
Program Educational Institution %/CGPA Year
Dual Degree in Civil Engineering Total: 7.06
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 2016
Minor in Management Studies Minor: 8.33
XII(BIE, Andhra Pradesh) Vijaya Ratna Junior College, Hyderabad 90.6 2010
X(SSC, Andhra Pradesh) Loyola High School, Hyderabad 89.3 2008
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Software Development Engineer II | Slice (FinTech Unicorn) | Bengaluru (Sept 2022 – Present)
· Part of Collections operations team responsible for maintaining backend services to collect back lent finances | Part of Interview Panel
· Responsible for handling Sprints, standups, planning, retrospectives, mentoring interns/freshers and resolving productions issues
· Played a key role in implementing features like Flexible EMIs, Field collections integration and smooth running of allocation processes
Technologies used: Python, Django, Javascript, Typescript, NodeJS, NestJS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes

Software Development Engineer II | Shadowfax Technologies (Carrier/Delivery Service) | Bengaluru (Nov 2019 – Sept 2022)
· Responsible for backend development of new features related to Rider application and Internal Shadowfax Dashboards
· Part of Interview panel for the recruitment of Backend Developers | Responsible for quick resolution of ad hoc escalations
· Member of Quick Response Team, in charge for delivering ad hoc backend requirements during the COVID/lockdown period
· Saw 30% reduction in the Turnaround Time(TAT) taken for onboarding upon re architecturing of Lead recruitment portal
· Observed 33% improvement in conversions after completely revamping the onboarding process in mobile application for riders
· Developed a module for improving location capturing services and thereby eliminated manual entry of user location
· Extensively used Amazon Web Services (AWS) including Lambda functions, S3 (storage), SES (email) and SNS (Notifications)
· Integrated with several third party clients for better service and monitoring of notifications, lead conversions, communication etc.
· Technologies used: Python, Django, Redis, MySQL, PostGreSQL and AWS

Software Development Engineer, Tech team | Shipmile (Carrier aggregator for Clients) | Hyderabad (Oct 2018 – Oct 2019)
· Worked with Backend development team key in maintaining and developing website which enables shipment booking to the clients
· Developed several new features, improvised search and ideated new Dashboards in order to monitor shipment trends.
· Worked on integration of several carrier service partners including FedEx,Delhivery, XpressBees, Bluedart etc. onto Shipmile’s platform
· Also developed several modules to automate various tedious tasks of operations and support teams thus improving their efficiency
· Used Google Cloud for hosting the applications (Compute Engine Instances, Pub/Sub) and few other services
· Responsible for improving the website experience to the clients, handling daily client issues/tickets of Shipmile website

Software Engineer & Transportation Systems Engineer | IBI Group | Hyderabad (Feb 2017 – Mar 2018)
· Spearheaded programming, data and simulation modeling projects of pan India offices of IBI and guided interns on the same
· Developed a Simulation model for Hyderabad city traffic network along with a Model Interface(Backend and Frontend) using Python
· Analyzed daily toll data to keep the stakeholders informed about the revenues and traffic counts | Application used: MySQL

Associate Engineer | ITS Planners and Engineers | Hyderabad (Aug 2016 – Feb 2017)
· Analyzed traffic data of a busy stretch in London and developed an algorithm to remove outliers in the data and predicted travel times
· Achieved a MAPE of 8.8% vanquishing over the existing outlier removing techniques which result in high MAPEs around 30%
SKILLS
· Languages and Frameworks: Python, Django, Javascript/NodeJS, Go language, NestJs and C programming language
· Databases used: MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
· Other skills: Data Structures and Algorithms, R Data Analysis Language, Touch/Speed Typing and MS Office
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Institute Captain, Triathlon, IIT Madras (2015) Manager, Finance, Saarang (Cultural Fest of IIT Madras) (2015)
Captain, Aquatics, Tapti Hostel, IIT Madras (2014) Coordinator, Marketing and Sales, Saarang (2014)
SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS
∙ Finalist (Top 15 in India) in INSDAG’s National Civil Engineering Award Competition for best Innovative Structural Steel Design (2014)
∙ Placed in top 0.5 percentile in the AIEEE conducted by CBSE among 11 lakh applicants across India (2011)
∙ Secured top 1 percentile in in EAMCET, State Engineering Entrance Exam of Andhra Pradesh out of 4 lakh applicants (2011)
EXTRA-CURRICULAR AND CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
National medallist: Won 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals at National Masters Swimming meet -2018|Felicitated by State Swimming Federation
State medallist: Won 2 Gold and 2 Silver medals in swimming at the Telangana State meet -2018|Adjudged fastest swimmer of the meet
Medal tally: 9 Gold, 12 Silver, 6 Bronze and 4 finisher medals in 5 sports | Fastest triathlete - IIT Madras 2015 | NCC Cadet[4(A) BN NCC]