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Yashkumar Baviskar

Senior Software Engineer, 6+ years deep in the MERN stack — keeping a live FX trading platform accurate for 1,000+ wholesale partners.

At Travelex I own core modules — Deals, Vault, Shipment, Settlement — across a real-money trading system. Most days I'm somewhere between a React screen and the Node.js service underneath it, making sure the numbers add up.

field notes · current role
roleSenior Software Engineer
companyTravelex, Mumbai
sinceSep 2024
reach1,000+ partners
nice!
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01 — the short version

About me ✏️

I've spent the last six-plus years on systems where getting the number wrong isn't an option — lending platforms, CRMs, and now a wholesale FX trading platform at Travelex. I'm comfortable across React and Node.js, but I care most about the layer in between: the pricing logic, the limit checks, the reconciliation flows that decide whether a transaction is actually correct.

6+
years experience
1,000+
wholesale partners served
80%
cut in pricing errors
10+
client products shipped
02 — work log

Experience ✏️

✏️
Sep 2024 — Present
Senior Software Engineer
Travelex · Mumbai, India
  • Own frontend and backend work across four core modules — Deals, Vault, Shipment, Settlement — on a live FX trading platform serving 1,000+ wholesale partners.
  • Redesigned the core pricing engine in Node.js after tracing recurring pricing errors to flawed calculation logic, cutting calculation errors by 80% on a system handling real financial transactions.
  • Built the dynamic inventory, transaction-limit, and discrepancy-handling flows behind real-time balance tracking and limit enforcement.
  • Architected a reusable React component library adopted team-wide, cutting new-feature build time by 50%.
  • Configured GitHub Copilot with custom rule files to enforce team patterns and auto-generate Jest edge-case tests; use Claude/ChatGPT to accelerate debugging and stress-test designs.
  • Containerized services with custom Dockerfiles and manage workloads on Kubernetes for consistent deployments.
Jun 2020 — Sep 2024
Software Developer
April Innovations · Mumbai, India
  • Shipped full-stack MERN applications end-to-end across 10+ client products.
  • Engineered REST APIs and database schemas for CRM and digital-lending platforms, boosting query performance by 50%.
  • Automated the full loan lifecycle for the Myfin.in lending platform, cutting manual processing time by 70%.
  • Built a microfinance CRM with live dashboards and reporting, then re-architected it to microservices to unlock scale.
Dec 2019 — May 2020
Software Development Intern
April Innovations · Mumbai, India
  • Resolved live production issues alongside development and QA teams on active client projects.
  • Translated client and stakeholder requirements into sprint-ready technical specs.
  • Built responsive, reusable UI components focused on usability and consistency.
Nov 2018 — Nov 2019
Operations Engineer
Tata Communications Ltd · Mumbai, India
  • Monitored critical network operations around the clock, identifying and resolving incidents to maintain uptime.
  • Carried incident-response and monitoring discipline forward into later software engineering roles.
03 — side notes

Key Projects ✏️

Travelex

Bliss Wholesale & Partners Platform

Built deal execution, shipment, and settlement workflows plus secure document handling for a wholesale FX trading platform serving 1,000+ partners.

Microfinance CRM

BSS Microfinance CRM

Built customer onboarding and profile-management workflows, then migrated the system to a microservices architecture to improve scalability.

visit bssmfi.com →
Digital Lending

Myfin.in Lending Platform

Built an end-to-end digital lending platform automating loan submission, verification, approval, and disbursement.

visit myfin.in →
04 — toolbox

Skills ✏️

Frontend

React.jsReduxTypeScriptJavaScript

Backend

Node.jsExpress.jsREST APIsMicroservicesMongoDBSQL

Cloud & Infra

AWSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CD

Craft & Tools

System DesignJestGitHub CopilotClaude / ChatGPTGit
Bachelor of Engineering
Mumbai University · CGPA 8.2/10
2018

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