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Sawan Vaidya

Sawan Vaidya

Head of Engineering • Solutions Architect

Lalitpur, Bagmati, NP
+977-9849871596

Background


About

About

Engineering Leader and Solutions Architect with extensive experience scaling teams (35+) and delivering complex distributed systems. Proven track record in web development, data engineering, and cloud architecture (Azure/AWS). Combines deep technical expertise in JavaScript and Python with strategic management to drive product innovation and operational excellence.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Head of Engineering (Signetic) • Solutions Architect, Leapfrog Technology, Inc.

    Dec, 2021 - Present

    As Head of Engineering at Signetic, I lead a talented team in developing innovative solutions in the healthcare and medical billing space. My role involves not only managing technical execution but also acquiring deep domain knowledge to drive impactful results. I'm constantly exploring new ways to problem-solve and innovate, especially when working with Microsoft's PowerPlatform and Azure, ensuring that our solutions are both cutting-edge and scalable.

    • Leading 35+ person engineering team in healthcare and medical billing solutions

    • Working with Microsoft PowerPlatform and Azure technologies

    • Managing technical execution and acquiring domain knowledge

    • Building scalable solutions for healthcare industry

    • Technologies: Power Platform, Azure, NodeJS, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, TimeXtender, ReactJS

  • Principal Engineer, Leapfrog Technology, Inc.

    Dec, 2020 - Dec, 20211 year

    Led the team to build a Tamper Evident Blockchain Verifiable student transcript. Also created a JSON Schema standard for digital transcripts.

    • Built tamper-evident blockchain verifiable student transcript

    • Created JSON Schema standard for digital transcripts

    • Led development team for educational technology solutions

    • Technologies: PostgreSQL, NodeJS, ReactJS, Ganache

  • Lead Engineer, Leapfrog Technology, Inc.

    May, 2018 - Dec, 20202 years 7 months

    Michael Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF) funded Data Analysis and Reporting platform aims to bridge the barrier for high school students to pursue further education. The platform allows dynamic creation of APIs by specifying queries using a custom query language called Ed-fi query language. The platform is centered around an Airflow build customized to create dynamic dataflow DAGs based on events and API requests.

    • Built MSDF-funded data analysis and reporting platform for education

    • Developed custom query language (Ed-fi query language) for dynamic API creation

    • Implemented Airflow-based dynamic dataflow DAGs

    • Created platform to help high school students pursue further education

    • Technologies: Python, React JS, Airflow, Flask, PostgreSQL, Google API Services, Docker, DSL

  • Senior Software Engineer, GrowByData

    Feb, 2015 - Jul, 20172 years 5 months

    Started the Web-Scraper team geared towards collecting Ecommerce Data for Competitive Intelligence and Analysis. Also led the development of Cloud Worker Management Portal called Data Entry Web Portal.

    • Started Web-Scraper team for ecommerce data collection

    • Built solutions for competitive intelligence and analysis

    • Led development of Cloud Worker Management Portal

    • Created Data Entry Web Portal for worker management

    • Technologies: PHP, ReactJS, Python, Docker Swarm, SeleniumGrid, AWS, DigitalOcean, MongoDB, RabbitMQ

  • Senior Software Engineer, Deerwalk Inc

    Nov, 2011 - Feb, 20153 years 3 months

    Extract, Transform and Load US Healthcare data using a distributed processing technique (Cascading on Hadoop). Acquired in depth knowledge on US Healthcare by working as Java developer for the Data Analytics product. Designed and developed a system for automatically importing eligibility data from an FTP location to a MongoDB database. Feature enhancement and maintenance of US healthcare product called Everest, built using Grails Technology.

    • Built ETL pipelines for US Healthcare data using Cascading on Hadoop

    • Developed Java-based data analytics product for healthcare

    • Created automated eligibility data import system (FTP to MongoDB)

    • Enhanced and maintained Everest healthcare product built with Grails

    • Acquired in-depth knowledge of US Healthcare domain

    • Technologies: Java, Hadoop, Cascading, Map Reduce, ETL, MSSQL

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Thesis: Generating Opinion Lexicon for Nepali using Microblogs

    Jul, 2017 - Apr, 20189 months

    A basic ingredient of Sentiment Analysis that uses Bag-of-words approach is an Opinion Lexicon containing words/phrases along with their positivity and negativity ratings. Research in Natural Language Processing and Sentiment Analysis focusing on Nepali language.

Skills

Skills

  • Programming Languages

    Python

    JavaScript

    TypeScript

    Java

    PHP

  • Cloud & Infrastructure

    Azure

    AWS

    Docker

    Kubernetes

  • Data & Databases

    PostgreSQL

    MSSQL

    MongoDB

    Hadoop

    Airflow

    ETL/ELT

  • Frameworks & Libraries

    React

    Node.js

    Flask

    Express

    Grails

    Cascading

    RabbitMQ

  • DevOps & Tools

    CI/CD

    Git

    Docker Swarm

    SeleniumGrid

  • Specialized

    Backend Development

    Microservices

    System Architecture

Education

Education

  • Computer Science, Master's degree, Nepal College of Information Technology

    Dec, 2015 - Dec, 2017

  • Engineering Science with Electrical Engineering Concentration, Bachelor of Science, Trinity University

    Dec, 2006 - Dec, 2010

  • Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, A Levels, Budhanilkantha School

    Dec, 2003 - Dec, 2005

  • Math, Science, Nepali, English etc, SLC, Graded English Medium School

    Dec, 1993 - Dec, 2003

Certificates

Certificates

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate, Microsoft

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  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft

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  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS

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Publications

Publications