Priyansh Rastogi
Musings on Tech, Finance and Life.
What I do
I am a Full Stack Engineer. I write code for a living and often write code as a hobby, or to automate little boring stuff. I love exploring new languages, frameworks, and tools. Some languages that I primary use are JavaScript (Node.js), Golang and Python.
Work Credentials
Started my career with Amex, a leading financial services product company. Soon I realized that I want to work at early-stage startups.
Vested Finance
Tech Lead / Sr. Software Engineer
Dec 2021 - Present
Leading Neobanking and Payments engineering team that is working on India's first of its kind remittance solution known as Vested Direct. It is powered by a Neobanking stack.
Vested Finance
Software Engineer
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Built Vested Direct from scratch. Vested Direct is India's fastest, easiest and cheapest remittance solution that allows users to remit money for foreign equity investment.
Built a few products for internal operations and partners analytics.
Optimized performance of Vested's core web and mobile apps.
American Express
Engineer 3
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Worked on automation and efficient working of Regulatory Reporting Applications.
Created a WebVR based application prototype that works on VR devices (Oculus Go) for an amazing new-hire on-boarding expereince.
Won a technology hackathon (company-wide national level) with a team of 5.
American Express
Engineering Intern
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Worked on American Express’s internal tool which is used to manage, manipulate and analyse vendor data. Added 6 new features according to user stories to perform various actions. Technologies being used are Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Nodejs and Angular.
Designed and created a prototype for New Hire On-boarding application for a hassle-free hiring/on-boarding experience using Node.js, Postgres, React and Redux. The project has been acquired by Amex’s Colleague Experience team.
Education
I graduated with a major in Computer Science and Engineering from Shiv Nadar University in 2019. During my undergrad, I published a research paper in the field of Internet of Things. The paper was presented in an IEEE conference and has been published in IEEE. It can be found here.
Personal Stuff
I am currently living in Gurgaon, India. Though I come from a town known as Ladnun in the state of Rajasthan. When I am not coding, I can be found playing video games, or listening to classical music. I also love exploring new places for food.