Santosh Pericharan
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Developer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Toptal member since August 13, 2020
Santosh is a technology-loving, problem-solving enthusiast. In his most recent endeavors, Santosh built an eCommerce company to support restaurants and small businesses and has enjoyed the journey so far. For the last decade, Santosh has been working as a hardcore database developer, among other things—he even built the entire back end system for his current startup. Besides development, Santosh is currently relishing taking on the challenges of being a CEO.
Portfolio
Experience
- SQL - 15 years
- PostgreSQL - 10 years
- Oracle - 10 years
- MySQL - 10 years
- Database Design - 10 years
- Project Leadership - 10 years
- Requirements Analysis - 10 years
- Startup Consulting - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
RDBMS, Python, Email, Slack
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed in SQL was a comprehensive plug-n-play eCommerce checkout module that supports 100+ different offers, taxes, charges, and more.
Work Experience
CEO | CTO
GrabbnGo Pvt Ltd
- Served as a CEO and CTO for GrabbnGo, a mobile ordering, virtual drive-through, delivery platform for restaurants and retail. Our motto is customer convenience.
- Ideated GrabbnGo (essentially it is my brainchild) and built the first draft of the product.
- Implemented stock keeping (SKUs), inventory, order taking, and dispatches.
- Built the system to handle multiple SKU formats to support food and beverage, groceries, apparel, and more.
- Handled the architecture, product roadmap, conceptualization, and implementation.
- Built business models, oversaw fundraising, and managed investor expectations.
- Interviewed and hired talents as well as leading and managing the team.
- Spent 70% of my time in engineering and the rest on other responsibilities, including the vision, strategy, product, talent hiring, funding, and sales.
Assistant Vice President (AVP)
Deutsche Bank India
- Built a fixed income reference data module for master data management.
- Performed a requirement analysis, tracked bugs, and managed the project.
- Coordinated with a third-party technology company for collaborative product development.
Vice President of Technology
Bank of America — NJ/NY, US
- Wrote a white paper in SQL on dynamic where clauses based on an approach I came up with within the bank. It's being used even today.
- Built a reference data system for fixed income for emerging markets. Architected and built a real-time data distribution system on Tibco and Oracle to distribute reference data to more than 1,000 downstream clients.
- Used XML, XQuery, and XML manipulation in Oracle, and window functions very heavily.
- Went the extra mile to understand the domain and deliver projects not just based on technical requirements, but also with an eye for detail on the domain and background.
- Delivered eight large projects in a single year and as a result of the commendations, I became a full-time hire in record time and my work is appreciated even to this day.
Project Lead | Architect
Oracle, Client — Citibank US
- Built a credit risk system for Citibank Corporate banking.
- Developed data analytics and identified risky clients for daily overdraft division to reduce Citibank risk exposure during the 2008 Financial Crisis.
- Constructed the entire database back-end structure for the application.
- Worked with the fed office people to identify the top 5,000 clients to reduce overdraft exposure, as Citi was under federal protection during the 2008 crisis.
Project Lead
Citibank Singapore
- Built a wire-transfer system for corporate banking namely Citibank while managing an international team made up of teams spread across multiple locations.
- Developed an enterprise-size system to handle extremely large volumes of wire transfers; also built the system to scale.
- Engineered the system to service clients like Fortune 500 companies and large HNIs.
Experience
GrabbnGo
https://applite.grabbngo.com/regionDevelopment details:
• Built the whole database system on PostgreSQL from user accounts.
• Implemented stock keeping (SKUs), inventory, order taking, and dispatches.
• Built the system to handle multiple SKU formats to support food and beverage, groceries, apparel, and more.
• Handled the architecture, product roadmap, conceptualization, and implementation.
• Built a Python-based Django back end
• Owned data analytics.
• Built business models and raised funds.
• Hired talents, led and managed the team, and managed investor expectations.
• Spent 70% of my time in engineering and the rest on other responsibilities, including the vision, strategy, product, talent hiring, funding, and sales.
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
Bangalore University - Bangalore, India
Certifications
Project Management Professional
Project Management Institute
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js
Tools
Graphene, Jira, Slack, ELK (Elastic Stack)
Languages
SQL, Python, PHP, GraphQL, Visual Basic, Perl, Java
Paradigms
Requirements Analysis, Database Development, Database Design, DevOps
Platforms
Oracle, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Architecture, Databases, JSON, Database Performance, ANSI SQL, Google Cloud SQL, RDBMS, Microsoft SQL Server
Frameworks
Django
Industry Expertise
Project Management
Other
Project Leadership, Excel Expert, Business Modeling, Startup Consulting, Database Optimization, Data Analysis, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Finance, Data Migration, Business Strategy, Startup Funding, Architecture, Reports, Project Management Professional (PMP), Email, TIBCO
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