About

Kedar Deshmukh is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Venmo with a Master of Science in Information Systems from Northeastern University and over 4 years of work experience using various technologies. Kedar is a practical, results-oriented individual who enjoys learning new things while working and strives to improve applications by incorporating best practices. Kedar has experience in Web Application Development using Java and Spring framework, but is rapidly transitioning himself to become a serverless applications specialist using AWS technologies. He has extensive knowledge of AWS Technologies including Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SNS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, CloudFormation, RedShift, IAM, and CloudWatch. He is also proficient in programming languages such as Java, Python, and Scala (Beginner), and has experience working with frameworks like Spring MVC, Spring AOP, and Hibernate. Kedar is also skilled in web technologies such as J2EE, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML 5, CSS 3, Ajax, and BootStrap. Kedar has worked with various databases including SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. He has experience using tools such as Amazon Web Services, Splunk, Maven, JIRA, Apache Tomcat, and Git. Kedar's current designation is Senior Software Engineer at Venmo, where he has been working for some time. Prior to this, he worked at PayPal as a Software Engineer 2, where he successfully implemented Risk Management Engine (RME) to monitor, alert and act upon suspicious user activities in near real-time. He also designed RESTful APIs to store RME configurations using AWS API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB. He implemented AWS Lambda's using Java to analyze DynamoDB streams and invoke SNS to take various actions based on the configurations. Additionally, he created AWS CloudFormation stacks using the serverless framework to quickly deploy and maintain serverless applications. Kedar's education history includes a Master's Degree in Information Systems from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune. Kedar's tech stack includes Software Engineering, AWS, Spring, SQL, Web, Java, Javascript, Python, and Scala. He has relevant experience of 8.12 years.