About

Saroj Mallick is an Associate at Goldman Sachs with over 4 years of relevant experience in backend development and system designs. He has a proven track record of handling complex projects and providing scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment. Saroj's top achievement was solving a memory leakage issue within a legacy system and presenting the solution to the department. In his current role, Saroj has implemented critical credit and fraud detection rules for several card products and proved his in-depth understanding of the complete system by streamlining processes in the decision engine, reducing vendor costs by approximately 66 percent. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Saroj worked as a Senior Analyst at Deutsche Bank where he made major contributions in developing a micro-services architecture from a monolithic application to handle trade exceptions. He scaled the system to handle 50K exceptions per day for high volume business lines, optimized complex back-end queries, and improved response time from 5+ minutes to 30 seconds. Saroj also refactored a sub-module to fix an OOM issue by leveraging his good knowledge of Java memory and connections. He demonstrated an excellent understanding of the overall system by troubleshooting complex technical issues during migration to different DFS architecture. Saroj closely worked with different teams to develop two utilities to monitor JMS Queues/Topics health and developed end-to-end components for a web app with features like auto-complete, filters, and pagination. To improve health monitoring, he added deep/shallow health checks to the services. Saroj holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He has expertise in SQL, Backend, Microservices, Java, Spring, Kubernetes, Python, Software Engineering, Javascript, Spring Boot, Web, CNN, OpenCV, NLP, and CI/CD. Saroj is a highly motivated individual with a passion for learning and a strong work ethic. He is a valuable asset to any team and is always willing to take on new challenges.