About

Sovit Patnaik is a skilled Mobile Banking Gateway Developer with over 3.6 years of relevant experience in the field. His expertise lies in Data Analytics and Software Development. Currently working at Barclays, Sovit is responsible for the development of highly critical payments gateway team. He has worked on legacy code, enhanced current features, and added new functionalities to it. Sovit has taken the initiative to start Service Virtualization for the first time in the team and got the majority of the downstream APIs virtualized. This helped in eliminating downtime during feature testing. He has also performed unit testing and integration testing to ensure 98%+ code coverage, minimum bug leakage into production, and improving performance of the code. Sovit has engaged with stakeholders to understand Business and Regulatory requirements, formulated designs, and provided regular deliverables. He has decoupled existing legacy code to microservices by creating experience APIs for individual functionalities thus making it easier for change implementations. Sovit is also owning the development of Continuous Card Authority Payment (CCAP) APIs that helped customers to view their subscription details in the app. This resulted in a 38% reduction in disputes related to CCAP in Production i.e. 3K disputes/week. In the past, Sovit has worked as a Graduate Analyst at Barclays and as a Research Student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. At The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Sovit formulated a multi-commodity network flow based integer linear programming (ILP) model to maximize the total Through-Connect revenue for the Operational Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem (OAMRP). He programmed the above ILP model on CPLEX 12.1 and successfully tested it on 10 real flight schedule datasets provided by the EgyptAir. Sovit has also developed a Markov Decision Process (MDP) based framework for the OAMRP and solved it using reinforcement learning. He has drafted a journal standard research paper for this work to Computers & Industrial Engineering- Elsevier, which is currently under review. Sovit holds a Bachelor of Technology - BTech (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has also completed his High School from Mother's Public School and 10th from St. Xavier's School, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar. Sovit has expertise in Mobile, test, Microservices, Integration, Reinforcement Learning, Software Engineer, Python, Research Scientist, Recommendation system, Spring