About

Vitthal Bhandari is a skilled full-stack developer currently working at Amex. He is proficient in a range of leading technologies, including React, Typescript, JavaScript, jQuery, Flask, Oracle SQL, Git, Jenkins, and Elasticsearch, making him well-positioned to contribute to full-stack web development. With over 2 years of experience, Vitthal has a proven track record of efficiently writing advanced SQL queries, building faster APIs, and creating reusable UI components. In his current role, Vitthal is responsible for designing and building full-stack and NLU services for internal products of the Ask Finance team at Amex. His expertise in NLP has been instrumental in maintaining a chatbot that packages the entire flow in a pipeline to prompt answers for the given input, resulting in the project utilizing significantly fewer computational resources. Vitthal has a thorough understanding of data structures and algorithms and their role in software engineering. He is proficient in both Python and Java for programming purposes, and his language of choice for coding platforms is C++. Prior to joining Amex, Vitthal worked as a Data Science Analyst at Standard Chartered, where he led and built an on-the-fly API Management framework into production, allowing users to build 1000s of APIs to mine multiple data lakes in minutes and with ease. He also built reusable UI components and REST APIs for the in-house conversational bot Maya, enhancing its capability to explore and analyze data/insights with speed, scale, and security while also assisting with deployments, bug fixes, and business team requirements. Vitthal's past experience also includes working as a Software Engineer at PayPal, where he designed and built the first real-time metrics dashboard for PayPal's DropZone platform into production, which was used to analyze file transfer patterns, user demographics, and user behavior. Vitthal holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and a minor in Data Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He also completed his schooling at Delhi Public School. Overall, Vitthal is a passionate software engineer with a deep understanding of full-stack development and a proven track record of building scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant systems.