NIHAR SAMANTARAY
nihar@nihars.com | nih.ar | linkedin.com/in/niharsamantaray
Finacle techno-functional with 7+ years of experience developing different financial solutions in the banking sector at client locations. Currently, I am associated with Edgeverve Ltd. as a Finacle developer working from the client side.
Skills
- Retail Loans, Core banking
- PL/SQL RDBMS DB
- Shell and Finacle scripting
- Linux and Unix Servers
- GIT, SVN, JIRA and UNIX
- API, XSD Development
- Menus customization
- Finacle EOD-BOD & Batch
- Jasper and MRT Reports
- Command line Apps
- Excel with VBScript
- Putty and MobaXterm
- Scripting Automation
- FSDP and FINUXIDE
- Jira and tracking
- Python Programming
- JBOSS and Nginx
Work Experience
Technology Analyst - EdgeVerve (Infosys Product Subsidiary) | Dubai, UAE | Feb 2022 - Present
I have worked extensively on retail loans and other loan modules. My primary responsibilities include:
- Responsible for the complete life cycle of the retail loans project. I was involved in the requirement gathering phase to post-live support.
- Integrating business requirements, feasibility, and solutions the same. Configuration and maintenance of parameters and patches.
- Experienced in developing, debugging, and testing API, batches, procedures, reports, and product/custom menus.
- Knowledge of loan-related menus and functionalities. Have a good understanding of financial accounting.
- Worked on improving API performance, optimization of batch and procedure timings, improved code quality, and existing workflows.
- Done enhancement of various domains like loans, statements, batch jobs, API, and reports in 11x. Currently, I am working on PGL change requests and post-go-live support.
Senior Systems Engineer - EdgeVerve | Windhoek, Namibia | Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
I have worked on the development, implementation, and support of a new payment system for a client. Below are my responsibilities for completing the deployment of the project:
- Responsible for the development of the PAIN payment system. I have also worked on migrating from ACH payment to the PAIN payment system.
- Development of Finacle 10x menus, Jasper reports, and API handlers. Developed XML to CSV and vice versa converter Excel and VBScript.
- Enhancement of scripts and SQL that helped in achieving 60 TPS (transaction per second) from 2 TPS at the initial phase of the project.
- Customization of product API, validation and maintaining uniformity across all custom APIs for multiple peripherals.
Systems Engineer - EdgeVerve | Bangalore, India | Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
I have parallelly worked on multiple short-term projects. Infra and reports were my responsibilities.
- Have worked extensively on reports and PL/SQL. I was involved in the development of Finacle 11x Frontend Menus using Java and JavaScript to display reports.
- Debugging and fixing infra-related issues. Patch creation. Finacle installation. Jboss and WAS installation.
- Created command line apps like "automation of was restart", "user creation/reset", "free port finder", and "multiple patch deployment in single instance".
- Automated the tracing of logs which were failing due to unknown reasons. XML extraction from debug log files.
Systems Engineer - Infosys | Mysore, India | Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
I was trained in basics of OOPS and DS programming with UX design to create a replica of an eCommerce website.
Technical and Functional Skills
- Shell scripting, Python scripting, Javascript debugging.
- Sound knowledge of relational database that uses PL/SQL procedure, functions, and complex queries.
- Well aware of Linux and some Unix-based servers and their utilities.
- Version controlling using git/svn and defect tracking with Jira.
- Scripting automation, command-line apps, APIs XSD/WSDL validating, VBScript Excel to xml generators.
- Functionally well versed with loans in core banking terms. Have basic knowledge of ACH payments.
Education and Projects
- B.Tech. degree in Computer Science Engineering (2012-2016) from BPUT.
- Python program to consume currency feeds and display the graph as a command-line app.
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