NIHAR SAMANTARAY
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mail@nihars.com | www.nih.ar | www.linkedin.com/in/niharsamantaray

**Finacle Techno-Functional Lead** with 10+ years of experience delivering banking solutions across multiple geographies. Strong expertise in retail loans, system design, DevOps practices, and performance optimization. Experienced in leading teams, building scalable solutions, and improving production stability.

> Retail Loans · EOD/BOD · API Development · Batch Processing · Menu Customization · Reports · Shell Scripting · PL/SQL · Git/SVN · Jira · Finacle · Excel (VBScript) · Monitoring (Kibana, Grafana)

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### Work Experience
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**Technical Lead - Aziro Technologies** | Bhubaneswar, India | Aug 2024 - Present

- Leading development of loan modules and coordinating delivery across team members.
- Managing team tasks, code reviews, and technical guidance.
- Designing end-to-end solution flows based on business requirements.
- Contributing to deployment processes and production stability.
- Built dashboards using **Kibana and Grafana** for monitoring and issue tracking.
- Worked on improving system performance, observability, and reliability.

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**Technology Analyst - EdgeVerve** (Infosys Product Subsidiary) | Dubai, UAE | Feb 2022 - Jul 2024

- Owned end-to-end lifecycle of retail loan implementations from requirement gathering to production support.
- Translated business requirements into scalable and maintainable solutions.
- Developed APIs, batch jobs, procedures, reports, and custom menus.
- Worked on performance improvements and optimization of batch and database processes.
- Delivered enhancements across loans, APIs, and reporting systems.
- Supported post-go-live activities and handled production issues.

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**Senior Systems Engineer - EdgeVerve** | Windhoek, Namibia | Feb 2019 - Feb 2022 

- Contributed to development and implementation of a payment system, including migration to PAIN-based processing.
- Developed Finacle modules, APIs, and Jasper reports.
- Improved system performance and throughput through SQL and script optimization.
- Built automation utilities using Shell, SQL, and VBScript.
- Automated log tracing and XML extraction for faster issue analysis.

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**Systems Engineer - EdgeVerve** | Bangalore, India | Dec 2016 - Jan 2019

- Developed Finacle frontend menus and reporting interfaces using Java and JavaScript.
- Worked extensively on reports and PL/SQL-based solutions.
- Handled infrastructure setup, debugging, patch creation, and server configuration (JBoss, WAS).
- Built command-line tools for automation (user management, service restart, patch deployment).

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**Systems Engineer - Infosys** | Mysore, India | Jun 2016 - Nov 2016

- Trained in OOP, data structures, and UX fundamentals.
- Developed a prototype eCommerce application.

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### Technical & Functional Skills
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- Strong experience in PL/SQL programming, procedures, and query optimization.
- Hands-on with Finacle customization, APIs, menus, and batch processing.
- Experience in DevOps practices including deployments and monitoring.
- Proficient in Linux systems, debugging, and troubleshooting.
- Automation scripting and internal tool development.
- Functional knowledge of loans and payment systems (ACH/PAIN).

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### Education & Projects
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- **B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering (2012–2016)** — BPUT  

**Projects**
- Python-based CLI application to consume currency feeds and visualize trends.