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Kanhucharan Panda

@kanhucharanpanda

Staff Backend Engineer at Z & A Infotech for Morgan Stanley, building a reusable framework to migrate bond-processing rules to a distributed platform.

India

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At Z & A Infotech, I’m working with Morgan Stanley on Fixed Income Renovation, migrating bond processing from mainframe systems to a modern distributed platform. I designed and built a reusable framework for migrating legacy business rules to an extensible rules framework.

At Freshworks, I contributed backend design and delivery for core Freshsales CRM workflows. I authored the ADR and led implementation of @mention functionality in Notes, and optimized Deals APIs to reduce average response time by about 25%.

I also implemented precomputed Open and Won deal counts at Freshworks, reducing load times by about 90%. At PayPal, I contributed to payment flows for the Forward Money Movement platform, including merchant loan payments for the UK market and PayPal Rewards flows.

Earlier, at Wissen Technology, I developed RESTful services for Morgan Stanley’s Configuration Manager and co-developed its AngularJS front end. At SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd. and Quinnox Consultancy Services Ltd, I worked on SAP Fieldglass, including data migration frameworks, upload and download utilities, and database query optimization.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Engineering Manager (Staff Engineer)

Current

Z & A Infotech

Oct 2024 - Present (2 years)

Led the Fixed Income Renovation initiative, migrating bond processing from mainframe to a modern distributed platform. Designed a reusable migration framework and delivered backend features while mentoring team members and supporting production systems.

Java Spring Boot Distributed Systems Microservices GitHub Co Pilot Claude Code Review Mentorship On call Support

Staff Engineer

Freshworks

May 2023 - Sep 2024 (1 year 4 months)

Contributed to backend design and delivery for core CRM workflows in the Alpha squad of Freshsales. Authored ADR and led implementation of @mention functionality, optimized Deals APIs, and implemented precomputation strategies to reduce load times.

Java Spring Boot REST APIs SQL Performance Optimization Caching Code Review Mentorship

Software Engineer 3

PayPal

Sep 2021 - May 2023 (1 year 8 months)

Contributed to the Forward Money Movement platform supporting payment flows handling millions of transactions per day. Implemented merchant loan payment flows for the UK market and PayPal Rewards payment flows, and designed safeguards for negative balance scenarios.

Java Spring Boot REST APIs Distributed Systems Payment Systems High Availability On call Support

Principal Engineer

Wissen Technology

Jan 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year 8 months)

Contributed to the Equity trading platform used by Morgan Stanley clients worldwide. Designed and developed RESTful web services for the Configuration Manager module, upgraded backend services to Java 8, and mentored team members.

Java REST APIs AngularJS SQL DB2 Code Review Mentorship Production Support

Developer Associate

SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd.

Dec 2015 - Jan 2020 (4 years 1 month)

Worked on SAP Fieldglass, a VMS with Fortune 500 clients in 180+ countries. Developed a framework to migrate data from test to production, built upload/download utilities, and migrated code and data from SQL Server to HANA DB.

Java SQL Server Hana SQL Data Migration Performance Optimization