Ruchika Chakala

I am responsible for the operational excellence of the Donations Platform under the Strategic Growth Program. The product aligns with the company’s motto of ‘Doing well by doing good’, adds value and directly impacts the brand image of the company. As a part of this role, I:

· Worked on the next generation of the API based platform and launched a pilot project with a Start Path Partner.

· Extended the pilot into a full-fledged API platform adhering to the PME guidelines, integrating with multiple gateways, acquirers and merchant aggregators

· Contributed to the UX for the Web and Widget, took care of the compliance needs like, PCI, GDPR, SCA.

· Assisted the customer delivery team with the planning, customer onboardings, documentations, customer discussions, etc.

· Contributed towards the customer journey mapping, UAT, roadmap, prioritization, process alignment, product/release backlog, PI planning, design discussions, released impactful features and coordinated with various teams within Mastercard.

· Have had regular engagement with customers, Account Management, Product Management, Sales and managed the stakeholder expectations.

· Successfully launched the first API Bank integration(B2B), Mobile and Widget Integrations(B2C) for the platform.

Donation Platform NextGen: Helps charities/banks/financial institutions to consume Donate services in order to make donations to charities using various payment gateways like MPGS, Adyen, Paymentez, Stripe, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a backend developer to create REST Apis using Spring Boot.
• Worked on Spring Batch to process donations using payment gateway connectors.
• Worked on aligning Donation Platform as a product to the compliance needs: GDPR & SCA components.
• Ensuring efficient feature delivery & maintenance.

Synechron Blockchain: P2P Lending Marketplace (Dromaius)

This project demonstrates the distribution of debt instrument that settles trades for DVP, which has some automation of lifecycle events like periodic interest/principal payments and that extinguishes itself as a maturity, alongwith demonstration of blockchain components like privacy, tokenization & smart contracts.

Achievements/Responsibilities:

• Worked on the business endpoints using SpringBoot, Hibernate & RESTful web services
• Worked on the DLT layer, a layer written in Java which interacts with the Blockchain.
• Worked on the Monitoring layer, a layer too written in Java which captures events emitted from the Blockchain.
• Written Junit Mockito test cases for the respective endpoints, ensuring code coverage standards.

Responsibilities:

• · Worked as an IT Content Specialist/designer in ESOT (Engineering Set of Tools, a Vanderlande Integrated Software built on AutoCAD with additional & simplified functionality).
• · Performed coding on XML editor to develop Component Library (CL) files and create project in AutoCAD with the help of CL file and make changes to the project as specified or required.
• · Generate Specifications in ESOT, based on project requirements and release new versions of CL files with necessary updates to be used by end users.
• · Provide ESOT Application Support to end users and mechanical layout engineers.

Opportunities:

• · “ESOT content” and “Equipment training” in the Netherlands, the corporate office of Vanderlande Industries, for a duration of 3 months (i.e. from August 29th – November 29th, 2015)
• · Certification in “ESOT user training” in the Netherland