Urvi Solanki

Mar 2025 → present · Ahmedabad

Payments · Inventory Management · Precious Metals Trading (UK client)

• Built payment orchestration services integrating 5+ payment providers using FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka, enabling reliable transaction processing across multiple payment channels for a UK-based precious metals trading platform.
• Designed payment orchestration as an admin-configurable system, the client switches between multiple payment gateways with zero engineering intervention, cutting feature-change lead time by ~70%.
• Redesigned a real-time pricing distribution system with WebSockets and Redis, eliminating polling and delivering consistent, real-time price updates across concurrent user sessions.
• Executed a zero-downtime migration of 10,000+ user, transaction, and inventory records, maintaining full production availability throughout.
• Designed a centralised, event-driven notification platform for inventory, orders, payments, and customer onboarding, with real-time WebSocket delivery, read/unread state management, and delivery-status tracking.
• Improved database performance through indexing, query optimisation, and schema changes, reducing query latency by up to 40%.

Sep 2021 → Mar 2025 · Ahmedabad

SaaS · AI · Analytics · Marketing Automation (global clients)

• Built 3-5 full backend services using Django and FastAPI across SaaS, AI, and analytics platforms for global clients, alongside Node.js-based systems.
• Developed real-time voice processing and AI-automation workflows using Python with Deepgram and OpenAI transcription, summarisation, automation pipelines.
• Reduced PostgreSQL query latency by 80%+ through execution-plan analysis, indexing, and query rewriting one of the highest-impact performance gains on the team.
• Implemented Redis caching, cutting API response times by 50% for frequently accessed workloads across multiple client platforms.
• Implemented event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka for asynchronous processing across marketing and analytics platforms.
• Integrated Stripe, Meta, WhatsApp Business API, Twitter/X, and AWS services for secure payments and external platform integrations.
• Achieved 85%+ automated test coverage with Jest across critical workflows the standard later adopted across backend teams.
• Built asynchronous job processing with retry mechanisms and fault-tolerant patterns, improving reliability across 3+ production platforms.

Jun 2020 → Jul 2021 · Ahmedabad

Data & Reporting

• Built Python-based ETL pipelines processing 100K+ records monthly full ownership of ingestion, transformation, loading, and data-integrity validation.
• Automated reporting workflows, cutting manual data-processing effort by ~40% across analytics teams.