Urvashi Kar
Technical Lead at Barclays
Hanover Township, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolUrvashi Kar is a Technical Lead with 8 years of experience building secure, scalable backend systems for financial services, currently shaping APIs and microservices for Barclays Cards Platform. She combines deep Java and Python expertise with event-driven tooling like Kafka and AMQ, strong SQL/PL-SQL skills, and practical CI/CD and containerization experience to deliver resilient production services. Her background spans global delivery at Infosys and hands-on systems work during a master's at NC State, where she also taught and mentored as a graduate TA. Comfortable in both enterprise and academic environments, she brings a discipline for reliability and a knack for translating complex business rules into maintainable platform code. Notably, she pairs fintech domain knowledge with a continuous-learning mindset—often applying research-backed approaches from her graduate studies to real-world platform engineering challenges. Based in Raleigh, she’s open to collaborations at the intersection of distributed systems, platform engineering, and fintech.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityAtomic Energy Central School, Mysore
Spanish, English, Bengali, Hindi, Kannada
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Github Skills (10)
programming-tools9
command-line-tool6
ecommerce5
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Urvashi74/slash
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Slash is a command line tool that scrapes the most popular e-commerce websites to get the best deals on the searched items across these websites.
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 22 pushes in 18 days
command-line-toolecommerce
usmanwardag/csc510_hw
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:35 commits, 33 pushes in 1 day
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