Hi, I’m Shaik Rafi, a Full Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable financial platforms across banking and payments. I specialize in building microservices, AI-powered systems, and real-time dashboards using Java, Python, React, and cloud-native architectures on AWS and Azure. I’m passionate about crafting high-availability, compliant software for enterprise-grade, regulated financial applications. I thrive on AI-powered risk scoring, real-time dashboards, and scalable cloud-native solutions. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship secure features that improve fraud detection, performance, and user experience in digital banking and payments ecosystems.

Shaik Rafi

Hi, I’m Shaik Rafi, a Full Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable financial platforms across banking and payments. I specialize in building microservices, AI-powered systems, and real-time dashboards using Java, Python, React, and cloud-native architectures on AWS and Azure. I’m passionate about crafting high-availability, compliant software for enterprise-grade, regulated financial applications. I thrive on AI-powered risk scoring, real-time dashboards, and scalable cloud-native solutions. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship secure features that improve fraud detection, performance, and user experience in digital banking and payments ecosystems.

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Hi, I’m Shaik Rafi, a Full Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable financial platforms across banking and payments. I specialize in building microservices, AI-powered systems, and real-time dashboards using Java, Python, React, and cloud-native architectures on AWS and Azure. I’m passionate about crafting high-availability, compliant software for enterprise-grade, regulated financial applications.

I thrive on AI-powered risk scoring, real-time dashboards, and scalable cloud-native solutions. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship secure features that improve fraud detection, performance, and user experience in digital banking and payments ecosystems.

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Work Experience

Full Stack Java Developer at PayPal India Development Center
March 1, 2020 - December 1, 2023
Built payment checkout and wallet transaction services using Java Spring Boot microservices, including authorization, capture, refunds, and reconciliation. Created secure REST APIs with Spring MVC/Spring Security (OAuth 2.0, JWT) and idempotency keys, optimized MySQL/Oracle databases, and delivered real-time dashboards for merchants and operations. Implemented event-driven microservices with Kafka on AKS, enabling scalable, fault-tolerant payment processing, and established unit/integration testing and CI/CD pipelines, achieving high availability and improved performance globally.
Full Stack Developer at US Bank
March 1, 2015 - Present
Led AI-driven financial intelligence initiatives, building secure dashboards for large-scale US retail banking operations. Developed Python microservices with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS Bedrock Claude 3 Sonnet integration for transaction risk scoring, enabling explainable anomaly detection and improved fraud detection accuracy. Implemented event-driven data pipelines and APIs, deployed via Docker/Kubernetes on AWS EKS, with CI/CD and PyTest-based testing to ensure high availability and regulatory compliance. Established enterprise security with OAuth2/OpenID Connect, encryption, and audit logging aligned to PCI DSS and SOC 2.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at University of South Florida
January 1, 2024 - December 1, 2025
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science at Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai, India
August 1, 2017 - May 1, 2021

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services