Raghav Malawat

At Airbase, I was part of the Purchase Order and Vendor Management (AP Automation) squad. Initially, my focus was on enhancing the Purchase Order workflows, but as the business needs evolved, I transitioned to building solutions tailored for the Procurement Manager persona, diving deeper into Vendor Management.

Working at Airbase significantly broadened my skill set—not just as an engineer, but as a well-rounded problem solver. I experienced firsthand the value of structured, well-planned approaches, which proved invaluable over time. From writing detailed tech specs and decision records to executing production database changes through Database Change Management systems, and even collaborating directly with customers via Zendesk, I learned to approach challenges with precision and purpose.

I contributed to building financial automation tools that streamlined processes and enhanced customer satisfaction. One of my key projects was engineering a bulk vendor import feature using OneSchema, which drastically reduced customer onboarding time by 98%—from 11 days to just 2-3 hours. This was complemented by extensive load testing conducted with Locust, ensuring scalability and reliability.

I tackled complex sync issues with Oracle Netsuite for 12 strategic customers, debugging over 35 critical cases. This required close collaboration with multiple teams and resulted in mitigating recurring issues, which improved retention metrics by 12% in Q3 2023.

Designed and developed an end-to-end reporting system for bill reconciliation and accruals (AP Automation) using Python (Django) and PostgreSQL. This included features like line-level PO tracking and custom PDF generation, providing clients with greater accuracy and transparency in their financial workflows.

To enhance operational efficiency, I integrated Slack webhooks into PO and Vendor Management workflows. This automation covered everything from PO creation to multi-layered approvals and notifications, significantly streamlining processes across the board.

Additionally, I built and shipped multiple internal dashboards using Retool. These dashboards reduced engineering dependencies by 40% for the customer service and GTM teams. By training users on similar routines, I facilitated a 20% improvement in process accuracy and operational effectiveness.

As a part of the middle of the funnel team I worked on delivering the best live class experience to students in Indonesia. Ranging from reports to notifications to in-class and post-class practices to conduction of live class in general, I've been an active contributor in helping the product mature over time, both towards engineering and at the product front. Building a product which your users love is a surreal feeling.

Led the entire re-architecture of the backend systems with my pair, starting from conducting interviews with various stakeholders to successful conduction of EventStorming session, eventually leading to identifying new data models to building domain services the DDD way, keeping separate BFF layers both at web and mobile fronts.

Actively paired at work and performed Test Driven Development (TDD) all the while, keeping the test coverage > 95% all the time.

While working at CoLearn I've met and worked with some really smart minds and have inherited a lot of underappreciated skills, be it effective async communication which is quite necessary in a remote setup (our team spanned across 3 timezones) or good debugging skills to even understanding the importance of good documentation and writing decision records.

Tasted building software and product in one of the finest ways here, this has been one of the major factors behind me holding some strong opinions now. All the brainstorming with PM's on the whole education system, digging deep to understand the motivation behind students attending classes to turning their videos on, and to see those metrics move over time, I can proudly say I've formed a different way of building products now.

Single handedly shipped various React projects - deployment engine and unified device dashboard being some notable contributions.

Enhancement and maintainability of the In house metrics platform (daily load of 30GB) with an SLA of 15 min, and 30 sec for realtime processing (Various AWS Services, NodeJS, Java, React)

Enhancement and maintainability of the Visit platform (heart of the system) (4K visits per minute).
Visit @MyGate is equivalent to a trade order on @Zerodha, a food order on @Swiggy.

Adopted Unit test and API functional test approach for the team, while setting up CI/CD pipeline

Designed and developed a complex permission dashboard for the internal tool "Gateway" (300-350 users). Password Validation and strict password rotation checks implemented.

Support custom roles and permissions restricting views and API endpoints based on role or temporary permissions. Various CRUD endpoints were created based on numerous business flows.

Worked on the backend side of things, built a digital media library (somewhat like a Google drive)
Allowing the customers to execute complex search capabilities on their stock library (images, videos, icons, designs, etc). (Using ElasticSearch)

Dabbling with Generative AI and a bit of Product Management.

Some of my favourite courses include Implementing and Managing GenAI Systems, Entrepreneurship, Strategic and Management Leadership, Design Thinking

Won 1st place in competitive pitch competition for our startup SpectrAble

Some personal favourite courses in the pool of classes I took are System Design, Software Architecture, DSA, Object Oriented Modelling and Design, Cryptography and all the high scoring subjects.

Bunked a lot of not so favourite classes to do internships and attend Toastmaters sessions at Sarjapura, Bengaluru

Volunteer and former Treasurer at IEEE PES Chapter - Organized various events

A full-time Math junkie and a part-time noob coder. Started my coding journey with QBasic terminal while in std 7 and been engrossed since then.

Decided myself to embark upon the engg career choice 😛