Staff Software Engineer  ·  New York

I build the systems that sit between your product and everything falling apart.

12 years building the systems nobody sees but everyone depends on. Currently at Flow.life, working on payment infrastructure. Before that: search ranking at eBay, records management at Axon, and data pipelines at Dell Boomi.

Ashwin Raman
Location New York, NY
Currently Flow.life
Focus Payments & Backend
Links LinkedIn  ·  GitHub

Dec 2025 — Present

Flow.life

● Now

Staff Software Engineer

  • Shipped Stripe Financial Connections and micro-deposit bank verification, expanding payment coverage across the platform
  • Migrated autopay orchestration to a workflow engine with idempotency guarantees, automatic retries, and controlled rollouts — replacing a brittle legacy system
  • Building the financial layer that handles how residents pay and properties receive funds
Go Stripe PostgreSQL

Apr 2024 — Dec 2025

Axon

Staff Software Engineer

  • Led the Multi-Jurisdiction Data Sharing initiative — cross-agency search and record retrieval across law enforcement consortiums, with RBAC, partner-aware caching, and multi-index Elasticsearch queries
  • Migrated the task workflow engine to Elasticsearch with per-tenant index isolation, eliminating noisy-neighbor issues and improving query throughput
  • Owned end-to-end feature delivery across the Axon Records Management System
Go Kafka MySQL GraphQL Elasticsearch

Sep 2020 — Feb 2024

eBay

Staff Software Engineer, Search Backend

  • Led Great Price and Best Selling badges on search results — computed in near real-time from sales velocity, impressions, and engagement signals across hundreds of millions of listings. Drove a 14% lift in conversion for badged items
  • Designed Rapid Feature Management, cutting ML ranking feature development-to-production cycle time by 60%
  • Built large-scale search ranking algorithms across Java, Scala, Kafka, Spark, and Airflow — classification, text mining, and information retrieval at marketplace scale
Java Scala Kafka Spark Airflow Elasticsearch

Aug 2017 — Sep 2020

Dell Boomi

Principal Software Engineer, Data Preparation

  • Designed a real-time Kafka and Spark pipeline ingesting 150M+ records daily from heterogeneous enterprise sources
  • Built a universal parser for XML, JSON, and CSV that auto-detected types and flattened nested structures to columnar format
  • Built enterprise ETL tooling on Boomi's cloud integration platform for Fortune 500 customers
Scala Akka Spark Kafka Python PostgreSQL

Apr 2016 — Jun 2017

Informatica

Software Development Engineer

  • Built a dynamic target creator enabling schema-agnostic writes to Redshift, relational databases, Salesforce, and flat files
  • Optimized data grid performance for 100K+ record datasets using materialized views and batch-subset processing
Java Redshift Salesforce

Jul 2011 — Aug 2014

PTC

Senior Software Engineer

  • Led Approval Workflow and Pricing modules for BMW's product lifecycle management platform
  • Migrated legacy architecture to Spring; built chart APIs, drill-down filters, and grid components reused across product lines
  • Received PTC Excellence Award. Delivered for BMW, General Motors, and Nissan
Java Spring

Languages

Go Java Scala Python SQL

Data & Streaming

Kafka Spark Airflow Akka

Search

Elasticsearch GraphQL Ranking Systems Information Retrieval

Payments

Stripe Financial Connections Workflow Orchestration

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL Redshift

Cloud & Infra

AWS GCP Azure Docker Kubernetes

2014 — 2016

University of California, Irvine

M.S. Computer Engineering

GPA 3.75 — Distributed systems, information retrieval, machine learning

2007 — 2011

Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering

B.Tech Computer Engineering

Pune, India

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Open to staff and principal engineering roles, engineering management, and consulting in backend, search, and payment systems.