Azeem Vasanwala

Software engineer at Stripe. I design systems and ship products — in small founding teams and in large engineering orgs.

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Experience

Stripe

Software Engineer — Cards Product Platform

Aug 2023 – Present

  • › DRI'd a payment metadata API from technical design through cross-functional delivery (product, marketing, docs), reducing costs for Stripe and merchants
  • › Contributed foundational code for a Card-based payments platform, unlocking new payment methods including AmazonPay, RevolutPay, and MobilePay
  • › Improved on-call processes, tooling, and norms as an active on-call engineer
Ruby Sorbet Scala Java SQL
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Nyx Intelligence

Co-Founder & Technical Lead

Feb 2017 – Present

  • › Co-founded a software consultancy with two partners; served as technical lead across all client engagements
  • › Delivered full-stack products for clients across insurance, education, healthcare, and government sectors
  • › Built PolicyXchange, now serving 3,100+ users and 6,500+ policies — see Projects section for details
ASP.NET Core Vue.js Node.js SQL Azure Firebase
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Stripe

Software Engineering Intern

May 2022 – Jul 2022

  • › Led effort to add visual customisation to the QR code service, improving aesthetics across QR-based payment methods
  • › Forked and integrated open-source libraries to extend QR code functionality and harden security
  • › Built internal interface for payment methods to implement, improving test robustness
Ruby Sorbet S3 Terraform

Shopee

Software Engineering Intern

May 2021 – Jul 2021

  • › Optimised database API calls to reduce response latency
  • › Migrated monolithic functions to microservices
  • › Implemented concurrency library to parallelise database reads across order APIs
Go Redis MySQL

GovTech Singapore

Software Engineering Intern

May 2020 – Jul 2020

  • › Built the encryption library for TraceTogether Token — Singapore's national COVID-19 contact tracing hardware device
  • › Developed APIs for TraceTogether Token's supporting services
  • › Created plugins for DECADA Edge Gateway managing IoT devices across government agencies
Node.js C C++ Qt

Earlier Experience

DSTA · Software Engineer

Sep 2017 – Dec 2017

OutSystems C# HTML/CSS/JS

Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC) · Software Engineer

Mar 2017 – Jun 2017

Python Elasticsearch

Accenture · Software Engineering Intern — Rapid Prototyping

Oct 2016 – Feb 2017

Python Node.js AWS Azure Cognitive Services

Singapore Polytechnic · Web Developer

Mar 2015 – Apr 2015

HTML/CSS/JS

Buuuk · Web Development Intern

Feb 2014 – Apr 2014

HTML CSS

Projects

Selected client work via Nyx Intelligence

PolicyXchange

3,100+ users · 6,500+ policies

PolicyXchange Pte Ltd · via Nyx Intelligence · 2018 – Present

Led a team of 5 to build from scratch a platform for insurance agents to manage clients and trade insurance policies. Full ownership of product, infrastructure, and DevOps — including integrations with Stripe for subscription billing and Firebase for real-time data. Now in maintenance and stable operation.

ASP.NET Core Vue.js SQL Azure Firebase

SParky — SP Chatbot

MOE integration

Singapore Polytechnic · via Nyx Intelligence · 2019 - 2022

Developed SParky, a chatbot for Singapore Polytechnic's website and open house. Integrated with the MOE Joint Poly Chatbot so students can get answers across both platforms. Delivered automated weekly reports on message analytics to the client.

ASP.NET MVC Bot Framework SQL Azure Firebase

Research Publication Crawler

Automated research discovery

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine · via Nyx Intelligence · 2021

Built a web crawler from scratch to index PubMed and surface research publications by NUS Medicine faculty. Automated posting of researchers' works to an internal Yammer page.

C# Selenium SQL Entity Framework

Patient Check-in Chatbot

Healthcare automation

Ouch Pte Ltd · via Nyx Intelligence · 2022

Built a chatbot to proactively check in on patients following medical procedures, automating post-care follow-up.

C# Bot Framework SQL Entity Framework

Skills

Languages

  • Ruby
  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Go
  • C
  • C++
  • Scala

Frameworks & Runtime

  • ASP.NET Core
  • Node.js
  • Vue.js
  • Sorbet
  • Bot Framework

Infrastructure & Cloud

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Firebase
  • Azure DevOps

Databases

  • SQL
  • Redis
  • MySQL
  • Elasticsearch

Education & Achievements

Education

National University of Singapore

B.Computing (Hons) Computer Science · CGPA 4.76/5.0

2019–2023 · Exchange semester at Arizona State University (Jan–May 2022)

Dean's List AY20/21 S2 and AY21/22 S1

Singapore Polytechnic

Diploma in Information Technology · CGPA 4.0/4.0

2014–2017 · Toh Chin Chye Gold Medal (top 8, SP Class of 2017)

Valedictorian, Diploma in IT · IMDA Gold Medal

Selected Achievements

  • — Microsoft Imagine Cup — National Champions (2016)
  • — Singapore Technology Federation — Gold Award (2016)
  • — Restaurant Association of Singapore Hackathon — Most Functional Prototype (2017)
  • — NUS Hackers — President (led team of 20, ran Singapore's largest student hackathon)
  • — Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador
  • — Singapore Digital Scholarship (2019–2023)