Avik Ganguly
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAvik Ganguly is a transformational technology leader and founder with 13 years of engineering experience and six years driving product and engineering strategy for cloud-native, modular financial systems. As CEO of Fynarfin Tech he built open-source digital public goods and infrastructure used by governments and NGOs, delivering platforms processing 10M+ transactions and managing $150M AUM annually. He combines hands-on backend work in Apache Fineract with front-end contributions to the Mifos community app, showing comfort across the stack and attention to testability and integration points. Avik has led and scaled teams of 20+ engineers to ship robust payments, lending, and savings products for emerging markets, with customers including GovStack, Grameen Foundation and Safaricom. He brings a practical mix of product, sales and engineering, often tackling interoperability and large-scale disbursement problems that sit at the intersection of public sector requirements and fintech realities. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs deep open-source credibility with a talent for turning complex financial rules into auditable, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer and Information Sciences, General at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversitySalt Lake School
English, Hindi, Bengali
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
api-rest10
apim10
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
accounting10
java10
javas10
api10
sql10
spring-boot10
rest-api10
backend10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/fineract
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
Apache Fineract
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 42 commits, 39 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Avik contributed to the Apache Fineract project, primarily focusing on backend development tasks. Their work involved modifying Java code related to accounting functionalities, specifically enhancing the creation and management of general ledger accounts and savings account features like interest calculation. The user also added functionality for hooks, including validation and caching mechanisms for improved performance and data integrity. Further contributions involved the implementation of database changes related to new features and refactoring of existing code.
javafineractapachebankingfinance
openMF/community-app
Nov 2013 - Jan 2021
This was the former default web application built on top of the Apache Fineract platform. It's now deprecated and replaced by the the Mifos X Web App (https://github.com/openMF/web-app maintained by the Mifos Initiative as a reference solution for financial inclusion. It is a Single-Page App (SPA) written in web standard technologies.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 12 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Avik primarily contributed to the front-end of the application, modifying UI elements and configurations. They added IDs to currency buttons for end-to-end testing purposes, which indicates involvement in improving the testing framework. The user also worked on the system hook functionality, implementing UI changes for creating and editing hooks, demonstrating familiarity with backend integration points. Furthermore, they updated documentation and adjusted base API URL settings, suggesting they possess some knowledge of the application's infrastructure and its dependencies.
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