Vivek Marakana
Director Of Engineering at Freehand
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolVivek Marakana is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on full‑stack experience and a track record of scaling fintech and SaaS products into high‑usage, revenue‑driving platforms. Currently Director of Engineering in Mumbai, he has led squads at Apollo.io and Gojek to build BNPL and sales automation systems that scaled to millions of users and tens of millions in monthly disbursements while navigating complex compliance and regulatory constraints. Comfortable shipping across backend, frontend and data pipelines, Vivek has also built trading and ingestion integrations in open-source projects like the Gekko bitcoin bot and founded a SaaS error‑tracking startup, showing both product instinct and operational depth. He focuses on team happiness and career growth as much as technical excellence, combining people leadership with a bias for measurable customer impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Dharmsinh Desai University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
apim10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
trading-bot10
exchange10
api10
nodejs10
trading9
javascript9
tradingview9
algorithmic-trading9
momentjs8
elasticsearch6
firefox6
php6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
askmike/gekko
Jan 2018 - May 2018
A bitcoin trading bot written in node - https://gekko.wizb.it/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Integrator
Back-end Developer & API IntegratorContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vivek primarily focused on integrating the CoinFalcon exchange into the Gekko trading bot. Their work involved implementing the necessary API interactions for core trading functionalities such as fetching market data (tickers and trades), managing portfolios, placing and canceling orders, and retrieving fees. Furthermore, they developed an importer to pull historical trade data from the exchange. The user also added dynamic market updates for coinfalcon.
bitcointrading-botgekkotrading-strategiesexchange
vivekmarakana/iota.lib.rb
Nov 2017 - Jul 2021
Ruby Library for IOTA with core and wrapper api implementation.
Contributions:132 commits, 14 PRs, 118 pushes in 3 years 8 months
ruby
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