Vivek Marakana is a seasoned software engineering leader, currently Engineering Manager II at Apollo.io, guiding the End-to-End Intelligence squad to automate sales plays and empower SDRs across a wide range of customers. He brings over 9 years of full-stack development experience and 2+ years in leadership, with a proven track record of scaling fintech products at GoJek (GoPayLater and EMI loans) and delivering features that boosted monthly transacting users and revenue. His teams have achieved scale targets such as 1 million MTUs and more than 30 million USD in monthly disbursement, while boosting monthly transacting users and revenue by over 2.5x and navigating evolving regulatory frameworks. Based in Mumbai, he has contributed to crypto/fintech tooling as an open-source contributor on the Gekko trading bot project, focusing on integrating CoinFalcon, API work, and data pipelines for market data, orders, and history import. He is passionate about team happiness and solving customer pain points, combining hands-on engineering with leadership to grow talent and deliver measurable product impact, and he holds a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering with Distinction from Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Distinction, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Distinction at Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology
A bitcoin trading bot written in node - https://gekko.wizb.it/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Integrator
Contributions: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.
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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