Aryaman Chhikara
Solutions Engineer
open to work
working on
karrouhq.com
Technical implementer with 5+ years translating complex enterprise workflows into measurable business outcomes inside regulated financial environments. At NYSLRS, a $250B+ benefits platform serving 1M+ members, I quantify the impact of system changes, build the case for new logic with program and engineering stakeholders, and communicate technical and financial implications clearly to non-technical decision-makers. Excited to build a value engineering function from scratch and define the
this app will tell you about all the fashion stores in Nyc, which ones are niche which ones arent.
Experience
Solutions Engineer — Office of the NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli
Jul 2023 — Jun 2026
Customer-facing technical owner on an enterprise platform serving 1M+ members and 3,000+ participating employers across a 20+ system integration footprint • Act as the technical trusted advisor across 15+ enterprise stakeholder relationships, owning the full lifecycle from discovery through tailored solution design, POC validation, executive readout, and production rollout • Lead structured discovery sessions with both business stakeholders and IT, translating ambiguous operational problems into clear technical narratives and proving solutions against real workflows and real data, not generic templates • Architect and debug cross-system integrations across 20+ interconnected production systems, including a downstream data pipeline defect rooted in a date calculation error that was traced through the full data flow to a confirmed fix before financial impact compounded • Built the team's onboarding playbooks, configuration reference patterns, and reproducible debug runbooks from scratch, which became the standard for ramping new engagements and were adopted by downstream business units • Serve as the technical voice of the customer back to engineering, surfacing patterns from live engagements that shipped concrete fixes and capability changes back to the platform • Manage a live Zendesk ticketing workflow with 10+ parallel open threads, prioritizing by business impact and translating between executive language and engineering language as needed • Pull production data with SQL to prepare customer-specific scenarios, surface adoption signals, and frame findings as solution narratives for senior stakeholders
Solutions engineer — Tekbiz solutions
Aug 2021 — Jul 2023
• Held multiple parallel client engagements across distinct data environments, scoping requirements directly with clients and shipping tailored solutions in a fast-paced consulting model • Ran technical discovery directly with stakeholders and translated raw needs into structured specifications that engineering could execute against, often shaping next-quarter priorities
Skills
- Business case development
- impact quantification
- ROI framing
- structured modeling
- requirements scoping
- Executive-ready narratives
- stakeholder facilitation
- technical translation
- demos & walkthroughs
- SQL
- Python
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- REST APIs
- JSON
- data validation
- root cause analysis
- PeopleSoft
- Salesforce
- Jira
- Visio
- SharePoint
- Notion
- Camtasia
- Git / GitHub
- OpenAI API
- LLM integration
- vector embeddings / semantic retrieval
- structured output APIs
- Next.js
- Vercel