Nov 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Key Achievements
• Migrated all products to cloud-native architectures, deploying them on AWS and Azure for scalability and agility.
• Enhanced fraud detection using AI models, leading to a 10% increase in frictionless transactions for a smoother user experience.
• Streamlined go-live processes by 10% through the implementation of standardized architectural and engineering practices, ensuring faster product launches.
• Achieved exceptional uptime of 99.95% across all products (on-premises and cloud) by implementing robust SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices.
• Improved audit readiness by adopting a "Left-Shift" approach (focusing on security earlier in the development lifecycle) and an "Always Audit Green" philosophy.
• Collaborated effectively with the newly formed CPO organization by introducing a "Left-Shift" of story grooming exercises, ensuring alignment between product and engineering teams.
• Championed cross-company collaboration with PayU Group companies to achieve reusability in technology and operational processes, maximizing efficiency.
• Formalized an Architecture stream practice to improve architectural consistency.

Jan 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Key Achievements
• Scaled payment and post-payment processing capacity by 3x to handle significant growth, ensuring smooth transactions.
• Orchestrated flawless execution of three Big Billion Day sales without disruptions, demonstrating exceptional project management and operational excellence.
• Led the successful migration of a monolithic stack to a microservices-based architecture, improving scalability, maintainability, and agility.
• Developed reusable frameworks and in-house monitoring tools, delivering annual savings of $1 million and streamlining operations.
• Championed a "Left-Shift" of QA practices to integrate quality assurance earlier in the development lifecycle, fostering a proactive approach to quality and reducing post-release issues.
• Technologies:AWS,Java,GoLang,Kubernetes/Docker,NoSQL,RDBMS,Scala,Redshift,Kafka

Feb 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Owned the overall architecture of the Big Data solution, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with business needs. Led code reviews to maintain high coding standards and fostered knowledge sharing within the team. Provided technical leadership during deployments, ensuring smooth transitions to production. Additionally, leverage my expertise to consult with TW clients across Retail and BFS domains, delivering strategic technical advice.
• Key Achievements
• Optimized Spark ETL jobs, achieving a 30% performance improvement, resulting in faster data processing and reduced batch times.
• Enhanced system resiliency by implementing robust solutions, enabling faster business recovery from potential disruptions.
• Pioneered the adoption of Chaos Engineering practices, proactively identifying and mitigating system vulnerabilities for increased stability and reduced production uncertainty.
• Technologies:Apache Spark,Livy,Jenkins,Postgres,Elasticsearch,AWS Cloud,Exasol,AWS MQ,Scala,Go Lang,Docker

Jun 2015 – Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Key Achievements
• Architected and developed a cybersecurity product leveraging streaming technologies to deliver real-time threat detection and analysis capabilities.
• Contributed to FICO's Architecture Board: Actively participated in architectural reviews, advocating for standardization across the tech stack and promoting design/code reusability to enhance product efficiency and maintainability.
• Technologies:Apache SparkStorm,Kafka,Jenkins,Elasticsearch,AWS Cloud,Docker

Jul 2014 – May 2015 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• Responsibilities:
• Managed an Engineering team of 40+ (Devs,QA,Architects)
• As a Chief Architect , was responsible for e2e architecture
• Liaison with Senior Architects ,CxOs of the bank and the hardware vendors.
• Building and Mentoring teams across engineering.
• Impact:
• Succesfully developed an E-Commerce platfrom and Recommendation engine that was deployed by top shoe wear retailers
• Technologies:
• Java,Hadoop MR,MySQL,Hive

May 2011 – Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Key Responsibilities: Enterprise Product Architect
• Technologies:J2EE,HTML5,js(DOJO,JQuery),BPM,ESB,Mobile technologies
• Working on the next generation Mobile and Web Platform for Finacle.
• Enhancing the Integration capabilities of the Finacle platform
• Working on new Enterprise platform for the Finacle Product
• Publish Technical papers
• Help Implementation teams in providing solution architecture

Jan 2003 – Apr 2008 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Responsibilities:
• Overall Architect for Finacle CRM and Integration products
• Managed an Architecture team of 15+ members
• Software Development(Coding) of key infra components
• Impact:
• Rearchitected the Finacle CRM product to scale massively at large Indian bank
• Technologies:
• J2EE,.SOA,Oracle

Apr 2008 – Apr 2011 · 3 yrs

• Responsibilities:
• Conceptualising, Architecting new features for Insight Software suit of products.
• Conceptualising new themes and drive them to completion along with partners teams
• Hands on development and POC of major framework components
• Publish Technical papers on Data center Automation technologies and Private Cloud
• Technologies:
• J2EE,.NET,SOA,Virtulaization Technologies(Vmware ESX,MS HyperV) ,Storage Technologies EVA ,MSA ,XP, Hadoop.

Jun 2000 – Dec 2002 · 2 yrs 6 mos · United States

• Responsibilities
• Software Development/Coding

Jan 1999 – Jun 2000 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Responsibilities
• Software Development/Coding
• Technologies:
• C,C++

Apr 1997 – Dec 1999 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Responsibilities
• Software Development/Coding
• Technologies:
• C,C++

Oct 1996 – Apr 1997 · 6 mos

• Responsibilities
• Software Development/Coding