Ashwani . — CTO

Email: - ashwani.ducs2014@gmail.com Key Achievements & Expertise * Led a team of 5 to develop scalable, on-premise cloud-like products, enhancing reliability at PhonePe. * Designed high-availability, high-performance microservices, optimizing multi-threaded applications. * Architected an audit log pipeline, achieving 40× processing scalability with distributed deployment. * Built real-time monitoring for 1000+ clusters, ensuring proactive downtime alerts. * Developed roadmaps, mitigated blockers, and improved planning, enhancing productivity. * Implemented Development Checkpoints for better project tracking and execution. Backend Expertise ✅ Microservices & API Development – Designed, developed, and owned multiple secure, scalable microservices with robust authentication and authorization layers. ✅ System Design & Architecture – Delivered high-level and low-level designs for scalable, fault-tolerant systems with embedded security principles (e.g., threat modeling, secure data flows). ✅ Streaming & Messaging – Expertise in Kafka, RabbitMQ, and event-driven architectures, ensuring secure data pipelines with encryption, data validation, and replay protection. ✅ Scalable Deployments – Architected large-scale backend systems with built-in Cloud Security controls, including network segmentation, secrets management, and policy enforcement. ✅ Leadership & Optimization – Led sprint planning, mentored engineers, solved complex DSA problems, and introduced performance & security benchmarking tools. ✅ Cybersecurity & Compliance – Integrated OWASP, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 guidelines into development workflows, ensuring secure-by-default applications. ✅ AI/ML Security – Learning and applying safeguards against adversarial attacks, data/model poisoning, prompt injection, and ensuring privacy-preserving ML. ✅ Cloud Security Best Practices – Familiar with securing services across cloud and hybrid environments (IAM, TLS, VPCs, WAFs), and implementing least-privilege access models.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Fintech and Logistics expert with strong microservices and system design capabilities.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 11 yrs 8 mos

Skills

Microservices & Api Development
System Design & Architecture
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Logistics Optimization
Software Development

Career Highlights

Led a team to develop scalable cloud-like products.
Achieved 99.99% uptime with proactive monitoring.
Transformed monolithic applications into microservices architecture.

Work Experience

PhonePe

Technical Lead (Flat Hierarchy) (4 yrs 8 mos)

Delhivery

Senior Software Developer (2 yrs 9 mos)

BlackRock

Software Developer (3 yrs 9 mos)

Summer Intern (6 mos)

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) at Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi

Ashwani .

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led a team to develop scalable cloud-like products.
Achieved 99.99% uptime with proactive monitoring.
Transformed monolithic applications into microservices architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Fintech and Logistics expert with strong microservices and system design capabilities.

Contact

ashwani.dumca@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Microservices & Api DevelopmentSystem Design & ArchitectureCybersecurity & ComplianceLogistics OptimizationSoftware Development

Other Skills

AIAI-Driven Systems EngineeringAI/ML SecurityAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSArchitectural DesignArchitectureC++C++ LanguageCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Change ManagementCloud Security Best PracticesComplianceConcurrency

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Experience

Phonepe

Technical Lead (Flat Hierarchy)

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Led a platform team of 5 at PhonePe to develop highly scalable, on-premise cloud-like products, achieving 99.99% uptime, doubling performance, and implementing security-by-design practices to minimize infrastructure and access vulnerabilities.
Designed and developed a robust AuthN/AuthZ service, enabling secure access for PhonePe employees and internal APIs. The system supports 10K+ secure requests daily, enforcing role-based access control (RBAC), data encryption, integrity validation, and secure callback mechanisms across app and web platforms.
Spearheaded real-time monitoring for 1000+ clusters (ElasticSearch, Galera, MariaDB, Hadoop, Nginx), reducing incident detection time from 10 minutes to <1 minute. Integrated proactive health checks, security alerts, and automated downtime detection, increasing uptime from 99.8% to 99.99%.
Built and integrated a Grafana-based health check service monitoring 500+ services, improving system uptime by 30% through proactive detection and resolution of performance bottlenecks and system anomalies.
Architected a secure Change Management tool, reducing approval turnaround from 2 hours to 15 minutes, ensuring 100% traceability of production changes for compliance (SOX, ISO 27001), and minimizing rollback incidents by 30%. Integrated with SlackBot to streamline access and approvals for 200+ engineers/managers, eliminating the need for persistent VPN access and enhancing operational transparency.
Created and led the transformation of a monolithic application into a Microservices architecture, efficiently handling 100K+ namespace resolution queries per day across internal and external services, significantly improving scalability, fault isolation, and maintainability.
Strategically enhanced project planning and delivery by introducing Development Checkpoints, threat modeling and AI-based anomaly detection into roadmap execution, and boosting predictability, velocity, and code integrity across initiatives.

Microservices & API DevelopmentSystem Design & ArchitectureStreaming & MessagingScalable DeploymentsLeadership & OptimizationCybersecurity & Compliance+2

Delhivery

Senior Software Developer

Oct 2018 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Logistics Optimization & AI-Driven Systems Engineering:
Developed the Expected Path model, processing 30M+ daily scans to optimize shipment journey times, reducing average transit delays by 12% and improving SLA adherence across 80% of routes, significantly enhancing logistics reliability and customer satisfaction.
Optimized truck loading using graph traversal and critical time modules, leading to a 15% reduction in ad-hoc truck deployments, lowering operational costs and improving fleet efficiency during peak hours and time-critical delivery windows.
Engineered a real-time shipment tracking system inspired by delivery leaders like Zomato, Zepto, and Swiggy Instamart, enabling dynamic last-mile adjustments and real-time ETAs, which contributed to a 20% boost in on-time deliveries and a better customer experience in high-demand urban regions.
Netplan: Network Planning & Cost Efficiency Platform
Designed and developed Netplan, an intelligent system to optimize the location of warehouses, hubs, and delivery centers, contributing to a 10–18% reduction in total logistics costs and improved network-wide route efficiency through simulation-based infrastructure planning.
Built high-performance routing algorithms using Redis, RabbitMQ, and ElasticSearch, powering millisecond-level decisions in short-time delivery networks and enabling real-time rerouting, directly supporting business models dependent on 30-minute delivery promises.
Led end-to-end system design for a resilient microservices architecture in Java and Python, ensuring high availability (99.99%+) and fault tolerance, even under high throughput (100K+ requests/sec) workloads.
Managed real-time databases and routing engines to dynamically generate expected vehicle paths, enabling live deviation detection and faster corrective actions, thereby streamlining logistics operations and reducing delivery exceptions by 22%.

Logistics OptimizationAI-Driven Systems EngineeringReal-time TrackingRouting Algorithms

Blackrock

2 roles

Software Developer

Aug 2014 – May 2018 · 3 yrs 9 mos

PRISM – Portfolio Management & Reporting Tool:
Used by Portfolio Managers at BlackRock, the world's largest asset management firm.
Decision-making tool for Portfolio Managers to analyze exposure, risk, and performance.
Provides graphical insights into portfolio trends for smarter trading decisions.
Developed Java Swing desktop app with a messaging server backend.
Led migration to a web-based AngularJS application.

JavaAngularJSPortfolio ManagementSoftware Development

Summer Intern

Jan 2014 – Jul 2014 · 6 mos

Developed an application to generate profit/loss reports post portfolio settlement and deliver them via PDF email to customers. In case of failures, an automated alert is sent to the development team with error details.
Tech Stack: Core Java, Spring Boot, Backend, Test Cases.

Core JavaSpring BootSoftware Development