Ajinkya Gole

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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India14 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14+ years in backend development and system design.
Expert in building scalable financial transaction platforms.
Led teams to deliver high-throughput distributed systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fintech expert with extensive experience in scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaMicroservicesAws

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAmazon DynamoDBAmazon ElastiCacheAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaCDCContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DebeziumDistributed CachingDockerEhcacheEvent-drivenHigh Availability (HA)Java ConcurrencyJava Enterprise Edition

About

Technical Lead (SDE-3, Backend) with 14+ years of experience building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems and financial transaction platforms using cloud-native microservices. Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, with practical experience in MongoDB and AWS technologies (EC2, CloudWatch, Athena, DynamoDB, Lambda, EMR). Extensive experience in designing high-throughput backend architectures, scaling distributed systems to process 10M+ settlements daily, building resilient audit and compliance pipelines, and optimizing transaction flows for performance, scalability, and correctness. Led backend teams, driven system design and architecture reviews, and delivered complex platform features involving wallets, ledgers, settlements, analytics, and regulatory compliance (TDS/GST), with a focus on building reliable, observable, and scalable backend services supporting mission-critical financial and gaming operations.

Experience

Games24x7

3 roles

Tech Lead (SDE-3)

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

● Led redesign of the Accounting DB system, enabling 10M+ settlements in <2 minutes and 10K+ concurrent joins/sec, significantly improving throughput and scalability.
● Delivered complete TDS/GST compliance transformation with zero downtime, ensuring correctness across all financial flows at scale.
● Designed & implemented a standalone Audit Transaction System, offloading heavy audit workloads and improving performance of core accounting services.
● Led database segregation and AWS migration, improving cost efficiency, enabling independent scaling, and enhancing observability.
● Provided technical leadership to an 8-member backend team, driving architectural reviews, mentoring, and delivery execution.

JavaSpring BootKafkaRedisMySQLAWS+1

Software Development Engineer-2

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

● Built backend systems for the Reward Store, integrated with wallet/accounting systems.
● Led wallet bucket segregation, enabling compliant payouts and improving transaction accuracy.

JavaMicroservicesSQL

Software Development Engineer

Jun 2011 – Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos

● Developed accounting systems for multiple Rummy variants with focus on correctness and performance.
● Built automated user journey & funnel reporting, including warehousing and caching pipelines.

JavaSQL