Santosh Kumar Pandey

CEO

New Delhi, Delhi, India9 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 11 years of experience in backend engineering.
  • Expert in distributed systems and microservices architecture.
  • Proven track record in performance optimization and API reliability.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Cybersecurity and Cloud-Native solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsJava & Spring Boot (microservices)Spring BootMicroservices

Other Skills

System Design & ArchitectureCloud & DevOps (AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git)Cloud Computing (AWS / Kubernetes)Apache KafkaPostgreSQLMongoDBEngineering LeadershipREST APIsJava 17KafkaAWSKubernetesRedisSpring FrameworkMSSQL

About

Principal / Staff Backend Engineer with 11+ years of experience building high-scale distributed systems across cybersecurity, BFSI, healthcare, and SaaS domains. Currently working on a Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) platform at Thales (Imperva), designing systems for real-time database activity tracking, threat detection, audit logging, and compliance in enterprise environments. 🔹 Core Expertise • Distributed Systems & System Design (HLD/LLD, scalability, fault tolerance) • Java Backend (Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, concurrency) • Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka, async processing, messaging systems) • Cloud-Native Systems (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD) • High Scalability, Performance Optimization, Caching & Throughput tuning • Database Design & Optimization (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) • Production Debugging, RCA, Observability & Reliability Engineering 🔹 Key Impact • Improved system latency by 40%+ in distributed microservices architecture • Achieved ~99% API reliability through large-scale regression stabilization • Standardized API design across 25+ microservices improving scalability & consistency • Solved complex production issues in multi-node distributed environments 🔹 Current Work Highlights • Building and scaling backend systems using MX–Gateway–Agent distributed architecture • Designing real-time event processing pipelines for high-volume database activity logs • Working on centralized SOM-based management across multi-MX distributed environments • Enhancing monitoring accuracy and reducing false-positive alerts in large-scale systems • Driving API standardization and improving cross-service communication reliability 🔹 What I Bring • Strong ownership mindset: design → development → production → scaling • Deep expertise in distributed system debugging, performance tuning, and system design • Experience building security-critical, compliance-driven, high-availability platforms • Ability to work across teams (product, platform, security) to deliver scalable solutions 🔹 Additional Focus Areas • Microservices architecture & service decomposition • High availability, resiliency patterns & failure handling • API platform engineering & contract design • Observability, logging, monitoring & alerting systems 📌 Open to Staff / Senior / Principal Backend roles (Product Companies) 📅 Available to join from May 2026 (Immediate Joiner) Let’s connect if you’re building high-scale backend systems or solving complex distributed system challenges.

Experience

9 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 1 mo
Current Experience

Thales

Technical Lead

May 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida · Hybrid

  • Technical Lead (Staff Backend Engineer) @ Thales
  • Working on Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)—an enterprise cybersecurity platform for real-time database activity tracking, threat detection, audit logging, and compliance (PCI-DSS, GDPR) used by global financial institutions and enterprises.
  • 🔥 Key Contributions & Impact
  • Architecting MX–Gateway–Agent distributed systems architecture for real-time data processing and secure communication
  • Designed and scaled 30+ microservices using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs
  • Handling high-volume database activity logs across multi-node distributed environments
  • Improved system performance by ~40% using caching, async processing, and DB optimization
  • Achieved ~99% API reliability by stabilizing large-scale regression failures
  • Designed and enhanced core modules: Audit, Policy Engine, Risk Analysis, Monitoring & Alerting
  • ⚙️ Distributed Systems & Platform Engineering
  • Debugged and fixed Agent ↔ MX event pipeline issues, system event mappings, and message handling
  • Contributed to SOM (System of Management) for centralized control across multi-MX distributed deployments
  • Reduced false-positive alerts (UNDO tablespace monitoring improvements)
  • Standardized API design across 25+ services, improving scalability and consistency
  • Improved system stability across Trunk & LTS releases
  • ☁️ Cloud, APIs & Reliability
  • Built scalable REST APIs focused on high performance, fault tolerance, and reliability
  • Deployed services on AWS + Kubernetes using CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
  • Improved regression stability → ~99% API pass rate / ~95% UI stability
  • Worked on production debugging, RCA, performance tuning, and observability improvements
  • ⚙️ Tech Stack
  • Java 17, Spring Boot, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Kafka, REST APIs, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
Distributed SystemsSystem Design & ArchitectureJava & Spring Boot (Microservices)Cloud & DevOps (AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git)Cloud Computing (AWS / Kubernetes)Apache Kafka+4

Coforge

Technology Specialist

Jun 2023May 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Noida · Hybrid

  • As a Technology Specialist at Coforge, I played a key role in designing and engineering scalable, cloud-native, and enterprise-grade applications across domains such as BFSI, Insurance, and Healthcare. I was deeply involved in full-stack product development using modern technologies and frameworks, while leading several initiatives focused on application modernization, performance optimization, and digital transformation.
  • I led backend development using Java 17, Spring Boot 3.x, and RESTful APIs, following clean code principles and industry best practices. On the frontend, I created interactive and responsive user interfaces using ReactJS, Next.js, and Angular, enhancing UI. My work was driven by an Agile-Scrum delivery model, ensuring timely sprints, code reviews, and continuous integration.
  • Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
  • Architected and implemented RESTful microservices using Spring Boot, designed for performance, resilience, and scalability.
  • Built dynamic, cross-platform UIs using ReactJS, Angular, and Next.js, integrating Tailwind CSS for streamlined UI/UX design.
  • Led cloud deployments using AWS, OpenShift, EKS, and Docker, focusing on container orchestration and scalability.
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines leveraging GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps for faster, automated software delivery.
  • Integrated Kafka, AWS SNS, and Kong API Gateway, and implemented OAuth2, JWT, and Spring Security for robust API security.
  • Conducted performance benchmarking and profiling, resulting in up to 40% improvement in API response times.
  • Migrated monolithic systems to distributed microservices architectures as part of application modernization efforts.
  • Collaborated on backend workflow automation using Generative AI (GenAI) and LLMs, improving developer efficiency and reducing manual workloads.
  • Contributed to DevOps transformation with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container security best practices, and automated monitoring via AWS CloudWatch.
Spring BootSpring FrameworkMSSQLRESTful WebServicesDockerMicroservices+16

Hcl technologies

Lead Consultant

Jun 2021Jun 2023 · 2 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Hybrid

  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Involved in doing java full stack web application design, development, testing, production support & maintenance while following Agile methodology.
  • Gathering and consulting with the business about new requirements and defining the scope of SDLC approach through interaction with business teams, product owner, business analyst.
  • Participated and collaborated in daily Scrum, Grooming(bi-weekly), Retrospectives(bi-weekly) and Morning Standups meetings with team.
  • Creating high level and low level designs for the requirements, work flows for the new backend or web applications.
  • Developing the whole backend application from scratch using rest apis and writing business logics for controller and service layers & writing Junit Test Cases using Mockito framework.
  • Configuring Sonar and Scar Fortify for Code quality, code standard, and code compliance to avoid software coverage, compliance and security related things.
  • Developed couple of reporting related applications using java 11, maven, MySQL db, JavaMail api, apache poi for Excel integration, spring boot with job scheduling and that saved a lot of manual efforts and cost to business.
  • Creating Jenkins pipeline for continuous integration and continuous development approach.
  • Did the peer code reviews and code merge activities into GitHub.
  • Deploying the whole project/application using Openshift container platforms Cloud (OSO - POD) by creating dockerfile(dockerImage) of the projects.
  • Fixing the sonar and fortify issues based on the priority after sonar and fortify scan.
  • Building and deploying the builds in every environments to test and see the changes.
  • Working on multiple open business queries and incidents opened by business team and defining the sla of the incidents and provided the proper solutions or workarounds based on priority.
  • Did code reviews with peers, merged into master, and provided proper sign off for monthly release cycles.
Spring BootJasmine FrameworkSelenium WebDriverMSSQLSpring SecurityRESTful WebServices+15

Optum

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2019Jun 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Involved in doing full stack web application design, development, testing, production support & maintenance while following Agile methodology.
  • Gathering and consulting with the business about new requirements and defining the scope of SDLC approach through interaction with business teams, product owner, business analyst.
  • Participated and collaborated in daily Scrum, Grooming(bi-weekly), Retrospectives(bi-weekly) and Morning Standups meetings with team.
  • Creating high level and low level designs for the requirements, work flows for the new backend or web applications.
  • Developing the whole backend application from scratch using rest apis and writing business logics for controller and service layers & writing Junit Test Cases using Mockito framework.
  • Configuring Sonar and Scar Fortify for Code quality, code standard, and code compliance to avoid software coverage, compliance and security related things.
  • Developed couple of reporting related applications using java 11, maven, MySQL db, JavaMail api, apache poi for Excel integration, spring boot with job scheduling and that saved a lot of manual efforts and cost to business.
  • Creating Jenkins pipeline for continuous integration and continuous development approach.
  • Did the peer code reviews and code merge activities into GitHub.
  • Deploying the whole project/application using Openshift container platforms Cloud (OSO - POD) by creating dockerfile(dockerImage) of the projects.
  • Fixing the sonar and fortify issues based on the priority after sonar and fortify scan.
  • Building and deploying the builds in every environments to test and see the changes.
  • Working on multiple open business queries and incidents opened by business team and defining the sla of the incidents and provided the proper solutions or workarounds based on priority.
  • Did code reviews with peers, merged into master, and provided proper sign off for monthly release cycles.
Spring BootJasmine FrameworkSpring FrameworkNode.jsSelenium WebDriverMSSQL+34

Hcl technologies

Software Engineer

Jul 2016Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Roles and Responsibilities :
  • Involved in doing full stack web application design, development, testing, product support & maintenance while following Agile methodology.
  • Gathering Business Requirements and defining the scope of SDLC through interaction with business corporates, product owners, business analysts and peers.
  • Writing and developing business logics for RestFull Web APIs.
  • Writing Junit Test Cases using Mockito framework.
  • Code checking into GitHub, peer reviews, deployment for unit testing and giving signoff for modules for production release.
Spring BootSpring FrameworkAngular 2/4/5/6Node.jsSpring SecurityRESTful WebServices+29

Hcl training and staffing services pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer Trainee/Intern

Jul 2015Aug 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • I have joined HCL TSS as software engineer trainee, got training and internships on multiple technologies such as java, angular, JavaScript, Hibernate, Spring, design patterns, Rdbms databases, rest APIs development, testing, junit, maven, etc. also got live project hands on experience worked with different clients of HCL.
  • Written and developed java backend services using Java 8, spring MVC, maven, Hibernate, dao, JUnit.
  • Code checking into GitHub.
  • Mentored by senior members of team. Got good exposure to work with clients closely.
  • fixed bugs and given sign offs to delivery.
  • did software testing also as regression testing, smoke testing, sanity testing, UI testing, Android/iOS mobile apps testing, api and database testing.
  • After completing training and internships, they have deployed me into HCL Technologies Ltd with permanent payroll with HCL.
Spring BootSpring FrameworkHTMLRESTful WebServicesMicroservicesJavaScript+15

Education

Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology And Sciences (SHUATS)

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Shail Shiksha Niketan Inter College Naini Allahabad

Intermediate 12th — Maths

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Shail Shiksha Niketan Inter College Naini Allahabad

High School 10th — Mathematics and Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2009

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