Aqsa Inayat — Senior Software Engineer
Hi there! I'm Aqsa. I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building mission-critical distributed systems at scale for Visa, VMware, Ola, and BrightInsight. I've owned complete product lifecycles — from system design and architecture to development, testing, and deployment — for SAAS and on-premise enterprise cloud platforms. Tech stack: Java, Python, Golang, Spring Boot, Microservices, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, GCP, AWS, Airflow, Kafka, OpenAI, LangChain, Apache Airflow, ETL/ELT Pipelines, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Tableau, Pandas, NumPy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Impact & Achievements: VISA: Architected Open VisaNet payment infrastructure serving 3.5B+ cardholders globally (99.999% uptime, sub-100ms response times). VMware: Designed enterprise cloud autoscaling platform reducing complexity 60%, led SAAS transformation, established microservices patterns adopted across vRealize. Owned end-to-end from product design to production. BrightInsight (current): Architecting HIPAA/GxP-compliant backend platforms for Fortune 500 pharma clients with 99.9% uptime, <100ms response times across 30+ microservices. Pioneered GenAI automation using GPT-4 achieving 95% automation, $200K+ savings, zero incidents. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What I Do: → Architect complex distributed systems at scale for mission-critical applications → Drive technical strategy and platform engineering initiatives shaping roadmaps → Build production AI/ML infrastructure delivering measurable ROI → Establish technical standards and best practices adopted organization-wide → Lead cross-functional initiatives bridging backend, data, and AI/ML teams Core areas: Distributed systems • Backend microservices • AI/ML platforms • HIPAA-compliant healthcare infrastructure • SAAS/on-prem cloud • Event-driven systems I'm passionate about building scalable, reliable systems and driving engineering excellence through mentorship, innovation, and collaborative problem-solving. 🎓 M.Tech & B.E. (Hons.) in Computer Science from BITS Pilani ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Open to connecting with engineers and teams solving hard problems in backend infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML platforms, payments, healthcare, or any domain requiring scale. 📧 aqsainayat786@gmail.com Let's connect if you're building something interesting!
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Fintech and Healthcare sectors.
Experience: 10 yrs
Skills
- Backend Microservices
- Ai/ml Platforms
- Distributed Systems
- Microservices
- Saas/on-prem Cloud
- Cloud Infrastructure
Career Highlights
- Architected payment infrastructure for 3.5B+ cardholders.
- Pioneered GenAI strategy achieving $200K+ savings.
- Led SAAS transformation with 60% complexity reduction.
Work Experience
BrightInsight
Senior Software Engineer (3 yrs 2 mos)
Visa
Senior Software Engineer (1 yr)
Ola
Software Engineer 2 (1 yr 2 mos)
VMware
Member Of Technical Staff (4 yrs 8 mos)
Education
B.E. Hons. Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
M.Tech Software Systems at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
XII at St. Joseph's High School