Sep 2024 – Aug 2025 · 11 mos

• Leading a cross-functional delivery team (backend, QA, product, operations) as a hands-on Tech Lead, responsible for architecture, delivery, and mentoring across multiple critical services.
• Spearheading secure API integration with UK HMRC for land-tax submission, enabling automated digital filings and reducing manual processing—aiming to increase user adoption of the platform.
• Delivered GDPR-compliant data-erasure and anonymization features, processing 50+ customer requests per day and reducing data-removal SLA from 5 days to 30 minutes—enhancing platform compliance, customer trust, and operational efficiency.
• Launched the client’s first UK-facing partner API suite (17 APIs + Webhooks) within 6 months, enabling new partner integrations and driving a 10× increase in daily transaction volume — from 10 to 1,000.
• Led architectural governance and schema-evolution strategy across a 9-microservice event-driven ecosystem, migrating 100+ events to AVRO via AWS Schema Registry—enhancing platform interoperability, reducing serialization errors, and improving data integrity across key product flows.
• Regularly partnered with product managers, tech architects, designers, QA, and operations across 8+ cross functional teams in the UK, Australia, and India to drive tech and product alignment, resolve dependencies, and meet key delivery milestones.
• Provided hands-on technical leadership for platform architecture, ensuring alignment across teams on service reliability, data integrity, and scalability standards.

Nov 2021 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Working in Payments Stream, integrating with Bank Of England, ClearBank through SWIFT/FPS/CHAPS.
• Following Extreme Programming Practices, Test Driven Development (TDD), Practitioner of Domain Driven Design (DDD). Gained experience in Domain Modelling and its ways of working.
• Experience in working with AWS and its services, Terraform, Docker, Gradle, Kotlin
• Implemented Listener framework for Hibernate Create/Update/Delete events for Auditing changes in Entities.
• Developed Mock Server using wiremock and deployed the module in AWS. I used terraform to interact with AWS task definitions, containers, and services like secrets, parameter store, KMS. Moved the mock server to Secured Connection using SSL/TLS.
• Have hands on experience in CI/CD pipeline.

Dec 2015 – Nov 2021 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Led a 6-member team in developing Spring Boot microservices for enterprise web applications.
• Improved reliability by introducing resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, idempotency) across critical network service provision and activation flows.
• Acted as Security Champion, integrating threat modeling into sprint planning, patching vulnerabilities proactively, and promoting secure coding practices across the team.
• Designed and built service orchestration app to manage order lifecycle from intake to network activation.
• Delivered scalable, production-ready backend solutions in close collaboration with product, QA, and client teams.
• Mentored 10+ engineers across two teams, fostering a culture of quality-first development, pair programming, and continuous learning.
• Conducted comprehensive design and code reviews to uphold engineering excellence, maintain code quality, and drive best practices across teams

May 2012 – Nov 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos · kochin

• Modernized client-facing UI and branding, improving UX and design consistency.
• Refactored legacy Java codebase, resolving tech debt and stabilizing key features.
• Resolved 10+ Priority 1 bugs within deadlines, improving product reliability under pressure.