Utsav Lalwani

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Developed scalable backend systems for high transaction volumes.
Expert in microservices architecture and event-driven systems.
Proven track record in automated testing and CI/CD practices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Fintech and Microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

Django Rest FrameworkMicroservicesJava

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAlpha GenerationAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApplied MathematicsBayesian StatisticsCComputer VisionContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Data ScienceData StructuresDjangoDocker

About

• Software Engineer with 4 years of experience building scalable backend systems and APIs using Python (Django, Django REST Framework). • Skilled in REST API design, relational data modeling, Kafka-based event pipelines, and automated testing with pytest. • Experienced in designing and implementing microservices for financial and telecom domains; knowledgeable in asynchronous and concurrent processing patterns to optimize background tasks and throughput.

Experience

4 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 2 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Hdfc credila financial services limited

Software Developer

May 2023 – Jan 2024 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Developed backend microservices for loan origination and onboarding using Django + Django REST Framework and PostgreSQL, supporting ~650 loan applications/day and versioned REST APIs.
Built a secure KYC/document pipeline with encrypted uploads and OCR-based field extraction, processing ~1,000 documents/day with average end-to-end processing time ~5s/document.
Implemented Kafka-based payment and notification processing handling ~800 events/sec at peak with consumer-side deduplication and average processing lag <30s.
Created pytest-based unit, integration and contract tests and integrated them into GitHub Actions CI to enforce >80% test coverage and >95% CI pass rate before merges.
Containerized services with Docker, configured GitHub Actions for CI/CD, and authored deployment/runbooks enabling weekly releases and reducing MTTR by ~40%.

Django REST FrameworkPostgreSQLKafkapytestDockerGitHub Actions+1

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Associate Technology, L2

Apr 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Developed AWS-hosted microservices for high-volume data processing using Java (Spring Boot), implementing scalable processing patterns and tuning resource configurations.
Improved system reliability by implementing retry and fallback patterns and strengthening error handling with Spring Boot and Kafka to better tolerate transient failures.
Contributed to data contract improvements and API versioning practices using REST APIs and JSON schema checks to reduce client-side breakages.
Implemented centralized logging and metrics pipelines with ELK/Prometheus/Grafana to accelerate root-cause analysis and improve incident response.

JavaSpring BootAWSKafkaMicroservices

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Software Engineer

Aug 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Assisted in the design and later Developed REST-based billing applications using Java (Spring Boot) and Apache Kafka to support high transaction volumes and reliable message processing.
Contributed to migration of legacy billing systems toward cloud-native architectures on AWS, supporting containerized deployments (Docker) to improve reliability.
Collaborated on error-handling frameworks across microservices using Java, Kafka, and Spring Boot, helping standardize retry, alerting and exception-handling behavior.
Authored load and performance tests (JUnit-based harnesses) and tuned service/database/Kafka configurations to help meet throughput and latency SLA targets.

JavaSpring BootApache KafkaAWSMicroservices