Vishwanath Nagendra Rao

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

15+ years in software development and architecture.
Expert in microservices and event-driven architecture.
Proven track record in team leadership and project delivery.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with extensive experience in microservices architecture and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Identity And Access ManagementKubernetesMicroservicesKafkaPayment Gateway IntegrationAutomated TestingSecurities LendingOtc Trade Processing

Other Skills

KeycloakRedisRESTful APIsgRPCHelmSpring BootCI/CDGrafanaKibanaSplunkAppDynamicsJenkinsGitLab CIREST APIBDD

About

A passionate, enthusiastic and delivery focused Technical Manager/Technical Architect with 15+ years of experience in People Management, Leadership, Software Development and Architecture. Passionate in managing and leading people to perform at their peak, believe in giving space to the team, building autonomy within in team. Encouraging team members to demonstrate leadership. Motivate teams, delivering quality product on time, convey complex technical requirements to team; exceed customer expectations. Effective in fostering collaboration and consultative relationships with senior management and across traditional boundaries; highlighting inflection points of technology decisions Focused on continuous improvement and learning, believe in being Self aware, Self improvements via reflections and retrospection on a regular basis. Good in communication, negotiation and decision making skills. Values assertive communication style of leadership, good listening skills, always focused on understanding other's perspective. Passion for building robust software using Event Driven and Domain Driven architecture. Passionate about problem solving, algorithms, data structure. SCRUM Certified, Agile expert and coach.

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Paanini innovations india private limited. (jiffy)

Principal Engineer

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Built and scaled an enterprise Identity and Access Management system serving as the central
authentication gateway, supporting multi-tenant architecture with tenant isolation, role-based
access control, and federated identity management via Keycloak integration. Implemented
high-performance permission evaluation using Redis caching and hierarchical trie structures,
reducing authorization latency by 70% and supporting bulk user operations (CSV import/export)
for thousands of users. Delivered RESTful APIs and gRPC services for external authorization
(Envoy proxy integration), integrated Temporal workflows for asynchronous user provisioning,
and deployed on Kubernetes with Helm charts, achieving 99.9% availability and handling 1M+
authentication requests daily.

Identity and Access ManagementKeycloakRedisRESTful APIsgRPCKubernetes+1

Digit88 technologies

Principal Engineer / Engineering Manager

Jul 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

● Scaled conversational AI platform to handle 12M+ conversations/month (3x growth) by designing stateless, horizontally scalable microservices, reducing infrastructure costs by 40% through efficient resource utilization and achieving 99.9% system uptime
● Architected Agent Match service for managing agent state and generating real-time events for agent activity & session tracking, enabling dynamic load balancing and improving agent utilization by 35%
● Designed and developed RESTful, Spring Boot, Kafka-based microservices as facade layer for external NLU services (IBM Watson, Google Dialog Flow), reducing integration complexity and improving response time by 50%
● Maintained and enhanced Bot services, improving response accuracy by 25% and reducing false positives by 30% through continuous optimization and monitoring
● Led global incident management & on-call production support, reducing MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery) by 60% through proactive monitoring, automated alerting, and runbook documentation
● Improved platform observability by implementing comprehensive monitoring using Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, and AppDynamics, reducing P95 latency by 60% and error rate by 80%

MicroservicesKafkaSpring BootCI/CDGrafanaKibana+2

Allstate solutions pvt. ltd.

Technical Architect / Engineering Manager

Jan 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

● Designed and developed Kafka-based high-performance warranty processing microservices, increasing processing throughput by 10x and reducing processing latency from 5s to 500ms per transaction
● Architected payment gateway integration system with adapter pattern to support multiple payment vendors (Adyen, SEPA), providing reliable gateway service with dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security features
● Implemented circuit breaker and retry patterns for external payment system integrations, improving system reliability to 99.5% and reducing payment failures by 70%
● Led cross-functional team of 8 engineers across multiple geographies, delivering critical warranty processing features on time with zero production incidents
● Established CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI, reducing deployment time from 2 hours to 15 minutes and enabling multiple deployments per day

KafkaPayment Gateway IntegrationCI/CDJenkinsGitLab CI

Ig group

Technical Team Lead

Apr 2015 – Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

● Designed and implemented Overnight Funding system (3rd highest revenue generator for IG Group) by integrating position/instrument details via Kafka, trade-level LIBOR rates via JMS, and account details via REST API, processing 500K+ funding calculations daily
● Successfully delivered Double Ledger Entry system for Japanese Bank client, strengthening business relationship and enabling cross-geography development with teams in UK, Japan, and India
● Executed client & account migration projects for multiple clients, requiring deep understanding of IG functionality (Account Opening, Payments, Dealing), migrating 50K+ accounts with zero data loss
● Built automated test suite using BDD and TDD practices, achieving 85% code coverage and enabling continuous integration with deployment to production in under 30 minutes
● Maintained 24x7 Overnight Funding application generating 400K ledger entries per day globally, achieving 99.95% uptime through proactive monitoring and automated recovery mechanisms

KafkaREST APIAutomated TestingBDDTDD

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Dec 2009 – Mar 2015 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

● Implemented Security Lending Trading Flow in collaboration with Traders & Operations Team, processing $50B+ in securities lending transactions annually
● Designed OTC Trade Processing systems (SecDB, SecTM, CBM) for firm's trading activity, including matching algorithms, contract generation, and FpML generation, processing 100K+ trades daily
● Supported firm during 2008 financial crisis in New York, handling peak trading volumes (5x normal) for counterparty trades, implementing business isolation strategies to support massive trade volumes
● Reduced batch job monitoring overhead by 100% by building real-time dashboard providing instant status of batch processing, eliminating manual monitoring and reducing operational costs

Securities LendingOTC Trade ProcessingReal-time Dashboard