Headline

Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead at ADP | Backend: Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Databricks | Agentic AI: AI Agents, MCP, Agent Skills, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot

About

I build backend systems that turn manual, error-prone compliance work into automated, auditable workflows, and I lead the team that ships them. I'm a Senior Software Engineer and team lead at ADP, with 5+ years building payroll, tax and compliance products. I was promoted early, and I'm usually the one who starts a new system, takes it to production and makes it reusable for the team. The work I'm proudest of helps people directly: a 120+ person tax team that no longer audits tax setups by hand every quarter, using a service I proposed and built; reviewers who get thousands of handwritten forms a week read and checked automatically; and thousands of colleagues who reach their dashboards in one place with a single sign-in. Right now I'm driving AI-assisted delivery (AI-DLC) in my business unit's India organisation. It automates the routine work between a user story and shipped code, from the spec to first drafts of code, tests and reviews, while engineers approve every step. Teams can ship faster and spend their time on design and the hard problems. Outside work, I founded and lead a running community in Hyderabad.

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

github copilot

hermes agent

kiro

openai

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at ADP, Sep 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos, On-site, Promoted early to Senior Member Technical in Sep 2023. I lead a 5-person engineering team and am driving AI-assisted delivery (AI-DLC) in my business unit's India organization with AI agents, MCP servers and Agent Skills. • Proposed and built tax-validation services that replaced manual quarterly audits for a 120+ person PEO tax team; the team has since improved filing accuracy by 75% and cut e-file rejections by 80%. Then designed a compliance-automation platform that nudges clients to fix gaps in their state and local tax setups and opens service cases automatically when they don't, now covering four use cases. • Built an in-house I-9 document-AI platform that reads the handwritten forms a licensed tool couldn't. Volume grew from ~300 to ~4,700 forms a week in seven weeks, reviewer wait times fell 65–95%, and it's projected to save ~2,460 review hours a month. • Proposed and built two automations: a self-service data-pipeline app that saves about 10 hours of engineering time per new table, and an AI-agent migration of our QA suite to an open-source framework, deterministic enough to run on a low-cost model and now used by 8 QA teams.

Software Engineer at ADP, Jul 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Hybrid, • Built the front end and onboarding flow for a CRM-integrated PEO sales and onboarding platform of 20+ microservices, cutting client onboarding from days to a couple of hours, then was one of the first engineers to move it to containers. • Built an internal analytics portal from the first commit. It gives ~3,000 colleagues a month their dashboards in one place with a single sign-in, removing extra logins and tool-hopping. • Joined the lakehouse migration from the start (full loads plus change data capture from on-premises databases); it went on to move key data from daily to hourly refresh, cut storage by about two-thirds and retire the legacy warehouse.

Education

BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

Public links

github: https://github.com/abhiramam

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/abhiram1349