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title: "Abhishek Sawhney - Senior Principal Application Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Abhishek Sawhney, Architect | Microservice Developer | SpringBoot | Micronaut | Kafka | Kubernetes based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes codex, grok, and openai."
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# Abhishek Sawhney on Tal

## Headline

Architect \| Microservice Developer \| SpringBoot \| Micronaut \| Kafka \| Kubernetes

## About

My role as a Consulting Member of technical staff includes Brainstorming and understanding product ideas to bring in clarity\. Working with the engineering leadership to establish priority and aligning features into product releases\. Collaborating with software architects in defining org wide strategies\. Implementing organization\-wide standardisation initiatives\. Working with Principal Engineers in defining and reviewing high level system designs, ensuring seamless cross\-team collaboration\. Designing some of the clinical workflows which required multiple downstream integrations requiring close team collaboration\. Designing semantic object model for some of the clinical use cases and presenting the same at the architecture review\. Using Semantic Knowledge Graph for storing the clinical entity relationships\. Exploring the a2ui framework for creating agents, and creating mcp servers that hook up downstream api\. Closely monitoring the delivery of features during the course of the SDLC process, ensure the adherence of guidelines and best practices by the software delivery teams, working with the team to ensure timely closure of the NFRs\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

codex

grok

openai

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Senior Principal Application Engineer at Oracle Healthcare, Feb 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, At Oracle healthcare, we are in the process of revolutionizing healthcare experience for the patients as well as practitioners all across the globe\. This initiative involves rebuilding a Gen2 suite of applications on the modern technology stack, bringing in AI at all levels\(UI, API and DB\) to ensure our customers are able to get a 360 degree view of the patient, prescribe medication, schedule appointments and much more, all throughout simple conversational prompts or voice commands\. Lead the modernization initiatives of the clinical specialities such as pediatrics and women's health\. Working with the product to detail out the business requirements, identifying opportunities to simplify clinical workflows by bringing in AI\. Owning the overall architecture of these specialities\. Ensuring code quality guardrails in the world of AI generated code through AI skills\. Designing semantic database models to ensure accurate clinical summary generation\. Maximizing the team efficiency using AI tools for most of the SDLC processes at Oracle Health\.

Lead System Architect at Visa, Aug 2023 \- Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, As a lead systems architect at Visa, document the high level system design of the epics/features ahead of time and have it reviewed across the board including architecture, platform, security etc\. This involves accurately depicting the current state, envisioning a target state and suggesting one or more interim states required to get to the target state\. ● Identify and highlight tech debts for making the system more efficient, performant and more resilient\. Work with the leadership to help prioritize and slot tech debt removal in the upcoming releases\. ● Overseeing the implementation of org\. level standardization initiatives such as audit logging, open telemetry, observability etc\. ● Streamline cross team collaboration to ensure reusable components are developed and consumed across teams\. This requires working in close collaboration with other architects, identifying the right integration mechanism and contracts\. ● Work with the engineering leads/teams to come up with and review the low level designs\. ● Develop proof of concepts for Epics which require new tools, technologies, frameworks etc\. and drive adoption post regulatory approvals\. ● Ensure the teams adhere to the established design principles and software design patterns\. ● Participate in code reviews and provide feedback\.

Senior Solutions Architect at VMware, Jun 2020 \- Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Application Consultant at IBM, Nov 2018 \- Jun 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bangalore, IBM is helping a Global Bank automating their mutual fund business, enabling them to onboard new fund houses onto the banks existing trade processing software infrastructure components\. My Role in this Project: Directly interacting with the client, understanding and elaborating the high level user stories captured by the Business Analysts as part of creating and maintaining a Master Data Management Utility\. • Designing and implementing highly scalable, fault tolerant spring boot applications using the microservices architecture\. • Designing and building event driven architectures using established patterns like Saga, asynchronous communication using kafka\. • Integrating distributed tracing using sleuth, ELK and application monitoring through spring boot admin server\. • Configuring readiness probes via default/custom actuator endpoints\. Guiding the development team in translating the design into code using microservice architecture using spring boot, REST, kafka & MarkLogic\. Overseeing the complete code delivery, ensuring high code quality and testcase coverage, by configuring code review tools like sonar and checkmarks\. Leading a team of microservice developers, solutioning and designing complex business usecases using event driven architecture\.

Senior Software Engineer at Dell Technologies, Apr 2016 \- Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore, • Dell Support Assist is a product installed on each Dell product \(servers, network, storage, laptops\) which collects diagnostic information about the health of the device and uploads the same to a File Upload Service\. • These files are ingested into a data mining application based on Hadoop which runs an ETL job, extracting relevant info and storing it in HBase and Elastic Search via kafka messages\. My role in this position: • Working with product manager and owner to understand the product vision and road map, and breaking it down into smaller manageable technical requirements, aligning them into releases based on priorities\. • Working on the development of new micro services as well as enhancements in the File upload, heartbeat micro services based on spring boot, Spring Cloud config, Netflix OSS \(eureka, zuul, hystrix\), WebFlux components and deploying the same on Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployed on a private cloud within Dell data center\. • Migrating existing application into micro services architecture using Rest APIs, spring boot, implementing service registry, api gateways \(adding filters\), circuit breakers etc\. • Used Spring Jdbc, Named Parameters and DAO layers to offer abstraction for the business from the database related code \(CRUD\) • Writing unit tests and integration tests for the same using Spring boot test and Mockito frameworks\. • Code reviews, fortify scans to ensure high code quality\. • Driving sprint planning, effort estimations, daily scrums\. • Co\-ordination with the QA/automation team for timely closure of the defects\. Working on performance issues arising due to increased volume of file uploads e\.g scaling the infrastructure vertically or horizontally, DB query fine tuning based on cost etc\. • Monitoring the health of the micro services using actuator urls and also through PCF metrics dashboard\.

Principal Applications Engineer at Oracle, Dec 2014 \- Apr 2016 · 1 y 4 mo, Bangalore

Technical Lead at Symphony Teleca, Feb 2013 \- Nov 2014 · 1 y 9 mo, Bangalore

IT Analyst at TCS, Jan 2011 \- Feb 2013 · 2 y 1 mo, Bangalore

Technology Analyst at Infosys, Apr 2010 \- Dec 2010 · 8 mo, Bangalore

Project Engineer at Wipro, Apr 2006 \- Apr 2010 · 4 y, Bangalore

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Information Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Information Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology

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