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Aishwarya Swaminathan

Staff Software Engineer at Visa | Distributed Systems | Backend & Microservices | GenAI, RAG & LLM Agents | Kafka | Java | Spring Boot | GCP

Greater Bengaluru Area

11+ years of work experience

JPMorganChase
Oct 20261 moPresent

Bengaluru

Visa
Feb 20251 y 6 moAug 2026

Hybrid

- Led a high-performing scrum team of 8 engineers within Visa's Payments settlement domain; mentored engineers to ship production GenAI tools within 1 month of joining. - Engineered settlement and payment processing across two of Visa's highest-volume payment gateways: Visa Platform Connect (VPC) — Visa's largest gateway, accounting for 50%+ of Visa's daily transaction traffic, sustaining 6,000+ TPS from 400+ acquiring banks across APAC, CEMEA, and LAC. - Self-Service Acquirer Certification Platform: Collaborated across cross-functional teams (Visa Acceptance Platform, Product Management, Clearing and Settlement, Client Implementation Managers, Mainframe, SRE) to transform a manual certification process on VPC into a self-service platform serving 400+ acquiring banks daily; reducing settlement delivery times to nearly 85% (2 weeks to under 48 hours); manual engineering effort reduced by nearly 90% with settlement file delivery success rates of 98%, directly accelerating acquirer go-live timelines and revenue activation. - Settlement AI Copilot: Extended the platform with an MCP + LLM powered Conversational AI chatbot giving Acquirer Implementation Consultants and PMs self-service visibility: certification status, BIN availability checks, file delivery triage (autonomous Splunk log querying and root cause analysis), and auto-generated trend reports emailed to consultants; recognized as a quarterly innovation initiative. - Built a suite of MCP + LLM productivity agents saving 15+ engineering hours per week at zero infrastructure cost: Code Review Agent (2 days to 4 hours, 30% more issues caught); Argo CD Migration Skill (60% per-app effort reduction, 6+ weeks saved); Settlement Splunk Log Scraper (87% time reduction, saving 468+ engineering hours per year).
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Aug 20213 yrs 6 mosJan 2025

- SPOT Award Recipient and Leadership: Designed and delivered an event-driven data platform from scratch enabling 70% sales improvement and 50% reduction in customer complaints; led a team of 10 engineers, mentored on SOLID principles and event-driven design patterns. - Event-Driven Pipeline Architecture: Architected and Designed end-to-end event-driven platform at Lowe's (Kafka/Avro to Spark to Hadoop HDFS/Trino) evaluating Taxware vs Vertex tax accuracy across 1,500+ stores; powered Alteryx vendor-selection reports driving 70% sales improvement and 50% reduction in customer complaints. - High-Throughput API Modernization: Redesigned Enterprise Tax APIs using Spring WebFlux, handling 1,000 TPS traffic across 1,800+ stores, improving throughput by 90%; validated system resilience via Gatling load testing. - Test Automation and Payment Integration: Architected asyncio-based Python regression automation supporting parallel execution of 80+ scenarios per store across 1,800 stores, reducing regression execution time by over 80%; accelerated customer onboarding by more than 50% and enabled omnichannel payments (branded cards, cheques, gift cards)..
SAP Labs India
Feb 20201 yr 6 mosJul 2021

Greater Bengaluru Area

I contributed significantly to the development of a time-processing platform that streamlined employee and equipment time tracking. • Leveraged Spring Boot and Java to create a robust solution for SAP Fieldglass. • Conducted API performance benchmarks using JMeter to optimize system efficiency. • Implemented SONAR for strict code coverage, ensuring high-quality software delivery.
NAGRA
Mar 20182 yrsFeb 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Contributed to backend development for OTT and Pay-TV operators at NAGRA focusing on reliability, resiliency and impeccable customer experience. • Developed robust backend APIs for Open TV, streamlining Enterprise content metadata setup for operators. • Designed compatibility upgrades for Neo4j and Elasticsearch, ensuring seamless operations. • Received a BRAVO Award for exceptional contributions to team success and project outcomes.
Wipro Limited
Mar 20171 yrFeb 2018

In my role at Wipro Limited, I focused on developing backend components and APIs for the Apple Online Store's internal tools. By leveraging SOLID principles and Domain-Driven Design (DDD), I effectively supported product metadata and operational attributes. My contributions were acknowledged when I received the Budding Star of the Year 2015-16 award, highlighting my commitment to excellence in project delivery.
Wipro Limited
Sep 20142 yrs 6 mosFeb 2017

GitHub
@aishwarya-swaminathan
Personal portfolioaishwarya-swaminathan.github.io/my-profile

Aishwarya’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
langchain
langchain
openai
openai
claudecode
claudecode
ChatGPT
ChatGPT
Cline
Cline

Education

Sri sairam engineering college

Sri sairam engineering college

20104 yrs2014

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Headline

Staff Software Engineer at Visa | Distributed Systems | Backend & Microservices | GenAI, RAG & LLM Agents | Kafka | Java | Spring Boot | GCP

About

Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing and building scalable distributed systems, backend platforms, microservices, and AI-powered engineering solutions for global enterprises. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, event-driven architectures, Kafka, cloud-native systems, and high-throughput backend services. Currently focused on combining distributed systems expertise with Generative AI to build practical, production-oriented solutions. I've architected RAG-based AI agents, MCP and LLM-powered developer tools, conversational AI solutions, and automation platforms that have reduced onboarding time, operational effort, and engineering toil. My experience includes: - Distributed Systems & Backend Engineering: Microservices, event-driven architectures, high-throughput APIs, Kafka, Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Neo4j and Elasticsearch. - Generative AI & AI Agents: RAG, LLM Agents, MCP, Claude API, prompt engineering, conversational AI and AI-powered developer productivity tools. - Cloud & Platform Engineering: GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Argo CD, GitOps, CI/CD, observability and distributed tracing. - Technical Leadership: Leading engineering teams, architecture and design reviews, mentoring engineers, driving engineering best practices, and delivering cross-functional initiatives. I enjoy solving complex engineering problems, improving system reliability and performance, and turning emerging technologies into solutions that deliver measurable business and engineering impact.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

langchain

openai

claudecode

ChatGPT

Cline

Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase, Oct 2026 - Present · 1 mo, Bengaluru

Staff Software Engineer at Visa, Feb 2025 - Aug 2026 · 1 y 6 mo, Hybrid, - Led a high-performing scrum team of 8 engineers within Visa's Payments settlement domain; mentored engineers to ship production GenAI tools within 1 month of joining. - Engineered settlement and payment processing across two of Visa's highest-volume payment gateways: Visa Platform Connect (VPC) — Visa's largest gateway, accounting for 50%+ of Visa's daily transaction traffic, sustaining 6,000+ TPS from 400+ acquiring banks across APAC, CEMEA, and LAC. - Self-Service Acquirer Certification Platform: Collaborated across cross-functional teams (Visa Acceptance Platform, Product Management, Clearing and Settlement, Client Implementation Managers, Mainframe, SRE) to transform a manual certification process on VPC into a self-service platform serving 400+ acquiring banks daily; reducing settlement delivery times to nearly 85% (2 weeks to under 48 hours); manual engineering effort reduced by nearly 90% with settlement file delivery success rates of 98%, directly accelerating acquirer go-live timelines and revenue activation. - Settlement AI Copilot: Extended the platform with an MCP + LLM powered Conversational AI chatbot giving Acquirer Implementation Consultants and PMs self-service visibility: certification status, BIN availability checks, file delivery triage (autonomous Splunk log querying and root cause analysis), and auto-generated trend reports emailed to consultants; recognized as a quarterly innovation initiative. - Built a suite of MCP + LLM productivity agents saving 15+ engineering hours per week at zero infrastructure cost: Code Review Agent (2 days to 4 hours, 30% more issues caught); Argo CD Migration Skill (60% per-app effort reduction, 6+ weeks saved); Settlement Splunk Log Scraper (87% time reduction, saving 468+ engineering hours per year).

Lead Software Engineer at Lowe's Companies, Inc., Aug 2021 - Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos, - SPOT Award Recipient and Leadership: Designed and delivered an event-driven data platform from scratch enabling 70% sales improvement and 50% reduction in customer complaints; led a team of 10 engineers, mentored on SOLID principles and event-driven design patterns. - Event-Driven Pipeline Architecture: Architected and Designed end-to-end event-driven platform at Lowe's (Kafka/Avro to Spark to Hadoop HDFS/Trino) evaluating Taxware vs Vertex tax accuracy across 1,500+ stores; powered Alteryx vendor-selection reports driving 70% sales improvement and 50% reduction in customer complaints. - High-Throughput API Modernization: Redesigned Enterprise Tax APIs using Spring WebFlux, handling 1,000 TPS traffic across 1,800+ stores, improving throughput by 90%; validated system resilience via Gatling load testing. - Test Automation and Payment Integration: Architected asyncio-based Python regression automation supporting parallel execution of 80+ scenarios per store across 1,800 stores, reducing regression execution time by over 80%; accelerated customer onboarding by more than 50% and enabled omnichannel payments (branded cards, cheques, gift cards)..

Senior Developer at SAP Labs India, Feb 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, I contributed significantly to the development of a time-processing platform that streamlined employee and equipment time tracking. • Leveraged Spring Boot and Java to create a robust solution for SAP Fieldglass. • Conducted API performance benchmarks using JMeter to optimize system efficiency. • Implemented SONAR for strict code coverage, ensuring high-quality software delivery.

Software Engineer at NAGRA, Mar 2018 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Contributed to backend development for OTT and Pay-TV operators at NAGRA focusing on reliability, resiliency and impeccable customer experience. • Developed robust backend APIs for Open TV, streamlining Enterprise content metadata setup for operators. • Designed compatibility upgrades for Neo4j and Elasticsearch, ensuring seamless operations. • Received a BRAVO Award for exceptional contributions to team success and project outcomes.

Senior Project Engineer at Wipro Limited, Mar 2017 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr, In my role at Wipro Limited, I focused on developing backend components and APIs for the Apple Online Store's internal tools. By leveraging SOLID principles and Domain-Driven Design (DDD), I effectively supported product metadata and operational attributes. My contributions were acknowledged when I received the Budding Star of the Year 2015-16 award, highlighting my commitment to excellence in project delivery.

Project Engineer at Wipro Limited, Sep 2014 - Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Education

Sri sairam engineering college

Public links

aishwarya-swaminathan.github.io: https://aishwarya-swaminathan.github.io/my-profile

github: https://github.com/aishwarya-swaminathan