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title: "Aishwarya Swaminathan - Lead Software Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Aishwarya Swaminathan, Staff Software Engineer at Visa | Distributed Systems | Backend & Microservices | GenAI, RAG & LLM Agents | Kafka | Java | Spring Boot | GCP based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, langchain, and openai. Explore public work links including aishwar..."
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# Aishwarya Swaminathan on Tal

## 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

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