Headline

Assistant VP | Engineering Lead | Full Stack Engineer | Payments & Distributed Systems | AI-Driven Engineering | Springboot Microservices | Angular | React Native | Scaling High-Throughput Platforms

About

I lead engineering teams that turn business requirements into systems that can't afford to fail. Today, I lead a team of 15 engineers at Barclays UK, owning all customer lifecycle journeys across channels — from business requirements through technical design to production. I recently led the migration of these journeys onto a new tech stack, modernizing systems that touch every customer interaction without disrupting the business they serve. Earlier in my career, I built the technical depth that underpins this: scaling core payments systems handling 1M+ transactions a day, including secure, compliant flows like 3DS2 and ISO 20022. I led a microservices migration that significantly reduced production incidents while meeting strict compliance requirements, cut API latency by ~50% under high load, and built the observability systems that made reliability measurable, not just assumed. I bring both: the technical depth to design for scale, and the business context to make sure we're building the right thing. I use AI-assisted tooling like Copilot, GitLab Duo, Claude to help my team move fast without cutting corners. Core areas: Engineering Leadership · Payments · Distributed Systems · Stakeholder Management · Microservices · Java (Spring Boot) · Kafka · Redis · AWS · High Availability

Location

Pune Division

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

deepseek

openai

ChatGPT

Work experience

AVP full Stack Developer at Barclays, Jul 2019 - Present · 7 y 1 mo, pune, Tech Lead (AVP) with 7 years of experience at Barclays, specializing in designing and delivering high-throughput, scalable, and secure backend systems across banking and payments. Experienced in leading teams of engineers and owning end-to-end system design, architecture, development, and delivery of mission-critical platforms supporting 1M+ daily transactions. Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, Kafka, AWS, and SQL, with hands-on experience modernizing monolithic platforms into scalable microservice architectures. Led the development of domestic and international payment solutions, debit card payment journeys, CHAPS payments, ISO 20022 migration, and customer-focused banking capabilities. Demonstrated ability to improve system performance, security, reliability, and observability, including reducing API response times by 50%, achieving a 99/100 Veracode security score, and implementing real-time monitoring that reduced incident detection time from 1–2 days to 2–3 hours. Experienced in leading teams of up to 10 engineers, driving technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and delivering secure, high-quality solutions across complex banking platforms.

Machine Learning Engineer at FENIXWORK SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED, May 2018 - Jul 2018 · 3 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, Worked on several deep learning projects such as image classifier, Stock Predictor RNN.

Undergraduate Student at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Jul 2014 - Jun 2019 · 5 yrs

Education

BTech + Mtech dual degree in Electrical Engineering (Instrumentation & Signal Processing), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Public links

github: https://github.com/viratamey