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Senior Engineering Manager | Leading High-Performance Teams | Cloud & Distributed Systems Expert | Agile & DevOps Advocate

About

1. Senior Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes. 2. Focused on delivering highly scalable, resilient systems while ensuring performance, security, and operational efficiency. With deep expertise in Banking and Financial Services (BFS). 3. I excel in managing both technical architecture and team leadership, ensuring the successful deployment of critical applications with minimal downtime. 4. Throughout my career, I have led cross-functional teams using Agile and Scrum methodologies, incorporating DevOps best practices to ensure continuous integration and delivery. 5. My approach combines hands-on technical expertise with effective project management, allowing me to contribute to microservice architecture while mentoring teams and aligning engineering goals with business priorities. Core competencies: - Java, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes for cloud-native application development and deployment. - DevOps automation, including CI/CD pipelines, using tools like Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes. - Agile and Scrum methodologies for iterative, value-driven project delivery. - Leadership and management of engineering teams to deliver complex projects on time. - Performance optimization to enhance system scalability and responsiveness. - Information security practices for maintaining secure and compliant systems. - I am passionate about leveraging my 15 years of experience to create impactful solutions, delivering value through technical excellence and collaborative leadership. - Extensive work experience in Java & J2EE technologies like JAVA, Spring Core, Spring Web Flow, Spring Boot, Hibernate, RCP, Web Services (Rest & SOAP). - Extensively used tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Sonar, Jenkins, GIT, SOAP UI, Postman, JIRA, ALM, Crucible, SVN etc.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

antigravity

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Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at PayNearby, Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Engineering Manager at PayNearby, May 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid, 1. Lead a high-performing team of engineers developing microservices-based applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes. 2. Led major cloud migration initiative, reducing infrastructure costs by 40% and improving performance metrics by 60%. 3. Implemented Kubernetes to manage containerized workloads, improving system reliability and deployment time by 30%. 4. Collaborate closely with founders, product managers, and stakeholders to align technical deliverables with business objectives. 5. Maintain hands-on coding responsibilities, participating in architecture design reviews, code reviews, and sprint planning. 6. Mentored junior engineers, creating an environment where team members can grow professionally and personally. 7. Led the implementation of zero-downtime deployment strategies, including Blue-Green and Canary Deployments, enabling seamless feature rollouts and minimizing risk in a high-traffic environment. 8. Leveraged feature flags to control the release of new features, providing flexibility in managing feature rollouts while maintaining production stability.

Principal Software Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software, Dec 2018 - May 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Udaipur Area, India, Pixeom Edge Platform 1. Worked on Backup & Restore functionality for Application. 2. Day to day point of contact for Developers and QA team members to resolve their queries. 3. Involved in Code review activities. Identified the test scenarios and performing functional testing of the newly developed functionality. Planning, estimating the requirements, documenting and tracking project plans, timelines, test strategy/plans, transition strategy for Production support etc. 4. Worked on Junits. Fixed Technical debt issues in existing products. 5. Monitor & Manages Edge infrastructure, containerized application. 6. Configured ceph (cephFs) as a storage for kubernetes(K8s) cluster.

Senior Software Engineer at EPAM Systems, Sep 2017 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos, Pune Area, India, MasterCard Payment Gateway Services - Simplify Commerce 1. Worked in a large multi-cultural environment with a multi-vendor individuals working towards the goal of Digital Channel Modernization. 2. Single handedly setting up e2e Devops pipeline for Simplify Commerce Platform. 3. Developed various API’s which supports rules for fraud settings. 4. Involved in Code review activities. Single point of contact for building, encouraging innovation from various teams in the account. 5. Created a proxy web service for Gatekeeper which controls all the fraud activties. 6. Worked on the Merchant Migration Process from Kount to Gatekeeper. 7. I was controlling the user experience and all of the sensitive payments data stored on our servers, making it much easier for merchant to be PCI compliant. Certification & Awards: 1. EPAM Certified Interviewer. 2. Fearless Problem Solver for outstanding performance during development of Multilingual Functionality.

Associate at Cognizant, May 2011 - Sep 2017 · 6 yrs 5 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, Worked as a Java developer for a leading Investment Bank. 1. Good knowledge of various types of deals like Multi Hedge Funds, Single Hedge Funds and well aware of events like Novations, Terminations etc. 2. Detailed knowledge of Trade life cycles like Trade Capture, Eligibility checks, Matching needs and rules, Limit utilization, Allocations of Multi Hedged Funds, knowledge of trade settlement, Trade reconciliations, Profit and Loss (PnL) calculations. 3. Knowledge of ECN trading sources and affirmation platforms like ICELINK, MarkitWire (MarkitSERV) and ClearPort and their complete trade coriography. 4. Good understanding of Client Facing Technologies (CFT) Dashboards. 5. Working in Credit Derivatives (Prime Brokerage) line of business (LOB) in a leading Investment Bank. 6. Identified the test scenarios and performing functional testing of the newly developed functionality. Planning, estimating the requirements, documenting and tracking project plans, timelines, test strategy/plans, transition strategy for Production support etc. 7. Worked on SP & IDP initiated SSO. 8. Leading a Devops activity and day to day point of contact for Developers and QA team member. Certification • OCJP Certified • Cognizant Certified JAVA Professional. • NCFM Certified (Financial Market Beginners Module). • Cognizant Certified Professional in Level-0 and Level-1 Banking and Financial Services. • Got 12 Kudos and 3 Star Performer awards in Cognizant.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Rajasthan Technical University, Kota