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Lead Software Engineer @Qualys | Ex-IBMer | Node.js + Cloud Security | GenAI Leader | IoT & Connected Cars Enthusiast ..

About

As a Lead Software Engineer at Qualys since January 2025, I focus on developing secure and high-performance backend systems. With expertise in cloud security, systems design, and technical consultation, I contribute to creating scalable and resilient solutions for complex business environments. My role emphasizes leveraging cutting-edge technologies to design cloud-native architectures that drive value for diverse use cases. Building on more than a decade of experience, including 9.5 years as a Technical Consultant at IBM, my work prioritizes empowering organizations through innovative and robust platforms. With a passion for secure systems and modern technology integration, I aim to enable organizations to achieve their strategic goals while maintaining high standards of performance and security.

Location

Pune Division

AI stack

aistudio

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at Qualys, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Pune District, Architected scalable graph-processing infrastructure for GCP cloud security analysis, enabling relationship-based exposure detection across IAM, firewall, networking, and externally accessible resources — JanusGraph/Gremlin backed by Cassandra and Elasticsearch. Designed a topological-sort–based rule annotation engine that orders dependent security-state computations correctly across distributed asynchronous workflows — effectively a job/dependency orchestration layer. Engineered high-throughput Kafka ingestion of continuous cloud resource-state changes to maintain near real-time graph consistency. Currently building a Java agentless cloud-resource scanning system — assessing customers' cloud infrastructure without per-host agents, designed for scale and low operational footprint. Reduced graph traversal query latency ~30–40% by redesigning schema and Gremlin indexing strategies. Built scalable orchestration workflows for dynamically provisioned scan infrastructure, improving operational efficiency and reducing persistent infrastructure overhead. Designed and operate distributed microservices on Kubernetes — containerized deployment, pod lifecycle, and self-healing, fault-tolerant operation; stabilized CI/CD across services (Jenkins, Docker). Hardened reliability with idempotent processing, retries, and recovery; operated Elasticsearch/OpenSearch for telemetry, log, and event indexing; contributed HLD/LLD and Terraform provisioning; mentored engineers through design and code reviews.

Technical Consultant at IBM, Jul 2015 - Jan 2025 · 9 yrs 7 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Led backend development for a Tier-1 automotive OEM connected-car platform deployed across India, Europe, and Japan, processing high-volume vehicle telemetry (thousands of events/sec). Engineered region-specific backend services and integrations for multi-geography production environments with localization and regional constraints. Owned production support for live, customer-facing multi-region systems — incident response, reliability, and operational stability for connected-vehicle services. Architected Kafka-based event-driven ingestion for reliable, high-throughput streaming and telemetry processing. Built distributed Node.js services with high availability, asynchronous processing, and fault-tolerant workflows; implemented Kafka retention/replay for self-recovery of failed events. Designed and optimized Azure CI/CD pipelines; implemented secure OAuth 2.0 integrations; mentored engineers and led code and technical-design reviews.

Secretary at IEEE Women In Engineering- WIE Affinity group, LNMIIT, Jul 2014 - May 2015 · 11 mos, Jaipur

Lecturer at Swami Keshwanand Institute of Technology, management and Gramothan, Aug 2010 - Dec 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

Education

M.Tech., Computer Science, LNMIIT, Jaipur

B.Tech., Information Technology, Rajasthan Technical University, Kota