Headline

VP Engineering | Principal Architect | Distributed Systems | Enterprise Solution Architecture | Java | Kafka | Kubernetes | AWS | Azure | AI-Augmented Engineering | Real-Time Financial Platforms

About

I am a VP Engineering and Principal Architect with 12+ years of experience architecting, building, and scaling enterprise-grade distributed systems for regulated, real-time transaction platforms. Over the past decade, I have progressed from Software Engineer to VP Engineering by consistently solving complex engineering challenges, modernizing platforms, and leading high-performing engineering organizations while remaining deeply hands-on with architecture and system design. I specialize in designing high-throughput, fault-tolerant, cloud-native platforms capable of processing millions of real-time transactions with strong consistency, high availability, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience. My expertise includes: • Enterprise Solution Architecture • Distributed Systems Engineering • Event-Driven Architecture • Microservices • High-Scale Transaction Platforms • Cloud Native Architecture • Engineering Leadership • AI-Augmented Software Development • Platform Modernization • Performance Engineering Throughout my career I have: ✔ Architected platforms processing 1M+ TPS ✔ Delivered 99.99% platform availability ✔ Led engineering organizations of 40+ engineers ✔ Designed enterprise PostgreSQL sharding strategies ✔ Built Kafka event-driven platforms powering mission-critical systems ✔ Led Java platform modernization initiatives ✔ Established architecture governance, engineering standards and design review culture ✔ Delivered enterprise fraud prevention, KYC and compliance platforms Technology Stack: Java • Spring Boot • Kafka • Debezium • Kubernetes • Docker • PostgreSQL • Redis • AWS • Azure • CQRS • Event Sourcing • Domain Driven Design • Distributed Systems • AI Engineering • LLMs • RAG • Agentic AI I enjoy solving difficult engineering problems, mentoring engineering leaders, and building scalable platforms that enable businesses to grow with confidence.

Location

Pune Division

AI stack

antigravity

cursor

opencode

Work experience

Vice President of Software Engineering at Alteatec, Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos, Pune District, Leading enterprise architecture and engineering strategy for a large-scale regulated transaction platform serving millions of users. Responsibilities: • Define enterprise architecture and technology roadmap • Lead platform modernization initiatives • Own distributed systems architecture • Drive engineering excellence and architecture governance • Lead architecture review boards • Mentor engineering managers, architects and senior engineers • Establish engineering standards across multiple teams • Drive AI-assisted software development adoption • Partner with executive leadership on technology strategy • Lead cloud-native transformation initiatives Key Achievements • Architected enterprise platform supporting 1M+ TPS • Achieved 99.99% platform availability • Scaled engineering organization to 40+ engineers • Designed high-performance event-driven architecture • Introduced organization-wide architecture governance • Led Java 21 modernization • Improved delivery velocity through AI-assisted engineering

Head Of Department at Alteatec, Feb 2021 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs, Pune Division, Led engineering delivery across multiple product teams. Responsibilities • Engineering delivery • Team leadership • Technical quality • DevOps transformation • Agile execution • Production reliability • Observability • Performance optimization Achievements • Grew engineering team from 15 to 40+ • Introduced SLOs • Implemented distributed tracing • Established engineering processes

Principal Software Engineer at Alteatec, Jan 2019 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Led enterprise platform re-architecture focused on scalability, resiliency and distributed systems. Achievements • Designed PostgreSQL sharding • Built Kafka event streaming platform • Introduced CDC architecture • Reduced database contention • Improved platform scalability • Established architecture review culture

Associate Developer at Nucleosys Tech Pvt Ltd., Jan 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos, Pune Area, India, - Developed enterprise Java/Spring applications for B2B clients - Optimised SQL and caching — ~35% faster response times

Education

Post Graduate Program, Executive Post Graduate Programme in Generative AI & Agentic AI, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Master of Technology - MTech, Data science, BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes