Headline

Technical Lead | Microservices | System Architecture | Cloud | AI Innovation

About

Senior Java Backend Engineer and Technical Lead with 11+ years of experience architecting and scaling cloud-native distributed systems across GCP, AWS, and Azure. Expert in Java, Spring Boot, Quarkus, microservices, Kafka, event-driven architecture, and enterprise backend engineering, with proven success delivering resilient, high-availability platforms. Hands-on technology leader combining technical execution, architecture ownership, team mentoring, and strategic delivery. Experienced in building services from the ground up, modernizing legacy platforms, optimizing performance, and driving measurable outcomes including 34% higher matching accuracy, 29% improved data quality, 80% faster API response times, and 40% faster deployments. Pioneered AI engineering governance and MCP-powered workflow automation, integrating AI coding practices with enterprise engineering workflows across Slack, Jira, and Confluence. Brings a strong blend of system design, cloud engineering, distributed systems, DevOps, AI-assisted development, and technical leadership focused on building reliable technology and delivering measurable business impact.

Location

India

AI stack

claude

codex

cursor

gemini

github copilot

mcp

Work experience

Senior Platform Engineer - MDM (Java) at CertifyOS, Jun 2025 - Jul 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos, Remote, • AI Engineering Governance & Innovation: Established company-wide guardrails for AI coding agents, introducing model-level auditability, dated change tracking, and upgraded review controls for database, migration, and deployment changes. Recognized with a CertifyOS Performance Award and #praise recognition for engineering impact. • Engineering Workflow Automation: Integrated Slack, Jira, and Confluence through MCP (Model Context Protocol), creating a connected engineering workflow that reduced cross-tool context switching and improved delivery visibility for the MDM team. • MDM Matching & Data Quality: Re-architected the Matching service with a Drools-based configurable rule engine, enabling business-user-managed matching logic and NPI-only matching across approximately 600K provider records, resulting in a 34% improvement in match accuracy. • Survivorship & Data Optimization: Designed configurable aggregation, exclusion, and source-ranking rules for the Survivorship pipeline, enabling client-specific data strategies and delivering a 29% improvement in output quality (OV). • Cloud-Native Service Architecture: Architected and expanded the cleansing service from the ground up using Java, Quarkus, GCP Spanner, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery, establishing scalable infrastructure for a healthcare provider MDM platform. • Technical Leadership & Team Enablement: Served as the technical point of contact for the MDM team, providing architectural guidance and mentoring engineers in Java, Quarkus, dispersed systems, cloud-native design, and GCP engineering practices. • Scalability & Reliability: Drove backend architecture with emphasis on high availability, scalability, maintainability, and production reliability, ensuring MDM services could support complex provider data workflows at enterprise scale. • Business-Driven Engineering: Translated complex requirements into configurable solutions, reducing hardcoded logic and improving client adaptability.

Senior Lead - Product Engineering at Lentra, Nov 2022 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Led a team of 12 engineers delivering Java-based microservices for enterprise lending platforms and mentored new hires, cutting ramp-up time by 40%. Recognized with a Lentra performance award for engineering impact. • Used GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT for AI-assisted pair programming, boosting developer productivity and accelerating delivery timelines. • Designed and enhanced scalable REST APIs and backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, and ActiveMQ. • Designed and built the Collateral service from scratch using Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and Kafka, and owned the MDM service end-to-end for the lending platform. • Resolved production-critical issues and improved application performance through code optimization and root cause analysis, while collaborating with architects and product teams on system design and technical roadmap planning. • Utilized Camunda for workflow orchestration(BPMN), Docker for containerization, and Python across Azure and GCP cloud environments to support platform development and deployment.

Technical Lead at Gyan, May 2019 - Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Backend Performance & Scalability: Optimized backend services, database queries, and application workflows, delivering an 80% reduction in API response times while improving overall system scalability and responsiveness. • Cloud & DevOps Engineering: Streamlined deployment and release pipelines using Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Azure, and GCP, enabling more reliable, scalable, and efficient application deployments. • AI Product Architecture: Architected and built ScripterAI and IntergraderAI from the ground up using Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, MongoDB, AKS, and WebSockets, establishing scalable platforms for intelligent text-processing workflows. • Production & Release Management: Managed application upgrades, patches, hot-fix releases, configuration changes, and production support while ensuring timely resolution of business-critical issues and maintaining platform stability. • Platform Engineering & Continuous Improvement: Enhanced the EDX Platform using Python and Django, while maintaining rule-based engines and supporting microservices, performance reporting, service-level monitoring, and technical knowledge management.

Software Developer at Sugarbox, Nov 2017 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Cloud & Microservices Transformation: Guided the migration of a monolithic application to a cloud-ready microservices architecture, applying Twelve-Factor App principles to improve scalability, maintainability, and deployment flexibility. • CI/CD & Deployment Excellence: Designed and implemented Docker- and Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 40% and establishing a more streamlined, repeatable release process. • Application & Database Performance: Optimized service and database layers, achieving a 50% improvement in API response time and database query performance, enhancing overall application responsiveness. • Security & Access Management: Enforced enterprise-grade Single Sign-On (SSO) using LDAP, Spring Security, and Spring AOP, strengthening authentication, authorization, and centralized access control. • Architecture & Technical Leadership: Led technical design discussions and developed high-level architecture and system flow diagrams, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions and supporting product demonstrations.

Software Engineering Analyst at Qualtech Edge, May 2017 - Oct 2017 · 6 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, • Payroll Application Implementation & Support: Implemented and supported IFMS payroll software for Max Life Insurance, ensuring smooth application deployment, functional stability, issue resolution, and post-go-live operational continuity.

Software Engineer at Netrix Global, Mar 2015 - Apr 2017 · 2 y 1 mo, Mumbai, Application Development & Modernization: Developed end-user applications across local, networked, and internal-based environments, delivering reliable solutions aligned with evolving business and technical requirements.

Education

Diploma in Advanced Computing (PG-DAC), CDAC (IIT, MET)

Bachelor of Engineering B.E. - Computer Science & Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV), Bhopal