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title: "Atul Rokade - Technical Lead in Pune District | Tal"
description: "Meet Atul Rokade, Lead Software Engineer @ PhonePe | IIT Bombay | Fintech | Cloud | SAAS based in Pune District. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and gemini."
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# Atul Rokade on Tal

## Headline

Lead Software Engineer @ PhonePe \| IIT Bombay \| Fintech \| Cloud \| SAAS

## About

● 10\+ years of experience in Backend\-Development of Distributed Systems using JAVA, Python on cloud ● Microservices and Cloud based SAAS application development expert ● Event Driven Architecture framework design and development expert ● Stateless, Rest API based backend server development expert ● Excellent in coding skills along with Data structures and Algorithms ● Responsible for code review, design review as well as collaborating with cross\-functional technical teams and PMs to meet the needs of the product ● Strong leadership and organizational abilities ● Worked in all parts of the software development process including HLD, LLD, unit and integration testing, release and production escalations ● Excellent in JIRA, scrum and Agile methodology

## Location

Pune District

## AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

github copilot

## Work experience

Technical Lead at PhonePe, Jun 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 3 mos, Leading backend architecture and technical solutioning for merchant partnership products\. Translating business and market requirements into scalable product solutions\. Building business\-focused systems on top of highly scalable distributed architecture\. Collaborating with product, business, and engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions at scale\.

Technical Lead at HSBC Poland, 2023 \- 2024 · 1 yr, Worked on enterprise\-scale banking platforms and backend architecture\. Led technical discussions, design reviews, and production issue handling\.

Principal Engineer at Druva Software Solutions, 2017 \- 2023 · 6 yrs, Designed and developed highly scalable and fault\-tolerant distributed backend systems\. Built event\-driven architecture frameworks and scalable microservices platforms\. Led migration from monolithic architecture to distributed microservices\. Reduced system downtime by 40% and enabled 3× scalability growth\. Built HA \(High Availability\) and geo\-redundant platform components\.

Software Development Engineer at Cisco, Aug 2014 \- Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area, Project: Cisco Policy Suite for Mobile Operator \(CPS\) Role: Designed, developed, and implemented Java application component of CPS\. Key member in team responsible to scale up product by creating High Availability and Geo Redundant System

## Education

Master's degree, Computer science and engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Master of Technology, Computer Engineering, IIT Bombay

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