Headline

Engineering Lead at Zinnia | 16+ Years in FinTech, Hospitality & AI | Expert in Scalable Microservices, Data Engineering & Mentorship | Delivery-Driven

About

Engineering Lead at Zinnia, with over 15 years of experience delivering impactful solutions across FinTech, Hospitality, and AI-driven platforms. Specializing in scalable microservices, cloud-native architecture, and modern data engineering. I lead cross-functional teams through the full software lifecycle — from requirements and architecture to deployment and optimization — with a strong focus on delivery excellence, system resilience, and business alignment. 💻 Technical Expertise: Backend & Microservices: Spring Boot, REST, gRPC, event-driven architecture Cloud Platforms: AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Glue, IAM) Data Engineering: Apache Kafka, AWS Glue, Apache Spark, BigQuery CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform Observability & Resilience: Datadog, Prometheus, Sentry, fault-tolerant design 🚀 What I Deliver: High-performance, low-latency systems built for scale Stream and batch data pipelines for analytics and ML Secure, production-grade infrastructure in AWS Engineering culture grounded in mentorship, autonomy, and technical excellence I’m passionate about enabling teams, driving clarity in execution, and continuously evolving technology stacks to meet the growing demands of products. GitHub - https://github.com/asharma2 Stackoverflow - https://stackoverflow.com/users/1351859/atul

Location

Delhi

AI stack

claude

cursor

langchain

langgraph

obsidian

openai

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Zinnia, Oct 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

Senior Director at RateGain, Apr 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, On-site

AVP at RateGain, Apr 2021 - Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, India

Senior Manager at RateGain, May 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos, India

Senior Software Engineer at S&P Global Market Intelligence, May 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Responsible for designing, development, and maintenance of microservices for the various features of credit analytics on the backend side according to the product requirements. All these services interact with other services in order to pass on the results for calculating the probability of default, credit scores etc. which can be used by the investment bankers to come to a conclusion of creditworthiness of an organization

Software Developer at IHS Markit, Jan 2016 - Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Markit Corporate Action: As financial firms face a deluge of raw information on corporate actions, the risks and costs associated with acquiring and managing this data are higher than ever. Markit provides unlimited access to corporate action data and allows customers to view full details in real-time, including event-level data, dates, options, terms and conditions, and restrictions. We offer access to a variety of data vendors through our platform, allowing customers the flexibility to select the vendors they want to work with, which can provide them further control over data costs.

Senior Software Engineer at Ericsson, Nov 2013 - Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Gurgaon, NGVS stands for Next Generation Voucher Server. The system provides key features like generation, loading, and many other features related to vouchers. The system provides the capability to provide the feature of geolocation sync of configuration and data. The system is integrated with distributed database Cassandra for performance. The system also enables the feature of storing the application/ business specific configuration in zookeeper.

Education

Professional Certificate in Leadership, SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

Bachelor of Education - BEd, Computer Science, University of Rajasthan

Public links

github: https://github.com/asharma2