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Staff Software Engineer | Distributed Systems & Applied AI Systems

About

I design and deliver systems that have to remain correct, observable, and reliable as products and teams scale. I’m a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience across backend platforms, enterprise software, and high-volume integrations. I work where architecture meets execution: translating ambiguous requirements into domain models and service boundaries, setting technical direction, designing APIs and event-driven workflows, and carrying systems from initial design through production delivery. My experience includes taking new products from architecture to launch, evolving enterprise platforms, leading data and storage migrations for large deployments, and improving the performance and cost of high-volume systems. I remain hands-on in design and implementation while creating leverage through reviews, written technical decisions, mentoring, and cross-team alignment. I care about explicit ownership, simple abstractions, predictable failure behaviour, observability, safe rollout, and long-term maintainability. My core technologies include Java, Spring, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS, TypeScript, and Node.js. I’m most useful when the problem is ambiguous, the system has real operational consequences, and someone needs to connect architecture with delivery. My current employer and product details are intentionally omitted from public profiles for security reasons.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

codex

cursor

gemini

hermes agent

Work experience

Staff Software Engineer at Stealth, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building a fintech product where correctness, security, auditability, and reliability are foundational. As a Staff Software Engineer, I set backend technical direction, translate product requirements into domain models, APIs, and event-driven workflows, and remain hands-on from initial architecture through production delivery. My focus includes data integrity, observability, safe failure handling, and long-term maintainability. Employer and product details are intentionally omitted for security reasons.

Sr. Software Engineer at Cloudera, Jun 2020 - Jul 2024 · 4 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led full-stack engineering initiatives for YARN Queue Manager, delivering capabilities across its web interface, backend services, and persistence layer for public- and private-cloud environments. • Designed and delivered end-to-end product capabilities spanning user workflows, frontend implementation, backend APIs, validation, and configuration management. • Moved validation and configuration-synchronization logic from the frontend into centralized backend services, simplifying the client architecture and improving performance and maintainability. • Led the migration of Queue Manager persistence to external PostgreSQL, improving operability for customers with large cluster configurations. • Coordinated with engineering and product stakeholders across requirements, technical design, implementation, rollout, and production support.

Software Engineer at Vizury, Jul 2018 - May 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Built high-volume advertising products spanning backend services, campaign workflows, user-facing capabilities, and third-party platform integrations. • Developed push-notification advertising and retargeting capabilities across the product stack. • Built and operated Facebook Marketing API integrations serving millions of advertising impressions per day. • Reduced publisher-pixel requests and associated infrastructure costs by 30% through controlled sampling for large campaigns. • Worked across product requirements, API integrations, implementation, deployment, and production troubleshooting.

Developer Associate at SAP, Jul 2017 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ● Involved majorly in the development of backend Spring-based applications implementing scalable REST API’s. ●Currently working for a project called Product Configuration Intelligence on SAP Cloud Platform, building REST API's for the consumtion of PCI service. ● As part of initial research phase for Product configuration Intelligence App, researched, made POCs and documented certain SAP cloud platform tools. ● Working with SAP startup studio, helping startups get up and running with SAP cloud platform

Software Engineer - Associate at Heymath, Jun 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo, Chennai, Tech Stack - Java, Struts 2, MySQL, Jersey, Guava, Memcached, Apache, Tomcat. ● Developing new features and fixing bugs for the Java J2EE based educational web platform of the company. ● Developed a REST based API for authentication used by the mobile applications.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering, SRM IST Chennai

Android Nanodegree, Android Application Development, Udacity