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title: "Harshavardhan A. - Senior Software Engineer 2 in Pune District | Tal"
description: "Meet Harshavardhan A., Agentic AI, Distributed Systems Engineer. 5+YOE based in Pune District. AI stack includes anthropic apis, antigravity, and claude code."
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# Harshavardhan A\. on Tal

## Headline

Agentic AI, Distributed Systems Engineer\. 5\+YOE

## About

Senior/Lead Engineer\(5\+ YoE\) focused on backend and distributed systems across FinTech, Surveillance, and E\-commerce\. \(10\+ Projects\) Backend : Java \(Spring Boot, Play\), Node\.js, Python \(FastAPI\), Go Distributed Systems & Cloud : \- AWS \(Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, RDS Proxy, Lambda\) \- Event\-driven architecture, Kafka consumer groups, idempotency & retry, DLT patterns Messaging & Streaming: \- Kafka \- RabbitMQ \- Kinesis Databases: \- PostgreSQL and SQL \- MongoDB \- Elasticsearch Analytics: \- Databricks Observability: \- OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Distributed Tracing Frontend: \- React, Angular Testing & Quality: \- TDD, Contract Testing \(Pact\), Integration Tests, Testcontainers DevOps: \- Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions Agentic AI: LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, Vector DBs \(Pinecone/Qdrant\), OpenAI / Claude APIs,LangSmith, PromptLayer, n8n, Lovable Portfolio: linktr\.ee/munfaridfalsafaa

## Location

Pune District

## AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

elevenlabs

hugging face

kimi

langchain

langgraph

langsmith

lovable

mcp

n8n

replit

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer 2 at Smarsh, Jul 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Developing Enterprise Conduct platform \(via Caizin\) 0\. Enterprise Conduct V2 \(July '25\- Dec '25\) 1\. Enterprise Conduct Re\-Architecture V3\. \(January '26 \- July '26\) Re\-architected legacy topology into Kafka\-based event\-driven microservices, enabling reliable processing of 20M\+ event workloads and improving system fault tolerance\. Led implementation of consumer\-driven contract testing using Pact, improving reliability and backward of compatibility across distributed microservices\. Onboarded 8/9\+ microservices into automated CI/CD pipelines using Concourse and Flow, improving deployment automation and reducing release friction\. Implemented Debezium\-based CDC pipelines with the Outbox pattern, enabling reliable event streaming into Kafka topics while maintaining transactional consistency across services\.

Module Lead \(Senior Software Engineer 1\) at Smarsh, Oct 2024 \- Jun 2025 · 9 mos, Developed cybersecurity monitoring platform via Caizin Architected backend HLD and LLD for a cybersecurity analytics platform processing 12M\+ daily ingestion events from 200K\+ trader devices across macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS through distributed agent\-based pipelines\. Designed and implemented real\-time data transformation pipelines powering a cyber\-compliance scoring engine, enabling scalable compliance analytics across large multi\-tenant enterprise environments\. Built event\-driven distributed ingestion architecture using RabbitMQ and AWS Kinesis, enabling asynchronous processing and seamless migration of legacy agent\. Improved system scalability and request efficiency by implementing Bloom filters and Redis\-based TTL caching, enabling idempotent processing and rate limiting across high\-throughput ingestion workloads\. Designed multi\-tenant data isolation architecture using PostgreSQL and Databricks, ensuring secure tenant segmentation and efficient analytical workloads for compliance reporting\. Developed resilient proxy ingestion microservices to dynamically handle data ingestion when CDC pipelines were unavailable, ensuring continuous data flow into compliance pipelines\. Implemented custom migration utilities in Python and built high\-concurrency load testing frameworks in Go to validate system reliability under production\-scale workloads\. Built secure device migration infrastructure using AWS S3 and Elasticsearch, enabling large\-scale agent upgrade tracking across distributed client environments\.

SDE\-2 at M2P Fintech, Nov 2023 \- Sep 2024 · 11 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 0\. Developed and scaled forex transaction processing workflows integrated with a national banking partner, handling over 8M\+ transactions daily\. 1\. Worked extensively with Indian payment systems including UPI, IMPS, NEFT, RTGS, and NPCI integrations\. 2\. Designed and implemented business\-critical features including loan repayment charts, role\-based access control \(RBAC\), and batch processing solutions within Core Banking Systems\. 3\. Improved transaction processing performance by 4x through Redis cache aside strategies and system\-level optimizations\. 4\. Built and implemented Apache Kafka\-based event\-driven workflows to streamline transaction processing and integrations with external vendors\. 5\. Brainstormed on deployment automation processes using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, improving release reliability and operational scalability\. 6\. Optimized database procedures and branch onboarding workflows supporting newly created physical and digital banking branches\.

Software Engineer at Jio Platforms Limited \(JPL\), Jul 2022 \- Oct 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Centralized Search for JioMart

Associate Consultant at RIA Advisory, Jul 2020 \- Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 0\. TA Tool \(Client : HSBC\) \(Oct 2020\-Dec 2021\) 1\. Customer Self Service \(New Product from the scratch\) \(Jan 2022\- July 2022\) 2\. HRMS Portal \(Internal Portal\) \(Concurrent all the time\)

Head Editor at PICT IEEE Newsletter Group \(P\.I\.N\.G\.\), May 2018 \- Jan 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos, learnt how to handle cross functional teams

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Pune Institute of Computer Technology

11, 12, drop year \- IIT JEE Advance, PCM, Pace Junior Science College

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