Engineering Leader | Java, Microservices & Cloud | Driving Scalable Platforms & High-Performing Teams

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Bengaluru Area, India

Ahmedabad Area, India







Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering
Gujarat Technological University (GTU)
Higher Secondary Certificate(HSC), PCM
Kendriya Vidhyalaya
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Engineering leader with 12 years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading teams of 10–12 engineers building cloud-native platforms at scale. I own technical vision and end-to-end delivery for multi-tenant Java platforms serving millions of requests a month — architecture, non-functional requirements, and production stability. Recent work spans event-driven systems with Kafka processing millions of events a day, decomposing a legacy monolith into Spring Boot microservices with a React front end, and building a shared API platform that saved ~500 engineering hours a year across business units. Jio Certified Cursor AI Developer — Ive embedded AI-assisted workflows into our SDLC through multi-agent architecture, agent skills, and rules. Core: Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS/Azure, React, Node.js, MongoDB.
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Engineering Manager at Jio Platforms Limited (JPL), Oct 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Lead a team of 10–12 engineers building and operating mission-critical Java platforms — owning architecture, delivery commitments, and production stability. • Built the Central Platform, a multi-tenant shared-services platform delivering notification, authentication, and API capabilities across Jio business units — saved ~500 engineering hours/year through reuse. • Architected real-time Kafka pipelines processing millions of events/day, cutting processing latency by 40%. • Leading migration of a legacy Liferay DXP 7.4 monolith to Spring Boot microservices with a React front end. • Architected QSYS 2.0, an enterprise ticketing platform handling 5,000+ daily queries with SLA tracking, escalation workflows, and high availability. • Sustained 99.9% uptime for services handling millions of requests/month.
Software Engineer at Compassites Software Solutions, Jul 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru Area, India
Associate Consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics, Jul 2014 - Jun 2017 · 3 yrs, Ahmedabad Area, India
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Gujarat Technological University (GTU)
Higher Secondary Certificate(HSC), PCM, Kendriya Vidhyalaya