Headline

Backend Software Engineer - distributed, event-driven systems (Java/Kafka/Spring Boot) | AI-powered engineering workflows

About

I build backend systems and distributed, event-driven architectures that handle real-world scale without losing data or sleep. At BNY, I'm part of a team that owns a large-scale data ingestion platform (Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, IBM MQ), and I've also worked on LLM-driven workflows that replaced a chunk of our manual testing process. Outside my day job, I freelance on full-stack/backend work (most recently a pet-profile platform) and tinker with side projects like an LLM tool that digitizes scanned documents, which won 2nd place in BNY's internal hackathon. I also have a published IEEE paper on emotion detection in Hindi text.

Location

Pune Division

AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

notion

windsurf

Work experience

Software Developer at BNY Mellon, Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos, Pune District, Worked on a metadata-driven ingestion system using IBM MQ and Kafka, with distributed services covering file ingestion, validation, enrichment, deduplication, persistence, and reconciliation across multiple datasets. Automated UAT testing for ingestion workflows using enterprise AI APIs to generate test messages and validate data processing end-to-end.

Trainee - Associate Software Engineer at IDeaS Revenue Solutions, Jan 2022 - Aug 2022 · 8 mos, Remote, Automated reporting workflows and dashboards using Python, Selenium, and Power BI, reducing manual effort by 10+ hours/week.

Python Development Intern at Learn with Leaders, Sep 2021 - Jan 2022 · 5 mos, Remote, Built Django backend services and AI-based speech evaluation features; achieved 85% code coverage and resolved critical SonarQube vulnerabilities, improving readability and scalability.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, MIT World Peace University

Public links

github: https://github.com/piavakkani