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title: "Praveen J.U - Principal Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Praveen J.U, Principal Engineer | Commerce, Fulfillment & Platform Systems | Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Microservices | Inventory, Promise/ETA, Payouts | 160M+ events/day based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
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# Praveen J\.U on Tal

## Headline

Principal Engineer \| Commerce, Fulfillment & Platform Systems \| Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Microservices \| Inventory, Promise/ETA, Payouts \| 160M\+ events/day

## About

Principal Engineer with 11\+ years of experience building high\-scale backend, commerce, fulfillment, logistics, inventory and event\-driven\. At Licious, I have designed and built core platforms across central inventory with complete inventory audit, real\-time promise/ETA calculation, Delivery Executive \(DE\) payouts, order auto\-batching, warehouse order management, Kafka event systems, rule engines and CRM automation\. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, microservices, distributed systems, system design, Redis, SQL/NoSQL, low\-latency APIs, event\-driven architecture, inventory platforms, fulfillment systems, logistics systems, and platform architecture\. Key impact: \- Designed a central inventory system with complete auditability, improving stock visibility, traceability, reconciliation, and fault isolation\. \- Engineered a real\-time item\-level promise engine that calculates when an item can be delivered based on hub operations, inventory type, KML operations, and live on\-ground signals\. \- Built platforms handling 160M\+ events/day with sub\-10ms event latency\. \- Engineered real\-time promise systems with sub\-100ms response times\. \- Built rule systems processing 10M\+ daily evaluations across 12\+ services\. \- Built CRM improving SLA adherence by 35% and agent efficiency by 25%\. \- Designed the DE payout system for accurate, auditable payout computation across on\-ground delivery operations\. \- Built an order auto\-batching system to improve fulfillment efficiency using hub operations, inventory availability, delivery feasibility, and operational constraints\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Principal Engineer at Licious, May 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Event\-Driven Architecture: Designed and developed a centralized Kafka\-based event bus handling 100% of platform events 60M\+ with schema based easy onboarding and sub\-10 ms latency\. Built an Event Relayer service to push messages to client endpoints with zero\-code onboarding, processing millions of events/day\. High\-Performance Systems: Engineered a real\-time delivery promise engine achieving sub\-100 ms latency, reducing infra from 23 to 6 pods, and improving scalability, cost efficiency, and accuracy\. Customer Communication: Led the creation of a post\-order notification service ensuring real\-time, multi\-channel order updates with high availability and seamless integration\. Order & Inventory Management: Designed the initial Order Management System and migrated the inventory platform from monolith to microservices with Redis\-based distributed locking, full audit logging, and improved fault isolation\. Business Rule Automation: Built a lightweight rule evaluation engine \(MVEL\) supporting 500\+ rules across 12 microservices, cutting deployment cycles by 80% and processing 20M\+ daily evaluations in <50 ms\. CRM & AI Solutions: Architecting an in\-house CRM for customer support, improving SLA adherence by 35%, boosting agent efficiency by 25%, and eliminating costly third\-party licensing\. Deployed LLM\-based quality audit systems, LangChain \+ NeMo Guardrails chatbots, and AI agents for email sentiment analysis and resolution recommendations\. Mentorship & Leadership: Guiding supply chain engineering teams, fostering best practices, and delivering scalable, fault\-tolerant systems\.

Software Development Engineer 3 at Licious, Jul 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at Paytm Mall, Nov 2020 \- Jul 2021 · 9 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Paytm Mall, Aug 2020 \- Oct 2020 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Paytm, May 2019 \- Jul 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at UrbanPro\.com, Jul 2017 \- May 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Junior Software Engineer at Conflux Technologies Pvt Ltd, Sep 2015 \- Apr 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working on Web Application

## Education

Master of Technology \(M\.Tech\.\), Computer Network Engineering, B\. M\. S\. College of Engineering

B\.E, computer science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

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