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Talha Shaikh

Software Engineer II @JPMorganChase | Indie Game Developer | YouTuber(40K+)

Mumbai

6+ years of work experience

JPMorganChase
Aug 20241 yr 9 mosPresent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Owned and built a high‑throughput transaction gateway using Java (Spring Boot) and Kafka, enabling reliable processing under strict SLAs and eliminating recurring production failures in business‑critical transaction flows. • Engineered a robust message validation and retry system, preventing data inconsistencies and mitigating $10M+ in potential financial risk. • Developed a low‑latency circuit breaker stabilizing high‑volume real‑time event streams (500K+ daily) under strict latency constraints. • Automated stress testing for 30+ critical services using Python, reducing execution time from 3 months to 4 weeks and ensuring production readiness under peak load. • Designed a fault‑tolerant hot‑hot architecture ensuring uninterrupted processing of time‑sensitive transactions across failure scenarios. • Helped design a business‑critical real‑time transaction processing platform operating under strict SLA and reliability constraints.
EPAM Systems
Oct 20221 yr 11 mosAug 2024

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Led decomposition of a legacy monolith into microservices, enabling independent deployments and significantly improving system scalability and release velocity. • Architected a RESTful bookmark service from data schema to APIs using Spring Boot and MongoDB, boosting user engagement by 15%. • Revamped real‑time data streaming with a modern PostMessage API, ensuring compatibility with contemporary browsers, reducing data latency by 20%, and providing up‑to‑the‑minute market data for informed decisions by traders. • Utilized third‑party charting and tooltip libraries to display interactive and dynamic visualizations of data, enhancing data presentation and increasing data‑driven insights.
EPAM Systems
Jan 202210 mosOct 2022

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Built a custom video conferencing solution using Microsoft Graph API, seamlessly integrated it with RESTful API design, and facilitated video conferencing and screen‑sharing capabilities, resulting in a 25% increase in user adoption. • Implemented and optimized advanced search functionality enabling users to search news articles by keywords, phrases, or topics, resulting in a 30% increase in content discoverability. • Collaborated with product owners to gather user requirements and define new project features. Prioritized and enhanced the legacy logging system by working closely with external teams.
Accenture
Apr 202110 mosJan 2022

Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Built end‑to‑end observability pipelines (ELK stack), reducing incident detection and resolution time across services. • Led application feature enhancements, bug fixes, and performance optimizations. Managed weekly software maintenance, ensuring consistent performance. • Developed new software functionalities, ensuring that the client’s vision and requirements were met. • Involved in Troubleshooting and debugging software issues, providing efficient solutions for users and team members. • Mentored new hires, provided technical guidance to junior developers, and led code review sessions that improved code quality, resulting in a 10% reduction in post‑release bugs.
Freelance
Jul 202010 mosApr 2021

Latur, Maharashtra, India

• Developed the School ERP System, an enterprise resource planning system, to automate and streamline administrative tasks in educational institutions, resulting in a 40% reduction in administrative workload. • Designed and developed baatCHEAT, a feature‑rich chat messaging application akin to WhatsApp and Messenger, enabling users to engage through text, images, voice messages, and real‑time document sharing, mirroring the functionality of leading communication apps.
GitHub
@itztalha

Education

Woolf

Master's degree, Computer & Mathematical Science

Woolf

20231 yr2024
Scaler

Specalized in Software Development & Problem Solving

Scaler

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Headline

Software Engineer II @JPMorganChase | Indie Game Developer | YouTuber(40K+)

About

Software Engineer with 5 years of experience building scalable, low-latency distributed systems. Skilled in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices, with a strong focus on clean architecture, performance, and reliability. I love solving real-world problems—from automating systems to building and publishing mobile games. Check out my GitHub to see what I’ve built from scratch.

Location

Mumbai

Work experience

Software Engineer 2 - Java Backend at JPMorganChase, Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Owned and built a high‑throughput transaction gateway using Java (Spring Boot) and Kafka, enabling reliable processing under strict SLAs and eliminating recurring production failures in business‑critical transaction flows. • Engineered a robust message validation and retry system, preventing data inconsistencies and mitigating $10M+ in potential financial risk. • Developed a low‑latency circuit breaker stabilizing high‑volume real‑time event streams (500K+ daily) under strict latency constraints. • Automated stress testing for 30+ critical services using Python, reducing execution time from 3 months to 4 weeks and ensuring production readiness under peak load. • Designed a fault‑tolerant hot‑hot architecture ensuring uninterrupted processing of time‑sensitive transactions across failure scenarios. • Helped design a business‑critical real‑time transaction processing platform operating under strict SLA and reliability constraints.

Software Engineer at EPAM Systems, Oct 2022 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Led decomposition of a legacy monolith into microservices, enabling independent deployments and significantly improving system scalability and release velocity. • Architected a RESTful bookmark service from data schema to APIs using Spring Boot and MongoDB, boosting user engagement by 15%. • Revamped real‑time data streaming with a modern PostMessage API, ensuring compatibility with contemporary browsers, reducing data latency by 20%, and providing up‑to‑the‑minute market data for informed decisions by traders. • Utilized third‑party charting and tooltip libraries to display interactive and dynamic visualizations of data, enhancing data presentation and increasing data‑driven insights.

Junior Software Engineer at EPAM Systems, Jan 2022 - Oct 2022 · 10 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Built a custom video conferencing solution using Microsoft Graph API, seamlessly integrated it with RESTful API design, and facilitated video conferencing and screen‑sharing capabilities, resulting in a 25% increase in user adoption. • Implemented and optimized advanced search functionality enabling users to search news articles by keywords, phrases, or topics, resulting in a 30% increase in content discoverability. • Collaborated with product owners to gather user requirements and define new project features. Prioritized and enhanced the legacy logging system by working closely with external teams.

Associate Software Engineer at Accenture, Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 · 10 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, • Built end‑to‑end observability pipelines (ELK stack), reducing incident detection and resolution time across services. • Led application feature enhancements, bug fixes, and performance optimizations. Managed weekly software maintenance, ensuring consistent performance. • Developed new software functionalities, ensuring that the client’s vision and requirements were met. • Involved in Troubleshooting and debugging software issues, providing efficient solutions for users and team members. • Mentored new hires, provided technical guidance to junior developers, and led code review sessions that improved code quality, resulting in a 10% reduction in post‑release bugs.

Android Developer at Freelance, Jul 2020 - Apr 2021 · 10 mos, Latur, Maharashtra, India, • Developed the School ERP System, an enterprise resource planning system, to automate and streamline administrative tasks in educational institutions, resulting in a 40% reduction in administrative workload. • Designed and developed baatCHEAT, a feature‑rich chat messaging application akin to WhatsApp and Messenger, enabling users to engage through text, images, voice messages, and real‑time document sharing, mirroring the functionality of leading communication apps.

Education

Master's degree, Computer & Mathematical Science, Woolf

Specalized in Software Development & Problem Solving, Scaler

Public links

github: https://github.com/itztalha