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Tejus Kaw

SDE II @ American Express | Distributed Systems · Cloud Platform · Agentic AI | Patent Co-Inventor

India

3+ years of work experience

American Express
May 20251 yr 2 mosPresent

Hybrid

I currently lead high-impact initiatives focusing on AI Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, and Cost Optimization. My work involves building autonomous systems and migrating enterprise-scale workflows to modern platforms. Key Achievements: - 💰 Cost Optimization: Engineered a real-time data ingestion pipeline (Spring Boot 3, Cassandra) and Grafana monitoring suite that saved the organization $2.5 Million in licensing costs by reducing concurrency breaches by 99%. - 🧠 AI Innovation: Co-inventor and patented contributor for a RAG-based Multi-Agentic Quality Engineering system. Using LangChain and Google’s Agent Development Kit, we are targeting 70% autonomous testing through AI-driven self-healing test cases. - 🚀 Scale & Migration: Developed a Python/FastAPI automation suite that successfully migrated 12,000+ jobs from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, hitting critical deadlines and touching 50% of the enterprise within 8 months. - 🏗️ Platform Engineering: Designed a standardized CI/CD workflow for Hybrid Cloud and led a POC for ephemeral environments using Terraform and AWS EKS to provide reliable, on-demand testing infrastructure.
American Express
Jul 20231 yr 11 mosMay 2025

On-site

Joined the CI/CD team to manage enterprise-scale tooling and was promoted to SE II within 1.5 years (ahead of the standard cycle) due to high-impact delivery and system ownership. Key Achievements: - 🔄 Legacy Modernization: Led the transformation of a mission-critical legacy integration tool, upgrading it from Java 8 to JDK 17 and Spring Boot 3 while implementing modern coding standards. - 📊 Data Observability: Developed ETL pipelines to move complex CA LISA data into Elasticsearch, enabling the creation of executive-level Grafana dashboards to monitor platform health. - 🧪 Visual Testing: Spearheaded the POC and enterprise-wide rollout of Sauce Labs Visual Testing, providing a scalable quality engineering solution for teams across the organization. - 🧹 Automation: Built Python-based automation to identify and decommission stagnant virtual services, significantly reducing server load and infrastructure overhead.
American Express
Jan 20226 mosJun 2022

India

- 🏆 Early PPO: Received a full-time Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) within the first 2 months of the internship due to "exceptional technical execution and ownership." - 📉 Predictive Analytics: Engineered an ARIMA-based forecasting system to predict Private Cloud CPU and Memory utilization, resulting in 10% infrastructure cost savings through proactive capacity optimization. - 🔐 Security Automation: Developed an enterprise-wide utility to automate internal certificate management, eliminating manual renewal processes and mitigating operational risks for critical services.

Education

Punjab Engineering College

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

Punjab Engineering College

20194 yrs2023

11-12, Hsc

Govt model senior secondary school , manimajra

20172 yrs2019

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Headline

SDE II @ American Express | Distributed Systems · Cloud Platform · Agentic AI | Patent Co-Inventor

About

Software Engineer II at American Express with 3+ years building distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and AI-powered tooling at enterprise scale. Delivered $2.5M in cost savings through a distributed ingestion architecture, co-invented a patent-pending RAG-based multi-agentic QE system, and independently drove a zero-downtime migration of 12,000+ CI/CD jobs. Seeking SDE II roles in distributed systems, platform engineering, or AI/ML infrastructure.

Location

India

Work experience

Software Engineer II at American Express, May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Hybrid, I currently lead high-impact initiatives focusing on AI Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, and Cost Optimization. My work involves building autonomous systems and migrating enterprise-scale workflows to modern platforms. Key Achievements: - 💰 Cost Optimization: Engineered a real-time data ingestion pipeline (Spring Boot 3, Cassandra) and Grafana monitoring suite that saved the organization $2.5 Million in licensing costs by reducing concurrency breaches by 99%. - 🧠 AI Innovation: Co-inventor and patented contributor for a RAG-based Multi-Agentic Quality Engineering system. Using LangChain and Google’s Agent Development Kit, we are targeting 70% autonomous testing through AI-driven self-healing test cases. - 🚀 Scale & Migration: Developed a Python/FastAPI automation suite that successfully migrated 12,000+ jobs from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, hitting critical deadlines and touching 50% of the enterprise within 8 months. - 🏗️ Platform Engineering: Designed a standardized CI/CD workflow for Hybrid Cloud and led a POC for ephemeral environments using Terraform and AWS EKS to provide reliable, on-demand testing infrastructure.

Software Engineer at American Express, Jul 2023 - May 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, On-site, Joined the CI/CD team to manage enterprise-scale tooling and was promoted to SE II within 1.5 years (ahead of the standard cycle) due to high-impact delivery and system ownership. Key Achievements: - 🔄 Legacy Modernization: Led the transformation of a mission-critical legacy integration tool, upgrading it from Java 8 to JDK 17 and Spring Boot 3 while implementing modern coding standards. - 📊 Data Observability: Developed ETL pipelines to move complex CA LISA data into Elasticsearch, enabling the creation of executive-level Grafana dashboards to monitor platform health. - 🧪 Visual Testing: Spearheaded the POC and enterprise-wide rollout of Sauce Labs Visual Testing, providing a scalable quality engineering solution for teams across the organization. - 🧹 Automation: Built Python-based automation to identify and decommission stagnant virtual services, significantly reducing server load and infrastructure overhead.

Software Engineer at American Express, Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 · 6 mos, India, - 🏆 Early PPO: Received a full-time Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) within the first 2 months of the internship due to "exceptional technical execution and ownership." - 📉 Predictive Analytics: Engineered an ARIMA-based forecasting system to predict Private Cloud CPU and Memory utilization, resulting in 10% infrastructure cost savings through proactive capacity optimization. - 🔐 Security Automation: Developed an enterprise-wide utility to automate internal certificate management, eliminating manual renewal processes and mitigating operational risks for critical services.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Punjab Engineering College

11-12, Hsc, Govt model senior secondary school , manimajra