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# Tejus Kaw on Tal

## 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

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