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Lead Software Engineer at Cvent with expertise in Distributed Systems

About

Lead Software Engineer with more than a decade of experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems and SaaS platforms. ● Proven expertise in backend architecture, microservices, cloud native systems, data platforms and applied Generative AI. ● Strong record of system design ownership, technical leadership, and cross-team delivery. ● Led a team of 5 members working in agile, collaborating efficiently with scrum masters and product owners. Actively drove code reviews, architectural reviews, and design discussions, mentoring engineers and ensuring that all deliverables met high-quality, production-ready standards for scalability, maintainability, and long-term evolution.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Product Software Engineer II at The Walt Disney Company, Aug 2026 - Present · 2 mo, Bengaluru

Lead Software Engineer at Cvent, Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designed and implemented an inbound SSO solution using Spring Security, OAuth 2.0, and OIDC, integrating with centralized authentication services for token generation and JWT-based metadata extraction to support authorization flows. ● Owned the system design, cross-team coordination, planning, and delivery of the SSO integration in collaboration with auth service teams, enabling seamless planner onboarding and reducing customer onboarding time by ~50%. ● Played a key role in designing and launching Cvent’s Webinar platform, a new SaaS offering built on top of core event systems with webinar-specific presets; contributed heavily to architecture decisions, service design, and delivery execution. ● Helped take the Webinar platform from concept to production through design discussions, code reviews, and iterative releases, resulting in a stable and scalable system that achieved $1M ACV within the first quarter. ● Designed and delivered a Webinar Email Designer, replacing hard-coded email logic with a configurable solution where email content and attributes are stored as metadata in a NoSQL database and resolved dynamically at runtime. ● Owned the end-to-end delivery of the email customization feature, including data modeling, API design, backend implementation, and production rollout, ensuring correctness and reliability through reviews and testing. ● Designed Micro Template solutions for branding, registration flows, surveys, and admin-side configurations, allowing webinar owners to reuse standardized setups and reducing customer effort during event planning by ~70%. ● Built backend services in Java that handled concurrent and event-driven workflows, ensuring reliable processing of metadata and runtime configurations under load. ● Moved into the Data Science Engineering team to design and build the Interest Engine for attendee profiling using CDC and event-based pipelines to consume attendee activity data

Senior Software Engineer at Cvent, Dec 2020 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Senior Engineer at Hughes Systique Corporation (HSC), Jan 2019 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Responsible for developing NMS Architecture based UT module for OneWeb.

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Nov 2017 - Jan 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos, Responsible for developing Global Recruitment application for TCS sufficing various automation needs for various recruitment processes.

Assistant System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Nov 2016 - Nov 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

Assistant System Engineer (Trainee) at Tata Consultancy Services, Nov 2015 - Nov 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians, National Institute of Technology Srinagar

High School, Harmilap Mission School