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title: "Vijay Surwase - Senior Software Engineer in Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Vijay Surwase, Backend Engineer | Agentic AI Workflows | 12 Yrs | Fintech | Startup | Java | Python | Kubernetes based in Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area. AI stack includes claude, cursor, and gemini."
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# Vijay Surwase on Tal

## Headline

Backend Engineer \| Agentic AI Workflows \| 12 Yrs \| Fintech \| Startup \| Java \| Python \| Kubernetes

## About

I build backend systems that scale — and increasingly, AI systems that think\. Over the last 12 years I have hands on experience in scalable API development and microservices starting from requirement analysis up to deployment, monitoring, most recently at Deserve and Intuit building Credit Card as a Service infrastructure that handles high\-volume real\-time transactions\. My work has delivered measurable results: 35% API latency reduction, 70% query performance improvement, 45% database load reduction\. In the last year I went deeper into AI — not as a user, but as a builder\. I designed and shipped an end\-to\-end agentic workflow using Claude and Cursor that automates microservices development, from reading requirement specs to generating production\-grade code, tests, and deployment manifests\. It cut manual boilerplate by \~60% and changed how my team ships\. I am now actively looking for AI Engineer, Agentic Systems, or Senior Backend roles where I can bring both sides of that experience together\. What I work with: Python · Java · Django · Spring · Kafka · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kubernetes · AWS · Terraform · Docker · Claude API · Cursor · Agentic AI 📩 surwasevbit@gmail\.com

## Location

Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area

## AI stack

claude

cursor

gemini

langchain

langgraph

openai

claudecode

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Intuit, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Pune District, \- Integrated and customized the Deserve Credit Card Platform with Intuit QuickBooks, enabling small and mid\-sized businesses to apply for lines of credit — owned full lifecycle from requirement analysis through production deployment\. \- Built and maintained microservices on Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Argo CD, serving high\-volume transaction workloads\. \- Designed and deployed an agentic AI workflow \(Claude \+ Cursor\) to automate development of payment\-related microservices from requirement spec to code review reducing delivery time significantly\. \- Drove adoption of AI\-assisted development practices across the team, improving sprint velocity and code quality\. Tech: Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Pydantic, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Claude API, Cursor

Senior Software Engineer at Deserve, May 2019 \- Apr 2025 · 6 yrs, Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area, \- Working as a Backend developer for Next Gen Deserve Credit Card Platform as a Service\. \- Worked on Microservices based architecture to create Credit Card platform as a Service that enables partners to launch their Credit Card program with API driven approach\. \- Involved in the tasks starting from requirement gathering, design, implementation deployment and monitoring\. \- Optimized API response time by 35%, reducing latency from 500ms to 325ms using caching and query optimization\. \- Refactored legacy codebase, improving execution speed by 40% and reducing server costs by 25%\. \- Implemented Redis caching, reducing database load by 45% and decreasing query response times by 30%\. \- Optimized database indexing, leading to a 70% improvement in query performance and 30% lower AWS costs\. Tech stack: Python, Django, Postgresql, Docker, AWS Services, TDD, Kafka, Cloudformation, Terraform, Celery

Software Engineer at Vuclip Inc\., Sep 2016 \- May 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area, Working as Backend developer for viu platform team\. \- Developed RESTful APIs serving clients including web application, android and iOS apps\. \- Designing and implementing new features along with refactoring legacy code using best practises such as TDD without affecting live traffic\(around 1000 RPS\)\. \- Actively involved in requirement gathering and solution designing\. \- Re\-architect content programming on viu\.com\. \- Design and implementation of build and deployment pipelines using jenkins\(pipeline as code\)\. \- Design and implemented content search supporting different facets including title, actor, genre etc using ElasticSearch\. \- Design rule engine for user offer system\. \- Automate infra tasks and day\-to\-day reporting and support tasks\. \- Involved in monitoring, alerting and performance tuning of production environment\. \- Used Canary deployment, Feature toggles, Percentage Rollout for release of new features\. \- Actively used AWS Elasticbeanstalk as infrastructure for deployment of backend apis\. \- Technology stack: Java 8, Groovy, Spring Boot, AWS web\-services\(EC2, Elastic\- beanstalk, Dynamodb, S3\), ElasticSearch, Gradle, Jenkins, RESTful APIs, Sonarqube, Git, RAML, Junit, Spock framework, Google Stackdriver\.

Software Engineer at Vuclip India Private Limited​, Sep 2016 \- May 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos, •​ Developed RESTful APIs for Viu OTT platform serving web, Android, and iOS clients at scale\. •​ Automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, reducing deployment time from 15 minutes to 2 minutes \(87% improvement\)\. •​ Designed and implemented Elasticsearch\-powered content search supporting facets including title, actor, and genre\. •​ Built a rule engine for user offer personalization and automated infra reporting tasks using Shell scripting\. •​ Re\-architected content programming on Viu\.com with zero live traffic disruption, applying TDD throughout\.

Associate Developer at SAS, Jul 2015 \- Jul 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo, Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area, ° Worked on project for defining new modelling language for REST API documentation that will make writing API contracts easy and consistent\. ° Developed tool that will help developer to generate REST API specification\. Integrated this functionality with Swagger Editor\. \- Technology stack: Java 8, Spring Boot, Jenkins, Gradle, REST API, Swagger\-Editor

## Education

Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Information Technology, Walchand College of Engineering\(A Govt\. Aided Autonomous Institute\),SANGLI\-M\.S

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