About Me
Engineering Manager and Technology Lead with 9+ years of experience building, scaling, and guiding high-performing engineering teams across BFSI and Automotive domains. Track record of leading cross-functional teams of 6…
Engineering Manager and Technology Lead with 9+ years of experience building, scaling, and guiding high-performing engineering teams across BFSI and Automotive domains. Track record of leading cross-functional teams of 6-10 engineers through end-to-end delivery of cloud-native and data-intensive platforms, with hands-on depth in Java, Python, microservices, and AWS cloud architecture. Expertise spanning Big Data, Machine Learning, and Generative AI. AWS Certified and Six Sigma White Belt.
Experience
Senior Consultant (Deputy Manager)
<p>Established and enforced coding standards and design guidelines for teams of 6-10 engineers, improving maintainability and reducing rework across releases.</p><p> Led code reviews and design discussions focused on scalability, observability, and data correctness, improving system stability and reducing post-release issues by ~20%.</p><p> Drove knowledge transfer through application demos, walkthroughs, and technical documentation, while mentoring developers and advancing continuous improvement of delivery methods and tools.</p><p> Engineered resilient cloud-native microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and AWS, designed to support data-intensive workloads and ML integrations with 99.9% availability.</p><p> Improved application performance by 30-40% through code refactoring, query optimization, and caching strategies, reducing average response time by ~250 ms.</p><p> Partnered with software architects and technical leads across all project phases to ensure decisions aligned with long-term enterprise growth needs.</p>
Advisory System Analyst
<p>Directed 3-4 module-level initiatives across 5+ cross-functional teams, delivering 100% of milestones on schedule with >95% stakeholder satisfaction.</p><p> Partnered with product managers, data scientists, and business teams to translate business objectives into data pipelines, APIs, and ML-ready datasets, accelerating feature delivery by ~20%.</p><p> Authored and maintained technical design documents, API contracts, and architecture diagrams, improving onboarding time by ~30%; championed test-driven development with comprehensive unit and end-to-end integration testing.</p><p> Led design and development of scalable cloud applications, partnering with data science teams to operationalize ML models via cloud-native deployment, versioning, and monitoring, supporting production inference pipelines handling 50K+ predictions per day.</p><p> Integrated ML model outputs (classification, scoring, and recommendation signals) into backend services via REST APIs, enabling real-time and batch inference use cases.</p><p> Leveraged Big Data technologies including Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, PySpark, HBase, Hive, and Oozie alongside the Spring Framework to develop and enhance enterprise analytics platforms.</p>
Consultant, Technology
<p>Executed across 10+ Agile/Scrum sprint cycles, translating regulatory-aligned business requirements into technical specifications and user stories, achieving 95% on-time story delivery.</p><p> Partnered with UX/UI designers, DevOps engineers, and database administrators to deliver end-to-end integrated features, reducing release-related issues by ~15% while modernizing legacy components.</p><p> Designed and implemented Java-based backend microservices using Spring Boot, supporting core banking (TTS Payments) workflows processing 100K+ transactions per day; built RESTful APIs integrated with Angular frontend interfaces, improving UI response time by ~30%.</p><p> Automated deployments using IBM UrbanCode Deploy and Jenkins CI, ensuring code quality through JUnit unit tests and end-to-end integration testing, raising test coverage to 70%+ and reducing post-release defects by ~20%.</p><p> Implemented and optimized internal platform security with CA SiteMinder SSO and two-factor authentication (2FA), strengthening user access control.</p><p> Developed comprehensive solution designs and implementation plans, enabling the team to execute projects on schedule.</p>
Software Engineer
<p>Led code reviews and mentored 3-5 junior developers, enforcing coding standards and best practices while enhancing test coverage to 70%+.</p><p> Automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing deployment time by ~50% and increasing release frequency; resolved complex production issues, reducing system downtime by ~20%.</p><p> Designed and deployed microservices-based architecture leveraging Java, REST APIs, and WebSphere, improving scalability, enabling independent service deployments, and reducing feature release cycle time by ~25%.</p><p> Built and optimized scalable Java EE applications with JasperReports for dynamic PDF/DOCX report generation, enabling automated reporting for 10K+ records per cycle and improving reporting turnaround time by ~40%.</p><p> Engineered responsive Angular and Ember.js front-end interfaces integrated with backend REST services, improving page load performance by ~30%, while ensuring 99.9% availability on WebSphere Application Server and WAS Liberty.</p><p> Evaluated and implemented new technologies to enhance existing processes, security, and performance across enterprise automotive platforms.</p>