About

Engineering leader and platform specialist with 10 years of backend and platform engineering experience across Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, Camunda BPMN, AWS, and distributed microservices. Proven track record modernizing monoliths into independently deployable services, building event-driven systems, reducing operational noise, and leading cross-functional engineering teams through delivery.

Story

I have spent a decade building backend and platform systems where reliability, throughput, and operational clarity matter. My work spans insurance transaction platforms, cross-chain infrastructure, crypto custody, and large-scale telecom systems.

I am most effective at the intersection of architecture and delivery: decomposing monoliths without breaking production contracts, designing event-driven services that teams can operate confidently, and building the observability and automation layers that keep platforms healthy.

As a technical lead, I focus on hiring strong engineers, raising engineering standards through reusable patterns, and creating environments where teams ship incrementally with measurable impact.

Leadership philosophy

Design for operability first - if support and QA cannot reason about a system, it is not done.
Prefer incremental migration over big-bang rewrites; preserve external contracts while improving internals.
Invest in automation that reduces toil: CI/CD, workflow test frameworks, and actionable observability.
Mentor through ownership - give engineers end-to-end problems, not ticket queues.

Experience

JavaSpring BootKafkaRedisCamundaAWS

Zinnia

Senior Technical Lead

Jun 2025 - Present

Noida, India

Lead platform engineering for Java, Camunda, AWS, and AI initiatives while guiding a 5-engineer team across architecture, delivery, hiring, mentoring, and roadmap execution.
Built reusable platforms and operating patterns that improved release velocity, observability quality, and reliability across workflow-driven systems.

Router Protocol

Technical Lead

May 2024 - May 2025

Reduced critical backend transaction execution time from 16 seconds to under 1 second.
Designed and maintained a high-performance cross-chain forwarder handling 2M+ transactions and over $1B in total volume.
Built event-driven microservices with Kafka and Redis for blockchain indexing and improved distributed validator releases for 40+ active validators.

CoinDCX

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2022 - Apr 2024

Contributed to backend architecture and implementation in Java, Node.js, and Go.
Built a cold-custody wallet platform with HSM security and multi-signature support, including a generic rule engine with ~30ms response time.
Delivered custody services supporting 100K customers and 10K daily crypto deposit/withdrawal transactions.

Jio Platforms Ltd

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2021 - Jul 2022

Developed backend modules for one of the largest private blockchain platforms with 100GB data volume.
Built a file validation system reducing processing time from 10 minutes to 8 seconds.
Supported SMS delivery at peak scale of 450M messages/day and developed a URL shortener serving 2,000 reads/sec.

Innominds

Blockchain & Full Stack Developer

Jul 2019 - Apr 2021

Built a BaaS platform provisioning Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric networks across cloud environments.
Developed services for a banking resiliency platform protecting 70% of US deposits and 55% of retail brokerage details nightly.

TCS

Blockchain & Full Stack Developer

Mar 2016 - Jul 2019

Designed a document validation system with Drools and OpenCV that reduced processing cost by 73%.
Set up blockchain environments, audited smart contracts, and built JMS services with Oracle WebLogic Server.

Technical skills

Languages & Frameworks

Backend and full-stack development across JVM, Node, and web UI.

JavaSpring BootGoNode.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptExpress.jsNestJSReact.jsNext.js

Distributed Systems

Event-driven, workflow-centric architecture for high-scale transaction systems.

MicroservicesREST APIsKafkaRedisRabbitMQCamunda BPMNEvent-driven architecture

Cloud, Data & DevOps

Production infrastructure and release pipelines built for reliability and speed.

AWS ECS FargateDockerKubernetesPostgreSQLMongoDBCassandraGitHub ActionsTerraformDatadogJSM

AI & Leadership

Engineering leadership plus practical AI adoption for operations and delivery.

LLM-based triageAgentic AI workflowsBDD/Gherkin automationTechnical leadershipHiringMentoring