With a Master of Science in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, I currently contribute as a Staff Software Engineer at PayPal. My role focuses on optimizing scalability and operational efficiency through the implementation of shared configuration management with Terraform and GCP.
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Austin, Texas, United States
• Architected and migrated static configurations to shared configuration management using Terraform and GCP, optimizing scalability and operational efficiency across Control/Data Planes.
• Developed advanced Kong Plugins for the API Gateway ecosystem using Lua Programming and Lua Rocks, improving traffic management, security, and observability.
• Upgraded and maintained core gateway and API services with Java and Golang, enhancing performance, extensibility, and maintainability.
• Engineered scalable data storage solutions using Cassandra for high-throughput, fault-tolerant services, supporting API analytics and business-critical event processing.
• Established and enforced configuration naming conventions and downstream integration standards, driving clarity and maintainability across distributed environments.
• Integrated application and infrastructure monitoring solutions with Datadog to deliver real-time visibility into system heath and performance.
• Orchestrated and validated code/configuration rollouts across environments (QA, staging, production) on Kubernetes using Docker and Git, ensuring seamless and reliable deployments.
• Rapidly onboarded to critical cloud platforms, including Konnect and custom API simulators, accelerating project delivery and supporting team ramp-up.
• Executed and analyzed integration, performance, and disaster recovery tests using scripts and industry-standard tools, ensuring resilience and business continuity.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance event-driven architectures and improve business event publishing.
• Documented and streamlined onboarding, endpoint integration, and rollout strategies to support scalable team growth and efficient project acceleration.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies as Scrum Master, driving daily standups, sprint planning. and retrospectives to foster collaboration and continuous improvement.
2022 — 2024
2022 — 2024
Bellevue, Washington, United States
• Automated and optimized Amazon’s Consumer Supply Chain end-to-end from supplier to customer, maximizing Long Term Free Cash Flow (LTFCF) including the long-term value of customer experience.
• Spearheaded a Data Collection Project with a vision to establish a Fully Managed Data Platform, providing self-serving capabilities to diverse simulation customers.
• Contributed pivotal technical solutions within the Retail Technology team, focusing on leveraging React, Java, and various databases to optimize inventory management and control systems, thereby augmenting the efficiency and accuracy of inventory-related processes within the retail domain.
• Built interactive UIs using React and Java-based backend with workflow automation.
• Implemented the Fulfillment Cost Engine dataset using AWS-CDK in TypeScript, enhancing data availability and reliability.
• Implemented a robust ticketing system to promptly address and resolve dataset breaches.
• Pioneered an automated S3 bucket dataset cross account copying process, ensuring seamless production data updates every week.
• Developed full-stack applications development to record, analyze, reconcile and simulate Inventory Preplanning & Control using React, Spring boot, Java, SQL-Server, PostGreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, HTML and CSS by having an experience of End-to-End feature release.
• Led the design and implementation of robust CI/CD pipelines utilizing AWS Code-Pipeline and AWS Code-Deploy at Amazon, ensuring seamless integration, automated testing, and continuous deployment of software updates, resulting in accelerated release cycles and enhanced product reliability. Followed Agile methodologies for full Software Development Lifecycle
• Performed A/B tests to evaluate and improve various aspects of the supply chain optimization platform.
• Implemented Mockito along side JUnit for test-driven development, resulting in a 25% decrease in debugging time and faster feature delivery.
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
India
• Implemented core banking system enhancements in Java, optimizing transaction processing and improving system scalability.
• Developed batch processing applications for automated account reconciliation, reducing manual effort by 40%
• Utilized Java libraries to perform data manipulation, cleaning, and analysis, contributing to data-driven decision-making processes.
• Ensured adherence to Java coding standards and best practices specific to banking applications.
• Led a cross-functional team in developing and delivering multiple software products from inception to deployment, adhering to the full software development lifecycle.
• Conducted regular tabletop exercises to test the incident response system's effectiveness and improve team readiness.
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
Bangalore
• Developed and maintained Java applications for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, focusing on secure and reliable software solutions.
• Worked on a large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure, managing and optimizing resources for peak performance and scalability.
• Identified opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
2017 — 2018
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Education
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS
2021 — 2022
Bangalore Institute of Technology