I am a Hands-on Architect and Technical Leader with over 18 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, multi-tenant distributed systems for global enterprises. My expertise spans across Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, and Media sectors.

I specialize in guiding cross-functional teams to decouple legacy monoliths and deliver fault-tolerant, cloud-native solutions. As an active practitioner of AI-First Software Delivery, I integrate GenAI tools to solve actual developer friction points and drive engineering efficiency.

Cloud-Native Solutions

Expert in AWS, GCP, and Azure environments, focusing on EKS, Serverless, and Event-Driven designs.

Architectural Leadership

Designing complex distributed systems and microservices architectures that are resilient and future-proof.

AI-First SDLC

Leveraging tools like CursorAI, GitHub Copilot, and Claude to optimize the software development lifecycle.

Technical Mentorship

Leading and growing high-performing engineering teams through technical strategy and stakeholder management.

Technical Expertise

Core stack and architectural expertise

Development Stack

• Languages: Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, TypeScript, Python
• Frontend: React, RESTful APIs
• Databases: SQL, NoSQL (DynamoDB), Redis
• Observability: Datadog, JIRA

Architecture & Cloud

• Patterns: Microservices, Event-Driven (Kafka), DDD, Serverless
• AWS: EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift
• GCP: Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery
• DevOps: Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

AI & Machine Learning

• GenAI for SDLC: CursorAI, GitHub Copilot, Claude
• RAG Pipelines: Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems

Professional Experience

A journey of technical leadership and architectural excellence

Lead Consultant / Technical Partner

Thoughtworks

Aug 2023 — Present Coimbatore, TN, India

• As Technical Partner, architected and led multiple teams to engineer a hybrid crypto-fiat payment orchestration platform in Azure Cloud for a logistics giant. Applied Strategic Domain-Driven Design to define clear Bounded Contexts, isolating core ledger logic from volatile third-party integrations.
• Led an internal "Software Delivery with AI" initiative. Integrated tools like CursorAI into daily workflows, improving developer efficiency by 30% and accelerating deployment cycles for a greenfield payment project.
• As Lead Consultant, architected and developed a modernized Marketing Newsletter Platform on GCP using a Serverless, Event-Driven Architecture. This re-architecture reduced campaign turnaround time by 98%, tripling customer engagement for over 15 million users.

Principal Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments

Apr 2020 — Jul 2023 Chennai, TN, India

• Architected and developed an Event-sourced post-trading ecosystem handling high-velocity, enterprise-scale transaction throughput. Implemented a resilient microservices architecture with active-active redundancy, securing 99.99% SLA compliance.
• Identified bottlenecks in existing infrastructure and led optimization efforts that improved overall system efficiency by 40%, significantly cutting cloud costs while supporting higher transaction volumes.

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Jun 2011 — Apr 2020 India & USA

• Led the cloud modernization for a Global scientific publishing giant. Applied DDD principles to decouple a complex legacy application and migrate it to a scalable AWS architecture managed by Terraform.
• Developed a standardized "Standard Counter Reporting" widget adopted across multiple internal teams, saving approximately 400 developer hours annually by unifying reporting standards.
• Served as Technical Lead for an insurance provider, modernizing customer-facing applications and ensuring the backend stability of over 700 daily Maestro batch jobs for critical Tier-1 business flows.

Sr. Software Engineer

L-Cube Innovative Solutions

Jun 2007 — Jun 2011 Chennai, TN, India

• Led an 8-member team in developing core modules for the GlaceEMR system. Successfully navigated the complex audit process to achieve CCHIT and ONC-ATCB healthcare certifications.

My Philosophy

Core values and architectural principles

I am committed to a culture of engineering excellence and collaborative growth, rooted in a continuous learning mindset. I believe that staying at the technical forefront—whether by exploring emerging technologies, contributing to open source, or sharing knowledge through technical writing—is essential to building resilient systems and driving the success of my teams.

Engineering Excellence
Resilient & scalable systems.

Continuous Growth
Mastering emerging tech.

Collaborative Impact
Sharing knowledge & OSS.

Education & Certifications

Academic background and professional credentials

Education

• Post Graduate in AI & ML
  McCombs School of Business, USA/India — 2024
• Master of Computer Application (MCA)
  Kongu Engineering College, Anna University — 2007
• BSc Information Technology
  Mahendra Engineering College, Periyar University — 2004

Certifications

• Certified AWS Solutions Architect
• Senior Java Developer
• API Designer & Security Architect
• SAFe 4.0 Practitioner

Let's Connect

Feel free to reach out for collaborations or just a friendly chat

Email

urmail2ss@gmail.com

Phone

+91 97900 50474

LinkedIn

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