I build the backend infrastructure that mission-critical financial systems run on. With 14 years of engineering experience across FinTech, Payments, Banking, Insurance, and Aviation, I specialize in designing distributed systems that are fast, resilient, and built to scale — from architecture decisions to production delivery. My work sits at the intersection of event-driven architecture, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise modernization. Over the years, I've led teams through large-scale transformations where the stakes were real: millions of transactions, 99.99% SLA commitments, and zero tolerance for downtime. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱: → Improved platform throughput by 80% through asynchronous and event-driven processing. → Built replay-safe reconciliation pipelines handling millions of financial transactions. → Led Java 8 → Java 17 modernization initiatives with zero downtime across distributed services. → Reduced MTTD by 40% through observability, monitoring, and distributed tracing. → Contributed to automation initiatives resulting in $10M+ annual operational savings. → Reduced MongoDB query latency by 30% using Aggregation Framework and Materialized Views. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵: Java 17 · Spring Boot · Apache Kafka · Microservices · Kubernetes · AWS · GCP · MongoDB · OpenSearch · Apache Camel · Terraform · Docker · Datadog · CQRS · CDC · Strangler Fig 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: Generative AI for enterprise use cases — recently built a RAG-based knowledge retrieval PoC using LangChain and LLM integrations. 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼: Principal Engineer · Staff Engineer · Backend / Solution Architect · Senior Technical Lead If you're building high-scale distributed systems, modernizing enterprise platforms, or solving complex problems in FinTech and Payments, let's connect.