I’m a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard with 9+ years of experience building scalable, resilient, and secure backend systems. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and observability in distributed microservice environments. At Mastercard, I’ve led critical projects across payment processing, transaction enrichment, and real-time telemetry. I’ve designed and deployed systems that handle millions of daily transactions with strong SLAs, using Kafka, Oracle and PCF. I’ve mentored engineers, implemented tracing and led platform-wide optimizations. I’m passionate about clean architecture, mentoring engineers, and designing high-performance systems.