Lead Java Software Engineer with 16.4 years of experience building scalable high-availability, distributed production-grade applications in Fintech domain. Proven expertise in Java 8/11/17/21, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, Kafka -based event-driven architecture, RESTful/SOAP API development, AWS cloud-native systems, monitoring & observability with Prometheus, Grafana and containerization with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes. Adept at delivering secure, scalable systems with Spring Security, JWT, and SAML in Agile environments.