Currently, working as Senior Software Engineer at MIQ where I am architecting/implementing solutions - Around 7.5 years of backend experience with a proven ownership and delivery track record. - Around 2 years of experience in leading/managing project and pods, sprints, and practicing/promoting agile methodologies thereby working in collaboration with cross-functional teams - Architecting/implementing solutions to improve useability and app performance for products having stringent SLA with low latency and high availability - Ability to work in a cross-functional agile environment alongside product leaders, data scientists, designers, QA, and engineers to plan, design, and execute the technology roadmap for verticals - Experienced in inheriting projects and involved in active participation in strategic sessions and project steering groups. - Hands-on experience in seeding multiple charters from scratch while owning a large-scale distributed service platform, maintaining and optimizing legacy old platforms - monoliths to microservices in parallel. - Assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and encourage risk-taking behavior to maximize business benefit. - Extensive first-hand experience as an end-user of monitoring tools to resolve issues, detect problems, set up alerts, etc, and build dashboards for ease of tracking metrics, managing/rotating on-calls. - Strong knowledge of coding, data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and system design and also, helping the community to go better in them as a mentor - Well acquainted with MVC, Microservices, code optimization, time/space complexity, backend design, rest API, OOPs in Java, python; API frameworks like spring boot etc - Experience with messaging queues, caches, databases (SQL and NoSQL), sharding, replication, etc; AWS services, multi-threading, and concurrency programming.