Open to Principal Engineer and Software Architect roles.
I'm an AWS Certified Solutions Architect with more than 15 years spent defining and delivering scalable, secure, cloud-native platforms — across utility software, industrial IoT, and enterprise systems. I began in the energy sector, building distribution management, outage management, and SCADA-integrated grid automation tools for electricity utilities — the kind of system where a bad deploy is visible from the street. From there I moved into large-scale IoT device orchestration, with real-time telemetry and diagnostics pipelines running at fleet scale.
Today the work splits two ways. One half is platform architecture: service boundaries and data contracts, API governance, secure SDLC and DevSecOps, edge-cloud deployment. The other is agentic systems — agents, harnesses and reusable skills on Claude and GitHub Copilot that automate the parts of delivery people should not be doing by hand.
Both halves come back to the same thing: design reviews, pairing and cross-team workshops with the engineers who build on what I define.
Based in
Ontario, Canada
Experience
15+ years
Focus
Platform architecture, API governance, DevSecOps
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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Years engineering platforms
Since 2011
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Industry domains
Utilities · IoT · Life sciences · Banking
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Microservices delivered
Robert Bosch
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Infrastructure cost reduction
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02 / Agentic Engineering
I automate the work, not just the deploys.
Alongside platform architecture I build agentic systems — agents, harnesses and reusable skills on Claude and GitHub Copilot — that take repetitive engineering work off people and hand it to something that can run unattended.
The current one models an entire Product Development Life Cycle as a set of cooperating agents. Every role in product development is its own agent, composed from a persona, a rule set and a library of skills, and each hands structured output to the next stage rather than to a human inbox.
Claude
Agents, harnesses and skill libraries — multi-agent orchestration with personas and rule sets.
GitHub Copilot
Agents and reusable components wired into day-to-day development workflows.
U.S. Bank
Reusable skills and components authored for the delivery pipeline — see the ledger below.
Harnesses in the delivery pipeline
U.S. Bank
At U.S. Bank the same approach runs inside a regulated delivery pipeline. Each harness is scoped to a surface the platform already governs, so the output lands as a reviewable artefact rather than as a suggestion nobody owns.
API threat-model reviewer
Secure SDLC · API design
Walks a new or changed API surface and drafts the threat model against it before the design review, so the review argues about findings instead of producing them.
Claude
Contract & boundary check
Service boundaries · data contracts
Reads a proposed change against the published contract and flags breaking changes and boundary violations while they are still cheap to undo.
Claude
Quality-gate triage
SonarQube in CI/CD
Separates real defects from noise in static-analysis output and attaches a suggested fix per finding, so a red gate is actionable rather than ignored.
GitHub Copilot
API governance assistant
APIGEE lifecycle
Checks a proposal against the governance standard — routing, versioning, rate limiting, auth — and reports where it diverges.
Claude
Release-readiness reviewer
Environment promotion
Assembles the evidence a promotion needs in one place: tests, gates, tracing coverage and a rollback path.
Claude + Copilot
Design-review companion
Architecture review · mentoring
Prepares the questions a design review should ask from the architecture standards, so a junior engineer walks in with the same checklist a principal would.
Claude
The Product Development Life Cycle below is where this goes next: the same idea, but the roles themselves become the agents.
Product Development Life Cycle · agent per role
Discover
Define
Build
Verify
Release
Frames the problem before anyone proposes a solution: who it is for, what it is worth, and what happens if it is not built.
Skills composed
01Opportunity framing
02Market and competitor scan
03Outcome definition
04Roadmap sequencing
05Stakeholder synthesis
Hands off
→Problem statement
→Success measures
→Prioritised opportunity list
Composed from persona + rules + skills
Arrow keys move between roles. Six of them, one pipeline, and not one has ever asked to move the standup.
03 / Domains
Four industries, each with its own failure modes. Open one for the role, the case study and what it returned.
Banking & Payments
2023 – Present
U.S. Bank
Merchant lending platform across microservices processing millions of daily transactions, under enterprise uptime SLAs and API governance.
Detail
Life Sciences
2021 – 2023
GSK
Architecture authority for a global enterprise platform: monolith decomposition, centralized identity, design standards across distributed teams.
Grid automation for electricity distribution: distribution management, outage management, SCADA-integrated engineering tooling.
Detail
04 / Approach
How the work gets done.
01
Define the boundaries
Service boundaries, data contracts and integration patterns settled before code — so the system has a shape teams can build against.
U.S. Bank · GSK
02
Govern the surface
API lifecycle governance end to end: routing, versioning, rate limiting and security managed as a product, not an afterthought.
APIGEE · U.S. Bank
03
Secure the pipeline
Threat-modelled API surfaces, static analysis gates in CI/CD, and centralized OAuth2 identity — security enforced by the pipeline rather than by review.
SonarQube · OAuth2 · Azure AD
04
Ship with parity
Containerized rolling deployments across hybrid On-Prem and cloud, with full environment parity so what passes UAT is what runs.
Rancher/Kubernetes · Azure
05
Prove the failure paths
Distributed tracing, structured logging, circuit breakers and chaos-tested recovery — plus FMEA across platform components.
U.S. Bank · Robert Bosch
06
Leave the team stronger
Design reviews, pairing and cross-team workshops, so the architecture outlives whoever wrote the first version of it.
Every role since 2016
Ontario, Canada
Fifteen years of shipping systems other people depend on.
05 / Experience
Four domains, one discipline.
Each chapter below animates what the platform actually did — payments crossing a gateway, a monolith decomposing, a vehicle fleet reporting in, a grid recovering from an outage.
Yes, those are real animations rather than screenshots. No, it was not the fastest way to write a CV.
Ch. 01
U.S. Bank
Lead Software Development Engineer
Feb 2023 – Present · Remote · Toronto, ON
Transactions streaming an API gateway perimeter: threats refused at the boundary, a tripped circuit breaker rerouting around failure, governance rings tightening on the core.
Defined end-to-end platform architecture for a merchant lending system: service boundaries, data contracts, API governance, integration patterns across microservices processing millions of daily transactions.
Instituted a secure SDLC: threat-modelled API surfaces, SonarQube in CI/CD, OAuth2 identity governance, APIGEE rate-limiting and security.
Led API lifecycle governance via APIGEE — routing, versioning, security.
Deployed containerized services across On-Prem + Azure hybrid using Rancher/Kubernetes with rolling updates and full environment parity.
Added distributed tracing, structured logging, circuit breakers, and chaos-tested recovery to meet enterprise uptime SLAs.
Mentored engineers through design reviews, pairing, and cross-team workshops.
Java 17
Spring Boot
Kafka
PostgreSQL
OAuth2
APIGEE
GraphQL
Rancher/Kubernetes
Azure
Autosys
Docker
GitLab CI/CD
Ch. 02
GSK
Software Architecture Lead
Dec 2021 – Feb 2023 · Remote · Toronto, ON
A monolith fracturing into independently deployable services: dependency chords thinning as they decouple, a centralized identity ring closing around the cluster.
Architecture authority across a global enterprise platform: blueprints, technology evaluation, design standards across distributed teams.
Migrated legacy Struts/WebLogic monoliths to Spring Boot microservices — 60% reduction in inter-module dependencies, independent deployability.
Centralized authN/authZ with OAuth2 + Spring Security + Azure AD.
Built a microservice scaffolding generator — 40% faster provisioning of new services, with platform consistency enforced by template.
50% improvement in transactional and reporting performance via Oracle PL/SQL optimization, indexing, and data-access redesign.
Jenkins/Maven CI/CD with embedded SonarQube quality gates across Dev/UAT/Prod, eliminating manual promotion errors.
Java
Spring Boot
Spring Security
OAuth2
Oracle PL/SQL
Azure AD
AWS
Jenkins
Maven
SonarQube
Docker
Kubernetes
Ch. 03
Robert Bosch
Software Development Engineer III, IoT & Connected Systems
Nov 2016 – Nov 2021 · Bengaluru, India
A vehicle fleet on a receding road plane, each unit beaming telemetry to an ingest cloud, a diagnostic fault flaring, and the stream forking into separate read and write paths.
Architected a cloud-native IoT device orchestration platform for connected vehicles: real-time telemetry ingestion, multi-channel diagnostic event processing, routing to downstream analytics.
Delivered 20+ modular Spring Boot microservices; 80% system efficiency gain and per-device configuration management at scale.
Serverless incident-detection and alerting on AWS Lambda cut infra cost from ~$65,000 to ~$17,000 annually.
Designed 8 composable microservices (device registration, telemetry ingestion, rule evaluation, fleet analytics, alerting) — 65% infra cost reduction.
Angular + Spring Boot engineering dashboards for real-time telemetry, remote configuration, and field diagnostic workflows.
Project Reactor + CQRS to decouple read/write models — sub-second query response under peak telemetry load.
Ran FMEA across all platform components for failure-risk mitigation.
Java
Spring Boot
Angular
TypeScript
Kafka
AWS Lambda
DynamoDB
EC2
Docker
Oracle PL/SQL
Project Reactor
Ch. 04
Fluentgrid Limited
Technical Analyst, Utility Software Engineering
Oct 2011 – Jun 2015 · Visakhapatnam, India
A substation energising distribution feeders, an outage taking a branch offline, and a SCADA sweep detecting the fault before restoration propagates back down the line.
Built enterprise platforms for electricity distribution utilities: grid automation, DMS, outage management, SCADA-integrated tooling.
REST and SOAP APIs (Spring, ZK) integrating distribution modules, field device data, and back-office enterprise systems.
Data models for grid topology, meter data, outage events, and network segments supporting SCADA/DMS reporting across regional deployments.
Configuration and engineering workflow tools letting operations engineers define and automate grid-level processes.
Java
Spring
ZK
Oracle SQL
SOAP/REST
XML
DMS
SCADA
Software Engineer — TATA Consultancy Services · Jun 2015 – Nov 2016 · Security-focused team building high-security authentication for a financial client; TDD, SonarQube, vulnerability scanning, J2EE on WebLogic.
06 / Impact
Measured outcomes.
$65K → $17K
Annual infrastructure cost, via serverless incident detection
Robert Bosch
80%
System efficiency gain across 20+ modular services
Robert Bosch
65%
Infrastructure cost reduction from 8 composable microservices
Robert Bosch
60%
Reduction in inter-module dependencies after monolith decomposition
GSK
50%
Improvement in transactional and reporting performance
GSK
40%
Faster provisioning of new services via a scaffolding generator
GSK
Sub-second
Query response under peak telemetry load, via CQRS + Project Reactor
Robert Bosch
Millions
Daily transactions across the merchant lending platform
U.S. Bank
Every figure above is drawn from the role it is attributed to. None of them were rounded up in their own favour.
07 / Projects
Selected case studies.
U.S. Bank
Merchant Lending Platform
Distributed microservice platform handling millions of daily transactions. Owned the architecture: service boundaries, data contracts, API governance via APIGEE, and a secure SDLC with threat modelling and CI/CD static analysis. Hybrid On-Prem/Azure on Rancher Kubernetes.
Outcome
Enterprise uptime SLAs met under chaos-tested failure conditions.
Java 17
Spring Boot
APIGEE
Kafka
Rancher/Kubernetes
Azure
GSK
Enterprise Monolith Modernization
Migrated Struts/WebLogic monoliths to Spring Boot microservices across a global platform, with centralized OAuth2 + Azure AD identity.
Outcome
60% fewer inter-module dependencies, 50% faster transactional and reporting performance, 40% faster new-service provisioning via a scaffolding generator.
Java
Spring Boot
OAuth2
Azure AD
Oracle PL/SQL
Jenkins
Robert Bosch
Connected-Vehicle IoT Orchestration
Cloud-native platform ingesting real-time telemetry from field-deployed devices, evaluating diagnostic rules, and routing to analytics. Serverless incident detection for safety-critical events. CQRS + Project Reactor for sub-second reads at peak load.
Distribution management, outage management, and SCADA-integrated engineering tools for electricity utilities. Grid topology and meter data modelling; REST/SOAP integration between field devices and back-office.
Outcome
Multi-zone regional utility deployments with real-time grid visibility for operations engineers.
Java
Spring
Oracle SQL
SOAP/REST
SCADA
DMS
08 / Capabilities
What I work with.
AI & Agents
Claude
GitHub Copilot
Agent Harnesses
Multi-Agent Orchestration
Skills & Personas
Rule Systems
Architecture
Microservices
Event-Driven
CQRS
DDD
Serverless
Edge-Cloud Hybrid
API-First
Backend
Java 8/11/17
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Spring Batch
Spring Security
Kafka
Python
Data
PostgreSQL
Oracle PL/SQL
MySQL
Hibernate/JPA
Redis
DynamoDB
Query Optimization
Cloud
AWS (Certified Solutions Architect)
Azure
GCP
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes (Rancher/AKS)
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
ArgoCD
Maven
Security
Secure SDLC
OAuth2
Threat Modelling
APIGEE Governance
SonarQube
DevSecOps
Frontend
Angular
React
TypeScript
HTML5/CSS3
Domain
SCADA/DMS/EMS Integration
IEC 61850 / CIM / IEC 62351
IoT Telemetry
Grid Automation
09 / Trajectory
Fifteen years, in order.
Feb 2023 – Present
Lead Software Development Engineer
U.S. BankRole
Dec 2021 – Feb 2023
Software Architecture Lead
GSKRole
Nov 2016 – Nov 2021
Software Development Engineer III, IoT & Connected Systems
Robert BoschRole
Jun 2015 – Nov 2016
Software Engineer
TATA Consultancy ServicesRole
Oct 2011 – Jun 2015
Technical Analyst, Utility Software Engineering
Fluentgrid LimitedRole
Dec 2011
M.Tech, Computer Science
JNTU KakinadaEducation
Education & Certification
M.Tech, Computer Science — JNTU Kakinada, Dec 2011 (7.2 CGPA, University Honor Society)
