Professional Summary
Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience delivering scalable, secure systems and improving engineering processes in fintech and defence. Specialises in distributed architectures, compliance-driven design, and cross-functional leadership. Cultivates high-performing teams and champions safety-first engineering practices.
Skills
- Java
- AWS
- Spring
- Kafka
- Spark
- Leadership
- Mongodb
- Ci/Cd
- React
- Docker
- Nosql
- Github Actions
- Microservices
- Agile
- DevOps
Experience
Principal Engineer — WSP in India
- Designed and oversaw microservice migration that improved deployment frequency by 40%.
- Implemented AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews, reducing security findings by 70%.
- Mentored 10 engineers through compliance-driven projects for NIST and ISO standards.
- Championed observability practices that cut mean time to resolution from 12 hours to 3.
- Spearheaded agile transformation, increasing sprint predictability and stakeholder satisfaction.
Senior Engineer — Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU)
- Led cross-functional teams to deliver missile guidance software under strict defence controls.
- Conducted root cause analysis on safety incidents, resulting in firmware validation process overhaul.
- Optimised CI/CD pipelines, reducing integration cycle time from two weeks to three days.
- Presented compliance findings to government auditors, securing contract renewals worth $25M.
- Authored internal whitepapers on secure coding practices adopted across regional engineering teams.
Principal Engineer — Randstad Enterprise
- Architected job placement platform serving 500K+ monthly users with zero downtime incidents.
- Established data governance framework that satisfied GDPR and CCPA requirements.
- Champion of DevOps practices, decreasing average deployment lead time from 10 days to 2.
- Mentored junior developers through agile sprints and pair programming initiatives.
- Presented quarterly architecture reviews to executive leadership, securing funding for cloud expansion.
Education
M.S. Engineering
Imperial College London
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Languages
English, Hindi