# Hemali Desai

Hemali Desai is a remote worker on Himalayas, Principal Software Engineer at Internet Travel Solutions, based in India.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@hemalidesai

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Principal Solution Architect at Internet Travel Solutions ITS, architecting travel platforms and an Amazon Bedrock-powered travel assistant.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 2500k+ INR |
| Job categories | Solutions Architect, Software Engineer, Technical Lead |
| Skills | Solutions Architect, Platform Architecture, Distributed Systems, Microservices, Event Driven Architecture, API Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, AWS, Generative AI, Agentic AI, Amazon Bedrock, Model Context Protocol, Travel Technology, GDS NDC Integration, Sabre EDIFACT |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/hemali-desai-62a10320 |

## About

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At Internet Travel Solutions ITS, I engineered 50 reusable Sabre EDIFACT connectors and implemented an Amazon Bedrock-powered travel assistant that turned natural-language trip requests into Air and Hotel transactions.

I co-architected ITS.TravelPlatform, with 50 independently deployable services and pluggable GDS/NDC connectors. I also helped modernize air search on AWS, with production benchmarks showing a 72% improvement in combined round-trip search time.

Earlier, at Rinira Technologies Pvt.Ltd, I developed flight-search algorithms and integrations with Sabre and Amadeus, and delivered airline solutions for American Airlines corporate booking and Spirit/Frontier IROP passenger reaccommodation. My work combines hands-on engineering with architecture, mentoring, and production issue resolution.
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## Experience

### Principal Software Engineer

Internet Travel Solutions. Apr 2024 - Aug 2026

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Engineered 50 reusable Sabre EDIFACT connectors using TypeScript/Node.js and implemented an Amazon Bedrock-powered conversational travel assistant. Directed engineering teams of up to 10 and provided cross-team technical leadership.
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Skills: TypeScript, NodeJS, Sabre-EDIFACT, Amazon-Bedrock, AWS-X-Ray, MCP, Claude, WARP, GitHub-Co-Pilot, CI-CD, Observability, Microservices

### Tech Lead

Internet Travel Solutions. Apr 2020 - Mar 2024

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Led the ITS travel platform with expanded roles in architecture, AWS modernization, engineering, and delivery. Architected scalable Air, Hotel, Car and Rail travel capabilities and implemented AWS services across API Gateway, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, ECS and CloudFormation.
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Skills: C#, .NET, AWS, API-Gateway, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Amazon-SQS, SNS, AWS-ECS, CloudFormation, Microservices, Architecture, Technical-Leadership

### Team Lead - ITS Client

Rinira Technologies Pvt. Ltd.. Apr 2011 - Mar 2020

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Managed teams across requirements analysis, solution design, hands-on implementation, SDLC/release management and direct client interaction for B2B/B2C and corporate travel products. Developed flight-search algorithms and integrations with Sabre, Amadeus, and others.
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Skills: Sabre, Amadeus, Flight-Search, B2B, B2C, Corporate-Travel, SDLC, Team-Management

### Senior Software Engineer

Financial Technologies (India) Ltd.. Apr 2008 - Sep 2010

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Worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Financial Technologies (India) Ltd., now known as 63 moons technologies.
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### Software Engineer

Chenoa Information & Software Services. Nov 2004 - Mar 2008

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Worked as a Software Engineer at Chenoa Information & Software Services.
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### Software Trainer

APTECH Computers. May 2003 - Oct 2004

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Worked as a Software Trainer at APTECH Computers.
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### Software Consultant

Intellect Computers. Dec 2000 - Jan 2003

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Worked as a Software Consultant at Intellect Computers.
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### Academic Head

INFORMATICS Computer Institute. Dec 1997 - Nov 2000

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Worked as Academic Head at INFORMATICS Computer Institute.
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## Education

### Veer Narmad South Gujarat University

Post Graduation Diploma in Computers, Computers. 1996 - 1997

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Post Graduation Diploma in Computers (PGDCA) from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, from 1996 to 1997.
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### Veer Narmad South Gujarat University

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics. 1993 - 1996

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B.Sc. in Mathematics from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, from 1993 to 1996.
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## Tech stack

- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon S3
- GitHub
- AWS Fargate
- GitHub Actions
- Node.js
- .NET
- Redis
- AWS CloudFormation
- Jira
- C#
- warp
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon SNS
- Amazon DynamoDB
- AWS X-Ray
- Gemini
- AWS Lambda
- TypeScript
- Docker
- SQL
- LangChain
- GitHub Copilot
- ChatGPT
- AWS
- Claude
- REST APIs
- Model Context Protocol

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