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Nikant Chaudhary

@nikantchaudhary

Lead Software Engineer at Empower who cut Spring Boot upgrade effort by 80% across 1,000+ APIs and builds GenAI solutions.

India

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At Empower, I designed and implemented an application modernization framework with custom OpenRewrite recipes and Jenkins, reducing Spring Boot upgrade effort by about 80% across 1,000+ APIs.

I lead technical design and delivery for backend services and an event-driven integration platform using Java, Spring Boot, and Apache Kafka. I also lead an 8-member engineering team and stay involved in implementation and production delivery.

I’ve built GenAI capabilities at Empower, including an MCP server that exposes enterprise API capabilities as AI-consumable tools and a sales solution using Spring AI and RAG to ground LLM responses in enterprise data.

Earlier, I developed production features for an enterprise weather application at IBM India Private Limited and built flat-file ingestion pipelines and a DB2 Mainframe connector at Platform 3 Solutions. At Opteamix India Pvt. Ltd., I redesigned a Letters module integration, reducing application loading time by 20%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead Software Engineer

Current

Empower

Apr 2026 - Present (6 months)

Provides technical leadership to an 8-member engineering team, driving solution design, technical decision-making, and end-to-end delivery of business-critical backend systems. Reduced Spring Boot upgrade effort by approximately 80% across 1,000+ APIs using custom OpenRewrite recipes and Jenkins.

Java Spring Boot Kafka AWS Kubernetes Spring AI RAG MCP Agentic AI LLM OpenRewrite Jenkins Docker CloudFormation Rancher Python Flask AWS Lambda JMeter

Senior Software Engineer

Empower

Mar 2023 - Mar 2026 (3 years)

Provided technical leadership and contributed to the design and delivery of backend systems, including event-driven integration platforms and GenAI solutions. Led engineering planning, code reviews, and mentoring while driving performance and scalability improvements.

Java Spring Boot Kafka Spring Cloud Stream AWS Kubernetes Spring AI RAG MCP Agentic AI LLM OpenRewrite Jenkins Docker CloudFormation Rancher Python Flask AWS Lambda JMeter

Senior Software Engineer

IBM India Private Limited

Nov 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Developed and maintained production features for an enterprise weather application using Java 11 and React.js. Modernized legacy code using SOLID principles and SonarQube, and automated deployments with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

Java React SOLID Principles SonarQube Azure DevOps CI CD

Senior Software Engineer

Platform 3 Solutions

Mar 2021 - Nov 2021 (8 months)

Built high-volume flat-file ingestion pipelines using Java and Spring Batch, and designed a DB2 Mainframe connector for legacy data extraction. Automated deployments with Jenkins and Docker, and contributed to the Archon data management platform.

Java SpringBatch DB2 InfoArchive Jenkins Docker Performance Benchmarking

Software Engineer

Opteamix India Pvt. Ltd.

Aug 2018 - Mar 2021 (2 years 7 months)

Reduced application loading time by 20% by redesigning the Letters module integration using Spring Boot and RESTful services. Developed backend services and implemented server-side validation, data transformation, and scheduled background jobs.

Java Spring Boot Spring Data JPA Microservices REST APIs Cron