Ruchita Maheshwary

I’m a Staff/Principal Software Engineer with 16+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable enterprise platforms using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, and Google Cloud Platform. I lead architecture initiatives end to end—turning target-state designs into measurable outcomes across migration, integrations, and performance engineering.

At UKG, I architected and led a GCP migration of SQL Server FileTables to Google Cloud Platform, reducing storage footprint by ~80% through cross-team execution. I also modernized a high-volume financial processing platform by re-architecting data models and introducing intermediate processing layers to remove recurring scalability bottlenecks.

I build event-driven integration and data pipelines with Kafka, defining shared event schemas to enable real-time synchronization between products and drive enterprise data standardisation across downstream integration initiatives. I’ve designed multi-tenant IAM foundations—authorisation models, SSO integration patterns, and templating frameworks—so teams can deploy securely across multiple applications and customer deployments.

I care deeply about operational excellence: I optimize query execution (CTEs, indexing, parallel workflows) to reduce execution times by 40–50% and eliminate production timeout incidents. I also implement observability with OpenTelemetry-based metrics and dashboards (Grafana Cloud), and improve data governance, PII classification, and retention/archival strategies to strengthen compliance and reliability.