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Saket Puranik

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Experienced Senior Platform Associate with expertise in Java engineering.

India

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for a job that offers challenging projects in the financial services or fintech industry. I am particularly interested in roles that allow me to lead teams and contribute to the development of innovative cloud-native solutions. I value a collaborative and diverse work environment, and I am eager to continue expanding my expertise in Java engineering.

Saket Puranik is an experienced Senior Platform Associate with over 10 years of international experience in financial services and fintech. He has led teams in The Netherlands, New Zealand, India, and Hong Kong, demonstrating his ability to work effectively in diverse environments. Saket is an empathic and analytical professional, known for his fast-learning abilities and thought leadership.

Throughout his career, Saket has been a key contributor to the development of ambitious in-house cloud-native open banking products. He has a strong background in Java engineering, with expertise in technologies such as Java 8, 11, 14, Scala, TDD, BDD, OOP, FP, EIP, and ORM. Saket has successfully led the implementation of Micro-Services and Lambdas architecture, as well as continuous delivery of high-performance ingestion streams and real-time reactive streams of financial insights.

With hands-on experience in a wide range of technologies including Spring Boot/Cloud/Stream, Axon, Kubernetes, Docker, Akka, Kafka, Elastic, Kibana, SparkJava, jOOQ, and Hibernate, Saket is well-equipped to tackle complex enterprise solutions. He has worked with Amazon Lambda, Backbase, CircleCI, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic APM, Tomcat 9, Websphere Liberty Core, and Microsoft Azure.

Experience

Chief Java Engineer

Weird.io

Worked as a hands-on Chief Java Engineer with a broad knowledge of the Java ecosystem and a keen interest in the Spring Framework.

Java Spring Framework

Lead Java Engineer

Stealth-mode Fintech Product Amsterdam

Led a team of 3 fulltime engineers, designed a high-throughput ingestion stream using Spring Cloud, Spring Stream, Kafka, HyperLedger Fabric and Elastic, and added performance monitoring & alerting solutions in the cloud using Prometheus, Grafana and Elastic APM.

Spring Cloud Spring Kafka Hyperledger Fabric Elastic Prometheus Grafana Elastic Cloud

Lead Java/JavaScript Engineer

Westpac New Zealand

Joined a multidisciplinary team as a “T-shaped” engineer, responsible for developing best practices for the business value stream, including setting up T/BDD quality gates for a continuous delivery pipeline of backend and frontend deliveries.

BDD Continuous Delivery

Senior Java Engineer

Capgemini

Worked as a consultant for various clients in the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe, where Saket traveled regularly as tech lead of a nearshore Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Pune, India.

Lead Java Engineer

NBAD

Worked as a lead onshore developer in Abu Dhabi for 3 months and as a lead developer offshore in Pune. Helped the team in developing an online retail internet banking using Backbase as an enterprise solution.

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Java Engineer

e-Zest

Implemented features of a cloud-native enterprise resource planning solution with thousands of individual use-cases. Part of a feature squad and worked as a fullstack developer.

Fullstack Development

Member Technical

ADP

Worked for the research and development team, where he developed several features for Workscape, an HR solution that enables organizations to manage remunerations, benefits and performance-driven compensations.

Software Engineer

Zensar

Helped the product owners to develop a solution to configure insurance products using GWT, Spring and Hibernate.

GWT Spring Hibernate

Lead Java Engineer

Backbase

Responsible for supporting and consulting customers in the APAC region and developing inhouse localised solutions based on open banking standards using Spring Boot as a framework for microservices. Developed Java course materials for the Backbase Academy, based on open source technologies such as Spring Boot, Netflix OSS & Docker/Kubernetes.

Spring Boot OSS Docker Kubernetes

Senior Platform Associate L2

Publicis Sapient

Senior Java Engineer at Cargill, supporting North America and Latam regions in the development of backend applications primarily using Spring Boot, Redis, Elastic Search, Kubernetes.

Java 8 Java Scala TDD BDD OOP ORM Spring Boot Redis Elastic Kubernetes

Senior Java Engineer/Team Lead

HSBC

Led a team of engineers of “HSBC Global Technology” in London and Pune, managed the migration from a legacy system to a set of decoupled microservices using Domain Driven Design to map the complex business problems. Used the Axon framework for Event Sourcing and CQRS. Participated in a training at the HSBC London Headquarters to implement Behaviour Driven Development across the Pune Offshore Devel

Domain Driven Design Axon Event Sourcing CQRS