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Virajkumar Sathvara

@virajsathvara

Senior software engineer specializing in scalable distributed backend systems and AI-powered microservices with end-to-end ownership.

United Arab Emirates

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can own end-to-end backend platforms—building scalable microservices, event-driven systems, and AI-powered workflows—so teams can deliver reliable features at high traffic with strong engineering standards.

I’m a senior software engineer with 8 years of experience building high-traffic, distributed backend systems, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and end-to-end ownership. I thrive on microservices and event-driven architectures, and I like turning complex requirements into systems that move fast in production.

At Emirates NBD Dubai, I designed and implemented an AI architecture that integrates agent-based LLM flows with LangChain and REST APIs to improve customer engagement. I’ve built and maintained microservices powering a high-volume notification platform (~2M messages/day) and led modernization by migrating legacy Java services to TypeScript while implementing Kafka and Redis-based event-driven architecture to reduce notification latency.

Earlier, as a founding member at Novo, I built a credit decision engine that made underwriting ~10x faster and helped drive 20% of total revenue in its first year. I’ve also led the shift from monolith to microservices using GraphQL, Kafka workers, and cron jobs to cut latency and improve fault tolerance, and I’ve mentored engineers through pair programming and code reviews.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Engineer - AI & Notifications

Current

Emirates NBD

Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Designed and implemented an AI architecture integrating agent-based LLM flows with LangChain and REST APIs to improve customer engagement. Built and modernized high-traffic notification microservices using Kafka and Redis.

REST APIs Microservices Event Driven Architecture Kafka Redis TypeScript Dependency Injection Notifications LLM

Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

Novo - India

Jul 2022 - Sep 2024 (2 years 2 months)

Served as a founding member of Novo's Credit team, building a decision engine that accelerated credit underwriting and contributed significantly to revenue. Led system design from monolith to microservices, improving latency and fault tolerance.

Credit Underwriting Decision Engine Concurrency Microservices GraphQL Fault Tolerance Mentorship

Software Engineer (Remote)

Advanced Business & Healthcare Solutions

Apr 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Developed a unified client platform enabling SSO and centralized data access across multiple applications via a dashboard. Led AWS serverless API integrations and established organization-wide API standards.

SSO API Integration AWS Lambda API Gateway Serverless Documentation REST APIs

Jr. Full Stack Engineer

Rapidops Inc.

Sep 2019 - Apr 2021 (1 year 7 months)

Designed and built microservices for Kibana-based DataLake dashboards using Node.js, React.js, and MongoDB. Built a new website/blog experience from scratch with Gatsby and a Node.js GraphQL backend.

Microservices Kibana Node React MongoDB Gatsby GraphQL

Backend Developer

Vadict Innovations

May 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year 3 months)

Led feature development for an IoT startup’s cloud platform to analyze large-scale sensor data from oil storage and processing units. Developed and tested microservices and REST APIs with Java Spring Boot and ActiveMQ, including unit tests with Mockito and JUnit.

Java Spring Boot ActiveMQ Microservices REST APIs Mockito Junit Sensors Data