Technical Architect with 20 years of enterprise software engineering experience, specializing in backend platform architecture (Java/Spring Boot, Python, AWS) and large-scale distributed systems in the cybersecurity domain.
August 2021 – Present
Leading AI/ML strategy and backend architecture for a network security platform focused on Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and compliance automation.
AI/ML & Agentic Systems — Designed and built an autonomous SOC agent using LangGraph and MCP with multi-node stateful graph architecture. Built an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation pipeline for systematic model upgrades. Architected and shipped LLM-powered STIG/CIS compliance explanation generation used by enterprise customers.
Backend & SaaS Platform — Architected Java/Spring Boot microservices for on-prem to SaaS transformation, including REST API design, DynamoDB data modeling, and multi-tenant service patterns. Conceived and led the “Know Before Your Customer Does” initiative: a VictoriaMetrics-based proactive monitoring platform with custom OTLP pipelines.
Technical Leadership — Serve as technical architect interfacing with PMs, VPs, and customer success teams. Mentored engineers on backend best practices, AWS patterns, and AI/ML integration. Championed AI tooling adoption org-wide.
October 2012 – August 2021
Technical lead across Symantec’s Managed Security Services platform — a complex, globally distributed system handling log collection, security analytics, and monitoring for enterprise clients. Progressed from Sr. Software Engineer to Senior Principal over 9 years.
UEBA Analytics (2019–2021) — Led design of Spark-based UEBA analytics platform processing 12 billion Windows logs per day with 29+ detection modules. Built Analytics Development Platform on AWS SageMaker enabling data scientists to ship new analytics in under 7 days.
Monitoring Platform (2015–2019) — Architected from scratch a monitoring system for 500+ TB / 150 billion log lines per day ingestion across 80k security devices and 1500+ log collection points. Leveraged 20+ AWS services, designed to AWS Well-Architected principles. Became one of the most stable systems in Symantec MSS.
AWS Cloud Migration (2015–2021) — Led organization-wide effort to migrate production infrastructure from global data centers to AWS. Recreated a 50+ component stack on EC2. Created standardized image pipelines using Terraform, Packer, and Ansible.
Log Collection Platform (2013–2016) — Key contributor across multiple LCP releases. Part of team that scaled throughput from 20K to 200K events/second — a 10x performance improvement. Retired heavy tech debt replacing LDAP and DB2 with lightweight alternatives.
November 2008 – October 2012
Design and development lead across two major OSS platform releases for telecom operators — provisioning, inventory management, and order management. Built a Drools-based Recommendation Engine for Cisco OnPlus portal.
January 2007 – November 2008
Developed web services and interfaces for push-to-talk and advanced voice services platform serving telecom operators globally.
| Tech | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| AI/ML & GenAI | LLMs (Claude, GPT), Prompt Engineering, Finetuning, Guardrails, LangGraph, MCP, LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation |
| Backend Engineering | Java (20 yrs), Spring Boot, Python, Go, Microservices, REST APIs, Kafka, Event-driven architectures |
| Cloud & Infrastructure | AWS (EC2, S3, ECS, Lambda, SageMaker, DynamoDB, Kinesis, EMR), Terraform, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Docker |
| Data & Pipelines | Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, InfluxDB, SQL/NoSQL, ETL at PB scale |
| Security Domain | Identity Governance, STIG/CIS compliance, Network security posture, CTEM, SOC operations, UEBA |