Deepak Kumar Jha
Technical Lead – Architecture & Platform Engineering
Architecture & Platform Engineering

Technical Lead — Architecture & Platform Engineering

I help enterprises design and implement scalable, secure, and observable systems — specializing in microservices, cloud-native platforms, event-driven integration, API-first design, and AI-enabled automation. My background in high-throughput e-commerce and BFSI systems helps me balance business requirements with technical constraints.

11+ yrs
Software & Leadership
6–10
Team Size
~40%
Faster release velocity (CI/CD)

About

I am a Technical Lead with 11+ years of hands-on experience building and evolving backend platforms for Banking, Fintech, and E-commerce. I focus on solutioning for long-term maintainability: shaping service boundaries, defining API contracts, and enabling platform teams to build reliably at scale.

I partner with product and engineering to convert business goals into technical roadmaps — emphasizing observability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Core technologies, architecture patterns, and platform capabilities I deliver.

Solution Design Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Microservices Event-Driven Architecture API Strategy & Gateways Java 8–17 Spring Boot / Spring Cloud Kafka / RabbitMQ Docker • Kubernetes CI/CD Architecture Observability (Prometheus, ELK) Cloud: AWS / GCP LLM & AI Integrations Security & Compliance
Architecture & Design90%
Platform Engineering80%
Cloud & DevOps72%
AI & Automation62%

Architecture Focus

How I approach designing systems that scale and endure.

  • Define clear service boundaries using Domain-Driven Design to reduce cognitive load and increase maintainability.
  • Adopt event-driven patterns for loose coupling and resilient integrations (Kafka-based messaging).
  • Design API contracts with versioning, throttling, and gateway-level policies for stability and security.
  • Design for observability: metrics, traces, and structured logs to speed up incident resolution.
  • Plan for non-functional requirements: performance, availability, recoverability, and security-by-design.
  • Mentor engineering teams to implement architecture standards and platform best practices.

Experience

Technical Lead — Tech Mahindra

Apr 2023 — Present • Mumbai, India • Team: 6–8
  • Architecting microservices-based platforms for BFSI modernization programs.
  • Created high-level and low-level designs, API specifications, and migration roadmaps for legacy systems.
  • Led PoCs for event-driven solutions (Kafka) and platform components to validate scalability and reliability.
  • Introduced CI/CD & automated testing, decreasing release times and increasing deployment confidence.

Module Lead — Ferns N Petals (FNP)

Sep 2020 — Apr 2023 • New Delhi • Team: 6+
  • Owned core e-commerce modules: orders, payments, checkout, and logistics; led migration of monolith modules to services.
  • Improved checkout throughput and reduced SLA breaches via performance tuning and fault isolation.
  • Collaborated across product, QA, and operations for delivery and reliability improvements.

Senior Software Engineer — Ferns N Petals

Apr 2018 — Sep 2020 • New Delhi
  • Backend development for high-traffic e-commerce workflows and third-party integrations.
  • Focused on performance optimization and production stability.

Java Developer — Ferns N Petals

Dec 2014 — Apr 2018 • New Delhi / Hyderabad
  • Built foundational backend modules, APIs, and database models for order management systems.
  • Contributed to enhancements that improved throughput and reduced error rates.

Selected Projects

Short, scannable summaries for hiring managers and recruiters.

BFSI Modernization — Event-Driven Platform

Tech Mahindra — 2023–Present

Led design of an event-driven microservices platform replacing legacy batch-oriented modules. Implemented message-driven flows, idempotency, and improved scalability by ~5× with better fault isolation.

MicroservicesKafkaResilience

E-commerce Platform Optimization

FNP — 2020–2023

Improved checkout & order pipeline performance, optimized DB queries and async flows to reduce latency and SLA breaches across peak loads.

PaymentsScalingPerformance

Ready for Platform & Architecture Challenges

I collaborate with teams and leaders to design resilient, cost-efficient, and maintainable systems — open to senior engineering, platform, and architecture-track roles.