EPAM Systems — Hyderabad
July 2024 – October 2026Team Lead – Senior Software Engineer AI SDLC Enablement, Agentic Automation & System Modernisation
- Led enterprise adoption of AI-augmented software development as the team standard — rolled out Claude Code with custom plugins, skills and slash commands, ran hands-on enablement on agentic coding workflows, and drove the team to AI Maturity Level 3, improving developer productivity by ~25%.
- Designed tool schemas and abstraction layers and deployed agentic SDLC automation agents for code generation, code review and test coverage using agent SDKs. Drove migration of 5+ legacy applications to .NET Core, using the AI SDLC pipeline to automate component-level conversion and improving reliability by ~35%.
- Owned the technical harness that validated AI-generated code: quality gates in GitHub Actions CI/CD (deployment time cut from hours to under 20 minutes), Verify end-to-end integration tests, editorconfig and static-analysis standards, build verification, Flyway migration checks in CI/Git hooks, secrets-guard hooks, and agent API observability on CloudWatch distributed tracing.
- Mentored 11 senior engineers & QA in .NET, system design and AI-native programming practices; partnered with the client architect and lead on AWS evaluation, cloud-native API modernisation and AI tooling strategy.
Team Lead – Software Engineering Service Health Assessment — System Modernisation
- Built a RAG pipeline (Pinecone) grounding a tax agent in the internal knowledge base and documentation, enabling accurate Q&A and change-tracking — part of the GenAI hackathon solution, productionised as an internal Q&A tool for business analysts.
- Designed a Workflow Orchestration Platform (Hangfire) replacing the legacy batch system and executing thousands of jobs daily — retry policies, failure containment, idempotency guarantees and CloudWatch observability; reduced job failure rate 30% and eliminated manual intervention in 90% of scenarios. Added WebSocket notifications (25% server load reduction, sub-500ms UX).
- Led RCA on a WCF production outage through full recovery.
Senior Software Engineer Corporate Tax Platform
- Authored the REST API modernisation design document for services handling 50K–100K requests/day — deterministic contracts, versioning, schema consistency and observability requirements targeting ~50% performance improvement; adopted as the team architectural standard.
- Performance profiling reduced page load 40% and AWS RDS + Lambda optimisation achieved 20% cost reduction.