# Ashwin Kumar Kalyanker > Lead/Staff Software Engineer (R&D - Engineering) - Distributed Systems Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ashwinkumarkalyanker • IT consultant with more than 16 years of industry experience in leading the technical delivery of a broad range of IT initiatives functioning in the capacity of Architect/Designer/Developer using Java stack. • Experience in Architecting, Designing and Developing Restful services using Micro Services Architectural style. • Enterprise IT consulting, defining the roadmap and providing recommendations in the capacity of Portal/SOA/Enterprise Architect. • Experience in providing software solutions to industries like Insurance, Banking, Retail, and Manufacturing. ## Work Experience ### Lead/Staff Software Engineer @ Nexxen Jan 2020 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States ### Lead Consultant @ Wipro Limited Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale • Architected, designed, and implemented a mission-critical application for Apple’s Global Customer Care and Global Retail Stores this high-availability, highly distributed application was built on the principles of Fault-Tolerant on Java platform using Micro Services Architecture. • Design and Implement functional micro-services, integration with 3rd party services. • Reviewing the deliverables with the InfoSec team and get it cleared for production deployment. • Designing and implementing in-memory cache using Spring Cache framework. • Designing and implementing Mongo based cache for external services response to achieve high performance. • Formalizing and finalizing Service Interface Agreement with the consuming application. • Conducting design and code reviews. • Capacity planning, analyzing performance blockers and fixing those. Load testing using tools like JMeter and virtual services. • Leading large technical team located at offshore and responsible for design, development. ### Technical/Solution Architect @ Wipro Limited Jan 2008 – Jan 2015 | Pune Area, India • Worked in the various roles such as Solution Designer/Architect, Aviva Life systems SME and Project/Technical Lead for various complex projects
 • Architected, Designed and implemented the solution in Agile environment for various regulatory, large and medium projects for Aviva Life and Pensions area as part of BCIT team.
 • Designed solution to integrate and implement Quote services building reusable service components to deliver B2B, B2E, and B2C portals. 
• End to end responsibilities right from initiation of the project till delivery of the project within defined timeliness and meeting quality parameters leading technical team at multiple locations in the UK and Offshore India.
 • Knowledge Transition of Aviva IT systems to offshore for project delivery.
 • Technical areas of expertise include; Java, J2EE, Web Services, DB2, Unix, Websphere Application Server, Websphere Portals, Websphere Portlet Factory.
 • Leading large technical team located at offshore and responsible for design delivery and development to align with defined solution. ### Technical Lead @ Wipro Technologies Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 | York, United Kingdom • Designed and implemented core functionality for introduction of new products to UK market. • Service interface agreement document for 3rd party consumers based on the Origo standards as used in UK insurance industry. • Implementing the business functionality using C and integration layer using Java. • Integration of Java and C code using Java Native Interface • Implementing SQL Cursors for Data integration. • Designed and Developed Test Harness for testing huge number of business scenarios. • Documented Calculation specifications for insurance premium calculations. • POC showcasing integration of Java Based application with CICS application. ### Project Engineer @ Wipro Technologies Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 | Pune Area, India • Involved in analysis, design and development of the application based on J2EE and design patterns.  • Developed server-side code using Java Beans, Java and Collections  • Designed and Developed the user interface by the use of JSP, Tag Libraries, JavaScript and HTML. • Used Struts Internationalization for providing the labels on the User Interface  • Providing server side and client side validation using JavaScript and Struts Validator framework.  • Involved in developing distributed, transactional, secure and portable applications based on Java technology using EJB technology.  • Developed Session beans and Data layer using Transfer Object pattern. • Developed the application using RAD7.5 and deployed the application in Weblogic Application Server. • Used ANT for building and deploying the application on server.  Involved in Unit testing of my modules. ## Education ### Master of Computer Applications (MCA) in Computer Science Kakatiya University, Warangal ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Osmania University ### Caremel Convent High School ### OM VIDYALAYA ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akalyanker --- Source: https://flows.cv/ashwinkumarkalyanker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ashwinkumarkalyanker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12