# Darshan Yadav V. > Staff Software Engineer @ Safeway | AWS Certified Developer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/darshanyadavv Around 9 years of IT experience in designing, developing, and deploying web-based, enterprise, client/server, and distributed applications using Java/J2EE technologies. Designed and managed scalable Spark jobs on Databricks for complex ETL workflows across file systems, Kafka streams, relational databases, NoSQL sources such as MongoDB and cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and GCP Big Query. Built production-grade, cloud-native backend applications using advanced Java features and modern Spring modules including Spring Boot, Web Flux, Cloud, Integration, JMS, and Data JPA, leveraging Spring Security for robust OAuth2 and JWT-based authentication, with a strong focus on reactive programming and microservices architecture. Experienced in deploying applications to cloud platforms like PCF, Docker, and Kubernetes, using Azure as IaaS, and implementing Open Telemetry for tracing, with Grafana dashboards and alerting for production monitoring. Implemented microservice design patterns using Spring Cloud tools such as Zuul, Eureka Server, Hystrix, and Ribbon to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, fine-grained scaling, and loosely coupled deployments. Strong understanding of software design patterns such as Factory, Builder, Template, Singleton and enterprise integration patterns such as Message, Channel, Router, Transformer, Gateway, Endpoint. Proficient in working with a range of RDBMS and NoSQL databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Cosmos DB. Followed Agile methodologies and participated in feature slicing, daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, using JIRA for tracking user stories and tasks. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Safeway Jan 2021 – Present | Pleasanton, California, United States • Played a key leadership role in Project SpeedKube, driving the successful migration of 322 applications from PCF to AKS, enabling the company to eliminate major VMware renewal costs and achieve $22M in annual savings, through this transformation, our team also delivered enterprise-wide platform upgrades including enhanced APIM, next-gen observability, and the modernization of Kafka, 1,096 SQL DB's, and 237 Cosmos DB's migrated without business disruption, dramatically improving scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency across the organization. • Architected and delivered enterprise-wide Single Sign-On solution that now powers seamless access for employees across 2,300+ stores, supporting use cases such as inventory updates, price changes, product management, and backstage operations. Enabled dozens of teams adopt secure, scalable authentication with dramatically reduced integration effort and support overhead, saving thousands of employee hours annually, and strengthening identity security across enterprise Integrated LLMs for dynamic product attribute generation, reducing manual maintenance by 80%. Implemented AI-driven retry and error-handling frameworks with BigQuery metrics and achieved 99.5% uptime. • Led the strategic migration of our monitoring infrastructure from Dynatrace to Grafana, overseeing the transition of dashboards and alerts while ensuring zero downtime for critical services. • Developed and deployed agentic AI solution that automatically enriched product metadata for 100,000+ items using ChatGPT, enhancing customer understanding and boosting sales through improved product descriptions and categorization • Led architecture and design and development of vendor integration systems such as Syndigo and Salsify to enable seamless product data synchronization such as pricing, inventory, specifications for Safeway's online marketplace ### Senior Software Engineer @ Fidelity Investments Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | North Carolina, United States • Led the initiative to solve a core performance bottleneck caused by large document size in NoSQL database by normalizing the product database into 3 different databases for item price and inventory and migrating from a monolithic data model to a new microservices architecture, which included three new services and an aggregation layer. • Architected and managed end-to-end Big Data pipelines using Spark, Kafka, and mongo DB to deliver real-time data. Led cross-functional engineering teams from design to deployment, ensuring enterprise data standards ### Senior Software Engineer @ Ford Motor Company Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Detroit, Michigan, United States Worked as full stack developer for Ford Motors Company to develop application called HD-VERIFY to submit pollution submission reports to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for all the High-Definition vehicles manufactured by the Ford Motors. This application enabled test engineers to enter all the test results produced in the lab and generate an XML from the results entered and submit it to EPA site and keep track of submission. • Developed robust backend services in Java 8 and Spring Boot, SQL Server, and Angular implementing RESTful APIs, Spring design patterns (MVC, IOC, AOP, Factory, Builder), and JAXB-based XML/XSD validation, marshalling, and unmarshalling. • Built responsive frontend workflows using Angular 7/8, HTML5, and CSS3, integrating tightly with backend microservices to enable test engineers to input, validate, and process lab test results. • Utilized Spring Data JPA and Hibernate for data-access operations, enforced strong engineering practices through JUnit/Mockito unit testing, and collaborated closely within Agile ceremonies including PI Planning and Iteration Reviews. • Configured CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, automated build and deployment processes. ### Software Engineer @ Northern Trust Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Chicago, Illinois, United States Project: Global Cash Hub is an in house developed and integration system built on Oracle Service Bus middleware application platform. worked on Migrating service in Oracle service bus to java based microservice that implements cash domain focused messaging and business logic. • Worked within Agile teams, participated in sprint planning, architecture discussions, daily SCRUM. • GCH developed for clearing Cash transaction up to billions to Europe and Asia developed high critical java APIs for GCH using spring, Spring Boot, MVC patterns, custom exception handling frameworks and using JMS with IBM MQ to communicate between microservices. • Architected mission-critical payment processing system implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns (Channel Adapters, event-driven messaging, Content-Based Routers, Message Transformation, Transactional Clients). Engineered fault-tolerance framework with exponential backoff retry logic, comprehensive exception handling, dead-letter queues, and automated alert generation for manual transaction reconciliation. Applied TDD with JUnit/Mockito (>85% coverage), integration testing, and participated in stress/performance testing to ensure sub-second latency under high-volume loads. • Utilized Dynatrace APM for performance monitoring, root cause analysis, and throughput optimization. Orchestrated deployments to on-premise infrastructure and designed multi-region disaster recovery architecture achieving 99.9% uptime and <15 minute RTO. • Supported build, deployment, and operational workflows across enterprise Java env using Git, Maven, Log4J, and Tomcat. ### Network Engineer @ IPsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Description: Managed global enterprise network infrastructure, troubleshooting WAN/LAN connectivity across multi-site Cisco environments, working across large Cisco environments to ensure reliable WAN/LAN connectivity and seamless data-center operations. Configured and supported advance routing, switching, redundancy, and circuit technologies to maintain high network performance and availability. • Handled end-to-end enterprise network operations, including remote troubleshooting of global WAN/LAN issues, circuit outages (DS1/DS3/STM/MPLS), and coordination with multiple service providers to restore connectivity. • Configured and maintained large Cisco infrastructures, working extensively with routers and multilayer switches (6500, 3800, Nexus, 3700), performing supervisor module replacements, and managing full L2/L3 operations in data-center env. • Implemented and supported advanced network technologies, including RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, STP/RSTP, VLANs, VTP, HSRP, and GLBP, ensuring network redundancy, stability, and high availability across enterprise networks. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science Northwest Missouri State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/darshan-yadav-venkatesh --- Source: https://flows.cv/darshanyadavv JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/darshanyadavv/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12