# Jay Tandalai > Principal Software Engineer at Rally Health/Optum Location: Fremont, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jaytandalai Soup to Nuts, do it all Engineer Solution centric, Firm believer in Agile iterative development. Expertise in System architecture, Java based Web Application development, maintenance and performance tuning. Adept in Dev-Ops on AWS cloud. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Optum Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principal Software Engineer @ Rally Health Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Rally Health specializes in providing digital health experiences to members offering easy access to care, products to improve wellness and lower medical costs. Been building scala based microservices hosted on AWS that form the core platform API powering all of Rally Health's customer facing products. ### Co-Founder @ Field Day Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Marina Del Ray Field Day is the first cloud-based enterprise platform to help multi-unit retail brands system and structure their local marketing efforts and investments at scale. Our platform enables visibility, accountability, and measurability into each unique local market in order to drive in-store traffic and sales. Field Day’s data, tools, and analytics enable a brand to discover local opportunities, activate internal staff or brand ambassadors for local marketing campaigns, and measure all this directly to sales. Brand ambassadors are sourced through the first programmatic marketplace for brands to leverage curated representation at a local level. ### Business Technology Architect @ Steerwise Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, California Steerwise is a value-focused intellectual solutions firm, providing business technology strategy & delivery services for organizations across industries. - Implemented Steerwise's proprietary Methodology to gather Business Semantics from Business Assets & Mainframe Technical Assets at an Auto Captive Finance company. - Developed Data & Service Catalog, Provenance and Assets and establish Data Governance using Steerwise's Methodology for an Auto Captive Finance and an Oil and Natural Gas company. - Building a Java based Automation Solution for gathering the Business Rules from Mainframe Codebases using their Abstract Semantic Graphs (ASG) loaded into a Graph Database (Neo4j) and Steerwise's powerful custom Methodology. - Developed a Alexa Skill for an Oil & Natural Gas Company with Alexa Skill Kit and a custom Dialog Management Graph. ### Architect/VP Engineering @ Local ID Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Marina Del Rey, CA Local ID is a cloud-based local intelligence platform with a sole focus on maximizing Local Marketing for multi-unit brands. We provide our customers with unprecedented visibility into every store and the opportunities and marketing activities that surround them, resulting in the creation of a dynamic local marketing playbook. - Architected a centralized Geo-Spatial exploratory and analytics platform for Marketing heads that shall be customized for Retail Chains - Marketing staff are provided Local awareness with a summary of all stats across their Stores spread across multiple regions within US. - A Map based explore tool allows them to slice and dice various dimensions of Location based data and find marketing opportunities Technologies: Elasticsearch: Keeping the Tech stack thin, Elasticsearch provides the flexibility for our backend services acting as a primary Datastore, Analytics framework and a super Search engine. Dropwizard - Light weight, easy and a flexible REST framework AWS Opsworks: Our Web Application, Ingestion instances, Elasticsearch clusters are all deployed and bootstrapped with Chef Recipes on AWS Opsworks Jenkins: Continuously builds and deploys to specific environments, notifies groups on Slack. ### Sr. Software Engineer/Architect @ ShopNation Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Los Angeles, CA Shopnation integrates Meredith's digital Magazines with Affiliate Commerce Networks monetizing their content by featuring syndicated products from multiple retailers via a CPC/CPA program. - Maintained Production and QA systems on AWS Opsworks cloud infrastructure which included a Elasticsearch cluster, Mysql RDS and a bunch of Java EE Application servers - Set up a Metrics system using Statsd+Graphite on AWS Opsworks for tracking Application performance real time - Reduced infrastructure cost on AWS by about 2/3 in a span of 8 months - Developed/maintained Spring based application run on Tomcat that would gather Product catalog feeds from multiple affiliates, store in MongoDB and index in a Elasticsearch cluster. Technologies: Spring Tool Suite, Spring MVC,, Tomcat7, Java7, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Apache Httpd, AWS Opsworks, AWS ec2, AWS s3, AWS RDS, AWS SQS. ### Sr. Software Engineer @ BeachMint Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Santa Monica, CA A venture backed social commerce company that partners with celebrities, experts and designers to create and curate direct to consumer online brand - worked in the development and maintenance of the eCommerce site, specifically the Shipping module - won a Hackthon along with 3 other members by developing a one-page Site for Orders and Customer Management admin interface. - worked on improving performance of specific modules of the Application. Technologies: PHP, Magento, Nginx, Mysql, Memcached, Graphite, Statsd ### Tech Lead @ EndPlay, Inc. Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Spun off from Fox Interactive Media, Endplay provides Content Management, Engagement and Monetization solutions for Television stations. - Played an active Technical role from the Business solution phase to the release of a Content Management System developed in house that allows Editors to create and manage content that can be published on dynamic websites. The system allows Text, Photo, Video and other fundamental components to interact with specific interfaces for Story and other Pages that can weave into wholly presentable websites for News content. Lead the efforts on integrating CMS with Liferay container. - Project : Port CMS to Spring based architecture CMS, built on EJB3 technology and configured to run in a JBoss cluster, was facing a performance block and scalability concerns due to the dependency on the JBoss cluster. The idea behind porting to a new architecture based on Spring-Hibernate with simple Service-Dao pattern was to reduce dependency on Jboss(EJB3 and cluster) so as to allow the application to scale multifold. - Project : Customizing CMS for Fox Sports Interactive Fox Sports interactive wanted to port on to FIM's CMS from their legacy but keep their end user facing website intact. Several aspects of the CMS were re-designed to take on a more generic interface to adapt to their needs. ### Technical Manager @ Fox Interactive Media Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Fox Interactive Media Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 ### Engineer 2 @ Gateway Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 Gateway Integration Platform(GIP) is a open source based SOA toolkit for EAI and B2B Integration built on the semantics of WS-* specifications. GIP uses JMS to provide reliability and distributed failover. The framework Architecture is Component based and uses Dependency Injection for enabling interaction between the components. I was part of a development team of 3 that implemented the protocols defined for the messaging architecture of Gateway Integration. - Implemented the Core and Bootstrap of the Framework - Timer component for Scheduled triggers - HTTP and JMS Transport components - Base Service component that abstracts the framework specific implementation from the Business specific Service logic. - Carried out proof of concept for Context persistence of components using JTA. - Conducted training on the Framework for the internal teams at Gateway that would use the framework for Integration. - Resolved interoperability issues for the framework with Oracle BPEL and Microsoft . NET framework. - Analyzed the differences in the deployable artifacts of the framework for Tomcat and JBoss App servers. ## Education ### M.S in Computer Science University of Houston-Clear Lake ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jayaramantandalai --- Source: https://flows.cv/jaytandalai JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jaytandalai/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12