Deepakk Kumar

About Deepakk Kumar

Strategic Senior Software Architect with ~18 years of experience in designing scalable architectures, leading large cross-functional & cross-gepgraphical teams including India, US, Russia & UK, driving technology initiatives. Expertise in microservices, event-driven architecture, observability, cost optimization (infrastructure, applications) and system migrations & upgrades (legacy and recent). Adept at aligning technology with business goals, reducing risks with apt direction setting & scoping, building technical capacity and executing high-impact transformations. Proven track record of planning, organizing, and leading teams throughout the project lifecycle to ensure the successful execution of mission-critical business initiatives.Advocate of improving developer productivity experience. Believe in empowering developers with the wisdom to deal with challenges in order to grow the team\'s overall technical capacity. Prioritizes progress over perfection.Eager to collaborate with innovative individuals and teams committed to creating unique products, platforms, and value propositions that enrich both individuals\' lives and businesses.Technical Expertise Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Okta (SSO), Linux, Windows Server, Google Suite Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes Big Data Platforms: Amazon EMR, Cloudera Search Engines: SOLR, ElasticSearch, Lucene Application & Backend Development: Java, JVM & GC Tuning, SpringBoot, Restlet, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, SQL Server, Async Jobs E-commerce & Dropshipping: Shopify, DSCO, BigCommerce Marketing Solutions: Mailchimp, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Architecture & Design: Microservices Architecture, API Integration, Scalability & High Availability Design, Security (Data, API), Workflow Automation (Oozie) Reverse Proxy & Load Balancing: Nginx, Lua/OpenResty Observability & Monitoring: OpenTelemetry, OTel Collector, Grafana Alloy, LGTM Stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus NoSQL Ecosystem: HBase, Hadoop, YARN, Phoenix, ZooKeeper Messaging Systems: Kafka, RabbitMQ DevOps & CI/CD: Git, SVN, Bitbucket, Nexus (Artifactory), ECR (Elastic Container Registry), Bamboo, Jira, Confluence, Hashicorp Vault AI Tools: Langchain, Google Vertex Payment Gateway: Braintree, StripeLet\'s connect! Feel free to DM.

Experience

1. Vice President Principal Engineer

   NatWest Group

   May 2026 — Present · Gurugram, IN

Education

• DOEACC, India

  A Level, Computer Organization

  2003 — 2004

• Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India

  O Level, Computer Software Engineering

  2002 — 2003

• Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMU

  Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Software Engineering

  2008 — 2010

• Deendayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  2003 — 2006

• DAV High School, Gopalganj

  Matriculation, Maths

  1998 — 2000

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Post Graduate Program, AI/ML

Skills

• Junit
• Jsp
• Performance Analysis
• Spring
• Scalable Architecture
• Lucene
• Performance Tuning
• Struts
• Team Leadership
• Web Services
• Agile Methodologies
• Team Building
• Java
• Xml
• Software Development
• Solution Architecture
• Tomcat
• Spring Framework
• Sql
• Hibernate
• Solrcloud
• Servlets
• Data Migration
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Distributed Systems
• Solution Design
• Application Architecture
• Javascript
• Solr
• Multithreading