Ganesh Kolekar

Software Architect @Persistent Systems

San Francisco, CA, US

Work location: Intuit, Mountain View, CA • Architected and led delivery of a scalable screening platform processing 1M+ daily records, designing for fault tolerance and high throughput in mission-critical workloads.• Owned end-to-end migration architecture for 1.3B records from Oracle to MySQL (AWS RDS), coordinating cross-functional execution and cutover strategy with zero data loss.• Standardized release safety by implementing canary deployments with fast rollback in Argo CD, reducing MTTR from 15 minutes to ~10 seconds.• Built an observability blueprint using OpenTelemetry RED metrics, routing telemetry to Wavefront and operationalizing Splunk dashboards for real-time service health.• Designed a reusable RED-metrics collection approach (aspect-oriented) adopted by downstream services, improving ecosystem-wide reliability and consistency.• Strengthened auth platform behavior by implementing an OAuth2 client with offline token caching backed by ElastiCache (Memcached).• Led 32 multi-region releases for an IAM service, aligning engineering/SRE/security stakeholders and institutionalizing release best practices.• Designed and operationalized a repeatable test migration workflow (GenAI-assisted translation + guardrails), improving migration throughput by ~30%