Saket Kumar

About Saket Kumar

I design and operate large-scale, cloud-native distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resilience, and long-term architectural clarity.With 16+ years in backend engineering, I’ve led platform re-architecture, enterprise cloud migrations, and cross-team domain boundary decisions across high-throughput ingestion and real-time streaming systems. My core stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, and AWS, building low-latency backend platforms that support critical business workflows at scale.My experience spans distributed system design, event-driven microservices architecture, reliability engineering, performance optimization, and production resilience — including diagnosing complex cross-layer issues across Kafka pipelines, AWS networking, and JVM runtime behavior.I’m most effective in roles that require deep systems thinking, architectural ownership, cross-team alignment, and solving hard distributed systems problems around scale, correctness, and operational excellence.

Experience

1. Software Engineer Iii (AVP) Distributed Systems & Platform Architecture

   JPMorganChase

   Apr 2019 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Architectural Leadership & Platform OwnershipLead engineer operating at architectural scope for high-scale, cloud-native distributed systems, driving platform evolution, domain boundaries, and cross-team technical direction.Planned and led modernization of Crowd Data Store, defining migration strategy, controlled cutover, and reconciliation approach for seamless AWS transition.Architected high-throughput Kafka-based ingestion pipelines in AWS with sub-second latency; resolved prolonged production disruption due to AWS security group misconfiguration and diagnosed JVM heap constraints impacting containerized services.Identified architectural coupling across ingestion and analytics domains and refined service boundaries to improve scalability and ownership clarity.Improved cloud price-performance via AWS ARM(Graviton) migration and non-prod workload optimization.Defined infrastructure and repository patterns using Terraform and enhanced CI/CD workflows (Jenkins, Spinnaker) to improve deployment consistency and change isolation.Led resilience validation through controlled Chaos Testing (Gremlin) and strengthened observability using Dynatrace and CloudWatch to improve recovery behavior and production diagnostics.Mentored engineers on coding best practices, distributed systems and cloud-native design; contributed to technical interviews and backend hiring.Key Platforms DeliveredRich Presence Service (Real-Time Platform)Architected and scaled cloud-native microservices serving ~350K+ users at ~400 RPS.Led Kafka partitioning strategy, ordering guarantees, and consumer back-pressure handling to ensure message integrity.Built horizontally scalable Websocket fan-out pipelines for real-time delivery.Data Quality EngineBuilt Spring Batch validation engine reducing data defects (~90%) and latency (~50%).

Education

• North Maharashtra University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

• De Nobili School

  12th, Science

• SunBeam Institute of Information Technology, Pune-Karad

  Postgraduate Diploma, Advanced Computing

Skills

• Web Services
• Tomcat
• Javascript
• Ajax
• Jquery
• J2ee Application Development
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Java
• Jsp
• Junit
• Spring Framework
• Xml
• Jdbc
• Javase
• Spring
• Core Java
• Ant
• Eclipse
• Servlets