Ganesh Kumar

Project: Cloud-Based Smart Metering & Energy Management Platform

• Contributed to the development of an advanced smart metering platform for Landis+Gyr, enabling real-time monitoring, billing, and management of energy consumption for utility companies globally.
• Designed and implemented high-performance data ingestion pipelines using Java 16 to process and analyze millions of smart meter readings daily, ensuring low-latency and fault-tolerant data handling.
• Integrated the platform with various communication protocols like DLMS/COSEM, ensuring seamless interaction between smart meters and the backend system for data accuracy and integrity.
• Optimized key system components by refactoring legacy code, resulting in a 40% improvement in performance and enhanced scalability for handling large-scale deployments.
• Played a key role in implementing cloud-based infrastructure on GCP using GCE, Bucket, and Cloud SQL, improving the scalability and reliability of the platform for future growth.
• Ensured high availability and fault tolerance by implementing resilient design patterns like circuit breakers and retry mechanisms with Spring Cloud.

Project: Scalable Digital Payments & Prepaid Card Processing Platform

• Led the design and development of a high-performance, secure, and scalable prepaid payment processing system for NetSpend, utilizing Java 16 and modern microservices architecture.
• Implemented RESTful APIs to support real-time financial transactions, ensuring low-latency and high availability across the platform.
• Optimized key performance areas such as transaction throughput and system reliability, improving transaction processing efficiency by 30% under high traffic conditions.
• Used Spring Boot and Spring Cloud to build distributed microservices, leveraging Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
• Integrated with AWS for cloud-based infrastructure, implementing services like S3, EC2, and RDS to enhance system scalability and availability.

Project: Scalable E-Commerce & Payments Platform for Rakuten

• Led a team of 6 engineers to develop and optimize a high-performance e-commerce and digital payments platform handling 2 million+ daily transactions.
• Optimized Rakuten’s recommendation engine by integrating big data pipelines (Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop), increasing personalized user engagement by 30%.

Project: High-Frequency Trading & Market Data Platform for HKEX

• Led a team of 4 engineers in developing a low-latency, high-frequency trading platform for HKEX, processing 1 million trades per second with 99.99% uptime.
• Designed and optimized microservices architecture using Java (Spring Boot) reducing trade execution time by 20 %.
• Implemented real-time market data processing using Apache Kafka, Redis, and Apache Flink, ensuring sub-millisecond latency for institutional traders.
• Collaborated with financial analysts, traders, and compliance teams to align platform capabilities with market regulations.

Project: Industrial IoT & Predictive Maintenance Platform for GE

• Built real-time dashboards and analytics using Angular, providing actionable insights to GE’s industrial clients.
• Implemented security and compliance measures (ISO 27001, NIST), ensuring secure data transmission and storage.
• Developed REST APIs to integrate with third-party logistics, ERP, and CRM systems, improving operational efficiency by 30 %.

Project: Scalable IT Infrastructure & Digital Transformation for HP & GM

• Led the migration of legacy systems (mainframe-based) to modern Java/J2EE-based architecture, reducing processing time by 20%.
• Built and optimized SOAP APIs for seamless data exchange between HP’s IT infrastructure and GM’s automotive ERP systems.

Project: Scalable Telecom Network & Emergency Communication System

• Developed and maintained telecom network solutions for Intrado, optimizing real-time emergency call routing and VoIP communication systems.
• Designed and implemented VoIP call processing modules using SIP and SS7 protocols, improving call routing efficiency by 20 %.
• Developed and optimized C++/Java-based telecom applications for high-availability call processing and emergency response systems.