Muthu Thevar
Mumbai
Summary
Experienced Software Engineer specializing in designing and scaling microservice-based systems for high-traffic applications. Developed secure authentication platforms and real-time APIs, ensuring reliability and performance under load. Skilled in modeling complex business domains and enhancing team standards through mentorship and clean architecture practices.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
NeoSoft
Navi Mumbai
06.2024 - Current
- Led backend architecture for AI-powered smart glasses platform (JioFrames), creating services including user management, authentication, devices, health tracking, and custom API gateway.
- Designed and implemented comprehensive authentication and authorization system using NestJS and MongoDB, enhancing security and streamlining user onboarding for mobile clients.
- Constructed secure authentication flows for mobile number login with multi-number linking per user, designing custom rate limiter to prevent identity abuse.
- Built microservices-based backend with asynchronous communication via RabbitMQ, ensuring decoupled, scalable interactions across authentication, user management, and API gateway services.
- Developed AI microservice with multi-LLM orchestration for conversational assistance, notification summarization, command understanding, and FAQ responses through defined tool interfaces, enhancing user interaction.
- Engineered AI-driven features like speech-to-text, translation, transcription, and text-to-speech with open-source and commercial providers, improving accessibility and user experience.
- Conducted proofs of concept for LLM integration with vector database for semantic search and language identification using Whisper model, customizing retrieval logic.
- Managed containerization and deployment of services using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), focusing on scaling strategies and environment configuration.
- Led code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
- Participated in Agile ceremonies to facilitate project planning and progress tracking.
- Documented technical processes and software architecture for future reference and training purposes.
Software Engineer
ILM UX
Navi Mumbai
08.2021 - 05.2024
- Developed Redis-backed queue system consolidating data from multiple databases into single master database, ensuring uninterrupted existing pipelines.
- Implemented multilingual fuzzy search in English and Arabic using full-text search capabilities in MySQL and Neo4j for enhanced search functionality.
- Optimized API performance, reducing response time by approximately 90% for multi-person requests through effective data access patterns.
- Built high-performance REST APIs over Neo4j to optimize lineage fetching and relationship computation, ensuring low-latency responses.
- Designed and executed role-based access control (RBAC) for API-level access, significantly enhancing security measures.
- Established secure authentication and authorization protocols with Passport.js and JWT to strengthen data privacy.
- Created efficient Neo4j data models for large Saudi royal families, facilitating flexible graph queries and analytics across complex relationships.
- Collaborated with UI/UX designers to improve software usability and user experience.
- Mentored junior developers and interns through code reviews, promoting best practices and fostering a collaborative environment.
Intern
ILM UX
Navi Mumbai
05.2019 - 07.2021
- Designed and developed REST APIs for internal projects, facilitating efficient data exchange between frontend and backend systems.
- Enhanced application performance and reliability through implementation of modern web best practices.
- Automated database backups with custom Linux command/script, strengthening data security and disaster recovery.
- Reduced manual backup effort by approximately 60%, maintaining data integrity throughout process.
Education
Master of Computer Science - MSc
Woolf University
08-2026
Software Engineering -
Scaler
06.2024
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology - BSc IT
Mumbai University
Mumbai06.2021
Skills
- TypeScript and JavaScript
- Microservices architecture
- Agile methodologies
- Problem solving and critical thinking
- Design reviews and API design
- Python and Golang
- Nodejs and NestJS
- Expressjs and FastAPI
- REST APIs and event-driven architecture
- Real-time communication strategies
- MySQL, MongoDB, and Neo4j
- Redis caching techniques
- Data modeling and query optimization
- RabbitMQ and BullMQ queues
- Pub/sub systems and background workers
- Scalability and reliability practices
- Docker containerization
- Linux operating system proficiency
- Kubernetes orchestration
- Azure cloud services
- CI/CD pipelines
- Monitoring and observability tools
- LLM integrations with LangChain
- Vector search capabilities
- Speech-to-text technology
- Semantic search methodologies
- System design principles
- Clean architecture practices
- SOLID principles in software development
- Code review processes and team mentorship
Websites
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Certification
Neo4j Certified Professional
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
NeoSoft
06.2024 - Current
Software Engineer
ILM UX
08.2021 - 05.2024
Intern
ILM UX
05.2019 - 07.2021
Master of Computer Science - MSc
Woolf University
Software Engineering -
Scaler
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology - BSc IT
Mumbai University