SOWMYA DESAI
Bengaluru
Summary
Java & GenAI Architect with 19+ years of experience designing and modernizing large-scale enterprise platforms across aviation, banking, insurance, and technical publishing domains. Deep expertise in Java, Python, Spring-based distributed systems, microservices, API platforms, and cloud-native architecture, combined with recent leadership & hands-on in GenAI-driven enterprise solutions. Proven track record of transforming legacy and data-heavy systems into scalable, intelligent platforms by integrating LLMs, AI-assisted workflows, and automation into existing enterprise architectures — without compromising reliability, governance, or performance. Known for bridging architecture, hands-on engineering, and AI innovation in regulated and safety-critical environments.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Architect – Java, Python & GenAI Enterprise Platforms
Jepp Aero Services
Bengaluru
10.2025 - Current
- Leading architecture of enterprise aviation data platforms combining Python-based backend systems with GenAI-powered automation for Workflow automation of AIP document processing.
- Architecting an end-to-end GenAI-powered document intelligence platform to automate processing of monthly Aeronautical Information Publications (AIP) from ANSPs.
- Designing LLM-driven extraction pipelines using OpenAI GPT and Gemini, optimized for complex, domain-heavy aviation PDFs (airport and en-route changes).
- Optimize GenAI costs by prompt caching and prompt compression techniques.
- Implementing human-in-the-loop review, confidence scoring, and exception handling to meet regulatory accuracy and safety requirements.
- Defining orchestration, prompt versioning, evaluation, and regression testing strategies to ensure deterministic, production-grade LLM behavior.
- Enabling faster and more accurate data propagation into aviation databases that drive Jeppesen navigation charts and airport maps.
- Achieved significant cycle-time reduction (30-50%) and improved scalability, allowing analysts to onboard and maintain a larger number of airports.
- Enabled faster and more accurate propagation of changes into Airport Mapping Databases (AMDB) used by Jeppesen navigation charts and EFBs.
- Previously part of Boeing
Technical Architect – Enterprise Applications & Intelligent Platforms
Boeing India
Bengaluru
05.2016 - 10.2025
- Unified Multi-Agent Enterprise Chat Platform (Aug 2024 – Jan 2025)
- Designed and prototyped a distributed multi-agent chatbot architecture enabling multiple domain-specific LLM agents to collaborate via a single interface.
- Deployed agents as LlamaIndex-based web services, supporting heterogeneous and independent deployments.
- Built a central orchestration and routing layer for intent detection and dynamic agent invocation.
- Established early tool/agent invocation patterns, conceptually aligning with later MCP-style architectures.
- Airline Disruption Management Platform (Jan 2024 – Jan 2025)
- Led architecture and Productionization of an ML-enabled platform to predict airline operational disruptions ahead of execution.
- Integrated ML models (runway assignment, turnaround time prediction) with Databricks-based inference services.
- Designed batch pipelines generating daily global flight predictions for Operations Control Center (OCC) decision support.
- Acted as overall technical owner, bridging data science, platform engineering, and operations.
- Smart NOTAMs Platform (Apr 2020 – Jan 2024)
- Architected cloud-native microservices platform for global aviation NOTAM processing.
- Led backend service design, API contracts, and scalable deployment architecture on Microsoft Azure.
- Fuel Dashboard (May 2016 – Apr 2020)
- Implemented full stack application in Spring for Fuel Analytics product.
Senior Application Developer / Technical Lead
EMC / Dell Technologies
Bengaluru
01.2012 - 01.2016
- Designed and built enterprise Java platforms for content processing and publishing automation, localization and internationalization.
- Led high-performance backend systems and secure internal portals.
- Provided technical leadership for distributed teams.
Senior Developer / Technical Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Bengaluru
01.2005 - 01.2012
- Developed large-scale SOA and enterprise Java systems for insurance, banking, and airline clients.
- Played onsite technical leadership roles for US enterprise customers.
Education
B.E. - Electronics & Communication
BVB College of Engineering
01.2005
Skills
- System Design
- Solution Architecture
- HLD
- LLD
- Scalability
- Performance Optimization
- Java
- Python
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- SQL
- Event-driven systems
- API design
- Angular
- ReactJS
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- MySQL
- LLM Integration into Applications
- RAG Architectures
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Azure OpenAI
- Google Gemini
- Llama Index
- Lang Chain
- Azure AI Search
- Vector Databases
- FAISS
- Neo4j Vector
- Prompt Eng
- Evaluation Frameworks
Certification
- AZ-900 – Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- SAFe 5 Certified Architect
- Boeing Technical Leadership Institute (Boeing - TLI) Batch of 2020
Custom Section
- Enterprise Application Architecture (Java / Python / Spring / Distributed Systems)
- Modernization of Legacy Platforms to Cloud-Native Architectures
- Microservices, API Gateways, Event-Driven Systems
- Scalable Backend Platform Design & Performance Optimization
- Cloud-Native Architecture on Azure
Timeline
Technical Architect – Java, Python & GenAI Enterprise Platforms
Jepp Aero Services
10.2025 - Current
Technical Architect – Enterprise Applications & Intelligent Platforms
Boeing India
05.2016 - 10.2025
Senior Application Developer / Technical Lead
EMC / Dell Technologies
01.2012 - 01.2016
Senior Developer / Technical Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2005 - 01.2012
B.E. - Electronics & Communication
BVB College of Engineering