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Suvankar Das

Bengaluru

Summary

Senior Engineering Leader with over 14 years of experience in delivering large-scale, mission-critical enterprise systems across industries, including retail, fintech, and identity management. Proven expertise in leading cross-functional teams, driving architectural strategy, and managing the full software development lifecycle (SDLC). Demonstrated success in balancing business needs and technical execution, prioritizing initiatives, mitigating delivery risks, and achieving operational excellence. Adept in Agile and TDD environments, with a strong focus on stakeholder alignment, performance optimization, and high availability. Experienced in mentoring teams, implementing best practices, and applying GenAI tools to scale engineering productivity and quality.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Engineer

Lowe's
Bengaluru
03.2024 - Current

Enterprise Delivery Platform (EDP)

A last-mile delivery platform is a software solution that manages the final stage of the delivery process, from a distribution center, warehouse, or store to the end customer, optimizing efficiency, tracking, and customer communication.

  • Managing a high-performing team of 11 engineers, accountable for the end-to-end delivery of scalable logistics platforms, handling millions of daily transactions.
  • Defined and led the architecture strategy aligned with enterprise standards, influencing design across business-critical services.
  • Partnered with product managers to translate business goals into a delivery roadmap; tracked velocity, mitigated risks, and ensured sprint predictability.
  • Delivered mid-mile and final-mile platforms with real-time routing, intelligent dispatch, and high availability.
  • Oversaw production operations, defined SLOs/SLIs, and drove performance benchmarking and observability.
  • Championed engineering best practices, including code quality reviews, TDD/BDD, and documentation workflows.
  • Drove the adoption of GenAI tools across the team to automate API documentation, test generation, and code insights, increasing throughput by 20%.
  • Contributed to talent development, team hiring, and succession planning initiatives.

Senior Engineer

FICO
Bengaluru
04.2022 - 03.2024

FICO Platform (IAM)

FICO Platform brings together advanced analytics, decision modeling, and AI in an open and extensible architecture. This platform for decision management empowers enterprises to develop new analytically powered applications, rapidly and cost-effectively.

  • Managed a cross-functional team of 12 in re-architecting legacy IAM systems into modern, secure, cloud-native microservices.
  • Delivered a user/group lifecycle automation platform, reducing manual intervention, and improving SLA compliance.
  • Collaborated with globally distributed teams and aligned delivery priorities with the U.S. Engineering stakeholders.
  • Led technical design, backlog prioritization, and sprint health for IAM initiatives.
  • Designed and developed a product for automated provisioning and de-provisioning of users and groups.
  • Ensured secure design and compliance with identity management protocols.
  • Coordinated cross-location delivery teams in India and the U.S., driving timely releases.
  • Migrating a legacy monolith system to modern cloud-based microservices.
  • Designing and developing highly scalable, cloud-native microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Conducted research to test and analyze the feasibility, design, operation, and performance of equipment, components, and systems.
  • Stakeholder management.

Senior Software Engineer

Lowe's
Bengaluru
12.2020 - 03.2022

Sourcing and Inventory Management Services (Omni Channel)

A service inventory is a collection of internal services, such as communication and process improvement services, that allow an organization to rapidly react to customer demand and offer greater quality, speed, and performance to its customers at reasonable prices.

  • Worked as part of the core development team for the Inventory domain. Designing and developing highly scalable, cloud-native microservices using Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes. Using Cassandra and Postgres databases as data stores. Efficiently using REST, Protobuf, and gRPC for API communications.
  • Supervised a team of developers engaged in a project for the creation of new products and services.
  • Created reusable frameworks used across teams, improving developer efficiency.
  • Led the software development initiative as the subject matter expert and primary point of contact for all the products related to inventory sourcing.

Senior Associate

Publicis Sapient
Bengaluru
04.2018 - 12.2020

Telecom eCommerce Platform

  • I worked as part of the core development team for one of the biggest telecom industries in Canada, developing microservice-based applications using Java, Spring Boot, Play Framework, Akka Actor System, Akka HTTP, Akka Streaming, Cassandra, CommerceTools, Kafka, AWS, Redis, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Senior Application Developer

Cognizant
Kolkata
11.2015 - 04.2018

Payment Solutions & Merchant Onboarding

  • Created robust backend microservices for financial clients using Java, Scala, Akka, and MongoDB.
  • Focused on secure coding practices, and production-grade reliability.

Application Developer

IBM
Kolkata
10.2014 - 11.2015

IAM

  • Designed critical user authentication and access control modules using Java, Spring LDAP, and SOAP.

Systems Engineer

TCS
Kolkata
07.2011 - 10.2014

Fleet Service

  • Delivered end-to-end fleet management solutions with Java, GWT, Spring, and Hibernate.

Education

Master of Science -

Sikkim Manipal University
Kolkata
01-2014

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

West Bengal University of Technology
Kolkata
01-2011

Skills

  • Technical leadership, agile delivery management, hiring, and mentoring
  • Java, Spring Boot, Microservices Architecture
  • Rest APIs, Kafka, Hazelcast, CI/CD, Jenkins, Git, and DevOps
  • Cloud technologies: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB
  • System Design, Observability, Operational Excellence
  • Agile, Scrum, TDD/BDD, Product Strategy, Roadmap Execution
  • GenAI Tools: OpenAI APIs, Prompt Engineering, Windsurf, Continue
  • Cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management

Timeline

Lead Engineer

Lowe's
03.2024 - Current

Senior Engineer

FICO
04.2022 - 03.2024

Senior Software Engineer

Lowe's
12.2020 - 03.2022

Senior Associate

Publicis Sapient
04.2018 - 12.2020

Senior Application Developer

Cognizant
11.2015 - 04.2018

Application Developer

IBM
10.2014 - 11.2015

Systems Engineer

TCS
07.2011 - 10.2014

Master of Science -

Sikkim Manipal University

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

West Bengal University of Technology
Suvankar Das