ASAneindita A Sarkar

Résumé · updated August 2026

Aneindita A Sarkar

Senior Technical Architect · 18+ years building scalable systems

Bengaluru, India · s.anindita16@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/aneinditaasarkar

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Professional summary

  • Senior technical architect with close to 18 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems.
  • Expert in microservices architecture, event-driven design, and distributed systems.
  • Architected GenAI platforms at Adobe (Firefly Creative Production); previously delivered high-impact projects at Zeta, PayPal, Tesco, and Harman.
  • Co-founded a technology startup with 50+ published applications.

Core competencies

  • Microservices architecture & cloud-native engineering (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring WebFlux, NestJS)
  • Event-driven design & stream processing (Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, HiveMQ)
  • Distributed systems at scale (5M+ transactions/day, 100K+ events/second, 14M+ users)
  • GenAI platforms & tooling (OpenAI, HuggingFace, LangChain, LanceDB, ChromaDB; RAG and LLM tool calling)
  • Multi-cloud delivery (AWS, Azure, GCP) with Docker and Kubernetes
  • CI/CD & DevOps (Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube)
  • Data stores (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch)
  • Observability & security (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk; HashiCorp Vault, OAuth2)
  • Engineering excellence programmes, performance optimisation and mentoring

Professional experience

Adobe

Bengaluru, India
Senior Computer Scientist 2Nov 2024 – Oct 2025
  • Architecting Firefly Creative Production platform for GenAI-based creative APIs.
  • Designing microservices for driving GenAI use cases using NestJS, Kafka, and DocumentDB on AWS.
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Zeta

Bengaluru, India
Principal Engineer 2Jul 2022 – Oct 2024
  • Led Payzapp & Zappcredit Rewards platform processing 5M+ daily transactions.
  • Designed rules engine using Drools for real-time rewards processing (14M+ users).
  • Built event-driven microservices with Spring Boot, Kafka, and PostgreSQL.
  • Optimized ElasticSearch queries improving search performance by 60%.
  • Reduced response times from 800ms to 200ms through Redis caching strategy.
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PayPal

Bengaluru, India
MTS2 (Member of Technical Staff)Jul 2021 – Jul 2022
  • Led Engineering Excellence Program modernizing 4,500+ microservice instances.
  • Developed Jenkins plugins for CI/CD automation reducing build times by 40%.
  • Architected deployment solutions using Kubernetes and Mesos.
  • Reduced pipeline failures by 35% through improved validation.
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Tesco

Bengaluru, India
Software Development Engineer 3Jan 2020 – Jul 2021
  • Architected Price Transformation Platform for 300K+ products.
  • Built reactive microservices using Spring WebFlux.
  • Implemented event-driven architecture with Kafka and Couchbase.
  • Reduced deployment time from 4 hours to 30 minutes using Jenkins and Kubernetes.
  • Achieved 95%+ code coverage reducing production defects by 50%.
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Harman International

Bengaluru, India
Principal Engineer 1Jul 2018 – Jan 2020
  • Architected Ignite automotive IoT platform supporting millions of connected vehicles.
  • Implemented security modules (TCU-Shield) for vehicle data protection.
  • Built event processing pipelines using Kafka Streams (100K+ events/second).
  • Optimized microservices reducing memory by 40% and latency by 50%.
  • Integrated HashiCorp Vault for secrets management across 50+ services.
  • Implemented monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
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Capgemini India

Bengaluru, India
Senior Consultant — MB Apps (Mercedes-Benz), Dec 2017 – Jun 2018Jun 2014 – Jun 2018
  • Migrated legacy systems to Spring Cloud microservices architecture.
  • Implemented distributed caching with Hazelcast (70% performance improvement).
  • Established Docker and Jenkins CI/CD pipeline (60% faster deployments).
  • Other projects — built IoT dashboard for Boon Edam (Netherlands) using Node.js, AngularJS, MySQL.
  • Developed test automation tools for ASML reducing response time by 50%; created testing frameworks automating 500+ test scenarios.
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Techworks Technologies

Kolkata, India
Co-founder & Technical LeadMar 2008 – May 2014
  • Co-founded startup and built engineering team from scratch.
  • Developed peer-to-peer file transfer application ‘Antida’ using Java.
  • Published 50+ mobile applications on iTunes, Google Play, and BlackBerry.
  • Managed end-to-end product development and delivery.
  • Built enterprise applications using Spring, Hibernate, and MySQL.
  • Developed custom persistence framework outperforming existing solutions.
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Key achievements

  • Multiple awards from Zeta for scaling Audience Segmentation and Settlement systems.
  • Led Engineering Excellence Program at PayPal impacting 4,500+ instances.
  • Scaled Payzapp Rewards platform to 5M+ daily transactions with 99.95% uptime.
  • Recognized for Ignite security modules and Mercedes-Benz platform migration.
  • Extra Miles Award from Capgemini for exceptional performance.
  • Published 50+ mobile applications as startup co-founder.
  • Mentored multiple engineering teams on modern architecture patterns.

Certificates

  • AI Engineering Accelerator Program, Outskill — 14-day intensive program; secured 2nd place in the hackathon
  • AI Generalist Accelerator Program, Outskill — 14-day intensive program
  • AI Engineering Fellowship, 6-month program — in progress

Education

  • Master of Computer Application (MCA), 2005
  • Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA), 2002

Technical skills

Languages
Java (primary), TypeScript, JavaScript, Python
Backend
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring WebFlux, NestJS, Node.js
Messaging
Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, HiveMQ
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch
Cloud
AWS (S3, MemoryDB, DocumentDB, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, SNS, Lambda, ELB, EC2), Azure (AKS, Blob Storage), GCP (Pub/Sub, Firestore)
GenAI
OpenAI, HuggingFace, LangChain, LanceDB, ChromaDB
DevOps
Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps, Git, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube
Monitoring
Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk
Security
HashiCorp Vault, OAuth2

Passion projects

  • QuizWrap — quizwrap.com: A RAG-enabled, LLM tool-calling quiz maker built with LangChain: it generates quizzes from photos and PDFs. Integrated with the OpenAI Platform APIs.
  • Quiz Ajit — qajit.com: Website and mobile app for PPL exam preparation; ChatGPT used for brainstorming and ideation.
  • Sinha Academy — sinhaacademy.com: An educational tool to teach Hindi and English; core functionality developed using GitHub Copilot.
  • Ajit Kids — ajitkids.com: An educational tool to teach Hindi and English to kids; core functionality developed using GitHub Copilot.