Technical Lead Solution Architect

PRIYESH PANDYA

Technical Lead Solution Architect

+91-960******* • *******.*********@*****.*** • linkedin.com/in/priyesh-pandya • Surat, India PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Software Engineering professional with 16+ years of experience, of which 6+ years have been in cross-functional team leadership and project delivery across SaaS marketplaces, ERP, and CRM domains. Currently lead an 8–12 engineer team building Lifelancer, a UK-based AI-driven talent marketplace, owning architecture, delivery, and roadmap. Track record of cutting cloud infrastructure cost by 60%, scaling search to 600M+ records, Reducing cloud storage cost by 83% from $120 to

$20 and shipping production AI inference on AWS Lambda. Comfortable across the full stack PHP/Laravel, Vue, AWS, OpenSearch and equally focused on people, process, and customer outcomes. CORE COMPETENCIES

• Solution & Cloud Architecture (AWS/GCP) VPC, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Route 53, IAM, KMS, SQS, SNS, SES multi-AZ HA, cost optimization, Multi-cloud / Poly-Cloud Strategies, Cloud Native App design, CI/CD Pipelines & Deployment, end-to-end solution design, technology stack selection, architecture diagrams

• SOA / Microservices Architecture - Microservices design patterns and implementation, SOA fundamentals, API standards, versioning, authentication, multi-tenant SaaS design

• AI / ML Deployment: Containerized model serving on Lambda via ECR, secured inference APIs through API Gateway, S3 result storage, cost efficient serverless inference patterns.

• AI-powered chat application: build an AI chat application using backend orchestration layer combined with Hugging Face models.

• Engineering Leadership: Team building (8–12 engineers), mentoring, code review governance, hiring, sprint planning, Agile/Scrum delivery (Jira, Bitbucket), distributed-team coordination across US, UK & India.

• Product & Delivery: Roadmap ownership, requirements discovery, prototyping, stakeholder alignment, release management, SaaS marketplace and ERP product lifecycle.

• Data & Search: OpenSearch / Elasticsearch cluster ops, ETL at 600M+ record scale, MySQL performance tuning, indexing strategies, replication, DynamoDB.

• Full-Stack Engineering: PHP/Laravel, Vue.js, Quasar, Python, Linux, REST APIs, WordPress, Node.js (Basics), AngularJS(Basics), Full-stack JavaScript expertise: jQuery/AJAX legacy systems; React.js and TypeScript modern applications.

• Integrations & CRM: SugarCRM, vTiger, Stripe, SendGrid (Marketing Campaigns), Amazon SES, TecDoc, Infusionsoft, UPS third-party ecosystem expansion, Pusher real-time communication, Sendbird (real-time chat), Mailtrap (Email Sendbox)

• Proficient in AI-assisted development tools including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and ChatGPT for design validation and architecture-level decision making; actively leverage generative AI for accelerating engineering velocity and Automate routing code, Unit testing code, code security scans. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Team Lead (Solution Architect) -- Lifelancer Ltd. (UK) -- via TechNGL Pvt. Ltd. (India) Jun 2020 - Present Founded TechNGL Pvt. Ltd. as the India operations entity for Lifelancer Ltd. (UK), an AI-driven Pharma / life-sciences talent marketplace. As Technical Lead, own end-to-end product delivery, cloud architecture, and an engineering team of 8–12 across two countries.

• Lead a distributed team of 8–12 engineers - hiring, performance reviews, mentoring on PHP, cloud-native design, and database optimization; established code-review and coding-standard governance that lifted release reliability.

• Architected and shipped the Lifelancer platform end-to-end - Designed and delivered the Lifelancer SaaS platform architecture end-to-end, PHP/Laravel backend, Vue/Quasar frontend, REST APIs, AWS-native infrastructure, from initial solution design through production, aligning technical decisions with business and product requirements.

• Cut monthly cloud spend by 60%+ by migrating from AWS Aurora -> RDS Multi-AZ for a better cost-to-performance fit, tiering S3 Standard data to archive storage classes with compression, and right sizing compute

• Deployed production AI inference on AWS Lambda using container images via ECR; secured through API Gateway with auth, returning results synchronously or persisting to S3, fully serverless, pay-per-use.

• Scaled search to 600M+ records on OpenSearch/Elasticsearch (GCP VMs), built Python ETL pipelines for cleaning, transformation, and bulk indexing, with tuned shard and replica strategy for high availability.

• Optimized MySQL at scale - indexing, query tuning, multi-AZ replication, Implemented DynamoDB to manage complex nested JSON data, improving system performance and ensuring the app could scale to handle more users.

• Implemented CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time.

• Led SOA and hybrid architecture initiative - decomposed monolithic services into loosely coupled, service-oriented components with clean API boundaries (Microservices architecture initiative)

• Drove Agile delivery across UK & India - sprint planning, backlog prioritization with stakeholders, Jira/Bitbucket workflows, and shipped features within committed timelines.

• Security and compliance with IAM least-privilege roles, KMS-encrypted storage, and authenticated API gateways across all services.

Crest Infosystems Pvt. Ltd. (Surat, India) -- Total tenure: 8 yrs 8 mo Apr 2011 - Dec 2019 Team Lead Jun 2017 - Dec 2019

• Led delivery of LAMP-stack applications on AWS for global ERP and eCommerce clients (Fuse5, RevParts ERP, Omnna ERP) -- requirements scoping, architecture, and on-time release.

• Led React–Laravel application development, deployment, and team coordination for scalable and maintainable enterprise solutions.

• Managed a globally distributed team -- sprint goals, client communication, code reviews, and mentoring; ran proof-of- concepts and demos to secure client sign-off on critical features.

• Owned third-party integrations including TecDoc Catalogue (TecAlliance), Stripe, Amazon SES, Trello REST API, Infusionsoft, UPS, SendGrid, SendBird, Wisepops, and Campaign Monitor. Senior Software Engineer Apr 2011 - Jun 2017

• Designed and built scalable POS, CRM, and inventory applications for the US automotive aftermarket -- large-scale data import/export, performance tuning, and 3rd-party integrations.

• Stack: PHP, MySQL, vTiger framework, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery /Prototype, Nginx, web services, SVN. Senior Software Engineer (Remote Freelance Work) Jul 2010 - Apr 2011

• Build US Auto Parts CRM app – for client Mr. Gabe Davis - Further his partner found company Crest Infosystems Pvt. Ltd. in Surat-India

Earlier Roles -- Jun 2008 - Jul 2010

• Software Engineer, Educational Initiatives Pvt. Ltd. (Ahmedabad) -- Mar 2009 - Jul 2010. EdTech products (ASSET, Mindspark): requirement analysis, DB design, testing, and sales-team support.

• Software Developer, Digicorp Pvt. Ltd. (Ahmedabad) -- Apr 2008 - Mar 2009. Mobile video streaming Apps, Custom PHP survey systems, Facebook Client API apps; CakePHP + Smarty Apps. EDUCATION

MS-Information Technology (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology) 2005 - 2007 B.Sc. Physics, Mathematics & Computer Science 2002 - 2005 CERTIFICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Claude Code in Action

• Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate

• DevOps with AWS: Tools for Automated Workflows

• Cloud Computing

• Powered Development: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code certificate

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