Cloud-Native Technical Lead for Payments

SATENDER KUMAR

Gurugram, India 976-***-**** *************@*******.*** LinkedIn

PROFILE

Technical Lead with 16+ years designing and scaling cloud-native travel and payments platforms. Architected micro-services handling 5–10M+ peak requests, integrated 10+ global payment gateways, and led AWS/Kubernetes migrations—delivering 35–40% lower API latency, 60% faster deployments via ArgoCD GitOps, a 4–6% lift in payment success, and 99.95% uptime. Expert in observability, runtime security, and RAG/LLM automation, with a strong track record mentoring engineers and leading cross-product architecture and reliability initiatives. TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Languages: NodeJS, Typescript, PHP, Golang & Python, Javascript Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch

Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, SNS, CloudWatch, Secret Manager, RDS), Docker & k8s Framework & Tool: Symfony, NestJS, GoGin & FastAPI, Laravel, Yii, System Design & Architecture, Kibana, Grafana, Google Analytics, Google NLP, Google Optimizer, Git, Nginx, Apache, Payment Gateway Integration, Unit Tests, CI/CD pipeline, JIRA AI & Emerging

Technologies:

Cursor, Generative AI, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Copilot, Prompt Engineering, RAG, LLM, n8n, ArgoCD, OpenAPI, OpenTelemetry

Domain

Knowledge:

Healthcare, Insurance, Social Media, Sports Media, Cybersecurity, Travel Other: cPanel, Facebook APIs, Quick PDF Library, Amadeus, Galileo, Farelogix, Navitaire, Sentry, DataDog, OpenRasp(Baidu)

Leadership: People Management, Task Distribution, Tech Problem Solving, Requirement Gathering, Code Review

CORE EXPERTISE

Distributed Systems Microservices Architecture Travel Booking Engines Payment Orchestration Kubernetes & AWS Redis Caching High-Availability Systems Observability & Reliability Engineering

Runtime Security CI/CD & GitOps AI / RAG Automation PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Lead, Dyninno India LLP, Gurugram Nov 2020 to Apr 2026

•Architected and scaled 7+ production microservices powering international travel booking workflows.

•Designed Kubernetes + ArgoCD GitOps deployment model, reducing deployment time by 60% and improving release reliability.

• Implemented Redis caching and backend optimizations, reducing API latency by 35–40%.

• Improved system uptime to 99.95% availability through observability enhancements (ELK,Grafana, FluentD).

• Integrated structured payment orchestration across multiple gateways, improving payment success rate by 4–6%.

•Built competitive fare intelligence extension integrating external pricing signals into the booking engine.

• Implemented RAG/LLM-powered internal automation workflows improving operational efficiency.

•Mentored engineers and led architecture reviews across multiple internal products. MTS IV, Colortokens, Bengaluru Sep 2019 to Sep 2020

• Integrated OpenRASP runtime security instrumentation across distributed services for CyberSecurity products.

• Implemented DDTrace monitoring improving production traceability and debugging efficiency by using DataDog & Baidu open source codebase

•Contributed to low-level Zend Engine integrations for runtime request inspection. Sr. Full Stack Developer, Sportskeeda, Bengaluru Oct 2017 to Sep 2019

•Architected multilingual content infrastructure supporting global audience growth.

•Built AWS-based video delivery platform by using AWS Elemental service for Video content which have led to increase in monetization by 7%.

•Developed Elasticsearch-powered syndication system for external content distribution partners.

• Improved backend scalability and system reliability in a high-traffic environment with runtime security enhancement and alerts.

Sr. Software Engineer, Airtickets India Pvt. Ltd., Noida Jul 2016 to Oct 2017

•Contributed to the end-to-end design and development of flight booking platforms, from search and pricing to ticketing and post-booking workflows.

• Integrated multiple global GDS APIs and payment gateways to support worldwide customers, including real-time currency conversion and multi-currency transaction processing. Sr. Software Engineer, R Systems Ltd., Noida Jul 2015 to Jul 2016 Sr. Software Engineer, Benchmark IT Solutions Ltd., Pune Sep 2013 to Jun 2015

•Led the architecture and delivery of a scalable CRM solution for a US insurance client, integrating Python-driven cheque automation and real-time event-based calculations using Node.js WebSocket architecture. Software Engineer, Lightening Web Services, Gurugram Aug 2012 to Sep 2013

•Designed, developed, and successfully launched a full-scale online grocery e-commerce platform within one year, featuring vendor onboarding, inventory management, digital wallet integration, and Asterisk-based call center integration to provide customer history visibility to support executives. Software Engineer, Epicomm Technologies Ltd., Pune Mar 2011 to Aug 2012 Jr. Software Engineer, NextGen eSolutions Pvt. Ltd., Delhi Apr 2010 to Mar 2011

•Played a key role in developing and implementing a Hospital Information System (HIS) at Manipal Hospital, Vizag, leading the design of the Pharmacy module to manage patient dispensing and vendor procurement workflows. EDUCATION

ITS Engineering College Jul 2007 to Jun 2010

Master's in Computer Applications, Greater Noida

DAAS College Jul 2003 to Jun 2006

Bachelor of Computer Applications, Dehradun

STRENGTHS

•Committed to ongoing learning and technical excellence; proactively stay current with emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and industry best practices.

•Foster collaborative, high-trust engineering environments that improved team engagement and increased staff satisfaction scores by 15%.

•Rapidly diagnose and resolve complex production and application-level issues, including Java-based systems, driving a 25% improvement in customer satisfaction metrics. ACHIEVEMENTS

•Appreciation from the SocialNightLife client and receiving a smartphone as a gift.

•Best Employee of the Year 2014 in Benchmark IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

• Implemented HIS at Manipal Super Specialty Hospital, Vishakhapatnam (From Sep 2010 – Feb 2011)

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