AJIT GOEL

Senior Solution Architect • AWS / Java / .NET / Event-Driven Systems

Seattle, WA (Open to Remote / Hybrid) linkedin.com/in/ajitgoel hellokumarajit@gmail.com

Professional Summary

Senior Solution Architect and platform engineer with 20+ years designing and delivering cloud-native, event-driven distributed systems on AWS using Java/Spring Boot and .NET Core. Architected real-time personalization engines processing 10 TB of health data for 1.8M users, high-throughput content APIs sustaining 5,700 RPS with dynamic throttling, and a $1.6B fee-billing microservices platform processing 44M records/month — owning end-to-end architecture, infrastructure-as-code (CDK/CloudFormation), CI/CD automation, observability, and reliability engineering. Applies AI-assisted engineering workflows (Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Kiro, OpenCode, Codex, Cursor) for architecture review, PRD authoring, issue decomposition, and test generation on production and open-source projects. Deep familiarity with event-driven architecture patterns directly applicable to Kafka-based streaming pipelines: producer/consumer design, DLQs, idempotency, backpressure, and at-least-once delivery semantics.

Core Competencies

AWS Architecture

ECSLambdaS3DynamoDBCloudWatchCloudTrailAppConfigCloudFormationCDK (v1/v2)IAMVPCALB/ELBEC2Auto ScalingSynthetic CanariesCodePipelineCodeBuildCodeDeploy

Event-Driven & Streaming

Producer/Consumer DesignTopics/PartitionsDLQsIdempotencyBackpressureAt-Least-Once SemanticsSchema EvolutionStreaming ETLKafka Patterns

Backend & Microservices

Java Spring BootASP.NET CoreC#EF CoregRPCREST APIsProtobufDDDMicroservices

AI-Assisted Engineering

Google AntigravityClaude CodeKiroOpenCodeCursorPRD AuthoringIssue DecompositionTest Generation

Reliability & Performance

ThrottlingAutoscalingCachingBackoffBatchingPaginationQuery OptimizationProfiling (dotTrace)SLO Instrumentation

Security & Compliance

IAMVPC SegmentationCloudTrailPII HandlingHIPAA AlignmentFinancial Environments

Selected Achievements

Personalization platform at scale

Architected a real-time health recommendation engine processing 10 TB of data for 1.8M users at Safeway, enabling product-owner-controlled configuration releases with zero code deployments. Replaced third-party goals engine with internal Java SpEL platform, eliminating license costs.

5,700 RPS content delivery API

Designed and owned a Java Spring Boot API on AWS ECS sustaining 5,700 requests/second at peak, with dynamic AppConfig-driven throttling, fully automated CDK v2 pipelines, and comprehensive observability stack (CloudWatch, Canaries, CloudTrail).

$1.6B revenue platform

Led architecture of JPMorgan Chase's 8-application Fee Billing suite, processing 44M records/month via streaming-based ASP.NET Core microservices with read-through caching and idempotent batch processing.

Experience

Senior Staff Engineer

May 2024 – Present
Safeway (Albertsons Companies)Seattle, WA
  • Architected a real-time personalization platform delivering 10 TB of tailored health recommendations to 1.8M users — orchestrating health profiles, household purchase history, and dynamic homepage widget composition.
  • Designed and implemented a rules-based orchestration engine using a Java SpEL evaluation core and React query-builder UI, replacing a heavyweight commercial rule engine.
  • Replaced a third-party vendor goals engine with an internally owned Java SpEL platform — eliminating vendor dependency and improving system performance.
  • Optimized critical performance bottlenecks: profiling-driven query tuning, connection pool sizing, read-through caching, and batching to reduce latency.
  • Designed platform reliability using event-driven patterns — idempotent processing, backpressure-aware orchestration, and configuration-driven composition.
Java Spring BootReactJsJava SpELKafkaAzure KubernetesDockerSQL server

Senior Software Engineer

May 2022 – April 2024
Amazon PharmacySeattle, WA
  • Architected and owned a Java Spring Boot content-delivery API on AWS ECS + S3 sustaining 5,700 RPS at peak load.
  • Engineered dynamic throttling and incident-response rate controls via AWS AppConfig — enabling live policy changes without redeployment.
  • Automated end-to-end delivery pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CDK v2), eliminating manual release overhead.
  • Established production observability: CloudWatch dashboards, CloudTrail audit logging, and Synthetic Canaries for 24/7 monitoring.
  • Led migration of 3 high-value applications from deprecated AWS CDK v1 to CDK v2 ahead of EOL.
  • Operated AWS infrastructure across ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, VPC, ELB, EC2, and Auto Scaling.
Java Spring BootTypeScriptAWS CDK v2ECSLambdaDynamoDBAppConfigCloudWatch

Technical Leader (Senior SWE)

June 2018 – April 2022
JPMorgan Chase & Co.Plano, TX
  • Led architecture and delivery of an 8-application Fee Billing suite processing ~44M input records/month and generating $1.6B in annual revenue.
  • Designed greenfield ASP.NET Core microservices on Docker/Linux using streaming ingestion and single-pass EF Core query patterns.
  • Architected a reference data microservice with a read-through IMemoryCache layer, reducing downstream billing computation latency.
  • Drove platform transformation from semiannual manual releases to continuous delivery via Jenkins CI/CD.
  • Enforced distributed-systems reliability: exponential-backoff retries, idempotent batch processing, and structured error handling.
ASP.NET CoreC#Entity Framework CoreSQL ServerDockerLinuxJenkins

Technical Lead (.NET)

August 2016 – June 2018
Thomson ReutersCarrollton, TX
  • Promoted to AumentumTax Assessment Administration module — the platform's most architecturally complex area.
  • Performance-tuned a critical PII-sensitive subsystem using dotTrace profiling and T-SQL query redesign.
  • Delivered production-ready features on a two-week sprint cadence with zero regression impact.
ASP.NET.NET 4.5C#SQL ServerT-SQLJavaScriptdotTrace

.NET Technical Lead

January 2007 – August 2016
RealPage, Inc.
  • Led development of major platform modules for a large-scale multi-tenant SaaS product used by property management companies nationwide.
  • Introduced Protobuf.NET binary serialization to replace legacy payload formats, improving API throughput performance.
ASP.NETC#.NETSQL ServerJavaScriptProtobuf.NET

Senior Software Engineer

August 2000 – March 2003
Ebusiness Design (SourceRad)
  • Reduced Medical Transcription response time by 50% through targeted performance optimization on a $10M web-based platform.
  • Eliminated database deadlocks through redesigned schema and query strategies; reduced nightly claim batch runtime by 50%.
ASPVBScriptSQL ServerXML

Open Source

FolderMind — AI Local Asset Manager

2024–Present
Personal Projectgithub.com/ajitgoel/foldermind-public
  • Building a privacy-first desktop application for offline, natural-language semantic search over local photos using Rust/Tauri and CLIP ONNX embeddings.
  • Applying AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Google Gemini, Kiro) to drive architecture reviews, PRD authoring, and test-first discipline.
  • Ensuring 100% test passing through automated Vitest and Rust unit test suites before any feature closure.
RustTauriTypeScriptReactSQLite FTS5CLIP ONNXVitest

Education & Certifications

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

University of Mumbai, India

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Issued: Sept 2021 (Renewal in progress)