About

Diwakar Gupta is a highly experienced Senior Principal Engineer and Chief Architect with 19+ years of experience in the product industry, specializing in domains like payments and retail. He has worked with top companies like VISA, Cisco, and Dell in the past. Currently, he is working as a Principal Software Development Engineer at Tesco. Diwakar has led and delivered complex projects that measure complexity in terms of domain, distributed architecture, technical stack, and collaboration with multiple technology teams and business partners/stakeholders. He is a practitioner and strong believer in data structure and algorithms. He is the owner of technology landscape, shared platform, and digital transformation, helping senior stakeholders for technology decision-making. Diwakar is an expert in designing large-scale platforms where reactive microservices are highly available, scalable, and resilient with active-active DC. He has experience in working with cloud virtualization like SAAS-IAAS, container architecture, distributed caching, streaming apps, K8s, NoSQL, and RDBMS. He is also an expert in decomposing business into domains with their clear context boundaries and defining strategic and tactical design. Diwakar has experience in transformation/migration projects and legacy application re-architecting/re-engineering using the latest technology stack. He has developed business relations through communication, client interfacing, cross-functional team leading, change management, and innovation. He is experienced in development methodology like craftsmanship & agile@scale, agile-SCRUM-XP with TDD and BDD. He has worked extensively on proof of concepts (POCs) across BUs, architectural/design patterns, and developing unit and functional test cases. He is also practiced and experienced in CICD software development using Jenkins, chef, maven, checkmarks, sonar, git, GitHub, bitbucket. Diwakar has a strong educational background with a Master's degree in Computer Applications and a PGDBA in Business Administration from the University of Rajasthan and Symbiosis, respectively. He also has a Master's degree in Commerce and Business Administration and a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Rajasthan. He completed his XII and X classes from the Rajasthan Board of Senior Secondary Education and the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, respectively. In summary, Diwakar Gupta is an accomplished Senior Principal Engineer and Chief Architect with extensive experience in the product industry and a strong educational background. He is an expert in designing large-scale platforms, developing business relations,