About

Jeevan D C is a highly skilled Founding Engineer and Engineering Lead at Dkatalis, where he is currently building Bank Jago. With a core expertise in building high throughput, resilient, and fault-tolerant applications in multi-cloud environments, Jeevan is a problem solver who is keen on Distributed Systems, System Architecture, Scale, and Performance. With over 6 years of relevant experience, Jeevan is passionate about teaching and mentoring. He has extensive experience in Digital transformation, Cloud migrations, and Startup acceleration in Telco, Insurance, and Banking domains at scale. Jeevan shares his knowledge and insights on his blog at https://noobj.medium.com. As the Technical Lead at Dkatalis, Jeevan is responsible for leading the Cloud migration from Alicloud to GCP, achieving deterministic code reviews framework, interviews, CICD for services over k8, helm with the aim for least MTTD, MTTB, MTTR, automation and IAC (infrastructure as code) for resources like API gateway (Tyk) self-managed HA cluster, self-managed HA Kafka cluster with a constraint of 2 zones in the region, event-driven Architecture in MSs’ as a first-class approach, debugging performance-related bottlenecks in Nodejs MS with interactions via MQ, REST API, self-managed MongoDB replica-set cluster, defining best practices for REST API design, caching, DDD, noSql DB schema design, Auth mechanisms, MQ(Kafka), running Bootcamp/ crash courses on Nodejs, CICD, k8s, Kafka, and helping/defining WAAF, rate-limiting, security requirements at CDN. Jeevan also implemented the zero trust network policy implementation for all communication among any components (MS to MS, Kafka, MongoDB, Psql, etc) within Intranet. Jeevan has previously worked as a Senior Engineer at Dkatalis, where he implemented accelerators/seeder for teams to get started with Business logic implementation, proposed/implemented RFCs based framework for any tech design alignment with least time to decision, handled cross-cutting concerns for auth, logging, MTLS, monitoring, integrations with reusable modules for least overhead interactions with Kafka, Redis, HTTP calls, logging, common utils, e2e tracing of requests, etc. Jeevan has also worked as a Digital Analyst at McKinsey, where he was involved in Digital Transformations