About

Rakesh J Ganwani is a Lead Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Cloud Engineer with over a decade of experience in software engineering, backend engineering for scalable applications, and distributed systems. He has a proven track record in the design and development of high-performance applications, with a strong focus on delivery, quality, and customer satisfaction. He is primarily focused on managing architectural and code complexity as projects require refactoring a very complex application, keeping clear layers of separation between domain, application, and presentation logic. Rakesh has extensive experience building highly scalable services in distributed environments, decoupling monolithic to microservices architecture, and maintaining core libraries and tools. He has led teams of different sizes and across geographical locations, possessing strong interpersonal and team management skills. He is empathy-driven and values empowering people and organizations to achieve more. Along with project development, Rakesh is involved with the Presales team to help with Solution design, architecture, and prototype development. He strives to enhance the community of Practice, define the technical roadmap for the Backend Platform, mentor fellow engineers, and collaborate directly with peers across the entire Engineering Organization. Rakesh's technologies and frameworks experience includes Java, Spring Framework, NodeJS, Kafka, Hibernate, API, Oracle, MongoDB, SQL, d3, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Grunt, Hadoop, EMR, NoSQL, Stream, Spark Processing, Microservices, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Okta Identity Integration, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk, ELK, New Relic, AppDynamics APM, Grafana, Prometheus, Airflow, Rundeck, Spring scheduling, JUnit, Spock, wire mock, Mockito, and Cypress. Currently, Rakesh works as a Lead Engineer at Cybage, a global software product engineering services organization that designs and provides services in technology, strategy, and operations, with a majority of clients based in North America and Europe region. He leads a team of engineers to develop and support API infrastructure for the flagship product, manages architectural and code complexity, and decoupled monolith application to microservice architecture. In the past, Rakesh has worked as a Technical Consultant at Aarete, a global management consulting firm, and as a Technical Lead at Etech Technology Solutions, which delivers innovative software solutions in the most secure environment, empowering organizations to focus on their core competencies.