About

Suryakant M. is an accomplished engineering leader with over 17 years of experience in designing and developing highly scalable distributed applications in Java using microservice and MVC based architectures. He has successfully led teams of up to 20 people to design and develop complex applications, implementing systems using microservice-based architecture involving circuit breaker, sidecar, API gateway, and service discovery patterns. Suryakant has in-depth experience in requirement analysis, object-oriented design methodologies, and usage of software design patterns. Suryakant has played various roles such as development lead/manager, architect, product owner, and has taken complete ownership of products. He has interacted with various stakeholders such as architects, product managers, external partners, other functional teams, marketing and support teams to deliver products successfully. Suryakant has diverse experience in working on software products from scratch as well as large matured products. He has very good debugging and product support skills and is experienced in Agile and Incremental software development methodologies. Suryakant's specialties include programming languages such as Java (16 years of experience) and C/C++ (no industry work experience), platforms such as JEE (JSP, Servlets, JMS, JDBC), and frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, SpringBoot, Kafka, Cassandra, Kafka connectors, Kafka Streams. He also has experience in XML Technologies, JavaScript, RESTful Web Services, JSON, Oracle, SQL, Apache Solr, and tools such as CVS, SVN, Perforce, Eclipse, Github. Currently, Suryakant is an Engineering Manager at PayPal, managing the compliance team. His key responsibilities include technical roadmap, architecture, and execution of engineering solutions, team building, upskilling, mentoring, and hiring, stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration, and the introduction of agile practices. Suryakant has previously worked as an Engineering Manager at Whatfix, leading the deployment team, and at Digicert, where he was responsible for the architecture, design, development, and deployment of a range of highly scalable services from scratch. He managed multiple scrum teams and built high-performance services using microservices architecture. Suryakant holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology from Gogte Institute of Technology. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Kafka, Microservices, Java, Spring, Cassandra, Spring Boot, SQL, AWS, Javascript, MySQL, NoSQL, Web, Software Engineer, product manager,