Hello, I am

Archit Jain.

Tech Lead & Distributed Systems Architect.

Visionary Engineering Lead with 5+ years of experience architecting, decoupling, and optimizing hyper-scale distributed microservices. Adept at bridging complex systems engineering with business P&L, executing fault-tolerant ledger migrations, and piloting next-generation Agentic AI frameworks to automate mission-critical workflows.

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Technical Expertise

Architecture & Design

Distributed Microservices High-Scale System Design Event-Driven Architecture Fault Tolerance & HA Monolith Decoupling SOA System Trade-off Analysis Low-Level Design (LLD) API Gateway & Load Balancing

Languages & Frameworks

TypeScript JavaScript (ES6+) Node.js React.js Java Express.js RESTful APIs & GraphQL HTML5 / CSS3

Databases & Messaging

MySQL / MS SQL MongoDB (Document Modeling) Redis (Distributed Caching) Redlock Kafka / RabbitMQ PostgreSQL ElasticSearch

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (SQS, ECS, EC2, S3, Lambda) Datadog / Observability CI/CD Pipelines Bitbucket Pipelines & Jenkins Git / GitHub Docker Newrelic Postman

AI Engineering

LLM Orchestration Agentic Workflows RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Gen) LangChain / CrewAI Vector Databases OpenAI GPT / Claude APIs Context-Embedded Automation

Leadership & Governance

Pod Mentoring (10+ Engineers) System Architecture Reviews Performance Tuning Technical Governance System Optimization Cross-Functional Leadership Code Quality Standards TDD / Agile

Professional Experience

Tech Lead

CarDekho Group (Rupyy) | Gurugram, India

Scale: B2B & B2C FinTech Ecosystems
04/2026 - Present
  • Engineering Leadership & Delivery: Spearhead a cross-functional pod of 10+ developers and QA engineers driving continuous platform delivery for core high-traffic fintech systems.
  • Technical Vision & Governance: Formulated architectural layouts, evaluated high-concurrency design trade-offs, and introduced microservices code quality patterns, reducing production escalations by 25% and boosting resilience.
  • AI Innovation & Workflow Automation: Architected a centralized payment portal utilizing OpenAI's GPT and Claude APIs to automate complex loan cash flow reconciliations and dynamically calculate partner revenue disbursements.
  • Infrastructure & Cost Optimization: Spearheaded infrastructure rightsizing across AWS ECS clusters, AWS Lambdas, and Redis nodes, slashing monthly cloud expenditure by 18% without compromising throughput.
  • Operational Excellence: Accelerated development lifecycles by structuring code review standards and agile sprint mechanics, driving a 15% efficiency gain and cutting time-to-market by 20%.
  • System Architecture & LLD: Lead design reviews for high-concurrency microservices, ensuring performant event-loops, data encryption, and robust third-party B2B banking API integrations.

Software Development Engineer III

CarDekho Group (Rupyy) | Gurugram, India

Focus: Microservices Transformation & System Reliability
10/2024 - 03/2026
  • Monolith Decoupling: Architected the migration of a high-dependency legacy 'Unified Journey' monolithic platform into modern, clean-bounded isolated microservices for NBFC and Marketplace workflows.
  • Data Migration & Integrity: Successfully led a zero-downtime horizontal data migration of 3+ years of encrypted business-critical lead records, preserving 100% transactional data integrity.
  • Deep-Dive Performance Tuning: Resolved critical memory leaks and unoptimized database queries across system boundaries, reducing aggregate server overhead and improving API response times by 40-50%.
  • Observability Engineering: Institutionalized proactive debugging, application metrics tracing, and real-time alerting strategies that systematically cut production downtime incidents by 30%.

Software Development Engineer II

CarDekho Group (Rupyy) | Gurugram, India

Focus: High-Volume Transactions & Scaling
06/2023 - 09/2024
  • Revenue & Business Growth: Scaled and launched net-new credit financing verticals (new cars, two-wheelers, refinancing), processing high-volume transactions that generated over INR 100 Crore+ in new business revenue.
  • Asynchronous Infrastructure: Engineered resilient, asynchronous onboarding and loan disbursement sub-systems leveraging AWS SQS event patterns to guarantee high availability and fault isolation.
  • Automation & DevOps: Integrated automated continuous testing profiles via Bitbucket Pipelines and Docker, streamlining code validation cycles and upgrading overall platform deployment frequency.

Software Development Engineer I

CarDekho Group (Rupyy) | Gurugram, India

Focus: Core User Flows & Components
11/2022 - 05/2023
  • Core Journey Engineering: Programmed data-driven customer onboarding and automated payout journeys, directly optimizing customer data conversion metrics.
  • UI Standardization: Engineered and published shared frontend React.js component libraries, standardizing internal design patterns and decreasing downstream UI development efforts by 25%.

Software Developer

India Today Group (Aaj Tak / Lallantop) | Noida, India

Focus: Hyper-Scale Streaming & Media Platforms
12/2021 - 11/2022
  • Hyper-Scale Ingestion: Architected low-latency backend systems for live Election Day Results calculation, managing massive real-time traffic spikes smoothly across 6 high-traffic YouTube channels for millions of active users.
  • Distributed Caching: Formulated multi-node Redis caching strategies above core endpoints for the Lallantop platform, accelerating throughput by 10x-15x.
  • Database Modernization: Executed a complex database translation migrating the proprietary CMS backend from MySQL instances to flexible document schemas on MongoDB to resolve query locking bottlenecks.
  • Full-Stack CMS Features: Programmed real-time collaborative features in the MERN ecosystem including WebSocket-driven takeover rights and an independent Audio Podcast platform boosting audience engagement by 30%.

Software Engineer

Newgen Software Technologies Ltd. | Noida, India

Focus: Enterprise Banking Architecture
03/2021 - 12/2021
  • Enterprise Workflows: Designed robust billing management frameworks and secure transaction document workflows for a major US financial institution (Wilson Bank Project) using Java, JavaScript, and MS SQL.
  • Greenfield Fee Module: Engineered a custom fee management sub-system from scratch, ensuring strict enterprise security rules governed all loan account activities.
  • Stack Modernization: Designed high-performance SQL Stored Procedures for safe transactional operations, and re-architected legacy account opening modules by porting codebases to Angular 9, Java, and MS SQL.
  • Rapid Advancement: Earned a fast-track promotion from Trainee to full-time Software Engineer within 4 months based on exceptional technical execution.

Architecture & Projects

Case Study

Monolith to Microservices Decoupling (CarDekho)

Architected the horizontal decoupling of a highly coupled 'Unified Journey' monolith into clean, domain-driven microservices. Migrated 3+ years of encrypted lead records with zero downtime, and reduced aggregate API response times by 40-50% via extensive DB and Redis optimization.

System Architecture Data Migration Microservices Redis
Community

Tech Publications & Open Source

Actively exploring and documenting distributed system design patterns, modern frontend architecture, and robust AI orchestration workflows.

System Design AI Engineering
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2019 - 2020

Early Career & Internships

Completed foundational engineering internships focusing on frontend optimization (ReactJS, Android UI/UX) and enterprise tooling across ABB India, BSES, and Internity Foundation.

React.js Android Web Dev
Academic Project

Speech-to-Text Analytics

Programmed a comprehensive web portal capable of translating real-time streaming audio records into structured, actionable diagnostic textual pipelines.

Audio Processing Web Architecture
Source Code

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi

CGPA: 8.98

Aug 2017 - Jun 2021

Senior Secondary (12th Grade)

Lovely Public Sr. Sec. School, P. D. Vihar, Delhi

Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (PCM) + Computer Science (CS)

Score: 87.6%

2017

Secondary Education (10th Grade)

Lovely Public Sr. Sec. School, P. D. Vihar, Delhi

CGPA: 10.0

2015

Certifications & Achievements

Certifications

Data Structures in JAVA

Coding Ninjas

Awards & Milestones

  • Corporate Recognition: Aspire 3.0 Achiever - CarDekho Group (Rupyy) (Aug 2026)
  • Innovation Awards: 1st Runner Up, InnovateX Hackathon - CarDekho Group (Rupyy) (Apr 2025)
  • Corporate Recognition: Extra Miles Excellence Recognition - CarDekho Group (Rupyy) (May 2023)
  • Academic Milestones: Best Intern Award - Internity Foundation (Jul 2020)

Get In Touch

Targeting Staff / Tech Lead Engineering roles. Let's discuss system architecture, massive scale infrastructure, and building robust engineering cultures.

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