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Rahul Lalwani

Technical Associate Architect
Pune

Summary

Associate Technical Architect with 11+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise solutions. Proven expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and Cloud-Native Architectures across GCP. Skilled in building solution blueprints, reference architectures, and integration strategies aligned with business and IT objectives. Recently led AI-driven productivity initiatives using GitHub Copilot, MCP Servers, and GCP Stackdriver to accelerate the entire SDLC, improving developer efficiency and software quality. Adept at driving cross-functional leadership, architecture governance, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring compliance, performance, and high availability.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Associate Technical Architect

Bitwise Solutions Pvt Ltd
Pune
12.2024 - Current

Client: TSYS Issuer | Domain: Card Payments

Key Responsibilities / Contributions:

  • Acted as primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, translating requirements into actionable user stories.
  • Provided architectural and technical guidance to ensure scalable and robust solution design.
  • Led Agile ceremonies, streamlined CI/CD, and interfaced with clients for demos and feedback.

Strategic AI & Productivity Initiatives:

  • Designed and implemented an AI-assisted SDLC framework integrating GitHub Copilot, MCP servers, Figma, databases, and GCP Stackdriver.
  • Improved productivity and test coverage by introducing AI-driven requirement analysis, code generation, and validation accelerators.
  • Pioneered adoption of AI-driven engineering practices, positioning the organization towards future-ready architecture strategies.

Senior Application Engineer (Onsite)

Bitwise Inc
Atlanta
06.2023 - 11.2024

Client: Discover Financial Services | Domain: Financial Services and Banking

Key Responsibilities / Contributions:

  • Design and develop solutions for complex application problems, perform proof of concept and present technology architecture solution.
  • Write programs, execute unit testing, and push tested code to version control.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to create integration test strategies and confirm program operations.
  • Work with Project Manager to ensure functionality aligns with architecture guidelines.
  • Deploy and support software in production.

Senior Application Engineer (Onsite)

Bitwise Inc
Atlanta
03.2022 - 05.2023

Client: Global Payments | Domain: Card & Payment Processing

Project: Accounts Portal

  • Enhanced Accounts Portal by creating scalable cloud-based microservices with Firestore and Elasticsearch.
  • Implemented REST Microservices with Spring Boot for performance improvements.
  • Optimized deployments across GCP Kubernetes Engine and AppEngine.
  • Led requirement gathering, coordination with offshore teams, and production support.

System Analyst

Bitwise Solutions Pvt Ltd
Pune
07.2014 - 03.2022

Client: Global Payments | Domain: Card & Payment Processing

Project: Dispute Management System (DiMS) (Sep 2020 – Feb 2022)

  • Worked as a Technical Consultant, solutioning performance and security improvements.
  • Developed microservices deployed on GCP Kubernetes Engine and AppEngine.
  • Responsible for requirement gathering, design, and end-to-end delivery.
  • Provided production support and weekly progress reports.

Project: Merchant Portal (Oct 2017 – Aug 2020)

  • Developed scalable cloud-based application using REST Microservices and J2EE features.
  • Leveraged GCP AppEngine for secure deployment and scalability.
  • Gathered requirements, designed functional modules, and coordinated production deployment.
  • Conducted weekly status reports and performance tuning.

Project: BusinessView (Jul 2014 – Oct 2017)

  • Rewrote existing application and created custom reports with enhanced security modules.
  • Created application modules integrating Struts and Spring frameworks.
  • Developed GUIs using JSP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS.
  • Coordinated deployments from development to production.
  • Reviewed code for optimization and performance enhancement.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Hitkarini College of Engineering And Technology
Jabalpur, India
04.2001 -

Skills

Architecture & Design: Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, API-first, SOA, UML, Design Patterns, Solution Blueprints, Reference Architectures

Cloud & DevOps: GCP (AppEngine, GKE, BigQuery, CloudSQL, Stackdriver, Pub/Sub), AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven, GitHub Actions), Observability & Monitoring

Programming & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, ReactJS

AI & Automation: GitHub Copilot, MCP Servers, AI-driven SDLC accelerators, Automated Test Generation, Intelligent Monitoring

Databases: Oracle, Firestore, BigQuery, MySQL, Elasticsearch

Leadership & Collaboration: Architecture Governance, Cross-functional Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement, Business-IT Alignment, Agile/Scrum

Certification

Google Cloud - Associate Cloud Engineer (Nov 2024)

Timeline

Associate Technical Architect

Bitwise Solutions Pvt Ltd
12.2024 - Current

Senior Application Engineer (Onsite)

Bitwise Inc
06.2023 - 11.2024

Senior Application Engineer (Onsite)

Bitwise Inc
03.2022 - 05.2023

System Analyst

Bitwise Solutions Pvt Ltd
07.2014 - 03.2022

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Hitkarini College of Engineering And Technology
04.2001 -
Rahul LalwaniTechnical Associate Architect