DP/26
Open to software engineering opportunities

Darpan Patel.

Software Engineer | Java • Spring Boot • Kafka • AWS | Scaling Distributed Systems to 10M+ Records/Day

Software Engineer with 3+ years building scalable, distributed backend systems and AI/LLM-integrated applications for high-volume financial platforms.

JAVA · SPRING BOOT · KAFKA · CLOUD · AI

01 / context

Systems that stay useful under load.

Software Engineer with 3+ years building scalable, distributed backend systems and AI/LLM-integrated applications for high-volume financial platforms. Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices; cloud experience spans Azure in production and a self-proposed, self-led AWS migration that cut server response time 80%.

Applied AI expertise includes LLM integration, prompt engineering, and model fine-tuning. Proven track record shipping systems that process 10M+ daily records with sub-second latency for Bank of America via Infosys.

10M+records / day
<1starget latency
80%faster response
3+years shipping

02 / experience

A record of measurable motion.

Roles across financial infrastructure, developer tooling, mobile products, and cloud migration. Select an entry to inspect the work.

FEB 2026 — PRESENT

Technology Analyst

Infosys · Client: Bank of America · Newark, DE
  • Built and scaled a Java/Spring Boot microservices platform processing 10M+ records/day at sub-second latency for core transaction-reporting systems.
  • Designed and deployed a real-time Kafka event-streaming layer replacing legacy batch syncing.
  • Built Azure deployment automation and monitoring tooling, lifting backend resource efficiency 20%.
  • Redesigned a legacy input-validation flow, growing valid-request throughput to ~6,000/day and improving system security posture ~20% per internal review.
  • Built an internal AI search tool on the GitHub Copilot API, saving an estimated 5 developer-hours/day for early users (currently in pilot).
  • Informally led a reduced 3-person team for 4 weeks covering for a lead on leave, keeping two release cycles on track.
JAN 2026 — PRESENT

iOS Developer, Flutter

MicroFone · Startup · Part-Time
  • Built an automated news-ingestion pipeline (GCP Cloud Scheduler + Brave Search API → Firebase), improving automation coverage 90%.
  • Introduced a branch-based deployment workflow for the team.
  • Rebuilt the app's live navigation menu, improving response time 40%.
  • Re-architected image-heavy pages with local caching, improving performance 70%.
  • Contributed core features for the app’s App Store launch.
DEC 2022 — AUG 2024

Software Engineer

Infosys · Client: Bank of America · Richardson, TX
  • Built distributed Java backend services processing 10M+ financial records daily for downstream ML analytics pipelines.
  • Re-engineered microservice concurrency/threading, lifting throughput 35%.
  • Built an automated schema-validation/preprocessing layer for ML pipelines.
  • Built 150+ automated unit/integration tests, cutting production defects 15%.
JUN 2022 — DEC 2022

Software Engineer

Revature · Reston, VA
  • Proposed and led migration of an internal project’s on-prem server to AWS (EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling), improving server response time 80%.
  • Built CI/CD automation pipelines, accelerating AI feature rollout 25%.
  • Designed contract-validation modules for ML components.
  • Diagnosed and resolved 20+ critical production bugs.

03 / selected work

Proof, not just promises.

A few experiments and shipped systems where infrastructure meets a human-facing idea.

01 / PROJECT

Novora — AI Companion App

LAHacks 2025 · Real-time AI companion app on Gemini Pro/multimodal APIs with intelligent token batching, sub-second cached/streaming responses, and a Firebase Auth + modular AI state provider backend for scalable multi-user sessions.

02 / PROJECT

AI-Based Slogan Generator

GPT-2 fine-tuned model achieving 69% BLEU, with a custom BLEU/ROUGE/perplexity evaluation pipeline and a Gradio web UI for real-time inference tuning.

03 / PROJECT

Secure P2P File Sharing System

A secure peer-to-peer file sharing system in Python with encryption, chunking, and NAT traversal support.

04 / PROJECT

“The Journey”

A GTA-inspired, physics-based 3D career story you can drive through. A different kind of portfolio, currently under construction.

In Progress

04 / toolkit

Comfortable deep in the stack.

The tools are broad; the through-line is building dependable paths from data to decision.

Languages
Java · ExpertPython · ExpertDart (Flutter)SQL
Backend & Cloud
Spring BootMicroservicesREST / GraphQL APIsApache KafkaAWS (EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, Lambda, S3)AzureGCP (Cloud Scheduler)DockerKubernetesCI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
AI & ML
LLM Integration (GPT-4/4o, Gemini, HuggingFace)Prompt EngineeringModel Fine-TuningBLEU / ROUGE EvaluationGradio
Databases & Tools
MySQLFirestoreNoSQL DesignGitJiraPostman

05 / foundation

Built on curiosity.

Formal study in computer science, applied through systems work and a habit of testing ideas in public.

MS Computer Science

California State University, Los Angeles
2024 — 2025

BTech Information Technology

Navrachana University
2018 — 2022

06 / contact

Let’s build something that holds up.

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