Career Record

Professional Experience

Over 8 years of continuous progression at Starmark Software—evolving from test automation and frontend development into backend distributed systems, database performance tuning, and technical leadership.

Lead Engineer

Current Role

Starmark SoftwareBengaluru, India2026 – Present

Leading backend architecture, system reliability, and engineering standards across enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

•Design backend service architecture and write technical specifications for distributed systems.
•Set code quality, automated testing standards, and security guidelines across teams.
•Improve developer workflow by introducing Dockerized local environments and AI agent tooling.
•Work with product leads to turn complex business requirements into clear, reliable technical designs.

Key Achievements

Built QueryGate, an internal proxy tool for role-based database query approvals and audit logging.
Standardized AI agent workflows across teams, speeding up daily development and code reviews.
Led platform upgrades to .NET 10 and modernized build pipelines, reducing deployment errors.

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C#.NET 10System ArchitectureSQL ServerDockerDatabase SecurityAgent Tooling

Associate Lead Engineer

Starmark SoftwareBengaluru, IndiaAugust 2025 – December 2025

Guided technical design, code quality standards, and system modernization for enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

•Defined architecture and API contracts for backend services and web applications.
•Mentored engineers through code reviews, system design sessions, and testing patterns.
•Standardized containerized environments and secure API communication across teams.
•Worked with stakeholders to deliver reporting systems that met enterprise audit and compliance rules.

Key Achievements

Implemented database access controls and audit logging proxies for production systems.
Created reusable AI agent templates that helped engineers write and test code faster.
Planned and executed migration paths to upgrade legacy services to modern .NET versions.

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C#.NET 10ASP.NET CoreSQL ServerDockerAgent ToolingArchitecture

Senior Software Engineer

Starmark SoftwareBengaluru, IndiaJuly 2022 – September 2025

Built high-throughput backend APIs, background job processors, and optimized database performance.

Responsibilities

•Designed and maintained REST APIs and scheduled background workers using C# and ASP.NET Core.
•Diagnosed SQL Server bottlenecks, tuned slow queries, and restructured indexes on large tables.
•Built memory-efficient Excel generation services that streamed large multi-sheet reports without crashes.
•Created automated data ingestion pipelines to reliably import external datasets.

Key Achievements

Reduced query execution times from seconds to milliseconds on high-volume database tables.
Built a reliable asynchronous reporting pipeline with automatic retries that prevented server memory spikes.
Wrote comprehensive integration test suites using xUnit to catch regressions early.

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C#.NET CoreSQL ServerT-SQLHangfireAngularTypeScriptEPPlus

Software Engineer

Starmark SoftwareBengaluru, IndiaJune 2018 – July 2022

Built full-stack web applications, backend APIs, and end-to-end automated test suites.

Responsibilities

•Built automated test suites using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and Maven using the Page Object Model.
•Developed responsive single-page web applications with Angular and TypeScript.
•Implemented RESTful endpoints, database queries, and user authentication in C# and SQL Server.
•Investigated edge cases and fixed concurrency bugs before software releases.

Key Achievements

Automated manual regression test suites, cutting release validation time significantly.
Built core user-facing Angular modules with accessible form controls and clean state management.
Applied automated testing rigor to build more resilient backend code.

JavaSeleniumAngularTypeScriptC#SQL ServerMavenRxJS