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Visionary Lead Solutions Architect with 15+ years of experience designing and implementing highly secured, scalable, and cost-effective enterprise solutions.

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Visionary Lead Solutions Architect with extensive experience designing and implementing highly secured, scalable, and cost-effective enterprise solutions. Proven expertise in modernizing legacy Mainframe systems to AWS Cloud/EKS Microservices architecture, AI enablement, deep understanding of application security, system analysis, and the full software development lifecycle, coupled with recent, hands-on experience leveraging Generative AI and LLMs for accelerated engineering and data analysis.

Professional Experience

Distinguished Software Engineer

Verizon

Sep 2021 - Present

Principal Software Engineer

Verizon

Sep 2018 - Sep 2021

Senior Software Engineer

Verizon

Aug 2009 - Sep 2018

Software Engineer

Verizon Wireline

Aug 2002 - Sep 2009

Key Expertise

Cloud & Architecture

AWS EKS Kubernetes Microservices SOA REST/JSON Reactive Frameworks

Security & Compliance

PCI-DSS Tokenization Payment Processing Application Security Vulnerability Remediation

Data & Database

MongoDB Object Storage Cassandra DB2 Oracle PostgreSQL

AI/ML Tools

Gemini API Copilot Cursor Notebook LLM Executive Dashboard

Core Technologies

Python Java/J2EE Spring/MVC React JS Tomcat Jenkins Git/Stash COBOL IBM Mainframe JCL PL/1 JIRA Kafka

Achievements & Recognition

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MongoDB World Award

Nominated for MongoDB world award in 2016

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Verizon Hackathon

Awarded 2nd Place in Verizon hackathon for an ML-based alerting system prototype

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Cost Savings

Achieved $10 million in Mainframe MIPS cost savings through cloud modernization

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Performance Excellence

Designed tokenization engine processing 40K TPM with 8-millisecond response time

Get In Touch

I'm always open to discussing new opportunities, innovative projects, or potential collaborations.

atulgade@gmail.com (813) 838-7424

Tampa, FL