Vedant L Iyangar – Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience specializing in distributed systems and high-traffic web applications.

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience specializing in distributed systems and high-traffic web applications. Proven track record of driving operational excellence through CI/CD automation, reducing deployment times by 96%, and managing multi-tenant platforms serving 250,000+ organizations globally. Expert in TypeScript, React, and BFF architectures, with a strong focus on test-driven development (TDD) and data-driven optimization through extensive A/B experimentation.

Location: Coimbatore, India / RemoteEmail: vedant.iyangar@gmail.comStatus: Open to Senior / Staff Software Engineering Roles

Recruiter Career Highlights

Years of Experience: 8+ years

Current Focus: Distributed systems, high-traffic web applications, AI infrastructure (MCP servers & agentic LLM skills), BFF architectures, and CI/CD operational excellence.

Target Roles: Staff Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems Engineer

  • Reduced deployment times by 96% through CI/CD automation and architected a zero-downtime deployment strategy reducing maintenance window latency from 30 minutes to under 1 minute.
  • Maintained a global multi-tenant no-code platform serving ~250,000 organizations across diverse geographical regions.
  • Prototyped MCP server integrations to streamline deployment automation via natural language prompting and engineered modular LLM 'skills' and tool schemas.
  • Pioneered a custom automated testing framework that eliminated manual parity testing and reallocated 3 QA engineers, upholding strict Test-Driven Development (TDD) standards.

Technical Skills & Expertise

Languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python, GoLang, HTML/CSS

Frameworks

Node.js, React Native, React, Angular

Back-end & Infrastructure

Kafka, BFF Architectures (GraphQL), Docker, Serverless, Shell Scripting, Cloud Services

Data Stores

Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL

Methodologies

Trunk Based Development, CI/CD, A/B Testing, Pair Programming, Architecture Katas, AI-First Software Development, Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Cloud Services (AWS / GCP / Azure)

AWS (ECS, Fargate, SNS, STS, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Lambda), GCP (CloudSQL, CloudRun, BigQuery), Azure (Enterprise Applications)

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer (Consultant) at ThoughtWorks Technologies

Nov 2021 - Present | Coimbatore, India

Consulting on AI infrastructure, distributed systems architecture, transactional reliability, and CI/CD operational excellence.

Key Achievements

  • AI Infrastructure: Prototyped MCP server integrations to streamline deployment automation via natural language prompting, reducing manual pipeline overhead.
  • Agentic Skills: Engineered modular LLM 'skills' and tool schemas, translating non-technical user intent into structured, multi-step API executions.
  • Platform Strategy & Design: Defined the architectural roadmap for high-throughput distributed services using Architectural Decision Records (ADRs); secured 2nd place in a company-wide Architecture Kata by solving complex consistency challenges in a multi-region environment.
  • Transactional Reliability: Engineered Kafka-based backend worker services with a focus on idempotency and error-resiliency, ensuring data integrity across cross-platform mobile and web ecosystems.
  • Operational Excellence (CI/CD): Architected a zero-downtime deployment strategy that reduced maintenance window latency from 30 minutes to under 1 minute.
  • Quality Engineering & TDD: Pioneered a custom automated testing framework that eliminated manual parity testing and reallocated 3 QA engineers to other testing methods, upholding strict Test-Driven Development (TDD) standards.
  • Technical Leadership: Governed the end-to-end release process for 6+ enterprise-scale application launches and mentored a team of engineers to establish standardized runbooks for system stability.
  • Observability: Implemented advanced Datadog and Splunk telemetry to monitor 'golden signals' (latency, errors, traffic) for mission-critical business metrics.

Technologies: MCP, LLMs / Agentic Skills, Kafka, CI/CD Automation, TDD, Datadog, Splunk, ADRs, AWS, GCP

Member of Technical Staff at Zoho Corporation

Mar 2020 - Oct 2021 | Chennai, India

Maintained a global multi-tenant cloud platform, standardized API ecosystems, and mentored frontend engineering teams.

Key Achievements

  • Scalable Distributed Systems: Maintained a global no-code platform serving ~250,000 organizations, ensuring high availability and seamless multi-tenant stability across diverse geographical regions.
  • API Ecosystems: Standardized RESTful endpoints and GraphQL (BFF) architectures that functioned as the unified data engine for 4 distinct product lines, improving cross-team developer efficiency.
  • Frontend Mentorship: Resolved significant technical debt within the frontend stack and conducted training sessions on internal frameworks for cross-functional teams.

Technologies: Distributed Systems, GraphQL (BFF), REST APIs, Multi-tenant Architecture, TypeScript, JavaScript

Programmer at Ionixx Technologies

May 2018 - Mar 2020 | Chennai, India

Engineered frontend architectures, asynchronous processing pipelines, and data visualization dashboards.

Key Achievements

  • Developer Efficiency: Engineered a comprehensive Angular boilerplate featuring interceptors and lazy loading, which was adopted as the company-wide standard for all Angular projects.
  • Performance Optimization: Integrated asynchronous processing for transactional email systems, enabling the handling of batches up to 10,000 users efficiently.
  • Data Visualization: Built interactive, high-performance dashboards featuring 10+ complex chart types for data analysis.

Technologies: Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, Asynchronous Processing, Data Visualization

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Technical Publications & Articles

Streamlining Development with Git and Github

2023-04-07 • 3 min read

Git with Github is probably the most widely used version control systems across enterprises, all throughtout the world. As a developer, I have had my far share of working with Git throughout my career. In this post, I will be listing some practices and configurations that have helped me improve my productivity with Git.

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A dummy's encounter with Domain Driven Design

2023-02-26 • 3 min read

As a software developer, I had vaguely heard of the term “Domain Driven Design” thrown around in my office circle, but I never completely understood what exactly it is. This post is my attempt to list my takeaways from this video and my opinions on Domain Driven Design in general.

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Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience specializing in distributed systems and high-traffic web applications.

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