Jay Pandya

I help tech‑driven teams ship secure, high‑performance products - fast.

What I do

• DevSecOps & Cloud: Design and harden AWS/Azure/Kubernetes estates with Terraform‑driven IaC, automated CI/CD, and ISO 27001‑aligned security gates.
• Blockchain & Web3: Build Solana and EVM smart contracts, on‑chain data pipelines, and wallet integrations that scale from MVP to millions of transactions.
• Backend Engineering: Craft event‑driven microservices in Rust, Python, and Node.js, tuned for reliability and maintainability.
• Low‑latency Systems: Optimise trading and data‑streaming engines to handle sub‑millisecond workloads and 600‑700 RPS traffic spikes.
• Leadership: Mentor cross‑functional teams, set technical direction, and embed FinOps practices that cut cloud spend while raising engineering velocity.

• Crypticorn AI – Backend & Web3 Consultant (Dubai, 2025)

  Built Rust/Python pipelines that stream millions of Solana DEX trades in real time, fed ML models for sub‑second trading signals, and deployed inference services on Kubernetes.

• Infotools – DevSecOps Manager (Auckland, 2024 – 2025)

  Led three engineering squads, containerising Node.js workloads on EKS/AKS, embedding AI coding assistants, automating SAST/DAST gates, and saving USD 1.8M annually through FinOps optimisation.

• Gallagher Re – Principal Software Engineer (London, 2022 – 2024)

  Directed a 12‑engineer team through an Azure migration that cut disaster‑recovery time from hours to minutes, launched an ML‑Ops platform, and drove 6× adoption of Gen‑AI tooling.

• Coforge – Technical Lead (London, 2022)

  Designed an insurance platform on Azure Kubernetes Service, implemented multi‑tenant Azure AD B2C, and introduced blue‑green deployments with zero rollback incidents.

• Southern Cross Health Society – Senior Cloud Engineer (Auckland, 2019 – 2022)

  Migrated flagship app to an AKS microservices architecture, boosting performance 40 % and trimming NZD $900 K in yearly cloud costs.

• Datacom – Software Developer (Auckland, 2017 – 2019)

  Developed secure .NET solutions that protected PII and met strict compliance standards.

• Open‑Source / Side Projects

  Fractional Founding Engineer for a high‑frequency Solana trading engine delivering sub‑millisecond processing and AI‑powered deployment automation.

Bachelor of Engineering (First‑Class Honours), Software Engineering

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2023)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (2022)
• Cloud Architecture – Advanced Concepts (2022)