Ajay Dhakne

Backend Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing and building production-grade Go microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems for a multi-tenant enterprise SaaS Zero Trust platform serving 110K+ monthly active users across 13 global regions. Experienced in Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Redis, gRPC, authentication, networking, and cloud-native backend development with a strong focus on scalable, secure, and highly available backend services.

Associate Cloud Development Engineer at Cloud Software Group (Citrix) (2023-06 – Present)

• Built and scaled Go microservices powering an enterprise SaaS Zero Trust VPN platform serving 110K+ monthly active users across 13 global regions, architected for 1M+ concurrent users with high availability.
• Designed and implemented a distributed IP leasing service in Go supporting 65K+ IP pools with strongly consistent allocation, sub-10ms latency, and concurrent-safe operations using goroutines, channels, and mutexes.
• Designed and developed high-performance backend services and RESTful APIs using Go, gRPC, and HTTP/2, optimizing concurrent request processing and low-latency communication across distributed systems.
• Designed Redis-backed caching layers and in-memory data structures to reduce lookup latency and improve throughput across globally distributed services.
• Designed and deployed cloud-native backend services on Kubernetes across AWS and Azure, improving scalability, resiliency, security, and operational reliability.
• Implemented networking features supporting TCP, UDP, HTTPS, FTP, SMB, RDP, and SSH tunneling, including packet inspection, TLS/SSL termination, and encrypted traffic routing.
• Developed enterprise authentication and authorization workflows integrating Microsoft Active Directory (LDAP), Kerberos, NTLM, and Okta SSO for identity-aware access, while leveraging Azure Managed Identity for secure service-to-service authentication and resource authorization.
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Docker; integrated Azure Service Bus for asynchronous messaging and implemented observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
• Designed and managed Azure Cosmos DB infrastructure using Terraform, optimizing throughput, cross-region replication, and transactional consistency.
• Built MCP-powered AI engineering agents that integrate GitHub, Azure, Splunk, and Atlassian with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to automate debugging, accelerate onboarding, and improve developer productivity.

Software Engineering Intern at CloudEagle.ai (2022-12 – 2022-12)

• Built API-driven onboarding, offboarding, and access governance automation integrating 10+ third-party SaaS APIs, enabling zero-touch user lifecycle management in a fast-moving startup environment.

Software Development Engineer Intern at Cloud Software Group (Citrix) (2022-06 – 2022-08)

• Built release automation pipelines for the Citrix Workspace Android app using Jenkins and Groovy, reducing manual release effort by 1–2 days per cycle.

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (2019 – 2023)