Tanvir Azad

Staff Software Engineer & Technical Manager with 13 years of experience scaling high-availability microservices ecosystems across Payments and E-commerce. Proven expertise in driving SLA compliance, managing production support lifecycles, and collaborating with client operations and engineering teams.

Staff Software Engineer at Visa (2024-08 – Present)

Led delivery of new LTA Architecture for Visa Payment System, driving >50% TPS growth and supporting 50K+ production transaction volume.

Engineered Centralized

Multi-Tenant Card Service managing 500M+ cards, providing high-availability APIs for real-time card enrollment and profile lifecycle operations. Managed production alerts, escalated system anomalies, and maintained strict uptime SLAs while partnering with client operations teams to resolve critical technical issues across enterprise SaaS modules.

• Led cross-functional delivery across 10+ software engineers, QA, and product leads, driving architecture governance, sprint planning, and modern development standards.
• Drove velocity via Agentic AI workflows (Cline, custom Visa MCP servers), leading team enablement; built Karate/JUnit 5 test suites, cutting regression time by 40%.

Senior Associate L2 at Publicis Sapient (2023-07 – 2024-06)

Led backend engineering for Visa Click2Pay Consumer Portal, architecting high-TPS Java Spring Boot microservices integrated with Oracle DB and enterprise legacy backend systems. Directly managed a backend pod of 8–12 software engineers, conducting low-level design (LLD) reviews, mentoring engineers, and maintaining 100% production readiness and release quality standards.

• Ensure compliance with ticketing and monitoring tools, reporting weekly and monthly production metrics and conducting root-cause analysis (RCA) for software-related issues

Senior Software Engineer at Wasoko (2022-02 – 2023-06)

Architected GCP-native microservices powering core Supply Chain & B2B E-commerce systems—including Order Management (OMS), Warehouse Management (WMS), and Inventory Management (IMS)—handling multi-region inventory sync and order fulfillment flows. Partnered with business operations, logistics leads, and product teams to map supply chain business requirements into scalable technical roadmaps, authored enterprise architecture docs (HLD/LLD), and established engineering delivery standards. Designed high-throughput Product Catalog microservices (listing, ranking algorithms, schedulers) and adapter services to seamlessly integrate internal core engines with 3rd-party logistics and payment providers.

Senior Software Development Engineer at Boutiqaat (2021-05 – 2022-02)

Designed and developed backend microservices for a Retail App managing Order Management and real-time data ingestion for sales, warehouse, branding, and marketing reports. Optimized data ingestion pipeline using Java 8, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL schedulers to process 2M+ daily bulk updates, reducing database write latency by ~35%.

Associate Team Lead at ACS Global Tech Solutions (2020-08 – 2021-04)

Led backend development and monolith-to-microservices decomposition for an Ecommerce domain product. Managed code reviews, refactoring, and technical mentoring for backend engineering teams

Senior Associate (Client: Wells Fargo) at Publicis Sapient (2018-01 – 2020-07)

Engineered reactive microservices and event-driven streaming solutions using Apache Kafka and Spring Web-Flux in Mercury Trade Project (Jan 2018 – Sep 2019). Authored BDD test suites with Cucumber and JUnit 5, participating in sprint planning and stakeholder demos. Transitioned to internal systems engineering (Sep 2019 – Jul 2020), designing backend Query Services using the Builder Pattern for Bitemporal Database interactions and optimizing data access layers.

Software Engineer at Misys (2015-04 – 2017-09)

Developed the Margin Module for enterprise FX Trading platforms using Java, Spring-framework, Hibernate, and MySQL.

Developer at Unisys (2013-11 – 2015-04)

Executed legacy application modernization and component upgrades for the URBIS Mortgage Platform.

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering – West Bengal University of Technology (2013)