Vishnu Kanna J

Engineering Manager and Senior Backend Engineer with 7 years of experience architecting and leading delivery of high-scale Java platforms across Banking, Payments and FinTech. Currently leads a backend engineering team at Capco on Visa's Payments Platform, owning technical roadmap, stakeholder management, HLD/LLD, and production reliability for enterprise onboarding systems processing high transaction volumes. Deep hands-on expertise in Java 17, Spring Boot, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS.

Delivered scalable backend platforms for Visa, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Flipkart, spanning architecture design, incident management, CI/CD automation and cross-functional technical leadership.

Engineering Manager - Capco Technologies - Client: Visa (Payments Platform)

(2025-10)

Tech Stack: Java 17, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, Oracle, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins

• Lead a team of 2 backend engineers delivering SDK Platform and API Platform capabilities for Visa's enterprise onboarding ecosystem, owning technical roadmap and sprint delivery.
• Design scalable microservices and event-driven backend solutions using Java 17, Spring Boot, Kafka and Redis for enterprise payment platforms handling high-volume transaction traffic.
• Drive HLD/LLD discussions, code reviews, sprint planning and technical mentoring while maintaining engineering quality and release stability across production deployments.
• Own end-to-end delivery and incident response from requirement analysis through production support, coordinating with Product, QA, DevOps and cross-functional stakeholders.

Senior Software Engineer - Capco Technologies - Client: Visa (Payments Platform)

(2025-03 - 2025-10)

Tech: Java 17, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins

• Architected reusable SDK Platform components enabling partner banks to rapidly integrate Visa payment capabilities.
• Implemented Visa Digital Experience (VDEX) platform by consolidating multiple onboarding workflows into a unified enterprise API platform.
• Designed high-performance, secure REST APIs emphasizing scalability, low latency and fault-tolerant distributed architecture.
• Improved deployment stability by 40% through Jenkins CI/CD automation and standardized release pipelines.
• Built Kafka-based event-driven microservices and collaborated with global engineering teams to deliver secure, highly available payment solutions.

Senior Software Engineer - NTT Data - Client: Goldman Sachs

(2024-09 - 2025-02)

Tech: Java 17, Spring Boot, Oracle, REST APIs, Jenkins

• Implemented secure backend services supporting enterprise credential migration to CredVault while ensuring regulatory compliance and data integrity.
• Designed REST APIs and validation services enabling secure migration across enterprise banking applications.
• Automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and led production troubleshooting, improving operational reliability by 30%.

Software Engineer - Wissen Technology - Client: Morgan Stanley

(2023-03 - 2024-09)

Tech: Java 17, Spring Boot, Docker, Jenkins, IBM DB2, Prometheus, Grafana

• Re-engineered reconciliation services using Java and Spring Boot, improving transaction processing performance by 70%.
• Designed automated backend validation services, reducing manual intervention by 60%.
• Built scalable banking services emphasizing reliability, fault tolerance and maintainability.
• Containerized services using Docker and improved release consistency through Jenkins CI/CD.
• Implemented production observability using Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk, reducing mean-time-to-detect for incidents.

Associate Software Engineer - Wissen Technology - Client: Flipkart

(2022-06 - 2023-02)

Tech: Java 8, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka

• Contributed to cloud migration of Java services to Flipkart Cloud Platform (FCP), improving scalability by 35%.
• Built containerized microservices using Docker, Kubernetes and Kafka to support high-volume backend processing.
• Designed CI/CD pipelines, production deployments and platform monitoring for distributed backend services.

Program Analyst - Cognizant - IELTS Product

(2020-10 - 2022-06)

Tech: Java 8, Spring Boot, SQL, REST APIs

• Developed Java and Spring Boot backend services automating packet-processing workflows, improving response time by 20%.
• Designed REST APIs and backend business logic supporting enterprise workflow automation.

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology - Mepco Schlenk Engineering College (2016 - 2020)