Deven P

Results-driven Software Engineering Lead with 20+ years delivering cloud-native, full-stack solutions across AdTech, IoT, and Financial Services. Hands-on people leader who has hired, coached, and developed distributed engineering teams (onsite and offshore), set technical strategy, architecture, and API design, and led end-to-end product delivery, production support, incident response, observability, security, automation, testing, and CI/CD. Experienced integrating cloud and edge systems for IoT/automation use cases and building APIs and microservices with Java, Python, TypeScript while maintaining PostgreSQL/MySQL databases.

Actively mentors engineers and leverages AI tooling (Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate development velocity and improve code quality.

Lead Software Engineer - Digital Remedy / Compulse - New Orleans, LA

(2024-05 - 2026-06)

• Embedded AI tooling (Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) into engineering workflows—accelerating development across Python, TypeScript, and Java projects; improved technical design, documentation, code review quality, and unit/integration testing to reduce mean time to resolution for production incidents.
• Led full-stack engineering for an AdTech data ingestion and analytics platform: delivered API-driven consoles surfacing campaign performance insights for 4,000+ advertisers across 90+ agencies, Built components for a Vue customer facing front-end.
• Reduced query complexity and improved maintainability by migrating business logic from Java into templated query solutions, cutting average query-related bug resolution time and lowering operational burden for production support.
• Extended data-matching capability by implementing IPv6 capture alongside IPv4 support; server-side captures 3.25M+ events daily, improving DSP match rates and data quality for downstream analytics.
• Architected and delivered a TypeScript API layer, transitioning from Java servers to a TypeScript/Databricks stack and improving system throughput and maintainability.
• Built Apache Airflow DAGs to automate ETL pipelines and performed detailed data analysis to troubleshoot and reduce manual intervention in daily operations.
• Partnered with Cybersecurity to audit and remediate vulnerabilities and led a major-version migration; worked with DevOps to expand CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), improve token handling and secure configuration management, and introduce containerization and orchestration practices (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Introduced BrowserStack AI-based automated testing suites and test cases to increase test coverage, reduce regression cycle time, and improve release reliability.
• Owned production support and incident response processes; responsible for hiring, onboarding, coaching, and mentoring engineering team members.

Consultant / Senior Software Engineer - Aman Technologies - New Orleans, LA

(2021-03 - 2024-04)

• Consulted on backend projects for Digital Remedy's AdTech platform, contributing to API design, data pipeline improvements and cloud-based applications development. Managed the offshore consulting team.
• Transitioned from a consulting to full-time employee in May 2024.

Staff Software Engineer / Engineering Manager - Fluidra Inc. (Zodiac Pool) - Carlsbad, CA

(2019-07 - 2021-02)

• Led delivery of an IoT cloud platform for command-and-control of connected pool devices (heat pumps, robots, automation systems) over public cloud infrastructure for consumer and commercial markets; accountable for architecture, delivery, and operational support models and cloud/edge integrations.
• Led enterprise cloud-based applications development of distributed systems microservices, AWS IoT Core systems engineering, and systems integration for next-generation IoT devices alongside legacy firmware platform support. Led the effort to resolve scalability issues on peak traffic days.
• Collaborated with Firmware/Embedded, iOS, and Android teams to define and implement cloud APIs for real-time device control, telemetry, and customer experience; supported production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Responsible for hiring, coaching, and mentoring team members across a distributed engineering organization.

Technical Lead / Consultant - WhiteHedge Technologies / Aman Technologies - New York, NY

(2013-03 - 2019-06)

• Managed a 10+ engineer team building WeatherFX, a geo-targeted advertising platform computing normalized weather indicators for 250,000+ locations across 20+ countries; accountable for architecture, delivery, and team execution.
• Drove system behavior to respond dynamically to real-time weather changes, enabling advertisers to automate campaign delivery based on local weather triggers and improving campaign responsiveness.
• Integrated with major advertising platforms including Google DFP, AppNexus, Facebook, Twitter, The Trade Desk using ISO-compliant web services.
• Managed the Agile software development lifecycle: sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily standups, coding standards, code reviews, engineering design reviews, troubleshooting, UAT and release management.
• Collaborated with product managers and business stakeholders to gather and refine customer requirements and shape product strategy; responsible for building and mentoring the Java development team.

Deputy General Manager (Principal Consultant) - HCL Technologies - Bangalore, India

(2010-09 - 2012-12)

• Client: Tullett Prebon Holdings Corporation, London, UK — managed customer-focused project delivery for the Tradeblade electronic trading platform from offshore across multiple projects and client engagements.
• Oversaw engineering practices with a focus on technical standards, accountability, and delivery; coordinated cross-functional teams to meet project milestones and quality expectations.
• Acted as a principal consultant to align delivery management with client requirements and to improve engineering processes and release predictability.

Assistant Vice President, Software Engineering - Tullett Prebon Holdings Corp - New York, NY

(2000-10 - 2010-08)

• Java · J2EE · EJB · Oracle · Swing MVC · JIDE
• Core team architect and lead engineer for Tradeblade, an enterprise electronic/hybrid/voice trading platform covering a wide range of markets; integrated internal systems with 3rd-party clearing houses.
• Increased net income for Swaps business by 25% (~$2M) and added $100B in trading volumes by extending the platform to UK and European markets, making Tradeblade a global system.
• Managed technical projects, software systems, and full project lifecycle under CMMI quality standards: tracked quality metrics, SQA, root-cause analysis, MTTD, release prediction, and productivity measurement.
• Played a key role in evaluation and selection of offshore CMMI Level 5 partners; managed requirements gathering, HLDs/LLDs, requirements and code reviews, and led the outsourcing pilot project.
• Designed and developed customer-facing trading UIs and GUI prototypes; bridged a legacy voice trading system to replicate CRT terminal user interfaces on broker desktops.

Lead Software Engineer - Liberty Brokerage - New York, NY

(1999-10 - 2000-09)

• Designed and developed backend software for electronic trading systems for US Treasuries (Bills, Bonds, WI, Repo) in C++/STL.
• Conducted testing and performance tuning of trading servers and order database to ensure high-volume order traffic handling.
• Developed tools and scripts to analyze logs for tracking orders and debugging production issues.

Consultant - KPMG (BearingPoint) - New York, NY

(1999-06 - 1999-09)

• Performed object-oriented design, systems analysis, architecture and software development for the Doubleday Book Club (Bertelsmann) online enrollment platform.
• Delivered object-oriented programming, debugging, and integration work to support production readiness and reliable service delivery.

Lead Software Engineer - Liberty Brokerage - New York, NY

(1998-10 - 1999-06)

• Design and develop software for electronic trading systems backend for US Treasuries (Bills, Bonds, WI, Repo) in C++/STL.
• Conducted testing and performance tuning of trading servers and order database to ensure high-volume order traffic handling.
• Tool development and scripting to analyze logs for tracking orders and debugging.

Master of Science - Computer Science - New Jersey Institute of Technology (1998 - 1998)

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering - Pune Institute of Computer Technology (1996 - 1996)