Career

Professional Experience

Signature Achievements

  • Designed and built scalable backend services and microservices using Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL, handling high workloads and multi-tenant environments.
  • Built and deployed async workflow systems using Celery, RabbitMQ, and MQTT for real-time provisioning, synchronization, and event-driven processing.
  • Developed and delivered API-driven platforms with clean domain models, API versioning, and integrations with external payment, ERP, and IoT systems.
  • Set up cloud-native deployments on Kubernetes with separate API, worker, and scheduler services — deployed and maintained in production across multiple client platforms.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines and automated release workflows using GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, ensuring reproducible deployments across all projects.
  • Implemented observability from day one: distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, metrics with Prometheus/Grafana, alerting, and error tracking with Sentry.
  • Integrated payment and invoicing flows (Stripe, Mollie, VAT compliance) correctly within robust, idempotent backend services.

Experience Timeline

17+ years of hands-on engineering experience across backend development, full-stack projects, cloud deployments, Odoo ERP, system integrations and solution architecture. Progressive growth from junior backend engineer to senior hands-on engineer and solution architect.

2008-2010

Beginning

Python, Backend Services, Telecom Automation

2010-2013

Foundation

Python, Django, REST APIs, Enterprise Clients

2013-2018

Growth

Python, Django/Flask, Docker, CI/CD, System Modernisation

2018-Present

Senior Engineering | Solution Architecture

Python, FastAPI, Microservices, Kubernetes, Cloud, Payments/Billing

Sritharan K. | Senior Software Engineer | Solution Architect