Migration Infrastructure
Architected a high-integrity, multi-tenant orchestration engine to automate legacy-to-cloud transitions.
Building Resilient
Cloud Systems at Scale.
I’m Chethankumar, a Principal Software Engineer specializing in large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native platforms. I architect resilient systems that power enterprise-scale products, drive platform-level technical strategy, and mentor engineers to deliver high-impact solutions.
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSCLOUD ARCHITECTUREMICROSERVICESAI-DRIVEN
PLATFORMSENTERPRISE SCALE
Journey
2025–Present
Principal Software Engineer
EQS GroupArchitecting a multi-tenant migration orchestration platform enabling cloud transition for 70% of enterprise customers — fault-tolerant workflows with automated validation, recovery, and zero data loss. Building a centralized analytics platform consolidating global pipelines with AI-driven insights and role-based access controls.
2021–2024
Principal Software Engineer
OneTrustTechnical owner of the Helpline Case Management platform — a $40M annual revenue product serving 1,500+ enterprise clients at 30M daily requests on Active-Active architecture. Reduced infrastructure spend by 41%, built asynchronous pipelines processing 100M+ records, and mentored 14 engineers through a monolith-to-microservices transition.
2018–2021
Senior Software Engineer
Dell TechnologiesLed adoption of Micro-Frontend architecture using Angular and .NET Core, and built a cloud-native global Account Management System on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Co-invented two U.S. patents for automated release validation and dependency-aware deployment.
2015–2018
Software Engineer
Scientific GamesDeveloped Asset Matrix, a distributed real-time asset management platform propagating data across global sites, and a master data synchronization engine ensuring consistency across enterprise systems.
Selected Work
High-Integrity Orchestration
Engineered a system to migrate millions of records featuring strict validation and automated error recovery.
Enterprise BI & Security
Developed a centralized Analytics suite consolidating global pipelines with AI-driven insights and RBAC.
Intelligent Support Automation
Architected an AI-driven recommendation engine for enterprise support tickets using historical data.
OT Insights
Engineered autoscaling Power BI capacity pipelines with C#, Azure Functions, and Azure Analysis Services.
Helpline Case Management
Critical case management system built with Vue.js and .NET 6 for 1,500+ enterprise clients.
Data Pipeline
Architected serverless migration tool moving legacy data to modern cloud storage using Azure Functions.
Customer Order Portal
Customer-facing order tracking application built with Micro-Frontend architecture for Dell’s global user base.
Account Mgmt System
Cloud-based system on PCF managing complex asset hierarchies for global clients.
Asset Matrix
Built centralized asset management solution enabling real-time data propagation across sites.
Power Venue & EDC
Automated casino management and master data synchronization engine for enterprise products.
Patents
Recognition
Spot Bonus – Response Excellence
Honored for exemplifying OneTrust’s core values and going above and beyond.
Digital Alignment
Laid roadmap to align online customer journeys and reduced multiple log-ins to one.
Service Intelligence Launch
Major step towards driving a single Dell Services experience creating customer delight.
Cross Team Collaboration
Collaborated extensively to deliver a single online experience for customers.
Engineering Philosophy
How I approach engineering decisions
Design for Failure
Systems should degrade gracefully, not collapse.
Scale Through Simplicity
Simple systems scale better than clever ones.
Enable Team Evolution
Architecture should empower teams, not slow them down.
AI as Leverage
AI should amplify engineering judgment, not replace it.
Bookshelf
Books that shaped how I build
Release It!
Where “design for failure” stopped being a slogan and became a checklist — circuit breakers, bulkheads, timeouts.
A Philosophy of Software Design
The strongest case I’ve read that complexity is the real enemy — deep modules, simple interfaces.
Team Topologies
Changed how I draw architecture diagrams: team boundaries first, service boundaries second.
Co-Intelligence
The most level-headed take on working with AI: treat it like a brilliant, unreliable colleague.
Observability Engineering
Monitoring tells you that it broke; observability tells you why. The book behind how I run production.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Still the best explanation of the trade-offs behind every system I’ve ever built.
Domain-Driven Design
Dense, demanding, worth it — its vocabulary fixed more integration bugs than any framework ever did.
Building Microservices
The book I wish every team read before splitting their first monolith.
Clean Architecture
Dependencies point inward — half my architecture reviews boil down to that one rule.
Clean Code
Where I learned the reader, not the compiler, is the audience.
Designing Great Web APIs
Changed how I treat APIs: products with users, not endpoints with payloads.
Accelerate
Finally — data instead of opinions about what makes engineering teams fast.
The Pragmatic Programmer
The first book that made me care about craft, and the one I still quote most.
Expertise
Languages
AI Engineering
Architecture & Backend
Cloud & DevOps
Data & Databases
Front-End
Education
Graduated: 2015
B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering
M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, IndiaLet’s build together.
Open to principal-level engineering and architecture opportunities.