Professional Summary

Divyesh Parekh

[email protected] | (+91)8050602727 

Lead Software Engineer
Bangalore, IN

MCA(2012 - 2015), BMS College of Engineering


Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable systems and leading high-impact teams. Proven expertise in modernizing architectures from monoliths to microservices, driving delivery across backend platforms, and mentoring developers. Currently leading a 7-member team at Acko, aligning tech strategy with business goals while maintaining deep hands-on involvement. Ready to scale impact as a senior technical leader.

Work Experience

Acko, Lead Software Engineer, Apr 2024 ~ Present

Led a 7-member team to deliver core policy systems, streamlining post-payment workflows and cutting CX/tech ops load through automation. Mentored engineers and aligned execution with product and ops.

Acko, SDE-III, Oct 2021 ~ Apr 2024

Led Policy Management Service revamp, cutting update effort by 40%. Built a config-driven state machine adopted in 80% of endorsement flows.

Recognized twice with the ACKCEL Award (Feb & Aug) for exceptional ownership and delivery impact.

Acko, Senior Software Engineer, May 2021 ~ Sep 2021

Helped to redesign Auto Insurance Policy Service and Endorsements for the same. Worked on Spring boot, AWS and DynamoDB

BlackBuck, SDE - II, Dec 2018 ~ Apr 2021

Contributed to the design and development of a profitability application using AWS Glue and Athena for data processing and storage. Also helped build a system to generate custom invoices tailored to client requirements.

Aruba, Software Designer, Mar 2017 ~ Dec 2018

Helped in Improving the UI and UX. Added new components and tools. Implemented the web workers which helped to increase the efficiency of loading the initial page by 80%.

HashedIn, Tech Associate, Jul 2016 ~ Feb 2017

Built a secure document management system for Nexus VP, saving hundreds of manual hours. Handled end-to-end delivery from design to AWS deployment.

Awarded “Best Performer” and “Top Impactor” for consistent high-impact contributions.

HashedIn, Tech Analyst, Jun 2015 ~ Jun 2016

Owned and Handled the Individual Integrations for HipChat on my own. Was responsible for End-to-end Development of Integrations for Facebook, Google Drive, Hangouts, Appear.in.

HashedIn, Intern, Jan 2015 ~ Jun 2015

Worked on HipChat Integration. Worked as a part of a team to work to create integrations of Twitter, Trello, Asana

Work Projects

RapidRex

Built a scalable booking platform for services like RSA, Pickup & Drop, and RSR, enabling reuse across multiple customer workflows.


Tools Used: Spring boot, MongoDB, Gradle'

Endorsement

Designed and built a generic service to create and manage policy update proposals using a simple state machine for lifecycle management.


Tools Used: Spring boot, DynamoDB, Gradle

Policy Management

Designed a basic Policy store along with CRUD options, I utilizes Rule Engine to validate and verify the data


Tools Used: Spring Boot, DynamoDB, Maven

Rule Validator

Built a service on top of a rule engine to generate rule context dynamically, with rules stored in the database and loaded during application startup.

Tools Used: Spring boot(Java 8), DynamoDB, Gradle

ERP Integration

Developed a microservice that integrates with Invoicing, Receipt, and Payment services to track and compute organizational cash flow.


Tools Used: Spring boot(Java 8) and MySQL

Invoicing

Worked on developing an application that would allow to generate custom invoices based of the specified configuration


Tools Used: Spring Boot and gradle

Nexus VP

Developed a secure, enterprise-grade document management system for Nexus VP that processes CSV inputs to generate and distribute hundreds of PDFs to designated Limited Partners.

Tools Used: AWS EBS, RDS and S3 for the deployment, Python, Django, HTML, Bootstrap, jQuery, CSS

HipChat Apps

Developed Various integrations for HipChat which allow user to get updates from different application in HipChat. Was Responsible for End to End development of the integration. 


Tools Used: Python, Flask, MongoDB, HTML, CSS and jQuery.


Key Strengths

  • Scalable system & microservice design 
  • Backend expertise: Java, Python, AWS
  • Ownership of delivery & production stability
  • Built reusable platforms (booking, endorsements)
  • Team leadership & mentorship
  • Product-tech-ops collaboration
  • Customer-focused execution

Skills

Technical 

  • Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript
  • Frameworks: Spring Boot, Django, Flask
  • Databases: DynamoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • Cloud & Infra: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Glue, Athena), Docker
  • Architecture: Microservices, REST APIs, Event-driven systems
  • Tools: Git, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins
  • Frontend (Intermediate): AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, ReactJS 

Engineering Practices 

  • CI/CD, Clean Code, TDD (Test-Driven Development), System Design 

Soft Skills 

  • Team Leadership, Technical Mentorship, Cross-functional Collaboration, Agile Delivery

Early Accolades

  • 25​th out of 608 teams in India in “IEEEXtreme7.0”.
  • First ​in Techathalon event at IGNIUM 2013
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