Ajay Divakaran
Staff Software Engineer at NewStore
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Divakaran is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with roughly 12–16 years of hands‑on experience designing, building and operating web transactional systems ranging from monoliths to microservices. He has a proven track record of building systems from the ground up and re-architecting and scaling existing platforms across domains including retail, automotive, government digitalisation and telecoms. At ThoughtWorks he worked as a technical lead on long-running, high-impact engagements and now brings that consultancy-honed pragmatism to his current role at NewStore. Technically strong in APIs, messaging, databases, observability and resilience, he pairs deep system design skills with a collaborative approach that bridges product and engineering. Notably, he blends individual contributor velocity with team leadership, preferring to enable sustainable delivery rather than heroics.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science and Engineering, BE, Computer Science and Engineering at PSG College of Technology
Github Skills (50)
smartphone10
spring10
sms10
java10
spring-boot10
data-collection9
visualization9
python9
spring-security8
survey7
springframework7
dgraph5
messaging5
odk5
cqrs4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mangroveorg/datawinners
Aug 2013 - Sep 2014
Data winners is a data collection application supporting multiple channels like sms, web and smartphone. Goal is to enable seamless data collection, reporting and visualization.
Contributions:962 commits, 240 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 1 month
pythonreportinggoalsmartphonesms
ajaydivakaran/dot-files
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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