Deepak Arora
Senior Staff Engineer at American Express
Summit, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeepak Arora is a Senior Staff Engineer with 25+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed mission-critical systems, primarily on the Java platform. He blends hands-on engineering with leadership, having led cross-functional teams and agile release trains at American Express to modernize legacy batch systems into real-time, service-oriented architectures. Deepak is an inventor and open-source maintainer—authoring Amex projects like unify-flowret (a lightweight orchestration engine) and unify-jdocs (a novel JSON document tool)—demonstrating a bias for elegant, simple solutions that can rival costly COTS offerings. Known for translating big-picture strategy into working code while navigating complex stakeholder environments, he keeps a razor-sharp focus on customer value and team growth. Based in Summit, NJ, he brings a rare combination of deep system-design expertise, pragmatic delivery experience across RDBMS and NoSQL ecosystems, and a personal commitment to strong work ethics and people development.
9 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics and Communications Electronics and Communications, Electronics and Communications Electronics and Communications at Delhi College of Engineering
English
Github Skills (14)
structured-data10
ajv10
json10
high-performance10
connection-pool10
hikaricp10
pool10
java10
schema9
database9
jdbc9
json-schema9
schema-validation9
orchestration1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
americanexpress/unify-jdocs
May 2020 - Jan 2023
A new way of working with JSON documents without using model classes or JSON schemas
Contributions:6 releases, 77 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 7 months
ajvjson-schemasjsonschemaschema-validationschemas
americanexpress/unify-flowret
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 releases, 42 commits, 35 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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