Summary
Soumya Pattanaik is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, microservices-based systems across finance and insurance domains. He combines strong backend skills in Java and Python with frontend and DevOps fluency—having built GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, and observability stacks (ELK, Grafana) for production workloads. At Standard Bank he led streaming initiatives using Kafka/Hermes and implemented RBAC with Keycloak, while at African Bank he reduced technical debt and mentored junior engineers as a de facto tech lead. Comfortable in both cloud and on-prem architectures, he is pragmatic about trade-offs and skilled at refactoring legacy systems into secure, scalable services. Based in Gauteng and open to relocation or remote roles, he brings a blend of hands-on implementation, operational ownership, and a track record of shipping resilient FinTech solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar
Odia, Hindi, English