Amal P J

Senior Software Engineer Sep 2025 – Present

Germinait Solutions Pvt. Ltd. — Panjim, Goa

Led a team of 6 in migrating a legacy pipeline with 10+ microservices from VM-based to a simplified serverless architecture on GCP (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Elasticsearch), cutting deployment time from 40 min to 10 min.
Designed and led migration from a session-based gateway to a stateless JWT architecture with a clean API gateway and dedicated user service.
Prepared Elasticsearch knowledgebase data and led a team of 3 to prototype a Listen Agent (Tool-First + ReAct agentic architecture) in 7 days, securing a major client.
Architecting end-to-end data pipelines for Listen and Engage platforms; evaluated MongoDB Atlas, Spanner, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, and PostgreSQL through POCs.

Software Engineer Sep 2024 – Sep 2025

Germinait Solutions Pvt. Ltd. — Panjim, Goa

Architected a message-driven actor model (Akka) foundation for AI Agents, enabling horizontally scalable and highly responsive agent performance.
Migrated ETL pipelines from HDFS to Google Pub/Sub with a Java 17 upgrade, achieving a 60% reduction in end-to-end latency (5s → 2s).
Replaced 150 GB of disk-based VM logs with a centralised Pub/Sub cloud logging pipeline feeding analytics into BigQuery.
Implemented a Prometheus + Grafana monitoring stack for Kafka and microservices, reducing unplanned downtime.
Built a Twitter mention retrieval pipeline handling 500+ mentions/min using a hybrid webhook + polling approach with back-pressure strategies.
Reviewed 30+ merge requests per quarter; mentored junior developers and hosted monthly knowledge-sharing sessions.

Junior Software Engineer Jul 2023 – Aug 2024

Germinait Solutions Pvt. Ltd. — Panjim, Goa

Integrated Zendesk Conversations APIs with Twitter API; built a webhook subscriber for Twitter DM events and designed a system to switch between Twitter Pro and Zendesk APIs to manage rate limits.
Engineered a regex + n-gram pattern recognition component for text highlighting and custom author field suggestions, reducing manual data entry.
Led the redesign of the interactions screen UI, improving Angular component structure and overall UX.

Software Developer Intern Jul 2022 – Dec 2022

Freight Deck Technologies — Bengaluru, Karnataka

Built dashboards and forms in React for Trips, Invoices & Procurement modules of a B2B TMS platform.
Implemented GPS trip tracking and push notification services.

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