Maanick Poonkundran
Bay Area,CA
Summary
Software Engineer (12+ years) designing and scaling large-scale distributed systems and microservices. Led multiple cross-functional initiatives to deliver AI-powered Outreach products at Indeed, supporting 100M Recruiter and Job Seeker connections yearly. Founder of CricScore, an iOS cricket scoring app that tracked 2.8 million balls globally. Previously led the migration of CHIPS Engine, a $2 trillion/day payments clearing system, from mainframe to distributed architecture.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Engineer
Indeed
09.2022 - 08.2025
- Led high-impact initiatives for the Outreach backend team, enabling 8 million Recruiter-Job Seeker engagements monthly
- Responsible for supporting 6 Tier-1 distributed microservices architecture with 30+ APIs, handling 350M requests monthly
- Launched AI-powered Smart Messaging initiatives using OpenAI APIs & Few-Shot Prompts; delivered a 23% uplift (500K) in Candidates' Positive responses monthly, increased efficiency, and a 20% boost in started applications through experiments
- Spearheaded the delivery of the AI-Placeholder product; recognized for ownership, accountability, project leadership for managing 5 engineers and cross-functional collaboration with Legal, Product, Data Science & UX stakeholders
- Owned the design and delivery of the Featured Employer Company Branding (a GTM feature) by partnering with US & Japan teams; directed 3 engineers across two teams; achieved 60K+ additional positive responses monthly
- Mentored junior engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, feedback, and supported their professional growth
- Improved Production systems' reliability through on-call rotations, observability, monitoring, and rapid incident response
- Drove platform migrations aligned with Senior Leadership's vision, like AI-Messaging via the LLM platform by reconciling technical disagreements; REST to GraphQL API Gateway to support infrastructure scalability & enforced API best practices
- Demonstrated technical excellence and problem-solving skills by resolving revenue leakage of 400K free contacts by redesigning event-driven architecture; troubleshooted a silent bug dropping 25K/month positive responses
- Committed to delivering customer-focused outreach features such as Custom Subject Lines and InviteToApply
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, GraphQL, gRPC, Protobuf, MongoDB, Gradle, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, OpenAI APIs, Netflix DGS, Datadog, PagerDuty, Gitlab CI/CD
Founder
CricScore
02.2022 - 07.2025
- Built CricScore, an iOS app driven by passion to solve scoring challenges in friendly cricket games, with innovative features:
- Private Team PINs to prevent unauthorized game start; Guest Sign-In with email linking later for faster onboarding
- Supports single-team usage too (no opponent pairing required); One-Click Team Formation to reduce setup time
- App recorded 2.8M+ deliveries across 14K matches with 8K downloads in 60+ countries globally
- Tech Full Stack: Built front-end with Dart, Flutter without mobile experience; used Firebase for Security & Authentication
- Architecture: Developed the BE using Java & Spring Boot, deployed on AWS EC2 with AWS RDS (MySQL) for the database
Software Engineer
The Clearing House (TCH)
07.2019 - 09.2022
- Led three engineers to migrate the CHIPS Liquidity Engine, $2T/day financial systems payments clearing platform, from Mainframe to a distributed systems library, launching in pilot mode
- Reverse-engineered 7000 lines of Mainframe ALGOL code without prior experience and through detailed research; reimplemented core modules in Java using advanced data structures (Graph, Tree) and algorithms
- Developed a scalable and maintainable library to validate incoming Bank messages against 500+ Business rules
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, JAXP, IBM WebSphere, Maven, Jenkins, IBM DB2, Hibernate, Spring JPA, Jackson, JUnit
Technology Analyst
Goldman Sachs
05.2017 - 07.2019
- Built web applications by gathering functional requirements from end users for workflow automation for over 100 fund accountants. Automated financial statement generation for 70 funds, saving more than 6,000 manual hours annually
- Mentored three interns by guiding them on technical design, architectural patterns, regular feedback, communication skills, coding standards through knowledge sharing
- Tech Stack: Java, Python, Dropwizard, Camunda workflow, iText, JUnit, Mockito, PostgreSQL, Maven, React, Typescript
Software Engineer
Volatix
08.2015 - 05.2017
- Engineered backend services for a cloud-based energy analytics platform to provide real-time data for market analysts
- Implemented real-time alerting for energy price surges and automated tweet publishing via the official Twitter account
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring, REST, MySQL, JSON, JUnit, Hibernate
Software Developer
Mindtree
09.2012 - 07.2013
- Developed enterprise software for AVIS, enabling reservations and operations for car rentals
- Delivered in collaboration with frontend engineers to connect workflows, validate user input, and ensure data persistence
- Tech Stack: Java, J2EE, MySQL, Hibernate, MVC Architecture, JUnit
Education
Master of Science (MS) - Computer Science
The University of Texas At Dallas (UTD)
Dallas, Texas05-2015
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Science
College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University
Chennai, India05-2012
Skills
- Language & Frameworks: Java, Python, Go, Spring Boot, Maven, Gradle, C, C, Flutter, Dart, React, Typescript
- Generative AI: OpenAI APIs (Chat Completion), Large Language Models (LLMs), Prompt Engineering
- API Architecture: GraphQL Federation, Netflix DGS, gRPC, REST, Protobuf, JSON, XML
- Data Layer & Database: Apache Kafka, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, Hibernate
- Cloud, Infra & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
- Dev Practices & Tools: Agile, JIRA, Git, GitHub, IntelliJ, Cursor, Linux/Unix, Postman, A/B Testing
Websites
Certification
- President’s Award (TCH): Honored for spearheading the CHIPS Liquidity Engine migration project 2021
- Oracle Java Certified Associate: Demonstrated expertise in core Java programming concepts 2016
Timeline
Software Engineer
Indeed
09.2022 - 08.2025
Founder
CricScore
02.2022 - 07.2025
Software Engineer
The Clearing House (TCH)
07.2019 - 09.2022
Technology Analyst
Goldman Sachs
05.2017 - 07.2019
Software Engineer
Volatix
08.2015 - 05.2017
Software Developer
Mindtree
09.2012 - 07.2013
Master of Science (MS) - Computer Science
The University of Texas At Dallas (UTD)
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Science
College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University