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Ravi Andem

Frisco

Summary

Senior Lead Software Engineer and Application Architect with extensive experience in cloud-based enterprise applications and microservices architecture. Known for driving high-impact initiatives at Capital One, including Auto loan underwriting sales system, dealer integrations, and legacy system modernizations that resulted in substantial performance gains and cost savings. Expert in aligning API standards, reducing technical debt, and optimizing monitoring solutions, yielding annual savings of over $300k. The application I support contributes to achieving over $30 billion in annual revenue. Recognized for mentoring peers and developing resilient architectures, ensuring adherence to best practices in API and systems architecture.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
4009
4009
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Lead Software Engineer

Capital One
1 2022 - Current
  • Supported a team of 50 engineers as the Application Architect, ensuring scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-based systems.
  • Led the Smart Queues initiative, leveraging enterprise platforms to reduce implementation effort and enhanced scalability.
  • Drove API reuse and adherence to Capital One architecture standards and mentored multiple API coaches as an Enterprise Centre of Excellence reviewer for my entire line of business.
  • Provided guidance on serverless adoption and best practices, promoting API consistency across multiple business lines.
  • Actively contributed to talent acquisition by leading over 100 interviews and mentoring junior engineers, fostering a strong and skilled engineering team.
  • Led efforts on streamlining architecture of the Loan Underwriting sales system and achieving $300k in annual cost savings
  • Led automation initiatives which streamlined workflows and achieved $50k in annual savings, enhancing efficiency and reducing manual workload across teams
  • Presented on diverse technology topics, including API standards, automated workflows, at Capital One’s Monthly Tech Talks, contributing to knowledge sharing and promoting best practices across teams


Lead Software Engineer

Capital One
01.2016 - 01.2022
  • Led rewrite of legacy monolith Auto loan sales originations application to target state Microservices based architecture deployed on Amazon Web Services as containerized applications.
  • Achieved 8x improvement in performance compared to legacy applications
  • Implemented low latency search using Elastic search with Apache Kafka based data synchronization architecture
  • Championed use of reusable components and developed some of most widely used APIs in Capital One Auto Finance
  • Acted as API coach ensuring that REST APIs developed adhere to Enterprise API standards

Senior Software Engineer

  • Led the design and development of IT solutions for business functionalities rolled out as a part of a Diamond Dealer Initiatives in an agile team..
  • Contributed to the migration of a legacy BPM solution to a REST API based architecture deployed on Weblogic server.
  • Closely interacted with the product owners and business analysts in understanding the requirements and planning the implementation in biweekly Agile sprints

Senior Systems Analyst

EDS
06.2008 - 01.2011
  • Implemented Web Services for interfacing UIM inventory management tool with Siebel and OSM.
  • Involved in integration testing of UIM with Siebel and OSM.
  • Interacted with Cross functional teams and incorporated requirements in web services.
  • Developed Java based plugin XSLT plugins for OSM order provisioning

Applications Intern

Stretch Inc.
06.2007 - 02.2008
  • Worked on requirement gathering and documentation of IP Camera web configuration
  • Designed the front end and implemented server side data processing module on Micrium RTOS for the IP Camera application
  • Interacted with potential Stretch IP camera customers and demonstrated Configuration of IP Camera through web application

Senior Software Engineer

Aricent
02.2004 - 06.2006
  • Designed and developed Java based enterprise web applications

Education

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Aug 2006 - 05.2007

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati
Aug 1997 - 06.2001

Skills

Java

AWS

Cloud Architecture

Microservices design

Kafka

SQL

CICD

Python

Serverless Architectures

API Development & Standardization

Certification

AWS Solutions Architect Certified

Accomplishments

  • Recipient of Capital One Circle Of Excellence Award
  • Recipient of Capital One Individual Mark of Distinction
  • Speaker at Capital One's Software Engineering Conference ( SECON)
  • Speaker at Capital One's Monthly Tech Talks
  • Lead team which one Capital One's Hackathon in 2022 for adopting Graph QL to reduce maintenance costs
  • Improved the performance of the Capital One's auto loan underwriting application by 8x
  • Migrated the legacy Monolith Architecture deployed On Prem to Target state architecture using Microservices , Kafka deployed on AWS Cloud

Timeline

Lead Software Engineer

Capital One
01.2016 - 01.2022

Senior Systems Analyst

EDS
06.2008 - 01.2011

Applications Intern

Stretch Inc.
06.2007 - 02.2008

Senior Software Engineer

Aricent
02.2004 - 06.2006

Sr Lead Software Engineer

Capital One
1 2022 - Current

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

West Virginia University
Aug 2006 - 05.2007

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology
Aug 1997 - 06.2001
Ravi Andem