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Sandeep Puniya

Omaha,NE

Summary

Skilled engineering leader builds and motivates high-performing engineering team. Over 10 years of experience working with technical projects. Committed to rapidly and efficiently completing projects by leveraging team-based frameworks to best leverage available engineering talent.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Software Engineer

Global Payments
09.2022 - Current
  • As part of Architecture team, led design and deployment of hybrid(cloud/on-premise) multi-tenant distributed authorization solution using Open Policy Agent for TouchNet services, leading to adoption of simpler and Industry standard authorization solution for efficient authorization layer integration.
  • Improved distributed GCP services observability by integrating OpenTelemetry with SQLCommenter library in Java services resulting in faster production issue debugging and DB performance optimizations which in turn improved user experience.
  • Participated in evaluation of enterprise GitHub CoPilot project for integration in development lifecycle.
  • Skills Employed: Google Cloud Platform, Spring Boot 2.x, Open Policy Agent, Java 17, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Liquibase, Terraform, Argo CD, Jenkins.

Senior Software Engineer

Gallup
09.2021 - 09.2022
  • Led design/development of standard multi-component authorization library for Gallup Analytics and Reporting Access platform. This helped optimize access control component performance through integration of session and caching layer.
  • Enhanced platform continuous delivery/UAT testing capability. Involved in design/development of subscription feature flagging using Split feature framework which allowed parallel multi feature development. This resulted in improved user retention and time spent metric on Gallup access platform resulting in revenue optimization.
  • Skills Employed: AWS, Java 8, Split Feature Framework, IntelliJ, Jenkins, Gradle, Agile Sprint Planning, Jira, Confluence.

Application Developer

Gallup
04.2017 - 09.2021
  • Designed and integrated cross-product configuration library to decouple configurations from deployed services which allowed real-time configuration update without service redeployments. Implemented reliable configuration system with failsafe support using Redis, SSM and S3 endpoints. Deployed asynchronous system configuration sync up using AWS lambda functions.
  • Helped design and deploy cross product rule based recommendation system which generated content recommendations using user and client data. This helped in enhancing user access depth to website content.
  • Developed time-based client team reporting pipeline using email notification service. Distributed request processing architecture was developed using AWS Lambda, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Batch and Postman services for emails.
  • Skills Employed: AWS, Java 8, Tomcat, IntelliJ, Jenkins, Gradle, Agile Sprint Planning, Jira, Confluence.

Software Engineer

PayPal Credit
08.2014 - 04.2017
  • Involved in design, development, reviews, documentation and technical production support.
  • Upgraded the caching framework used by authorization engine to use Eh cache framework.
  • Introduced the authorization engine platform spring boot codebase to use java based dependency configuration.
  • Contributed to security initiative to secure the customer PII (Personal Identifiable Information) data handling in auth engine.
  • Improved the mandatory biannual business certification process for the discover merchant acquirer and issuer flows.
  • Skills Employed: Java 7, Spring Framework, Hibernate, JUnit, Restful Web Services, Glass Fish server, Oracle, Maven.

Education

MBA - Investment Science

University of Nebraska At Omaha
Omaha, NE
12.2025

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
08.2014

Timeline

Lead Software Engineer

Global Payments
09.2022 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Gallup
09.2021 - 09.2022

Application Developer

Gallup
04.2017 - 09.2021

Software Engineer

PayPal Credit
08.2014 - 04.2017

MBA - Investment Science

University of Nebraska At Omaha

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Sandeep Puniya