Saroj Kumar Rout
Apple
Fremont,CA
21
years of professional experience
Technology Architect / Technical Lead with 20+ years of experience in designing and developing scalable, secure, and high-performance distributed systems. Expertise in AI/ML, backend development, cloud computing, data processing, and building enterprise-grade applications using modern technologies. Strong experience in Agile environments, system design, and cross-functional collaboration.
Work History
Full Stack Software Developer
5 Months- Architect, designer, and full-stack lead on TrueSource - a 0-to-1 product messaging service built from the ground up; owned the entire stack from system design, data modeling, and API architecture to frontend UX.
- Architected and engineered a high-fidelity document ingestion and semantic search pipeline that reduced NPI document parse time from 2-4 hours -> under 2 minutes and verbatim retrieval from 10-20 minutes -> ~30 seconds, delivering 100% retrieval accuracy across ~60 product messaging documents per launch cycle.
- Designed and built an automated delta detection engine to surface diffs between NPI document versions - replacing fully manual comparison workflows and giving content teams real-time visibility into messaging changes across launch cycle
- Eliminated 280+ hours of manual search work per quarter and collapsed NPI doc availability from days to minutes, directly accelerating time-to-launch for content teams across worldwide product releases.
- Designed and leading development of next-generation agentic content platform - Building an AI powered authoring system using LLM agents and retrieval-augmented generation(RAG), enabling content teams to create product messaging significantly faster with built-in accuracy guardrails
Technical Lead
11 Months- Designed and implemented services using serverless architecture and AWS cloud technologies, including AWS Step Functions, Amazon S3, DynamoDB, AWS AppSync, and AWS Bedrock with large language model integration.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders, production support teams, and cross-functional teams to gather requirements and implement solutions, troubleshooting production issues to enhance system reliability and performance.
- Mentored team members by providing technical guidance and conducting code reviews, to ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
- Mentored team members by providing technical guidance and conducting code reviews to support timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
- Utilized Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and deployment automation, streamlining deployment processes.
Senior Computer Scientist
3 Years 3 Months- Built scalable and high-performance APIs with a focus on security, resiliency, and maintainability.
- Designed and developed backend APIs for request signature functionality using Spring Boot.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and integrate services, ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Troubleshot and resolved production issues, enhancing system performance and reliability for users.
- Performed load testing using JMeter to identify bottlenecks and improve scalability.
- Enhanced monitoring (Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, PagerDuty) to detect and resolve issues in real time.
- Enhanced monitoring with Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, and PagerDuty to enable real-time issue detection and resolution.
- Developed integration test suites using internal tools to ensure end-to-end system functionality.
Senior Software Engineer
5 Years 6 Months- Designed, developed, modified, and supported software products and services based on user and system requirements.
- Worked on complex problems requiring analysis of multiple factors across systems and services and developed scalable, secure, and efficient applications supporting commercial products.
Collaborated with engineers and product managers in an Agile/Scrum environment to gather requirements and implement application features.
- Wrote unit tests, validated software functionality, and performed bug fixes to resolve issues identified by QA teams.
Contributed to automated testing and deployment processes and participated in code reviews to develop production-ready code.
Designed, coded, tested, and maintained assigned software deliverables.
Senior Technology Architect
8 Years 9 Months- Built scalable distributed systems using Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and Docker.
- Designed and developed RESTful web services using Java, Spring, and Scala.
- Contributed to system architecture and application design.
- Worked with SQL and NoSQL databases including Oracle, MySQL, and Cassandra.
- Developed applications using JavaScript, Node.js, React, HTML, and CSS.
- Performed unit testing, performance testing, and JVM tuning.
Programmer Analyst
2 Years 4 Months- Developed software applications using Java, JSP, Servlets, Spring, JSF, and Struts.
- Conducted unit and performance testing to ensure application reliability and efficiency.
- Contributed to software design processes by collaborating with team members..
- Utilized Oracle SQL databases and web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to support front-end and back-end integration.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Skills
Languages: Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Frameworks: Spring
Spring Boot
Hibernate
Web: REST APIs
SOAP
JSON
XML
AI/ML & Data Science: Large language models
Agentic AI systems
Machine Learning Models
Microservices architecture
Big Data: Spark
Hadoop
Hive
Pig
Databases: Oracle
MySQL
Cassandra
MongoDB
DynamoDB
DevOps & Tools: Docker
Kafka
ZooKeeper
Software testing
Other: Distributed Systems
Agile/Scrum
Accomplishments
- Reviewer & Program Committee Member, multiple international conferences (2024–2025), including CE2CT, STAI, AIR, DSIT, IIPEM, and PEIS
- Industry Judge, Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity 2025
- Platform Champion Award & Developer Platform expert Award, Adobe
- Several Spotlight Awards, Intuit
Affiliations
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
International Conference on AI and Robotics(AIR 2025)
Received a Certificate of Appreciation as a Program Committee member and reviewer in the International Conference on AI and Robotics(AIR 2025) organized by The Center of Excellence in Medical Robotics and Research, Nazarbayev University Kazakhstan
International Conference on Smart Technology and Artificial Intelligence
Received a certificate of Appreciation as a member committee and reviewer at the International Conference on Smart Technology and Artificial Intelligence(STAI 2025) held at Compucom Institute of Technology & Management, Jaipur, India
International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Practices i Engineering and Management
Received certificate as a reviewer for International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Practices in Engineering and Management(IIPEM 2024) held at Amity Global Institute, Singapore
Timeline
Full Stack Software Developer
Apple
05.2026 - CurrentRead More
Technical Lead
CSOptima / Merck
05.2025 - 04.2026Read More
Senior Computer Scientist
Adobe Systems Inc.
01.2022 - 04.2025Read More
Senior Software Engineer
Intuit Inc.
07.2016 - 01.2022Read More
Senior Technology Architect
Infosys Limited
10.2007 - 07.2016Read More
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2005 - 09.2007Read More
Biju Patnaik University Of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science
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