Systems, scale, signal.

Software engineer building backend systems, AI platforms, and production-grade software.

Software Engineer working across distributed systems, AI-enabled platforms, backend services, and cloud infrastructure with Java, Python, Kafka, and AWS.

4+ yrs software engineering
1 peer-reviewed Springer publication
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
Kafka event-driven and platform-scale systems
$ engineer.profile
name      = "Jeshwin William James"
focus     = ["Java", "Python", "Kafka", "AWS", "AI Platforms"]
current   = "State Street"
strength  = "Backend platforms, distributed systems, AI-enabled products"
research  = "Improved Security on Mobile Payments Using IMEI Verification"

Core Skills

Grouped by the engineering capabilities I bring to production software.

Backend Engineering

Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, gRPC, Spring Security, Hibernate, JPA, service design

Distributed Systems

Kafka, JMS, asynchronous workflows, retry strategies, dead-letter queues, resiliency patterns

AI Platforms

Python, workflow orchestration, AI-assisted review systems, platform integration, evaluation-minded tooling

Cloud, Data & Operations

AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CI/CD

Experience

Experience spanning financial systems, commerce platforms, and production engineering.

2026-Now Software Engineer · State Street Built low-latency fund transaction and reconciliation services with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, JMS, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and AWS. ● Jan 2026 - Present
  • Improved platform throughput by 40% through event-driven transaction pipelines.
  • Reduced database query latency from 3.2s to under 1.1s in production.
  • Enabled operations teams to resolve breaks 35% faster with workflow dashboards.
2022-24 Software Engineer · Accenture | Flipkart Delivered backend systems for large-scale checkout and payment flows using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GCP. Feb 2022 - Dec 2024
  • Improved payment success rate by 12% with smart-retry payment orchestration.
  • Reduced end-to-end API latency by 35% through performance tuning.
  • Cut infrastructure overhead by 22% via scaling and cloud optimization.

Featured Builds

Projects that show engineering breadth, systems thinking, and implementation depth.

PR Intelligence Platform

AI-assisted pull request analysis platform with event-driven review orchestration, persistent review history, and observability-first service design.

AI Platform Highlights

  • Spring Boot microservices
  • Kafka-based orchestration
  • Persistent review history and failure recovery
  • Docker-based local deployment and metrics hooks

Distributed Order Processing Platform

Order, payment, inventory, and logistics workflow architecture with Kafka-driven orchestration, idempotent processing, and resilient failure recovery across service boundaries.

Distributed Systems Highlights

  • Saga-style order workflow
  • Retry handling and dead-letter isolation
  • API-first ingestion and monitoring hooks
  • Horizontally scalable consumer design

Mobile Payment Security System

Security-focused software system based on IMEI-driven device verification to strengthen mobile payment authentication, trust, and fraud-aware decision flows.

Security Platform Highlights

  • Research-backed implementation
  • Authentication design lens
  • Payment security use case
  • Publication-connected project story

System Design Library

Architecture case studies grounded in my own backend, platform, and AI-oriented work.

Each case study focuses on requirements, event flow, key decisions, trade-offs, and failure handling instead of generic interview diagrams.

Payments / Kafka

Distributed Order Processing Platform

API gateway, order service, payment, inventory, and logistics workflows connected by Kafka with idempotency, retries, and saga-style recovery.

ClientGatewayOrder Service
KafkaPaymentInventoryLogistics
  • 50,000 events per minute design assumption
  • No duplicate payment execution
  • Replayable event flow and audit trail
Developer Platform

PR Intelligence Platform

GitHub webhook ingestion, Kafka queues, analysis workers, AI-assisted review services, and resilient result delivery with observability and rate limiting.

GitHubWebhook APIKafka
WorkersAI ServiceReview Store
  • Webhook burst absorption
  • Failure-aware async review flow
  • Rate limiting and worker isolation
Financial Systems

Real-Time Transaction Reconciliation System

Trade ingestion, validation, ledger updates, duplicate detection, and reconciliation workflows designed for high-integrity financial operations.

TradesValidationKafka
LedgerReconciliationOps
  • Low-latency reconciliation path
  • Consistency versus throughput trade-offs
  • Partitioned processing and auditability

Internal/private implementation - case study generalized from production work.

Security / Payments

Mobile Payment Security System

IMEI-aware mobile payment security architecture with device identity validation, authentication orchestration, risk checks, and fraud-aware recovery flows.

Mobile AppAuth APIRisk Engine
IMEI CheckDevice StorePayment Decision
  • Device identity validation
  • Payment fraud reduction lens
  • Research-connected system design

Publication

Peer-visible work beyond code repositories.

Peer-Reviewed Springer Conference Paper

Improved Security on Mobile Payments Using IMEI Verification

Peer-reviewed conference paper published in Springer's Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing proceedings for ICSADL 2022, focused on a stronger mobile payment security model centered around IMEI-based device verification.

ICSADL 2022 · Springer · DOI Available

W. Jeshwin et al., “Improved Security on Mobile Payments Using IMEI Verification,” Sentiment Analysis and Deep Learning, Springer, 2023, pp. 183–193.

1120accesses
1citation
2023published

Credentials

Formal grounding plus current specialization.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Issued March 2026. Aligns with cloud-native architecture, reliability, and scalable platform design.

MS in Computer Science

Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. Graduation year: 2026.

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

Hindustan University. Graduation year: 2022.

Contact

Open to software engineering roles across backend, distributed systems, and AI platforms.

I am especially interested in backend platforms, AI-enabled software, event-driven architecture, cloud infrastructure, and developer-facing systems where reliability, scale, and product thinking matter.